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Lloyd’s Motor Club A NNUAL M AGAZINE 3 Welcome... Some of you may recall the public outcry several years ago when the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight’s funding was CLUB CONTACTS
under threat. The RAF were left alone but hardly anyone Lloyd’s Motor Club Webmaster noticed that the Army Historic Aircraft Flight lost its budget One Lime Street Graham Faggetter and is now absent from airshows. Ironically, the HAF’s motto London EC3M 7HA [email protected] www.LloydsMotorClub.com was “Let their glory not fade”, yet fade it has. LMC Committee Patron Paul Latimer Currently in the firing line is the Royal Navy Historic Flight, John Nelson, chairman of Lloyd’s Charlie Miller which operates a Sea Fury FB11 fighter, three Swordfish Martin Robinson ❖ Chairman Consult directly with senior partners (two flying) and a Sea Hawk out of RNAS Yeovilton. Roger Earl James Rowan ❖ Austin Wren Over 30 years first-hand knowledge of Lloyd’s and London market insurance issues Despite the RNHF being the most visible Royal Navy Tel: 07774 120 614 ❖ [email protected] (See LMC website for contact Sensible, transparent fee structure recruitment tool, its funding has been extinguished. In order details) to continue operating these fabulous aircraft and keep alive Editor Jonathan Suckling All material published remains the memory of those 6,749 great Naval operators who Tel: 0207 264 2228 the copyright of the person have lost their lives in the past, the Flight needs to raise an [email protected] credited, (where that has been endowment fund of £10m – no small task in today’s possible). No part of this Secretary magazine may be reproduced or economic climate. Brian Hunt transmitted in any form or by any Tel: 07971 663 190 means, without prior written It would be a tragedy if that memory were forgotten. [email protected] Wilkins Beaumont Suckling is a trading name of Wilkins Beaumont Suckling Limited. Company Registered in England & Wales. Company Reg. No. 6460559. Registered office: 150 Minories London EC3N 1LS. permission of the copyright The Company and Directors are authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. The Solicitors Code of Conduct governs this practice and it can be found at www.sra.org.uk. WBS is a Registered Trade Mark Although very much the unsung heroes, the Fleet Air Arm Treasurer owner. has played a vital role in every single theatre of war. Derrick Rowe Main cover image by: For example, did you know that it was a Naval pilot (803 Tel: 0752 504 2300 Brian Darwas Sqn Sea Skua) who shot down the first German aircraft in [email protected] Sea Fury image: the Battle of Britain? Or that one of their Sea Furies downed Membership Secretary JAS a MiG -15 jet in Korea? What might have happened in the Bob Bradbury Tel: 0207 696 8516 ? Safari Rally image by: Falklands without the Sea Harriers [email protected] Geoff Mayes Historic aircraft, like old racing cars, need to be used to be really appreciated by all generations, not left to gather dust in a museum, no matter how magnificent their surroundings. <<-;<-,*-A76,-6,=:)6+--;<-, *-A76, -6,=:)6+- This issue kindly sponsored by As an ambassador for the RNHF, I for one will be helping wherever possible and let us hope that with Lloyd’s Naval *WZVQV\PMIQZLMÅVMLQV\PM*WZVQV \PM IQZZ LMÅVML QV \PM tradition, help will also be forthcoming from The Room. cockpit,cockpit, createdcreated in EngEngland,land, realisedrealised in Switzerland:Switzerrlland: BremontBremontt memechanicalchanical cchronometershronometers areare made bbyy prprofessionalsofessionals toto eexactingxacting ststandards....andards.... forffoor thethe rrestest of usus.. JONATHAN SUCKLING (JAS)
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Once again, the Lloyd’s Motor Club including a bike test.Ginetta Cars Limited endurance racer Allan McNish on Friday addition to seeing the current F1 cars impressive, being one of very few fully in- at Buckmore Park, Kent on Friday 9th worked hard to offer its members and their were the next visitors to grace the Old 20th May, only a month before his huge being rebuilt between races, we were house facilities in Formula 1, and as an September was just the ticket, with around guests a wide range of motoring and Library, with LMC committee member Paul accident at the Le Mans 24 Hours. also lucky enough to see the new McLaren added bonus we saw new design team 110 enthusiastic participants battling it out motorsport events throughout 2011, as the Latimer’s racing version on display outside MP4-12C road cars being assembled in recruits Geoff Willis and Aldo Costa in solo sprint and team endurance formats Renowned F1 designer Gordon Murray Club celebrated its 60th anniversary in Lloyd’s, followed by Lotus Cars on the F1 factory, as the new McLaren making themselves comfortable in their at speeds of up to 80 mph in the course of was our esteemed guest on Friday 14th some style. Whether members’ interests Thursday 28th July.Peter Leake of Jaguar Production Centre had not yet opened. new roles. a very exciting (but clean) day’s racing. October, and the year was rounded out in were focused on Formula 1 or the latest UK made a very welcome return visit on some style when Admiral Sir Tim There followed memorable visits to our Another treat for 2011 was an invitation All in all, 2011 amounted to one of the exciting road cars, or various points in Thursday 15th September, and the year McClement KCB OBE enthralled our lunch friends at Prodrive at Banbury and their for a small group of LMC members to visit Club’s most active years ever, building between, there really was something for was rounded off by a Le Mans-themed guests on Friday 18th November. Lord near-neighbours Aston Martin at Gaydon the 11 EOD Regiment’s headquarters at very successfully upon the successes of everyone to enjoy. presentation by Jota Aston Martin Racing Brocket was the Supper entertainer on the on Wednesday 13th July, followed by our Didcot on Friday 25th November, which recent years; with the biennial LMC Dinner on Monday 21st November, with racer There were six top-notch Prestige Motor evening of Thursday 26th May, holding first visit to Group Lotus (and a welcome included a fantastic lunch in addition to back in 2012 together with another Sam Hancock giving the assembled Forums in the course of 2011, with record court in his usual inimitable style in the less return to Classic Team Lotus) on Thursday the fascinating tour. packed events calendar currently in the enthusiasts an exciting commentary over a numbers of guests in attendance formal environment at Steam Bar. 22nd September, which included some works, make sure you keep an eye on the lap of the Le Mans circuit. The LMC maintained its long-standing throughout the year. British sports car on-track tuition from ex-Lotus F1 driver LMC website (and register on our mailing The LMC was again very fortunate to be relationship with Goodwood with two manufacturer Caterham were first up on Augmenting the Forums were four Martin Donnelly; his inimitable sideways list if you have not done so already) for able to offer some exclusive factory visits exclusive track days on Monday 16th Monday 14th February, just a few months unmissable Celebrity Lunches (and one style around the renovated Lotus test track what we have in store for you throughout in 2011; unfortunately numbers had to be May and Monday 11th November, which before they were bought by Tony Supper) in 2011; these covered a wide at Hethel in a Lotus Evora was certainly a 2012. severely limited by necessity but for those as always were hugely popular with those Fernandes (owner of the Team Lotus F1 spectrum of motoring and military themes, highlight of the author’s year. who were lucky enough to win places via who like to push their cars hard, well team). Those who prefer two wheels were starting on Monday 21st February with a one of our raffles, these events were very By kind permission of Ross Brawn, we also away from the glare of speed cameras. entertained by BMW Motorrad UK on Jaguar Cars lunch at Balls Brothers starring special indeed. We started off with our visited Mercedes F1 in Brackley on Friday For those with a burning desire to compete Thursday 7th April, who provided the designer Ian Callum and testing legend second visit to the McLaren Technology 2nd December; the former Tyrrell, BAR, on the track on an equal footing with their lucky winner of the prize draw with a full Norman Dewis. This was followed by a BRIAN HUNT Centre on Friday 17th June, where in Honda and Brawn F1 factory is hugely peers, the 15th annual LMC Karting Day week of motorcycle training at BMW, rare public appearance from Audi LMC February 2012 v12_layout 28/02/2012 16:16 Page 6 11 EOD (11 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Regiment, RLC)
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Vice Admiral Sir Tim McClement and LMC Chairman Roger Earl
On Friday 18th November, the Club had the great pleasure of attack with Belgrano attacking from the south and Veinticinco de hosting Vice Admiral Sir Tim McClement at our last celebrity lunch Mayo from the north, so the order to engage Belgrano was sent to of 2011, held at Balls Bros in the LUC. Sir Tim duly delivered a Conqueror from fleet command centre in the UK. On 2 May Early in 2010, the LMC Committee not exclusively in the UK, Northern Ireland, riveting presentation of his sparkling naval career, an experience Conqueror became the first nuclear-powered submarine to fire in decided to show the club’s support for Iraq and Afghanistan) and how they go savoured by all present and full of fascinating detail and bags of anger when Commander Tim McClement, Conqueror’s 2ic and Britain’s servicemen and women by about their operations. This included a dry humour. You couldn’t hear a pin drop for over 40 minutes. One officer of the watch, authorised the launch of three Mark 8 inviting members of the armed forces to be fascinating practical demonstration, giving of the highlights was to learn that he has the unique experience of torpedoes at Belgrano, two of which struck the ship and sank her. its guests at our regular celebrity lunches in the visitors a unique insight into the having organized a cricket match for the crew of his ‘Nuke’, HMS Post-war, both Belgrano’s captain and the Argentine government the City. We hosted serving members of Regiment’s bomb disposal and IED search Tireless, at the North Pole, having scraped a pitch in the polar ice. acknowledged that the attack had been justified. 11 EOD, among them its colonel, at each equipment and counter-measures, of our lunch events and also selected the ‘wheelbarrow’ robots and similar ‘tools of During 35 years active service in the Royal Navy, Sir Tim had five Conqueror’s war did not end there. The crew of the submarine had regiment to be our adopted charity. 11 their trade’, and to talk to the operators commands: two submarines, two frigates and a Naval Task to face Argentine Air Force attempts to locate her, and whilst EOD is now the beneficiary of our fund (Ammunition Technical Officers and Group. One of his submarine commands was the nuclear ‘attack’ Conqueror did not fire again in anger, she provided invaluable raising activities and these amounted to Ammunition Technicians) face to face. submarine, HMS Tireless, playing ‘cat and mouse’ with Soviet help to the task force using her sophisticated monitoring equipment approximately £10,000 in 2011 alone. forces under the Arctic ice during the Cold War and shadowing to track Argentine aircraft and the like. Conqueror was At the close of lunch, Colonel McRae The presence of serving members of the Soviet nuclear-armed submarine movements. He made Admiral in decommissioned in 1990. presented the chairman with a superb regiment at these events has been greatly 2001 and was a member of the Permanent Joint HQ delivering display case containing replicas of the Today, Sir Tim is Chairman of the Appeal raising £6m to save the enjoyed by our members and we are the UK's global military contingency plans, and serving as Deputy awards made to members of the regiment WWII submarine HMS ALLIANCE in the Submarine Museum at proud to have had the opportunity to host Chief of the Naval Staff and a member of the Admiralty Board. during its service in Afghanistan. These Gosport as a memorial to the 5,300 submariners who have lost them. It was therefore with great pleasure He was also Deputy Commander-in-Chief Fleet and Admiral of include several George Crosses, Military their lives in the service of their country. To date the Appeal is close that we accepted the reciprocal invitation Submarines, where he was responsible for delivering a £2.1 Crosses, George Medals, and to achieving its target and the Club was delighted to have been to visit 11EOD and take lunch with its billion annual budget, with assets of £17 billion and 30,000 Conspicuous Gallantry Medals among able to make a healthy donation from funds raised at the lunch, commanding officer, Lt. Col. Adam people employed. others, with the names of the recipients which included book signing by Sir Tim of a number of editions of McRae MBE, and his fellow officers at the mounted within. The display case now We learned that Sir Tim had been second in command of HMS “Sink the Belgrano”. regiment’s HQ at Didcot. hangs in The Old Library at Lloyd’s to the Conqueror when the boat was deployed during the Falklands War Other guests of the Club at this stimulating lunch included LMC 30 members of the club and their guests left of the dais as recognition of the bond in1982. Having dropped off a contingent of Special Forces on member Brigadier General Mike Hickson, Director of the Royal attended a personal presentation by the between our community and the men and South Georgia, she then shadowed the aircraft carrier ARA Logistic Corp and Lt. Colonel Adam McRae, commanding officer colonel and his armaments officers of the women of our armed forces in general Veinticinco de Mayo (the ‘25th of May’) and the Argentine light of 11 EOD, the bomb disposal regiment. extent of their global activities (mainly but and 11 EOD in particular. cruiser ARA General Belgrano. 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than generous compensation. Needless to was equally enjoyable with lovely clear succeeded in dodging the rain which say, Corfield and Taylor bathed in the weather and the A9 from Wick to Inverness chased us all the way home. An excellent luxury of their warm and closed car but must be one of the most satisfying and fast outcome. there is no doubt that the Pickering and Earl roads in the UK. This was our first visit to the Scottish Team had secured the moral high ground, Our final day’s run was to be northeast Highlands and no more beautiful as had Paul Denman, perched on the top across the Highlands to Gairloch and the wilderness could exist on earth. The of the Speed 6 Bentley. beautiful Badachro Inn, the perfect lunch ambience, hospitality and cuisine at each Oh, blessings, the second day dawned stop before turnaround. Thankfully, the of our lunch stops were a worthy match for clear and dry although still cold, a weather again started friendly although the surroundings, the fare largely salmon welcome change for the long run up the rain was predicted for later in the day. smoked on the premises, fresh seafood, spine of the Highlands on a straight north shellfish and crustacea straight from the sea If the scenery had been superb the previous single-track road to Thurso. Again, or loch that morning, with the odd haggis two days, the third trumped them – magnificent scenery in an awesomely and black pudding thrown in. astonishingly beautiful and gilded by the empty wilderness and a superb driving sight of a magnificent stag on the ridge If they could only turn the wick up a bit and experience in both the D and the Sebring. above, a true Monarch of the Glen make it 10 degrees warmer, you would From Thurso and skirting John O’Groats, pastiche. Other drivers saw a six foot never want to go abroad again, although we made for our ‘farthest point’ lunch at the wingspan sea eagle but sadly the that would rather defeat the object of the Clan Keith 15th century Ackergill Tower on Pickering/Earl and Corfield/Taylor teams exercise, as everybody else would do the rugged seashore at Wick, quite missed that. A pity. the same and it is the almost eerie breathtaking and the scene of many emptiness of the Highlands that represent notable film shoots, including a least one The return journey to Inverness was equally their special charm. 007. That afternoon, the return journey impelling, the more so because we ROGER EARL
The Scottish Highlands in early May. The odds would be against an open car with little or no windscreen and no roof. Certainly, inclement weather would pose a challenge.
es but not if the choice came including Michael Pearson (Lord Cowdray) car. Based in Inverness, the first day’s run down to campaigning LMC and Sir Paul Vestey, each in their was to the Isle of Skye and specifically the Ymember Tony Pickering’s 1956 US respective Ferrari 275 GTBs, Harry historic Eilean Iarmain Hotel for a Grand Prix winning Jaguar D-type, chassis Leventis in his DB4GT Zagato, ‘Fast Eddie’ turnaround lunch stop. It was bitterly cold 545. The prospect of driving such a car McGuire in his 1929 Speed 6 Bentley and poured with rain all the way. The over the Highlands’ superb and largely chauffeuring LMC member Paul Denman, Scottish weather, not satisfied with such a empty roads and awesome scenery would Adrian Hamilton in a Ferrari 550, the baptism, obliged with more of the same tempt even the most reticent motoring bravura Aubrey Finburgh in his 1953 on the way back. However, good masochist to take the risk. So ‘Pick’ Jaguar C-type, a great mix of 1973 planning in the form of multi-layered and I took it and we were not to Porsche RSRs, E-types and the like, plus clothing, effective wet weather top be disappointed. fellow Lloyd’s Motor Club members Tom dressing, gloves and visored helmets Corfield and Max Taylor in Tom’s savage meant that with a bit of teeth gritting, the We would be joined by fellow LMC Shelby Cobra Sebring Retro, although we D-type crew survived and even prospered members Tom Corfield, Max Taylor and D-type pilotes gave the latter a hard time as the breathtaking scenery, copious Paul Denman. An eclectic gang of 40 plus about the soft option of choosing a closed waterfalls and legion fauna were more fellow enthusiasts on this year’s Tour, LMC February 2012 v12_layout 28/02/2012 16:17 Page 10
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beginning of the end, but the end of While we were at La Sarthe, one of our crowd rose to him - as did the marshals the beginning". French friends turned up with the Bugatti with some frenetic flag waving. Porsche Tipo 51 in which Achille Varzi won the specialist Andy Prill, preparer of the To round out a generally good Legends Monaco Grand Prix in 1933, and took car, acted as Stirling’s chauffeur for race weekend for Club members, Gavin Stirling for a drive in it on an unmetalled the occasion. Pickering finished 4th overall and 2nd in road on our hostess’s estate. SM found LE MANS class against hugely competitive It was a great weekend with memories that very exhilarating and it all looked opposition in Ferraris, Listers and other D- to be savoured and treasured. I am proud very contemporary, with plumes of dust types and was easily the first D home, and privileged to have been part of it. following the car’s progress. 2011 although sadly, Nick Adams, invariably a class winner in such events, had his AC The ACO invited Stirling to do a ‘farewell’ ROGER EARL A generous contingent expire under him before the chequered lap in the Porsche on Saturday shortly of Lloyd’s Motor Club flag was reached. before the start of the 24 Hours and the members made their annual pilgrimage to La Sarthe for the 24 Hours enduro and the Le Mans Legends race that would precede it. It was to prove a memorable weekend in more ways than one. Photographs: Jeff Bloxham
hilst Saturday 11th June continued, he felt he might give was to see the huge himself a serious scare. He had Waccident involving last never raced without enjoying it May’s LMC Celebrity Lunch guest and certainly had never been and speaker, the popular Alan scared in a race car, although he McNish, from which thankfully and had given himself a fright amazingly he walked away occasionally and did not want to shaken but not stirred, Thursday 9th start now, so he felt it was the June 2011 at Le Mans turned out to time to call it a day - but only be an iconic and unique day for from racing, not from the sport. motorsport - the retirement from To underline the point, he went racing of the legendary Sir Stirling on to drive up the hill at the Moss, Lloyd’s Motor Club’s first VIP Goodwood Festival of Speed Honourary Member. Over 600 races a few weeks later. It was a (including ‘Historics’) and he won momentous and heroic more than 40% of them with decision and he received a many more podiums to boot - a Sir Stirling Moss and Andy Prill standing ovation from record unmatched in the history everybody there, including of motor racing. the 24 Hour pit crews - in fact, there were more than a few damp eyes around too. We were there primarily of course for the Le Mans Legends race and LMC members competing included On the Saturday morning, Ian Nuthall, who took over as the Gavin Pickering, in father Tony’s Jaguar D-type, Nick Adams in an ‘Great Man’s’ co-driver when I retired from racing last year (the AC Ace and Stirling. This time the ‘Great Man’ had decided to only time I beat him at anything) and who is now looking after the race his new and exquisite 1961 Porsche RS61 rather than his OSCA FS372, went out and won class in Stirling's Porsche in the OSCA. Legends race, so it was a wonderful close to the latest chapter in the greatest motor racing ‘book’ of all, the competition career of a Your scribe was in the pit lane waiting for him when he came in at certain Stirling Moss. So now we are toasting a long and the end of qualifying for the Legends on Thursday evening. He had enjoyable epilogue that his retirement from racing will be a happy made his decision whilst out on the circuit and when he returned to and fulfilling one - lots of involvement in motorsport, just no longer the pits it was to say he was not enjoying himself and that if he the pressure of racing as well. As Churchill said, "This is not the LMC February 2012 v12_layout 28/02/2012 16:17 Page 12
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Project BLOODHOUND Update
completed the precision grading work and surprising that we left this until last, as I with the bottom of the body, to give us the now we are waiting with bated breath for originally expected the shaping of the car optimum lift-neutral shape. the rains to seal the surface and finish the to start at the front and work backwards. Now it is time to finish building it, which job. This will leave Hakskeen as the However, since the major problem is will take all of 2012, before we set off for world's best race track - and it is great to keeping the back end on the ground as the Despite the engineering and financial challenges, Project BLOODHOUND continues to forge South Africa in 2013. In the meantime, we see that the Northern Cape is just as car goes supersonic, this was the first are just about to start our full-size rocket test ahead with building the world’s first 1,000 mph car, as well as inspiring a generation of young excited as we are about it. problem to solve. Then we had to make programme in the UK. We have found the engineers and scientists with the ‘Engineering Adventure’ of this huge record attempt. the fin the right size to keep the car pointy- Whilst I was rushing around South Africa, ideal venue and the pump rig, complete end forwards, before completing the rear- the Engineering Team was busy back in with Cosworth F1 engine to drive the end design details. This left the final piece the UK, and I returned just in time to rocket pump, is now ready to go That is of the puzzle as setting the angle of the From my point of view, 2011 has been a part of the year, I was off doing my ‘day days, including some amazing responses witness an historic moment. After five going to start 2012 with a bang. You can nose to keep the front end on the ground, year of in three distinct parts. At the start of job’ with the Royal Air Force, supporting air from the media. The tour was all about years of effort to find the ideal 1,000 mph follow the Engineering Adventure at which I saw happen in December 2011. the year we announced the chassis build. operations over Libya. A hugely intense few promoting the BLOODHOUND education aerodynamic shape, the last of the details www.bloodhoundssc.com – it is going to The final answer is that the underside of the We also released the ‘genome’ of the car months, working with a fantastic team of programme, which received terrific support – the height of the nose above the ground be a remarkable story. car will be flat and the nose will be in line (we put the engineering CAD drawings people conducting a very successful air right across South Africa. We had record – has now been fixed. I still find it onto our website www.bloodhoundssc.com, campaign to protect Libyan civilians – and audiences, ranging from 200 to 500 ANDY GREEN for the world to see – probably the first time a real reminder for me that I still have the strong, and every venue was full to that this has ever been done for a prototype best day job in the world. At the end of the overflowing – we spoke to well over race car just starting its build). As you can air campaign, I was soon back in the UK 2,000 people during the tour. The slightly imagine, this created something of a buzz to see another remarkable team of people scary thing is that every one of them is in both professional engineering circles and doing something technically challenging, promising to come and see the car run in perhaps more importantly for our education as the BLOODHOUND team progressed 2013: it is going to be busy on the desert programme (now around 5,000 schools the design and build of the car. when they all arrive together. and colleges – a student population After such a busy summer, a holiday The desert preparation work is going very approaching 2 million). Education seemed like a good idea. What I did, of well. The Northern Cape team is just materials do not become much more ‘real’ course, was something completely different finishing off the main track – at 20 km by than this. Our other big news early in – a two week lecture tour of South Africa. 500m wide, that is 10 million square 2011 was signing Rolex as our timing The main aim was to deliver the prestigious metres cleared (by hand) so far. The key partner. A great company to have on ‘John Orr’ lecture at the invitation of the technical challenge has been removing the board and a hugely valuable sponsorship South African Institution of Mechanical soil causeway that cuts across the Pan and for us. We are still looking for a couple Engineers and, being BLOODHOUND, making it flat again. I am going to have to more sponsors, to help complete the build we inevitably became carried away and drive across this area at over 700 mph, as programme and to run the car but Rolex did some other stuff as well. The result was the car accelerates towards the measured was a great start to the year. For the middle a total of 24 engagements in the first ten mile, so it needs to be perfect. 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Lloyd’s Motor Club A NNUAL M AGAZINE 15 The World’s manoeuvrability, so when one of the MiGs overshot ‘Hoagy’ and be kitted out with a ‘bonedome’, flightsuit, boots and those pigskin deployed his airbrakes to try to match the Sea Fury’s speed, rather gloves familiar to any British military pilot. Issuing my flight gear than zoom-climbing away out of danger, the game was over – no took nearly an hour and concentrated on ensuring that the helmet Fastest Warbird other aircraft in the Korean skies could outmanoeuvre a Fury. was a perfect fit – once it is correctly adjusted the straps are ‘Hoagy’ punched the MiG full of cannon and it rolled onto its actually sewn into place. back, exploding into the ground below. The flight also damaged I’ve always been fascinated by the Reno air races; they have to be the As the performance of the Sea Fury is more akin to a jet two other MiGs before returning to carrier HMS Ocean. A famous than a piston-engined aircraft, rather than training on a ultimate motorsport event, with highly modified aerial hot rods producing day for 802 Squadron and particularly for Carmichael, who was Texan as I did for the Mustang, like all the RNHF awarded the Distinguished Service Cross on behalf of the flight. thousands of horsepower racing just 50’ above the ground at 500mph. pilots my familiarisation There are just a handful of airworthy Sea Furies today and the exercise was carried out in a rarest of all are the T20 two-seater versions, originally built not to Jet Provost. My instructor was t is both highly spectacular and highly “Spitfire”. Ask any pilot which warbird he 1950, the UN forces faced with train the pilots how to fly the Sea Fury but to teach them how to former FAA and top display dangerous, as we saw so tragically would most like to fly and you will almost maintaining air superiority after the operate the aircraft’s complex weapons systems. Sea Fury VX 281 pilot John Beattie, who was Ilast year. Two aircraft which dominate certainly be told that the connoisseur’s intervention of the Chinese included the is flown by pilots of the Royal Navy Historic Flight and is painted surprisingly indulgent and the unlimited class are the P-51 Mustang choice is the Hawker Sea Fury. Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm. On 9 August in the markings of Sea Fury F.10 TF912 ‘120/VL’ of 799 Naval encouraging as I flew my first and the FB 11 Sea Fury. My childhood Conceived towards the end of the war 1952, Lt Peter ‘Hoagy’ Carmichael RN Air Squadron, part of the 50th Training Air Group stationed at military jet. The ‘JP’ was a dreams of competing at Reno may never and in front-line service for nearly ten years was leading a flight of four Sea Furies on RNAS Yeovilton in 1949. TF912 had earlier served with 802 beautifully balanced aircraft come true but in 2010 I was fortunate to from 1947 to 1956, the Sea Fury was a patrol close to ‘MiG Alley’, when almost Squadron. Later on in its life, like so many Sea Furies, VX 281 and we spent a memorable fly a P-51. Flying a Sea Fury was a development of the earlier Typhoon and right on cue, a formation of MiG 15s was raced in the States where it was named ‘Nuttin’ Special’. hour or so practising aerobatics different story though and had always Tempest. Powered by a 2,500 hp, 18 attacked. S/Lt ‘Smoo’ Ellis shouted high above Yeovilton at up to I first realised that this entry in my logbook was going to be seemed destined to remain a dream, until cylinder Bristol Centaurus sleeve valve “Break!” and the flight split into two pairs. 10,000’, chasing different shortly after arriving at RNAS Yeovilton, when I was once again fate intervened. Ask the radial engine, the Sea Fury has a The MiGs’ speed advantage was around the marched into the equipment store to average man in the street what his maximum speed of 460mph which made balanced by the Sea Furies’ formidable favourite warbird is and it the fastest prop-driven aircraft ever built. armament and chances are, Even today a modified Fury holds the he will unofficial speed record for a piston- answer engined aircraft at 547mph. After North Korean forces swarmed across the 38th Parallel on 25 June
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most valuable warbirds – I could only pressing Chris kept his promise and we beforehand that it takes about a week shake my head in amazement as they took spent a glorious half hour practising before the Cheshire Cat grin disappears it in turns to tuck in between that small gap aerobatics high above Yeovilton. It was from your face after flying the Fury. between wing and tailfin, then rotate now that I truly understood what an Looking back, I reckon it only really around each other like roulette. incredible aircraft I was flying. Trying to disappears when you start to think about take photos whilst upside down looping how on earth can you really ever fly The Sea Fury was a beautifully balanced an aircraft is never easy but it was anything else? aircraft and certainly not what I expected. possible in the Fury, thanks to servo tabs In the same way that there is a huge leap JAS on the ailerons which diminish the stick from the Stearman to the Texan, then the and rudder forces required– just ease off same again from the Texan to the at the top of the loop to avoid any Mustang, that distance is equal if not more ‘wobble’ and take the shot. The stick 2012 is a major year for naval so from the Mustang to the Sea Fury. Its movements required are very small and aviation, marking the centenaries power delivery and manoeuvrability were gentle, except during roll where you use of the first flight from a warship at more like a jet, yet its controls were so full deflection. sea, the commissioning of the first light and harmonised that it reminded me of a Chipmunk – I had expected heavy All too soon our time was over. The ‘JP’ Royal Naval Air Station and the had turned back an hour or so before as formation of the Royal Flying clouds as the sun started to set. It was a diameter dominates your view like a given for chocks away. As with every controls demanding both hands and feet. they had reached the point of no return on Corps. It is also the 70th wonderful way to spend an afternoon but portcullis. Chris completed the priming large taildragger, taxying means weaving One of the many highlights of the flight fuel. Unlike the Mustang, landing a Fury is anniversary of the Channel Dash, John assured me that it was just an appetiser sequence, shouted “Contact”, then hit the heavily from side to side to check that the was the low pass at Goodwood. I have not easy so was definitely best left to the 40th anniversary of the for the treat in store. starter and primer together. A few blades coast is clear. It’s at this point that you flown into Westhampnett before in basic Chris. As he said afterwards, there’s a formation of the Royal Navy rotated then the engine roared into life, have to pinch yourself – hard – here you trainers such as Stampes and Tiger Moths Returning a week later, P1 in the Sea Fury saying that there are two types of Sea Fury Historic Flight and the 30th engulfing us in a cloud of oily blue smoke, are, sitting in a Sea Fury, about to take off so Chris left that one to me. It was was to be former Boscombe Down test pilots; those who have ground-looped it anniversary of the Falklands War. which quickly disappeared in the from an active military airbase. Chris probably that low pass in particular pilot Lt Cdr Chris Gotke RN, or ‘Goaty’ as There is no better way to celebrate propwash. As the engine started to warm aligned the aircraft as accurately as and those who will. Fortunately, Chris is he likes to be known. My wife was going which really put the Sea Fury’s speed in up Chris selected the wing-fold lever to possible for take-off and I followed his the latter and after more obligatory low these milestones than by donating to flying with John in the ‘JP’ as camera perspective. As we were travelling at four ‘spread’, suddenly the drawbridges were movements on the controls. He let the Fury passes over the airbase, we landed in a to the Fly Navy Heritage Trust, ship and I was looking forward to or five times the speed of a Stampe that lowered and the deafening crescendo roll forward about ten feet to lock the graceful two-pointer. which is why Lord March has formation flying with two of the very best airfield suddenly appeared out of subsided as the noise was no longer tailwheel and check that we would go I am extremely grateful to Chris and John selected the FNHT as his display pilots in the world. The flight nowhere, so the first time I hardly had time reflected off the wings. straight when the brakes were released, for their patience and tuition. Flying the designated charity at the 2012 briefing was short but serious; our plan to appreciate the view (well at least that’s then he wound up the engine to zero Sea Fury was a great privilege. It is an Goodwood Revival Meeting. was to leave Yeovilton and head for With the Ts and Ps in the green, the engine why I told Chris we needed to make a boost. Release the brakes and we were extraordinary aircraft – it roars like a Compton Abbas for a low pass, then via was tested at zero boost at Maximum Fine second pass…). moving – no matter how smoothly you banshee, performs like a jet, yet has the Godalming in Surrey to Mayfield in before exercising the propeller and Flying back up the Solent with the setting apply the power the Fury swings to the most beautifully harmonised controls of Please visit www.fnht.co.uk. Sussex, scene of many famous dogfights carrying out a magneto-drop check. sun reflecting off the wings would have right due to the massive torque from the any aircraft – actually make that machine for more information. during the Battle of Britain. We would then All this time Chris was holding the stick been a perfect end to the flight but we prop’ – it seemed like that great – I have ever controlled. I was warned return to Yeovilton via Shoreham well and truly back with the brakes were not finished yet. Although time was gyroscope wanted to turn us upside down. and Goodwood, before flying up the As the tail rose around 60 kts the power Solent, finishing with half an hour or so application was stopped for an instant of aerobatics. “There are just a then reapplied once it stabilised - once the The first impression that strikes you about handful of airworthy tail is up there is only 10” of ground the Sea Fury is its size. I thought that the clearance. Around 100 kts we were Mustang dwarfed the Spitfire but the Fury Sea Furies today and airborne and this banshee was running at seemed as large again; just climbing into 2,700 rpm and climbing fast with all the aircraft is a task in itself and quite the rarest of all are the 2,500 hp pulsating through the airframe. dangerous as the tiny footstep for the rear We then throttled back to 4” of boost and seat is a full stretch away from the wing, T20 two-seater climbed out – in less than three minutes we added to which you have to swap feet versions” could easily have been at 10,000’ but at whilst trying to maintain your balance full power the Fury drinks 180 gallons of nearly ten feet off the ground – one slip expensive avgas per hour and we applied like he was trying to push down a and this dream would end up in casualty. intended to fly more than halfway across brick wall. It was a staggering display of However that was nothing compared England and back. We also had to slow power inside the aircraft but must have with repeating that task after two hours down to let the ‘JP’ catch up, so we set been even more awe-inspiring outside as I in the air when you are tired and the 2,400 rpm, cruising at 230 kts, reducing noticed everyone instinctively back away whole aircraft is coated with oil from its our gallons per hour to merely 45. – unleashing the full force of the Sea Fury radial engine. makes the tail wheel bounce as the It is always a pleasure to watch someone Sitting in the cockpit the aircraft seemed to immense power passes through who is an absolute master of their craft. shrink slightly but the folded wings tower the aircraft. A quick supercharger change- As we flew to Compton Abbas in over you like a pair of drawbridges and over was next on the checklist, then the formation, Chris and John demonstrated the huge Rotol propeller of nearly 13’ in throttle was brought back and the signal why they are entrusted to fly the world’s LMC February 2012 v12_layout 28/02/2012 16:17 Page 18
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“Wanderlust, restlessness, the urge to get out on the road and ride off into the sunset – it’s something AMERICAN NOMADS deep and elemental in the American spirit” Richard Grant
ichard Grant was right. I have the way to Texas. In a stripped out Hot Rod was to visit George Poteet’s car farm in curious; in parts of Tennessee and Arkansas be dangerous, unless you carry some sort attitude.The journey home was a long haul been running with The Rolling the cold seeps into your bones – no heater, Mississippi. I guess you would describe in particular, the houses were desperate – of ‘protection’. Fortunately, a ‘peacemaker’ and we hit a heavy snowstorm crossing the R Bones for a year or two now, no windows and no interior, just a blast of George as a Hot Rod philanthropist and tin shacks reminding me of the townships I can defuse just about any situation. Appalachian Mountains. We resorted to had visited in South Africa – yet with crawling along the hard shoulder, 50 feet racking up nearly 20,000 miles in a ’32 hot air every now and then through the patron of speed – his collection of cars The San Jose Hotel was our base in Austin, cynical regularity the only decent buildings at a time, before we had to stop and Ford and during those adventures certain firewall. None of that matters – you never numbers nearly 200 and last year he went the best place in town – live bands in the were the pristine churches. scrape the ice off the ‘screen, with 18 moments have burnt themselves into my have a bad day out on the road. 472mph at Bonneville. parking lot, right on the strip and opposite memory. Outrunning twisters, tangling with wheelers flying past just inches away. A heavy hoar frost made driving through We were treated to lunch in an old (out of It was somewhere in the middle of The Continental Club. Hanging out on the hoboes and hillbilly moonshiners, driving Eventually we reached an off ramp and we Pennsylvania a beautiful sight – the trees service) whorehouse, down by the railroad Gawdknowswhere in Tennessee that we hotel wall each night we had a catwalk blind in snowstorms and almost being shot had no choice to but to find the nearest looked like chrome as for mile after mile we tracks, on the edge on the time-warp town ran into the hillbillies. Filling up at what show all to ourselves – Austin is a college (twice). Life on the road with The Bones motel (which looked like it could have been drove through a forest of ice. By the time of Holly Springs, complete with Ante Bellum looked like an abandoned gas station - town full of pretty young lovelies wearing is always one strange experience used in “The Shining”) and once again, we rolled through Memphis with the light houses where the newest building is the art made of tin – three quad bikes arrived short summer skirts and high-heeled after another. hole up until the weather cleared, before fading we had to find a motel fast. First deco cinema. Everyone was taken with the carrying three throwbacks and a pet hog, cowboy boots. As usual we attracted more struggling back to New York. First trip last year was the 10th Lone Star choice was a dump – downtown on the Southern delicacy of fried fruit pie. except that we then realised that the hog than our fair share of crazies too… Round Up in Austin, Texas, a welcome wrong side of the tracks, near a bunch of was actually just the ugliest person we had It was another memorable trip - I spent So far we had been travelling south in a The Round Up is a two day event and as excuse for another epic road trip. The truck stops, this place was too sleazy for ever seen. It was only 10am yet they were more precious time behind the wheel, we small pocket of clear but ice cold weather, expected, there was a record attendance journey would see us crossing eight states even a self–respecting ’roach. We decided wasted - black sockets for eyes and a bad met plenty of crazies, saw some great cars with snowstorms above and tornadoes for this 10th anniversary, with live music from upstate New York to Texas, via to move on down the road and later found attitude. They were very insistent that we and more of a great country. below. That night the storms changed from Jimmy Vaughan. Best of all, there was Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, out that we had just escaped ‘Hookersville’ meet their ‘Ma’ back at the farm, where we direction and we had to hole up in the a vendor selling fried pies. Even travelling Three months later I was back for the Tennessee, Mississippi then Arkansas, – rooms are usually rented by the hour in could try their ‘White Mule’ ’shine but only motel for the next morning – standing to and from the show we seemed to attract annual thrash to Bonneville Speedweek, watching the seasons change from winter that place and if you aren’t buying, they a fool would have accepted that kind of outside in the eye of the storm was an eerie trouble, one morning being surrounded by another long haul of over 5,000 miles. through spring to summer, all in a matter bang on your door for trade. More sinister southern hospitality. Fortunately, we experience – suddenly dead calm when a hoboes who appeared out of nowhere, 2011 was a special year for The Bones, of days. was the fact that it was three months before outnumbered them two to one when their raging storm had threatened to whisk away then being held up at gunpoint by two marking ten years since Ken Schmidt and the corpse of one working girl – the victim attitudes started to match their pig ugly When we left New York it was pitch black the cars just a moment or two before. gangsters – OK, so they were only ten and Keith Cornell started building traditional of a gang shooting – was found under a faces – it’s incidents like those that make and freezing, staying sub zero almost all Heading through the Bible Belt was carrying water pistols but they had Hot Rods in a cowshed in upstate New mattress in the same motel. First major stop you realise that travelling on your own can
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York. Each car takes a year and several ’32 roadster to Bonneville, stripping the because they can; the space and the thousand hours to build. The plan was for car and racing it on the salt, then driving possibility exists”. A philosopher once A philosopher once defined a the three original Rolling Bones ’32 Fords home. 2011 made that dream a reality defined a nomad as: “Someone who plus all ten customer cars to be there on and I finally fulfilled my lifelong ambition to doesn’t feel stable when stationary, a nomad as: “Someone who the salt for several major photo shoots. follow in the footsteps of those Hot Rod nomad feels stable when experiencing doesn’t feel stable when To mark the occasion we also had cult NY racers all those decades ago. velocity”. If that is the case, then I guess documentary maker Brian Darwas along I am a nomad at heart. stationary, a nomad feels stable It was hard work preparing the car in near for the journey. 100 degree heat under the camoflage net My abiding memory? It’s two – in my when experiencing velocity” The trip out to Bonneville was the usual cat – we ended up swapping engines three mind I will forever be running down that and mouse game with the Feds. So far I times and transmissions twice – to be arrow-straight highway in my ’32 seem to have led a charmed life with the rewarded with a personal best of Roadster, on a day when the sun never cops – chasing Casey’s sinister black ’32 128mph. Don’t forget, this was in a steel- sets; that memory will never fade. sedan we were running at around 4,000 bodied car built in 1932, powered by a The other? The people – wild characters revs in fifth when we blew by the parked sidevalve engine – speed is relative and straight out of Kerouac such as reformed Highway Patrol and State Trooper. We driving at anything over 100 with no Hells Angel ‘Billy-O’, Good Ol’ Boy thought our luck had finally run out and windscreen is a blast in more ways Ricky-Bobby and ‘Foodguy’ Richie - a real expected to see flashing lights than one. live Dean Moriaty. As Ken always says: but…nothing, so we just carried on. It was The drives back East are always different – “Its all about the people and the Hot Rods only when everyone caught up later on those journeys always pass too quickly; are the glue that holds them together”. that we learnt that we had actually been head-down, focused thrashes back home, After all, we are just another tribe of tagged at well over 100mph by a police saying “Goodbye” to friends along the wandering nomads. aircraft and the only reason we weren’t way, as they go their separate ways and stopped was because they had set up a the group dwindles until it is just Ken, Keith JAS road block to book everyone else…that and me. cost us a few beers. Why these road trips? To quote Richard This year was special for personal reasons Grant again: “People wander in America too; I had always dreamed of driving a LMC February 2012 v12_layout 28/02/2012 16:17 Page 22
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RallySafari designed the rear shock absorber the original stub axle to comply with the The standard core is normally around In Spring 2010 John Lloyd contacted us to build a Ford Escort Mk2 to enter the mountings to give us and extra 50mm of appendix K rule, we then had some front 35mm and we fitted a 55mm core from a Morocco 2010 and the Safari Classic Rally 2011. As a company that specialises suspension travel. This involved raising the stubs made in the highest grade carbon VW van, mounted two cooling fans and a rear turret locations and whilst they were steel we could find which we sourced in header tank, which raised the capacity of in historic car preparation this was great news for us to build a car which was out we made a new set in double the States and welded them to the new the coolant from a standard 4.5 litres to quite specific for these types of events. thickness high carbon steel. damper. The damper was set to a 9.6 litres, meaning that there were no ‘medium’ setting and we built into it 18 concerns in this area at all. With the bodyshell complete it was then adjustable settings for rebound, low & The rules of the car build were reasonably and ensure a good solid platform to areas where the shock absorbers painted and the build started. Dampers The engine used is a RS1800 or BDG, high speed control, so that we could fine straightforward and set down in two sets work from. attached. All the suspension points were were going to be the key to any success this is an all alloy 2.0 ltr unit using a twin tune it after fitting. of regulations, one from the organisers double strengthened with high carbon in Africa, so we worked closely with cam set up with multi valve and First we sourced a Mk2 Escort in pristine and the other from the FIA. steel which we sourced from a military Proflex suspension which are a Belgium We took the brakes from the appendix K carburettors. As most of the event was run condition car in Belgium and went to aircraft parts supplier. The fuel tank area company and set about to design a rules and fitted the largest homologated at altitude we noticed we could not push The cars were to be to FIA Appendix K Bruges to collect the car, we then stripped turned out to be a bigger job than we first specific damper for the event. The rules ones from a tarmac car which uses the enough air into the engine and we played regulation (classic) and with free roll it down to a bare shell to see if there were thought as we were planning on using a allowed us to do whatever we wanted to same calliper as a small Cessna aircraft. around with bigger and bigger cage/suspension design due to the rough any repairs required, as after all the body 120 litre tank to cope with the long do with the damper as long as it looked carburettors to try to improve this. nature of the events. was 34 years old. Cooling was always going to be an issue distances. This meant removing the like an original one and fitted in the Eventually we ended up with a much as ambient temperatures were going to be We set about designing the car based There were only minor repairs to be done original rear bulkhead and moving it original locations. We took a damper smaller carburettor than normal which had in the low 30s. We fitted a roof vent to the around these sets of rules. John O’Connor and we then started to convert the car to forwards into the car to accommodate the from a Ford Focus WRC ’07 model and the effect of forcing the air in much more car and vented through the rear windows, who runs the workshops had entered and full group 4 specifications which was the large capacity tank. We also planned on modified it to fit into The Mk2’s locations. efficiently. We then obtained some which gave a good air flow over the won the Safari in an Escort and I had homologation of its day, seam welding running 15” tyres and wanted to carry two The rear was going to take a huge amount samples of fuel and were horrified at driver and co-driver - the faster they went competed on Safari myself many times, so and strengthening the shell as much as rear tyres inside the boot, again these of stress with the extra weight, so we built how crude African petrol is compared to the cooler they would become. The we both knew what a task this was going possible. We then started to build a roll would not fit so we removed the boot floor the tube of the damper with roller bearings European. The fuel is not refined like in radiator also had to be enlarged as the to be. We set about the bodyshell design cage and ended up with our own unique and lowered it by 20mm and rebuilt it. as well as the normal damping to stop it Europe and is a much lower octane. standard radiator would simply not cope. to begin with and from the outset decided design. We focused on the main This did the job perfectly but with two rear overheating, then used a nitrogen gas We then reduced the compression ratio We cut away the original radiator mounts not to become paranoid about weight suspension areas and built the cage into tyres, spares and 120 litres in the tank, the canister to take care of the shock and backed off the detonation as we were and increased the radiator size by 100%. saving, build the car as strong as possible all four corners, basically reinforcing the rear became very heavy so we re- damping. The front damper had to retain worried about reliability and lost some LMC February 2012 v12_layout 28/02/2012 16:17 Page 24
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“As most of the event was run at altitude we noticed we could not push enough air into the engine ”
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25 brake horse power compared to a with very little problems and finished a puddles were so deep the water started to After nine very long, muddy and UK engine but as the fuel was so poor fantastic 4th overall after seven long enter the clutch bell housing and then challenging days we brought the two cars in quality, we could not take the risk days of competition based in the Atlas immediately drying and setting like home in fantastic 3rd and 9th places of damage. Mountain range. concrete behind the clutch cover, causing overall. After looking at the video footage us to lose the clutch. We had to remove each day it is remarkable what an almost The gearbox options were only two as the The car was then rebuilt for the Safari Rally the clutch every night and either replace it 40 year old car went through and how it only two homologated were a four speed and very little was required apart from the or wash out the old ones to keep going. stood up to the punishment of 4,200 kms original from a RS2000 or a five speed normal service items. We stripped the The mud was also oozing into the clutch of the hardest driving conditions in the ZF box. The four speed would not have engine/gearbox and axle and dampers release bearing and in just a few kms world. Full credit to John and Stig for been strong enough so we set about as a precaution, fitted a new clutch and would rip out the inner ball bearing race surviving these conditions. At the time we building a new ZF. These boxes now are half shafts and packaged everything off in and make the bearing useless. On top were all thinking “What are we doing so rare and almost impossible to find. a container to Mombasa. By this time we of this, the water was seeping into the here?” but after a few days back at base, We managed to find a Maserati turbo in had agreed to run Stig Blomqvist as well starter motors and alternators and ripping we cannot wait to go back and face the France which used a similar box. Again as John and a new car had been built for them apart inside. This really was a new challenge again, such is the appeal of the Dover ferry was used and I went to Stig to the exact same specification as challenge for us and having used the this event. collect the box, we brought it back and John’s Morocco car, to run as a two same set up that had been used for many rebuilt it using all new internals. car team. If we return again in two years’ time then Safaris, we were faced with this ongoing we will be more than ready, the car stood The axle was always going to take a lot We arrived in Mombasa to find unusually battle and spares were starting to become up well overall and an outright victory is of stress so we retained the original design high rainfall for the season and the roads low as we never dreamt of damage like possible. The clutch and mud issues have but had the tubes of the axle made 25% were in a real mess. There was water and this. One thing that kept us going was already been addressed and the car will thicker than normal, again using high deep mud everywhere. Where there was looking at the other teams and seeing be more like a submarine next time. 2013 grade carbon steel which we sourced no water or mud, there was no road as it what problems they were having; here we come... from the same place in The States as we had been washed away. servicing in the same areas each evening did the stubs. we could see what other teams and other This threw up some new problems for us cars were going through and our problems PHIL MILLS The car was finished and we tested in which we had never experienced before, were minor compared to some of the Wales and all looked very good. We set as the muddy water was penetrating issues going on across from us. off for Morocco and had a great event everywhere. The river crossings and LMC February 2012 v12_layout 28/02/2012 16:17 Page 26
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REGULARITY three of us up in a Ford Granada Estate at We are in the regularity section, defined about twice the speed as “a form of motorsport usually conducted that any of us had on public roads but sometimes including managed in our own off-road and track sections. The object is rather posh cars. This to maintain precise times and precise time the test was average speeds on various sections of pre- average rather than defined route”. Note the word “precise” - outright speed but penalties are incurred for every second believe me, this is a early or late at a timing point and the magical place whatever position of the timing points is unknown. the challenge. Finally Tour Britannia 2011 DAY 1 after 184 miles and six tests we arrived at On day 1 we covered 256 miles Silverstone – the brand Third time lucky? including 35 miles of ‘tests’, ten in all at new pit complex. Here Photographs: MotorsportintheUK.co.uk seven different locations – anyone who we are told that we will thinks regularity sounds boring think again. be the very first The routes selected are magnificent, the Epynt competitive event to tests challenging and boy did it rain, use the new always interesting on drum brakes. End of complex - very day 1, too many penalties, where did special. At they come from? Silverstone we Day 2 completed the track test and the There was no time to worry about that, so ‘special test’ which on to day 2 when we covered 262 miles consists of a very including 40 miles of tests, nine at eight short, tight section locations including the Castle Combe which, unlike the circuit (where we also did a ‘parade’ later other tests, one in the day). The last test of the day, at completes as fast Caerwent, a former Royal Navy Propellant as possible and Factory and RAF ammunition storage against a bogey facility, deserves special mention. The site time.We knew Tour Britannia 2011, start at Celtic Manor and finish at Silverstone via Pembrey, Castle Combe, is a mosaic of buildings, roads and tracks we would incur and the nine mile route comprised 97 Badminton, the Prescott Hill Climb and a host of special and off road stages with the odd ‘special penalties here so corners with four timing points at we just had to test’ thrown in, all in three days. unspecified locations which one had to minimise them arrive at “precisely” on time according to and the Aston the average speeds (which changed Cwmcarn was still going several times over the nine miles). ? ? strong so no Our record so far 2009: 1961 E-type reliable vehicle with many years of in our class An immaculate Ferrari 250 Fantastic, then we returned the next holding back. ‘lowdrag coupe’, broke down mechanical fettling - well no – actually GTO, an ex-works Healey 3000, a morning to do it again but reversing the (disintegrating fanbelt pulley), lots of a 1954 Aston Martin DB2/4 recently magnificent DB4GT and a Ferrari 250GT route. At the end of day two we had more THE END penalties, do better next year. 2010: Lusso amongst others. penalties and were rather further down the So, here there we were, no breakdowns, we would make the top five. When the 1950 XK120 OTS, broke down (broken order than we felt was justified. We knew SCRUTINEERING no disastrous self-inflicted errors, but what results went up we were thrilled to find that throttle linkage), lots of penalties, do better where we had incurred penalties on the ? about those penalties? Well, one was we were 1st in class and 3rd overall. next year. Are you detecting a pattern “It seemed we had been So we arrived at scrutineering at Celtic tests and that these amounted to seconds eliminated once the scoring had been My co-driver, Brigadier Mike Hickson, Manor, still basking in Ryder Cup glory, rather than minutes, so how had we What a great event, some take it very checked and the other? It seemed we had (a soldier and a racer) and myself have a given a penalty for using which is why we stayed at the Holiday Inn collected nearly five minutes of penalties? seriously, some less so but most of all been given a penalty for using a ‘modern’ simple approach, we philosophically across the road. Scrutineering complete, This was no longer a joke and since we everyone has fun. As for my Aston, a ‘modern’ navigational navigational aid but we pointed out that accept the trials and tribulations of numbers on and ready to go, not realising had not suffered a breakdown or hit each universally the cry was “You won’t touch there was very little ‘modern’ about the ? breakdowns (old cars), weather (the 2010 aid but we pointed out that we had already collected a two other we decided, in the friendliest way, that bodywork will you ” and from the car, especially the navigational aids (or route was mainly in Snowdonia, for minute penalty – more later. This year for to appeal – more later. ebullient Robert Coucher at Octane, anyone who does not know, OTS stands that there was very little the first time we had a retro-rally style indeed the owner) and the penalty was whose lovely XK140 goes faster than it for open top sports) and the ‘professional’ tripmeter rather than relying on the DAY 3 removed. When we left Celtic Manor that should, “Max Taylor and Mike Hickson ‘modern’ about the car” morning we were down in the mid field. competitors whose timers and tripmeters odometer (timing equipment is a pair of So, day 3, goodbye Celtic manor and won the patina contest hands down in Leading overall was a splendid and are tuned to the nearest nano-something, vintage Heuer stopwatches) and two hours Holiday Inn and off to Silverstone. First call their superbly shabby Aston Martin expertly driven and navigated Talbot 105 but we do not accept self-inflicted errors. later, after several trips along the A449 Caerwent’s 97 corners the other way, then DB2/4.” Third time lucky. Alpine, in 2nd place a very fine Lancia ? retrieved from 35 years in a barn and we decided that our calibration was an 11 mile road test before arriving at the So, our mount for 2011 Given our Fulvia 1300 and in 3rd place that ex- mine for only a few months. Paintwork, “good enough” – forgetting that a small wonderful Prescott Hill Climb. I had driven determination to do better the reader might works Healey 3000. We were quietly not really, interior, bare, engine, still error over a mile or two becomes a big Prescott before, being taught how to drive expect us to have chosen a proven and confident that, with penalties removed, MAX TAYLOR running in after a rebuild. 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the local car paint supplier was still in the Americans to qualify at some of the Unfortunately the car ran out of petrol in possession of a very old ICI car paint races As many as 50 cars would usually the first race and as a consequence the manual, showing the original colour try for 30 grid places. fuel pump broke, which meant we were codes, so we could easily reproduce the unable to start it for the second race. At the Thruxton meeting, both Briggs and three different colours of green used in the We eventually started it in the pit lane, so Briedenbach struggled and complained original design. Meantime, I had located I was able to join the back of the grid and that the cars were useless. Gethin then a Hart 420R engine of the type used in finished the race in 13th position. jumped in to one of the cars and set a the car originally and this was given to time that would have put it on the front row At Brands Hatch, the car was jumping out Connaught Racing Engines for a re-build. of the grid, at which point, needless to of fourth gear in qualifying, then it ran out Most other parts, such as instruments, fire say, they stopped complaining. Peter said of petrol again in the first race but it went extinguishers, seat belts, oil and fuel pipes well in the second race and I finished in are still readily available and were 8th place after starting at the back of the gradually assembled to complete the 29 car field. project. The two sets of original Dymag wheels were crack tested, found to be By Dijon we had solved most of the intact and were shot blasted and teething problems and not least sorted out refurbished. the fuel consumption. After making some Derek Daly 1978 modifications to the suspension the car ran Chevron Bearings were replaced in the uprights, well in both races. Starting 10th on the brake calipers resealed, steering rack grid in race 1, I finished 8th and then 7th overhauled and a new aluminium radiator in race 2. For 2012, we will make some manufactured. The re-built Hart engine more suspension modifications to make was duly installed and then the completed better use of the tyres. As I become more Formula 2 bodywork, on which George had done a used to the very rapid pace of the car, I superb job, was fitted to the completed one of his biggest headaches was hope I can move nearer the front. n June 2009 an advert popped up on parts lay around, becomin rusty and around the corner from the old Chevron rolling chassis. The complete car was then keeping Briggs fit to drive. Apparently, his www.racecarsdirect.com for a 1978 decaying for the next 30 years. works and still had the original B42 taken to Goodfabs exhausts to have the mother would despatch new clothes to him Formula 2 in the late ’70s and early ’80s Formula 2 Chevron B42. Apparently chassis jig. I Once home, Mike Catlow, who I charged exhaust system made. Even if the exhaust from Las Vegas with the pockets full of was very much the breeding ground for the seller had located the car in a disused with the ‘hoped for’ re-build, laid them all We dropped the tub off to him at the system had survived it would not be as ‘recreational substances’, which may have the Formula 1 drivers of the time and petrol station in North Yorkshire and was out. A fellow restorer commented that he beginning of November 2009 when he efficient as a modern day stainless steel had an affect on his ability to concentrate Historic F2 is becoming ever more popular selling it on, as the rebuild project was too had seen worse, though Mike said he had commented: “I suppose you would like this system and Goodfabs, who provide most on the task at hand. By March 2011 the as the cost of running Historic F1 cars much for him. The description said that all not. However, we sorted it all out and back by Christmas”? Optimistically we of the exhaust systems for the Formula 1 rebuild was complete so a test day was escalates. The whole project from the parts were there other than the engine, decided to proceed with the rebuild. agreed. We eventually collected it in June teams, were only too happy to make a duly booked at Donington, where in May beginning to end was a fascinating which had been removed by cutting the The gearbox still contained its oil from 30 2010. 90% of the original tub was sound bespoke system for the car. the car would debut in the third round of experience, though my advice to anybody rear chassis legs. The car had lain the Historic European F2 Championship. tackling the same thing would be to start years previously and the insides were still but a new front bulkhead and rear chassis During the summer of 2010, I was invited dismantled in the petrol station since The car ran pretty faultlessly at the test until with a complete car. Some of the parts good, though the casing needed attention. legs were fabricated and joined to it. to a party where Peter Gethin was one of 1980. I acquired the project for a bit the battery went flat as a result of an that were missing were crucial to the Much of the suspension was in a poor Other brackets that had not weathered the other guests. He remembered well the more than it was really worth but enough electrical fault but by that time everything rebuild and it proved difficult finding or very well were scrapped and re-made. car and the team that he managed in to see off other interested parties, so a van had been bedded in and it would be borrowing specific parts in order to have The original bag tanks, which had only 1978. John David Brigg’s mother owned was duly despatched to Yorkshire to ready to race at the beginning of May. replacements fabricated. Nevertheless the had two years’ use in 1978 and 1979 the Hotel Tropicana in Las Vegas and she collect the bits. “Apparently the seller end result was worth the effort. were in excellent condition but were re- financed the team and he said they I completed three rounds of the Historic The Chevron was chassis number B42-78- had located the car in a fitted with new foam. The Chevron F2 bought as many as four chassis from the F2 Championship in 2011 at Donington, I am always delighted to see anybody 16, which had been bought new from disused petrol station in works team of 1978 consisted of Derek Chevron factory during the year. 1978 Brands Hatch and Dijon. The Donington from the Lloyd’s Motor Club at HSCC Chevron by an American, John David Daly, Elio de Angelis and occasionally was one of the most competitive seasons meeting was fraught with problems. The Meetings, so please come and say hello Briggs. He and his fellow American Don North Yorkshire” Nigel Mansell. The team was backed by ever for European F2 racing, during a rev’ counter packed up in qualifying but I if you are in the paddock. Briedenbach had been racing Can Am ICI Chemicals. An original set of Derek great era, and it was therefore difficult for still qualified 14th from 29 starters. cars in the States in 1977 and decided to Daly’s ICI bodywork was included with the HUGH PRICE compete in the 1978 European Formula state but it was all there and could easily car, even though my chassis no. 16 was 2 Championship. They had met Peter be replicated, as could some of the more not an ICI works car. Many consider the Gethin during 1977, who retired at the rusty parts, such as the nose and wing ICI F2 bodywork to be one of the nicest end of that year and became their team frames. Those parts that were in good colour schemes at the time and probably Manager for F2 in 1978. order were despatched for cleaning and since and so I decided that I would adopt re-plating. The uprights were sent for crack this colour scheme. It would be an Briggs sold the car in 1979 to Warren testing. The main aluminium tub was taken intricate paint job but luckily I was able to Booth, who ran it in Aurora AFX (a British to Dennis Allread’s workshop in Bolton persuade the McLaren paint shop ‘anything goes’ single seater Dennis had been an original Chevron manager, George Langhorn, to paint the championship), and he sold it in early employee, making these cars in the ’70s bodywork. He said that if it was possible 1980 for a newer F2 Chevron. It was under Derek Bennett, the founder. Bennett to obtain the original paint colours, it then acquired by the owner of the petrol was killed in a hang gliding accident in would be better to repaint the Warren station. The Hart engine was removed and 1978 and Chevron ceased to trade in Booth body work rather than touching up used for another project and the remaining 1980. Dennis set up his own business the original ICI body work. 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their freezing foxholes deep in the forest expertise of Brigadier General Mike ceremony at the Menin Gate in Ypres, near Foy, immortalised in the film and TV Hickson. After a long and exhausting (played out seven days a week, 52 series ‘Band of Brothers’. climb to the top of the Lion Mound, 275 weeks in the year in honour of the steps, something of a challenge for the 1914/18 fallen and the 55,000 Easy Company’s positions are hard to find, older and rounder members of the group, Ypres sector ‘no known grave’ names). being deep in the forest, well off road and Mike gave us an hour long and very almost completely unmarked. Only On the way to Menin, we also stopped to detailed lecture of how the battle was won intensive research and much poring over visit a unique grave, that of Captain Noel and lost, dispelling some long held contemporary battle maps revealed their Chevasse, an RAMC medical officer - location, finally tracked down in an unique because this incredible man won Earl/Pickering recce some months before two VCs in the 1914/18 conflict, one on during their Spa 6 Hours weekend in “We watched an the Somme and the other at Paaschendaele September 2010. It is a very satisfying abbreviated version where he was killed, as well as an earlier piece of history when found as they are MC. Chevasse, the son of the Bishop of largely as left in 1944/5, being so remote of the MGM film Liverpool who had promoted the and out of the way of tourist and other construction of its Protestant Cathedral, was untutored interference. The success of this starring Rod Steiger as the only man to win two VCs in the Great foray was underlined when, some three War and his headstone is the only one months later, a phone call from LMC Bonaparte and spent worldwide to have two VC emblems member, Charlie Miller, who was in the displayed on it. It is an intensely moving general area with motorcycling friends, some time in experience to stand before it. generated sufficiently accurate instructions After the 8pm Menin Gate Ceremony, this for him and his team to locate them too. the museum” year particularly memorable for being the A visit to the huge German War Graves first time uniformed officers of the Northern Cemetery at Recogne, the other side of misconceptions. An open sided bus then Ireland Constabulary and the Republic of Foy, was a humbling experience, the shuttled us around the area with a visit to Ireland Garda had stood side by side to The Lloyd’s Motor Club Members’ Panzers and their support groups having the crucible of the battle, Hougoumont honour the dead – another step forward in suffered enormous losses during the battle Farm, failure to capture which had been the process of reconciliation of the people and requiring up to six fallen to be buried the foundation of Napoleon’s defeat. We of Ireland - we repaired to our lovely little per headstone. The day’s end now watched an abbreviated version of the Chateau Hotel in the centre of Poperinge Battlefields Group approaching, we rounded out with a visit MGM film starring Rod Steiger as for a memorable final and very gourmet to the magnificent American Star Memorial Bonaparte and spent some time in the dinner. The end of another memorable trip, at Mardasson, on the outskirts of Bastogne, museum, before setting tracks in the classic exercising both our cars and digestions he ten member Battlefields Group sported his 1973 Porsche Carrera RSR in Chateau had been largely destroyed all States and units involved in the Battle of fleet for Ploegsteert, the last resting place of before slipping through the Tunnel sous la sports seven ‘senior’ (read that a lovely shade of white and its ‘race during the battle but has been meticulously the Bulge being memorialised thereon. one of England’s greatest rugby players, Manche for a safe return to Blighty. Next adjective any way you wish) LMC history to die for’, Grahame his rare rebuilt since as a superb and charismatic T Ronald Poulton Palmer, captain of England year’s chapter promises to be Colditz and members – Max Taylor, Tony Pickering, Ferrari 430 16M Spider in stealth matt hotel and restaurant. A very tasty place The Battle of the Bulge and Bastogne now killed in 1915, then Poperinge, scene of Nuremburg and points in between. Dennis Mahoney, Richard Borgonon, black, Tony his dark blue 550 Maranello, to stay. behind us and once again an Allies’ several of the shot at dawn tragedies, as Grahame Chilton, Brigadier General Mike Max his silver grey Aston Martin Vantage triumph, the route back was to take in the Day 1 tracked the Panzers’ progress from well as our annual visit to the ‘Last Post’ Hickson, LMC chairman, Roger Earl, plus V8, and Colin his supercharged Jaguar Waterloo battlefield, an area of particular Clervaux, west along Skyline Drive to new ‘YTS’ member, Kim Taylor-Smith. Its XKR - none too pedestrian a selection. Wiltz Castle, then on to St Vith for lunch aim is a simple one – to immerse itself in a (us, not the Panzers), all of them names major battlefield each year, linked with and places featuring strongly in the battle. driving pleasure in the group’s exotic or “Hostilities started at classic cars. A ninth member, much The afternoon saw the flotilla follow the respected but now retired Lloyd’s the Chateau d’Urspelt Panzers’ progress to Malmedy where 80 underwriter Colin Spreckley provides American prisoners had been massacred invaluable (if self-taught) expertise in in Clervaux, an (the field behind the museum remains kept finding accommodation for the group, to this day as sacred ground), then on to generally delectable chateaus, to inspired Spreckley Stavelot and the site of the fuel dump ameliorate the hardships experienced destruction (as featured in the film ‘Battle of during the day, i.e good wine, rich food find” the Bulge’), the day finishing at La Gleize and fast motoring, although not with its memorable museum, featuring a necessarily in that order. Lloyd’s aviation Missing this time though were Mahoney’s knocked out King Tiger. specialist, Peter Butler, also retired, rounds lovely Lancia Aurelia B20 and the Kim Day 2 was allocated to concentrate on out the group to a ‘perfect 10’. This year Taylor-Smith Ferrari 250 Tour de France Bastogne, the crucible of the battle, made was a distinctly challenging one, the (TdF) of last year but teeth were gritted famous by General Anthony MacAuliffe’s entrée being the Battle of the Bulge with its and survival achieved. one word response “Nuts” to the centrepiece, Bastogne, and a dessert of Hostilities started at the Chateau d’Urspelt German’s invitation to surrender, also the Waterloo. Transportation was rather more in Clervaux, an inspired Spreckley find, site of the George S Patton Memorial. The sophisticated than the original Panzers close to where the Panzers had launched Bastogne sector was also the scene of one enjoyed but the Wehrmacht did have their surprise attack westwards aiming of the 101st Airborne’s finest episodes, in somewhat different objectives. Mahoney for Antwerp in December 1944. The particular Easy Company’s defence of LMC February 2012 v12_layout 28/02/2012 16:17 Page 32
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hat a year it has been, after the initial excitement of the to get to the car; the Formula 3 and British GT races certainly the corners as they are lighter but on road my team mates and I giving passenger At Donington the poor weather continued, new car and the first few practice days the reality of the brought a new level of crowds and numbers of people in the pits tyres. I had an amazing first race and rides to Catlin’s guests who were brave my competitors had clearly been mistaken Wtask hit home when a week before the first race I ran and paddocks, space was certainly at a premium!. made it up to 13th before my enthusiasm enough to jump into the passenger seats in thinking they could drive like touring car out of talent at Snetterton at the exit of Riches, the first corner after got the better of me and I spun on the whilst we put in some valuable practice drivers and I was pitched into a spin in Having performed mechanically faultlessly until that point, the car the start/finish straight. Slick tyres are wonderful until they let go, penultimate lap to finish 17th. The second for our round there later in the year. both races on the first lap. In the first needed a push start to get out of the assembly area for qualifying on the throttle in fifth gear the car swapped ends and I collided race was almost as much fun with 18th minding my own business down through which did not bode well. Sure enough halfway around the lap, The two rounds at Brands Hatch, one on with the new barriers on the inside of the track. Fortunately there position the reward for all the practice. the famous Craner Curves I found myself the engine died. I pulled off and was just about to get out it the little used GP circuit, were both was a fibreglass specialist on site and in return for a very half in the gravel trap but fortunately a started again but sadly this was short lived and I spent the rest of Then came the Snetterton round and the challenging weather-wise but mainly reasonable sum they worked until four a.m. to repair the car so I kind marshal pushed me out so I could the session watching from the sidelines. This meant I would start opportunity for some friends from the notable because Tiff Needell took to the could be out on track first thing the following day, confidence finish the race. In the second all but one both races dead last in a field of over 30 cars. The field was market to attend. The new circuit layout celebrity car. He was slightly put out not to slightly dented. After another test day at Oulton Park the moment car, that of my team mate John Saunders, made up of mainly G40s but to add to the excitement there were has improved matters for spectators be challenging at the front and finished of truth arrived but only after I got through several security checks were on slicks when the heavens opened, also ten G20s, which, whilst faster in a straight line are slower in although it is still a rather windswept 7th to my 11th in the first race and I am he laughed whilst the rest of us tried circuit with not a lot of shelter. Not my not sure why but he did not take the start desperately hard just to keep the cars on finest round with the highlight being in the second. In the second race, the the black stuff. After my first corner contact surviving a first corner spin, avoiding a commentator gave me the benefit of the I managed to salvage 10th in the G40s. pile up and somehow not collecting the doubt and suggested I was tipped into a barrier. A day at Donington followed with spin approaching Druids, the second The final round was on the new track at corner, in the first lap melee. I am not Silverstone: the new pit complex is convinced but either way I hit the barriers absolutely amazing and the track superb. hard enough to bend the suspension and Sadly an over enthusiastically tightened feature in the following months “Crash” on wishbone coupled with the wrong choice Motors TV. of tyre ruined the first race but the second was huge fun with close fair racing After a welcome summer break we found enabling me to end the season on a high. ourselves at Rockingham for a wet weekend’s racing on part of the oval and I finished 12th in the championship of infield circuits. The wet tyres are superb thirty G40 competitors but still with a but the wall of water kicked up by 30 mountain to climb in 2012 if I am to get cars made visibility rather poor, I survived closer to the front as the front runners have the first race to take 11th but unbelievably been in a slightly different league to both frustratingly on the last lap of the second myself and my fellow competitors who race, one of the few cars on slicks lost have stepped up from Caterhams at the control passing a backmarker ahead of same time. My team mates and I were me on the banking when he ventured off taught a new driving technique in the last the dry line and his car collided with mine few weeks of the season which I would sending me into the wall at higher speed like to try and perfect next year, funds than I care to admit too. The circuit safety allowing, which should close the gap team were superb, Ellis Clowes and my hopefully. Finally a huge thank you to my insurers were faultless and with their help Sponsors this year; Catlin, JLT Re, Clyde & my team managed to re-shell the car in Co and BW Interiors without whom this time for the round at Donington three would not have been possible and weeks later. I also have to admit to being equally to my team Trackcars who have thankful to Ginetta that the safety shell is worked so tirelessly to ensure the car was 50 times stronger than the regulations spot on every time I stepped in. require. Needless to say the incident also featured in the following month’s edition of “Crash” too. PAUL LATIMER “The field was made up of mainly G40s but to add to the Photograph: Jakob Ebrey excitement there were also ten G20s, ” LMC February 2012 v12_layout 28/02/2012 16:17 Page 34
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