Classic and Competition Car November 2013 Issue 38 Spa 6 Hours Our Team. Contents Simon Wright - Editor. Simon has been Page 3 News. photographing and Page 13 British GT Final, Donington Park. reporting on motor races Page 19 HRDC All Stars Donington for many years. Served an Page 20 Vintage Classic Car boot sale, Southbank, London. engineering apprenticeship Page 24 HSCC Season Finals, Sulverstone many years ago. Big fan of Page 29 Severn Valley Railway Classic car display. the Porsche 917 Page 33 Archive photo of the month Page 34 Spa Classic 6 Hours. Pete Austin. Page 37 FIA Masters Historic F1, Spa Pete is the man for Historic Page 41 FIA Masters Historic sports cars. racing, with an extensive Page 44 Classic car meeting, The Swan, Fradley. archive of black and white Page 47 HSCC Gold Cup photo gallery images covering the last Page 51 Birkett 6 Hour Relay, Silverstone few decades of motorsport in Britain. Very keen on BRM. Mick Herring Front Cover. Mick's first love is GT Ford GT40 of Wright/Gans/Wolfe which finished 8th in the Spa 6 hours race © Mick Herring racing, including Historic, Check out our new updated WEB site at www.classicandcompetitioncar.com regularly for additional photo especially the Lola T70. galleries, wall papers and other additional content and Has an extensive join our Facebook Group Classic and Competition Car. knowledge of all things GT. All content is copyright classicandcompetitioncar.com unless otherwise stated. All photographs are copyright the original photographer and cannot be used for commercial purposes unless by prior approval of the original copyright holder. We try to ensure accurate and truthful reporting but if you spot an error, please contact us and will we verify and correct accordingly. Janet Wright. We do not organise any events which are mentioned and we are not responsible if the event does not take Janet has been taking place or is cancelled. Please contact the event organiser before making a long trip. photographs for many To Subscribe for free and be notified when the next issue is published please click years, and is also very here. To check out our web site with additional photos please click here skilled in video. She likes Classic and Competition Car is published by simonwrightphotos.com High View Drive, Kingswinford, West Aston Martins Midlands DY6 8HT E-mail [email protected] Tel 07905 435973 Classic and Competition car November 2013 Page 2 Editorial © Simon Wright The largest Classic Motor Show in the UK will be at the NEC, News near Birmingham between the 15th and 17th of November. The first show in May 1984 occupied just one hall, while this years show will cover a mammoth 82,000 square metres in ten halls plus an additional hall for the Classic Motorcycle Show. Well worth a visit or maybe two to see everything classic in motoring and motorsport. © Janet Wright Zoe to represent UK In Scirocco shootout. Andrew Jordan clinches BTCC title. GT Racer Zoe Wenham (left) has been nominated After being top independant last year, Andy by the MSA to go forward to the Scirocco R-Cup Jordan has clinched the 2014 BTCC Touring shootout and has been named as one of the final 12 Car Championship crown as well as the from all over the World. An initiative of the FIA's Independant crown for 2014. Women in Motorsport Commission, 12 female drivers from around the World have been chosen to attend the Oschersleben circuit in Germany, where one of the twelve will have the chance to be offered a full time drive in the 2014 Volkswagen Scirocco R Cup season in either Junior or Pro cup. We wish Zoe the best of luck for the evaluation day. Classic and Competition car November 2013 Page 3 Drayson Electric record © Simon Wright Jones Donington Woes. David Jones in the Preci-Spark 22 Mercedes AMG SLS GT3 was excluded from the final round of the British GT championship at Donington Park on the 6th of October 2013. He also had 4 penalty points added to his competition license, and had 8 championship points deducted from his current points and was fined £1,000 after contact with cars on two separate occasions, the 888 Optimum Racing 888 BMW Z4 GT3 of Dan Brown and Steve Tandy and the 42 Mtech Ginetta G55 GT3 of Derek Johnston and Luke Hines. © Simon Wright A new sub 999kg World Electric Land Speed Record (Subject to FIA ratification) was made by the Drayson B12/69 Hyper EV car at Elvington airfield in Yorkshire during October. The car covered a flying mile at an average of 205.139 mph. Brainchild of former British Science Minister © Simon Wright Lord Paul Drayson. The car broke four Land Speed Records in total, beating its own previous World Record as well as the EV acceleration record by covering a quarter mile from a standing start in just 9.742 seconds. It also set an all Classic and Competition Car new British "flying mile" Land Facebook Group We now have a Facebook Group - Speed Record for any wheel Classic and Competition Car - where you can join and keep up to date with driven vehicle. additional Photographs, postings, and extra event photo galleries. Please feel free to add postings and photos. Classic and Competition car November 2013 Page 4 2013/14 MSC New Zealand F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series Seen testing at Donington Park recently. Calendar © Janet Wright Rnd 1: Nov 8-10 2013 'The Sound' MG Classic Manfeild Feilding Rnd 2: Jan 17-19 2014 NZFMR Ferrari Festival - 1 Hampton Downs Nth Waikato Rnd 3: Jan 24-16 2014 NZFMR Ferrari Festival - 2 Hampton Downs Nth Waikato Rnd 4: Feb 01-02 2014 Skope Classic Powerbuilt Tools Raceway @ Ruapuna Park Christchurch 2013/14 Formula 5000 Australia Cup Series (invitational rounds) Rnd 1: Aug 31-Sept 01 2013 Muscle Car Masters meeting Sydney © Simon Wright Motorsport Park Sydney Rnd 2: Sept 13-15 2013 Sandown 500 meeting (V8 Supercars) Sandown Melbourne Rnd 3: Nov 08-10 2013 Sandown Historics meeting Sandown Melbourne Rnd 4: March 07-09 2014 Phillip Island Classic meeting Phillip Island Melbourne Rnd 5: (provisional yet to be confirmed) March 14-16 2014 Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix meeting Albert Park Melbourne © Fast Company/Alex Mitchell © Simon Wright Class A standout Alan Dunkley (Lola T140) Classic and Competition car November 2013 Page 5 Group B to star at 30th Lancaster Insutance Classic Frank Lyons switches to a McRae GM1. Motor Show. The HSCC Finals held at Silverstone saw Frank Lyons race a Fans of the mighty Group B rally cars are in for a treat at this years Classic McRae Chevrolet GM1 in the Derek Bell Trophy Race. This was Motor Show at the NEC. the ex Roy Lane hill climb car which was sold to America years This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Peugeot 205 and Club Peugeot ago and is now back in the UK. UK are celebrating with a range of 205s on their stand , including the The McRae was based on the McLaren M19 Grand Prix car after ultimate 205, the T16 which was an 80s rallying legend. Graham McRae tried to buy an M19 in 1971. He was © Simon Wright unsuccessful but did obtain a copy of the plans which Len Terry used to produce the first chassis at Leda, the LT27. It was slightly larger than the M19 as it was required to carry more fuel and built connect to a 5 litre Chevrolet engine. It was re-named as the McRae GM1 in 1972. A total of fourteen were built between 1972 and 1973. The original McRae proved to be a very successful design with Graham McRae winning the US Formula 5000 Championship and the Tasman Championship in 1972 and the Tasman Championship again in 1973. Roy Lane achieved considerable success in the British Hill Climb Championship, taking the title in the McRae Chevrolet GM1 in both 1975 and 1976. Frank was a little less successful, retiring from the race after only 2 laps. © Simon Wright The Club Audi stand will also feature a host of Quattros, including a 1983 Ur Quattro and a limited edition 1985 short wheelbase Sports Quattro. The MonteCarlo Consortium will mark the 30th anniversary of Lancia winning the World Rally constructor's Championship with an original Group B Lancia 037 on their stand. The Sunbeam Lotus Owners club will feature a trio of cars, one of which will be an ex-works car. Finally, from an earlier period, but no less effective, the Classic Z Register are also celebrating rallying with a replica of the 1973 Safari rally winning Datsun 240Z. The NEC Classic Motor Show runs from 15th-17th November 2013. Tickets cost from £18.50, for more information on the show visit www.necclassicmotorshow.com Classic and Competition car November 2013 Page 6 Rare cars from Rudolf Like father, Like son. © Simon Wright Michael and Andrew Hibberd both took a victory at the HSCC Season Finals at Silverstone in October. Andrew won the Formula Junior race at the wheel of his Lotus 22, while his father finished 7th in the Guards Trophy race, winning his class at the wheel of a Lotus 23B © Simon Wright Regular Historic competitor Rudolf Ernst from Germany raced a couple of unusual cars at the HSCC Silverstone Championship Finals race meeting at Silverstone. Above is a 1961 Formula Junior 997cc PBA Mk2 in which he finished 27th overall and won the class. Below in the HSCC Guards Trophy he drove this 1964 1100cc DRW Mk6 to 21st overall.