8 B.A.R.e. News-June, 1968 ROLLASON ROARS UP PONTYPOOL-BUT HA WLEY~ RECORD STANDS by Richard Shields The event, held in dry, sunny BARC HILL CLIMB CHAMPIONSHIP, ROUND THREE conditions, was 'the third round 1 J. W. Goodliff Cooper S 8.96 points ELEVEN new class records of the BARC Hill Climb Cham­ 2 T. B. D. Christie Cooper S . 8.36 were set up at the South pionship, and the 75 starters 3 J. Frands Cooper S 8.20 Wales Centre's first hill from an entry of 85 included 34 championship contenders-3D of Geoff Rollason in his Lotus 41B G. lONES 4 R. Rose McLaren 8.18 climb meeting of the year at 5 J. M. McCartney Felday BRM 7.13 whom improved on their times. Pontypool Park on May 12, Jeff Goodliff (1275 cc Cooper finishing in that order with Gilbern driven by its 6 C. Cramer Cooper S 6.03 Roughton recording 38.31.Dennis 7 J. Pascoe Cooper S 5.82 but the hill record of 30.63 S), who won the formula libre Peter COlfrell-the only cc 8 V. Cooper Jaguar E 5.63 tourers class with an amazing Gregory (Cortina GT)just pipped ill Wales on the Princi seconds-set by Mike Haw­ Frank Bott (Cortina GT) by 0.09 only major hill. 9 A. G. Hitcheon Cooper S 5.37 ley in his Brabham BT23B 34.20--0ne of the many new 10 C. Rogers Cooper S 5.23 class records-also headed the seconds to take the 1301 cc plus Peter Voigt took the J last August-survived despite championship points table for the tourers class. sports-racing class with 11 P. E. Voigt DRW Imp 4.89 John Pascoe (1275 cc Cooper S) 12 P. Houghton Cooper S 4.51 the efforts of FID man Geoff day with 8.96 points. Tom in his very attractive Christie (1293 cc Cooper S), had a comfortable win in the DRW Imp, comfortably, 13 F. P. Kaye Cooper S 4.37 Rollason in his 1598 cc special series touring category, 14 K. WiJson Lotus 30 4.29 second in class to Goodliff with runner-up John Barratt's Lotus 41B. his time of 37.34 slicing 1.90 Lotus Seven, and in th! 15 F. Dent Cooper S 4.08 Rollason, whose 1967 class a time of 34.80, collected 8.36 16 points, and the third man in the seconds off his own class record. 1600 cc section there w W. Edwards Abarth-Simca 3.97 record for racing cars up to 1150 In the sports car classes, hopes 17 Delwyn Bevans MaJlock U2 3.92 class, John Francis (1293 cc rare occurrence-a tie. cc (33.63) still stands, drove very Cooper S), earned 8.20 points were high for a new course Delwyn Bevans and Rob 18 R. Jennings Jaguar E 3.89 consistently. His first run of ladies' record after Judith Day 19 J. C. England Cooper S 3.84 with his 34.96 climb. cher in Mallock U2s stop 32.38 put him firmly in the lead had hurled her 1499 cc Marcos up 20 K. HeUiweIJ Cooper S 3.49 Rose in the McLaren took clock on 33.92 to share t and on his second attempt he in 34.62 in practice-I.63 seconds· and the record. 21 D. Firkins Mal10ck tJ2 3.26 trimmed this to 31.99 for FTD. fourth place in the championship inside Jenny Williams' J 967 best. 22 Miss J. Day Marcos 2.89 In the top ten run off, which he round with 8.18 points, followed The new sports-racing ( But although she took her class, rear-engined or 4WD 23 L. Evans Mini-Marcos 2.65 also won, he clocked 32.14 and by John McCartney (1880 cc Miss Day never got within four 24 G. RoIIason Lotus 41B 2.31 32.4O---only 0.41 seconds be­ Felday BRM 4WD), whose time 1601 cc and over i seconds of this time again. second FTD man Rose, 25 Mrs E. ·MiJes Jaguar E 1.91 tween his fastest and slowest runs. of 34.57 gave him 7.13 points as John N ortheroft in his very 26 D. R. Speed Cooper S 1.81 Second FTD spot went to well as a class win. fast 1140 cc MO Midget beat the class went to McCartne~ 27 R. HancJitf Anglia 1.73 R. Rose, who did 33.52 in his Cooper S drivers Peter Hough­ 1275 cc Mini-Marcos of cham­ FeJday BRM (34.57)­ 28 T. Pascoe Porsche 1.58 4700 cc McLaren on his second ton, Chris England and Keith pionship runner Lloyd Evans in which attracted a lot of I 29 Miss G. Baillie-HiII Elva BMW 1.47 class run and then reduced this Helliwell had a close fight in the the smaller special GT class, his attention. Popular local 30 Derek Bevans Milllock U2 0.33 to 33.38 during the run off. small tourers class, eventually 36.09 climb bringing the class was. Ken Wilson in his thl record down by over six seconds. 4700 cc Lotus 30 with 37 The larger special GT section Brian Pickering.(I098 cc produced one of the best tussles FJ) won the 1150 cc rac of the day. with Waldo Edwards class with a second run c (1958 cc Abarth-Simca) clocking but he was closely chalk 35.34 to head Mike Wright F red Dicker (1098 cc (3781 cc Jaguar E), 35.42, and Mk 8) whose 34.60 gave Bob Jennings (3781 cc Jaguar E), first runs lead. Third \'; 35.84, after the first runs. On Saunders Cl 098 cc Lola the second ascents, however, Rollason's 31.99 in tl Wright got the lightweight E type 1600 cc racing class was up in 34.76 to snatch the class. stated earlier, so the cla: Jennings improved, too, but his went to James Beach I 35.42 was not quite good enough. Lotus 20) with 33.85 aT An interesting local runner in Moyse (1475 cc Kieft this class was the 4700 cc V8 second with 36.15. Seven class records go at

by Richard Shields N new class records and a new ladies' course record, man Geoff Rollason getting Pontypool hill climb r and closer to Mike Haw­ outright hill record with every and another keen battle super-charged 1275 cc Cooper S, was joined by Don Jesson (Chev­ appeared to have the 1301-1600 n the super-tuned Minis and Mike Wright (3,781 cc Jaguar ron) in a determined attack on cc sports-racing class pretty well the single-seat racers . . . E) did 34.63, also breaking his the man who seems unbeatable tied up, but Roderick Lane (1498 ., was the fare at the South own class record. James Beach in this class at Pontypool, Mike cc Lotus VII) snatched the award Centre's hill climb meeting clocked 34.72 in his 1,588 cc Wright in his lightweight E-type. with a crisp 34.89 on his final run. ontypool Park on June 23. Lotus 20 and Clive Oakley Edwards did 35.43 first time and Chris Court (997 cc Brabham ollason, who gets faster with (997 cc Lotus 31) managed 34.91. Jesson 35.91, while record holder BT21) won the closely-fought assault on the half-mile Goodliff produced a devas­ Wright retaliated with a new best 1150 cc racing class with 34.23, outhshire hill, won the May tating 33.73 on his second run, of 34.63. chased by Clive Oakley in the with a personal best time and although Peter Voigt, in Edwards then pulled out all Lotus 31 with an improved 1 1.99 seconds. This time, after his beautiful Nathan-tuned DRW the stops for a personal best second run of 34.33 and Stan . g his 1,594 cc Lotus 41B Imp, came very close with a fine 34.73, a really fine drive, but the Thomas (1098 cc Cooper Mk 8) p in practice runs of 34.44 33.97, it was Goodliff who took Jaguar driver replied by lowering with 34.50. . 11, he got down to the the second FTD award. the record still more-to 34.42 . business with a first On the championship front, Any hope of dislodging him then ition climb in 31.69. Goodliff again headed the table rested with Jesson, who had BUICK-POWERED t time he trimmed this to with 9.43 points. Voigt, lying taken delivery of the splendid­ , and then won the Top Ten second overall with an event in looking blue Chevron only a few With Rollason taking FTD, ff with an impeccable 31.44 hand, collected 9.06, and Tom days earlier. Right from the line the merged racing cars class e performance which took Christie (1293 cc Cooper S) /le was obviously having a go, (1151 cc and over) went to Roy within .81 seconds of Haw- . 7.75. There were 24 championship but, unhappily, the car went out Lane in his Buick-powered Brab­ 30.65 record. Next time, contenders among the 73 starters of control emerging from the ham BT4/2l with a run in 34.23. s? and all but three of them improved first curve and swiped a sub­ Second was James Beach in the on their bogey times. stantial tree on the avenue Lotus 20 with his first-run 34.72, Cooper S drivers Peter Hough­ straight--damaging its front end and Tim Carter, in the same car, FREE-FOR-All ton and James Lee were on their but not the driver. So Wright's was third with 35.72. own in the small tourers class and reign in this class continues. The Top Ten run-off result the flying Shropshire man Lee's final 39.30 was just quick Peter Voigt had a fairly easy was: 1 Rollason 31.44, 2 Goodliff three seconds· faster than enough to beat a slower than task in the 1300 cc sports-racing 34.20, 3 Kaye 34.59, 4 Beach st of the other single­ usual Houghton for the award group, but, after championship 35.39, 5 John Fenwick (Brabham s, the fight for second FTD although Houghton's May record points, turned in his 33.97 and BT18) 35.76, 6 Dealey 35.82, a free-for-all. On the first still stands. In the 1301 cc plus brought his own record for the 7 Carter 36.23, 8 Roy Lane 92.74 Jeff Goodliff, the BARC touring category, Frank Bott class down by 1.72 seconds. The (excursion into the plantation, ionship leader, broke his (1598 cc Cortina GT), beaten by Bevans boys, Delwyn and Derek, without damage), 9 Voigt (no formule Iibre tourers record 0.09 by Dennis Gregory (1598 cc with their 1498 cc Mallock U2, time recorded). a cracking 34.06 in the BRT Cortina GT). in May, turned the tables with 39.94 to Gregory's 40.76 and set the first new class record of the meeting.

COMFORTABLE John Pascoe (1275 cc Cooper S) had his usual comfortable win in the special series tourers class, his 36.72 clipping another .62 seconds off his own record. Pascoe, a regular at Pontypool since the first event, is rapidly becoming one of the neatest and most consistent performers there. The formule libre touring class attracted 16 entries, and with Goodliff elevated to second FTD it produced a idil tussle.' Tom Christie's 35.41 gave him the lead after the first runs, but Peter Kaye (1330 cc Cooper S) pushed him down to second place with a climb in 35.11. Third was Tony B.A.R.e. News-August, 1968 Dealey (1300 cc Cooper S) with 35.91, followed by Miss Jenny Williams (1400 cc Cooper S), whose 36.12 lowered her own ladies' record for the course, set in August last year.

NEW RECORDS In the sports car classes Ruger Powell (1098 cc MG Midget) and Miss Judith Day (1499 cc Marcos) recorded wins and new records with 38.84 and 37.74 respectively, and John Milton (3870 cc Jaguar E) took the 2201 cc plus section with 37.71. John Nortbcroft (1140 cc MG Midget) won the smaller special GT class in 36.23, his nearest rival being Lloyd Evans (1275 cc Mini·Marcos) with 37.08-a re­ peat of the May result although Northcroft was a little short of his own record time. In the larger special GT section, Waldo Edwards (1958 cc Abarth-Simca), getting quicker and tidier with every appearance, Beach makes Pontypoo/ FTD in a famous . Lotus by Richard Shields OR. MER hill climb star F Peter Boshier-Jones, who YOur open,:d the South Wales Centre's sonal pontypool Park hill in June last lhaYe ear and held the course record ,r the or a while, saw his old super­ busi. barged 1460 cc Lotus 22 take need at the centre's restricted . help 1 ,rd of eeting on September in the 1jOYS. ands of new part-owner Jim ·viollS Beach, from Evesham. , will, Be:lch's winning run in 36.24 'e an iCconds fell a long way short rhaps of Mike Hawley's current hill ;t be record of 30.63 seconds,but it e OUr was still a fine· effort in very :oring wet conditions. A determined look as Jim Beach takes FTD in the former Boshier-Jones Lotus 22. rARe T. C. COLLlNS PHOTO tralia Beach, who shares the Lotus :rseas with Tim Carter, was not The 1300 cc special GT class (3781 cc Jaguar E), the course amalgamated tourers class with lolably fast in practice but put went to Mike Thomas in his record holder for over 1301 cc a very neat 38.31 seconds, with xpen· up his FID on his first compe­ 1293 cc Gitane with 38.51 sec­ special GT cars, was for some Keith Helliwell (998 cc Cooper sum, ·Iion run. Second FID man onds, just under half a second unexplained reason running in S) second with 41.34 seconds. . much Jack Heaton-Rudd (1498 cc quicker than Jeff Hill (997 cc the big sports car class, which The formula libre touring cars s year udl:ani) also did best on the Lotus Seven). In the 1301 cc he won easily with 37.15 sec­ class was won by Hedley Mat­ iation and over special GT class, ng a I runs, scoring with a neat onds. thews (1650 cc Anglia) in 41.12 irteen 16.92 seconds and handling the Waldo Edwards, who has a John Pascoe (1275 cc Cooper seconds, with Valerie Matthews nship lIIlall-wheeled special very well well-deserved reputation for S), the special series touring second in the same car with I the on the wet surface. having a go regardless of con­ cars record holder, took the 42.83 seconds. ) the ditions, was fastest in practice. great CLOSE BATTLES On his first competition run, Hhat No c I ass records were trying very hard, he went off, uxton fureatened, but there were some slightly denting the rear end of ,ce a lose battles for honours in his 1958 cc Abarth-Simca. Un­ ·aving ~e various categories. It was a deterred, he clocked a superb p to pity that one of the incidents 37.08 seconds on his final run ~~~ t the new Mike MacDowel/ -a spectacular drive in which i ob Jennings Formula 2 1598 he actually crossed the finish • who · IC Chevron out of action, for beam almost broadside. This : will ~is would have been one of run gave him the class award ~ive a e main dangers to Beach and and was also third FTD. , and ~eaton-Rudd. ghted MacDowel, m a kin g his NARROW ESCAPE .acing second practice run, had the who John Powell (3792 cc Jaguar 'arm" le blue car motoring really Mk 2) provided some · excite­ eting. ell when he lost adhesion ment in this class, as well, com­ own! merging from the plantation ing within inches of becoming Id be ne!'. The car sliced down a the first driver to plunge into HoW all fir tree (for which the the pond at the Pool Bend. 1 yOU rentre will no doubt receive a Losing the big yellow car on ive us Dill), charged across the grass the slick surface, he rammed BURY liJd wrapped itself up in a pig­ the flimsy fence separating the -ATE!' ~ir,! spectator barrier. The track from a six-ft drop into iOAD: ialllage to the steering and sus­ the water and was lucky to :RREY. rension was beyond paddock escape a ducking. ~p:lir and that was that. In the sports car classes, With Beach and Heaton­ Richard Russell (1275 cc MG Rudd taking the top spots, the Midget) just pipped Denzil lacing car class went to Stan Davies (948 cc A-H Sprite) in ornas in his 1098 cc Cooper­ the up to 1300 cc section, and JA.1> Mk 8 with a run in 37.48 Judith Day (1499 cc Marcos) c'Jllds. Roderick Lane's 39.34 took the 1301-2200 cc class Edgat ~conds in his 1500 cc Lotus comfortably, though her 41.13 >robe! Seven gave him a six-hun­ seconds was understandably ~hi~ edths of a second victory in well short of her own 37.34 sec­ lly to e sports-racing category. onds class record. Mike Wright Pontypoo/ prepares for 1965 ONSERV A TISM hardly been described as a "gem", an avenue of almond and chelTj C sounds like a suitable label "fabulous" and more earthily, trees into the hairpin around the for adherents of motor sport and "bloody good". lily pond, a right-hander into a yet it is a fair tag in describing For those who have yet to rising gradient, a quick dip and their approach to a new venue. visit us a brief description. The then quickly rising into a tight Opening a venue for the special- Park is the Pontypool town park sharp left, right and left again. ised hill-climbers in an area where previously an old deer park. The The road then rises steeply and interest has been nominal by a grandfather of one of our young winds through the firs plantation, Centre of no previous experience lady marshals was actually game­ emerging into a left-handed becomes an undertaking at once keeper on the estate. sweep through to the finish, some both ambitious and hazardous. By any standards it is an at- 250 feet above the start. The enthusiasm of a quite small tractive setting. Competitors enter The course allows no time for group is what has brought the via a long tarmac drive leading a moment's relaxation and a good South Wales Centre to the com- to the paddock, from there the time requires a maximum per· mencement of this third season driveway continues up to the formance. After the day's sport with Pontypool Park. We look restaurant, a new modern building competitors can even have a hot forward to it with the expectancy bridging the drive immediately shower in the RFC stand by the of finding the whole venture an behind the start which may be start. In this palatial edifice the unqualified success. Were it not comfortably observed from the Clerk of Course operates from for some lack of financial profit balcony whilst satisfying the his centrally heated office. we could even now claim it to inner man. As you will have gathered from be so. The meetings held have The course starts on a short this Pontypool Park is an ex· attracted increasing numbers of incline (about 20 yards) leading tremely pleasant venue, not only experienced competitors from in to gentle right hand and left for the competitor but also for afar and we already have a small hand bends which the unwary the spectator and family as an band of the top driver devotees quickly find are not nearly so enjoyable day's outing. to the Park. innocuous as they appear. From The course itself has variously . there up a gentle slope through See you on April 27! Jim Beach made FI'D at Pontypoo! September meeting in his Lotus 22.· . T. c. COLLINS PHOTO

PONTYPOOL HILL CLIMBS by D. Nigel Jones ECENTLY having taken over R the Secretaryship of the South Wales centre I should like to notify readers of BARe NEWS of our plans at Pontypool Park this year. We have twice had to change the date of our first hill-climb, once to accommodate the Castrolf BARC Championship with a round at Loton Park, and once because of clashing with the last day of the Welsh Rally at L1an­ dow, which also had first call on the timekeeper. The dates for the season are now: May 31, June 21, July 12, and September 20, the first and last being rounds of the Castrolf BARC Championship.