November 2015 Issue 62 HSCC Finals, Silverstone Red Oktober Sywell Piston & Props BTCC Silverstone Dukeries Rally Donington Park Wilmslow Motor Show Simon Wright - Editor. Janet Wright. Simon has been photographing and Janet has been taking Contents reporting on motor races for many photographs for many years. Served an engineering years, and is also very Page 3 News. apprenticeship many years ago. Big skilled in video. She fan of the Porsche 917 likes Aston Martins. Page 7 Sahara Challenge. Pete Austin. Mick Herring. Page 12 Britcar, Silverstone. Pete is the man for Historic racing, Mick's first love is GT with an extensive archive of black and racing, including Historic, Page 17 Sywell Classic Pistons & Props. white images covering the last few especially the Lola T70. decades of motorsport in Britain. Very Has an extensive Page 24 Red Oktober, Coventry Transport Museum. keen on BRM. knowledge of all things GT. Page 30 BTCC Silverstone. Lucy Owen-Moczadlo. Syd Wall. Lucy runs Jucy Rally Photography and Syd runs Rally joins us to expand our rally coverage. Photography and covers Page 36 Wilmslow Motor Show. She loves anything to do with Subarus Rallying, Drag Racing and even tries her hand at a bit of and all things American Page 39 MSVR meeting Donington Park autotesting in her modified Nissan. Page 44 Archive Photo of the month. David Goose Stuart Yates David runs Motorsport-Imagery web Stuart runs motorsport- Page 45 HSCC Silverstone Finals. site with Stuart and covers GT, imagery web site with Touring Cars and the odd Rally and David. Covers GT, Page 50 Stourbridge Navigation Trust open weekend. Classic car event Touring Cars and Classic car events Page 53 65th Birkett Relay, Silverstone. As well as this magazine, you Page 57 Dukeries Rally, Donington Park. can follow us on Twitter Page 62 GT Cup Oulton Park. @classcompcar and join our Facebook Group Page 66 750 MC Donnington Park. Classic and Competition Car. 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Well another season of track Gordon Shedden took his second action in the UK has finished at British Touring Car Championship most circuits, hill climbs and title at Brands Hatch after a dramatic News sprint courses, with just the last race fight back in the Honda hardy Rally drivers and Trial Yuasa Racing Honda Type R. drivers left competing outside in Mat Jackson won the first two races the cold winter conditions. at Brands Hatch in the Motorbase Everybody else now moves Ford Focus, with title contenders inside to start the winter Turkington, Plato, Shedden and Neal exhibition tour. This starts with finishing in 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th in the Classic Motor Show at the the first race, which allowed Plato to NEC this coming weekend. One close the gap on points leader of the largest classic car shows, Shedden. In the second race Plato it is mainly filled with and Neal finished 6th and 7th while Shedden was down in 19th and Turkington had retired from the enthusiastic car club members race. When Plato took the lead of the third and final race and also set fastest lap, it meant that displaying their “pride and joy”, Shedden needed to finish 5th or higher to take the championship. Having started in 19th place for which are usually immaculately the race, Shedden had to work his way through the field. With a little help from his team mate Neal, presented. In January its time for who attacked Jack Goff in front, which in turn allowed Adam Morgan and Jackson to join the battle the Autosport Racing Car Show and slow them all in the process. This gave Shedden the chance to join the battle and with no also at the NEC, followed in success ballast on board he managed to get ahead of Morgan and Neal to 4th place behind Goff. February by Race Retro at With Neal now acting as his rear gunner, protecting him from behind, Shedden was in a Stoneleigh Park, near Coventry. championship winning position and then Tordoff, in 11th place, set the fastest lap. This meant that Before you know it, it will be next even though Plato won the last race it was not enough to win him the Championship. Jackson season and we will all be back at finished over three seconds behind the © Simon Wright the tracks. Volkswagen CC while Goff in the MG6 GT © Simon Wright held on to 3rd. With Shedden finishing 4th overall, he clinched the 2015 British Touring Car Championship title by 4 points from Jason Plato, while his team mate Matt Neal was 3rd in the standings. Honda Dynamics also took the Manufacturers title and 2nd place in the Team standings, behind Team BMR RCIB Insurance, where Colin Turkington was top of the Independent Drivers Standings November 2015 Page 3 SCREEN STARS TAKE TO THE STAGE AT Cook takes Jack Sears LANCASTER INSURANCE CLASSIC MOTOR SHOW Trophy for 2015 For The Love of Cars workshop ace Ant Anstead and Car SOS presenter Fuzz Twenty four year old Josh Cook in the Power Maxed Racing Chevrolet Townshend will be appearing at the Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show at Cruze is the winner of the Jack th th Birmingham’s NEC from Friday 13 to Sunday 15 November. Both are long time friends Sears Trophy for 2015. At the end of the show, but will be involved this year on the Live Stage with demonstrations and Q+A of the season he was almost two sessions on offer throughout the weekend, as well as being on hand for photographs, hundred points clear of Mike autograph sessions, and meet and greet opportunities. “It will be good to be back on the Bushell in 2nd place and Stewart Lines in 3rd. stage,” said Fuzz, “I was here last year with Car SOS to hand over one of the cars we The Jack Sears Trophy is named had restored, but it will be great to be involved and work with the rest of the guys!” after the first ever British Touring Fuzz, who is currently filming a new series of Car SOS, will also be showing one of his car Champion, who won the own cars on the ‘Star Cars’ display at the show. Ant will be showing the Evanta Barchetta inaugural title in 1958 driving an – a limited production 6.2-litre special developed by his company Evanta Cars. Austin Westminster. The Trophy is awarded to the best newcomer to “I’ve attended the NEC Classic as a visitor loads of times before, but I’ve never been the championship over the season. involved like this,” explains Ant. “I can’t wait to be part of the team! As well as being on Josh Cook was runner up in the the Live Stage, I’m also bringing along the Evanta Barchetta, a modern day car inspired Renault UK Clio Cup in 2014, a series which currently supports by 1950's design. It will be good to see how the classic community reacts to her. I’m also the British Touring car Championship. looking forward to having a good old nose around the show and catching up with old friends. Plus, I understand some of the cars featured on For the Love of Cars, such as Walter’s MK1 Golf Rally car, will be on the club displays. See you there, do come and say hello.” The two stars can be seen on the Discovery Channel’s Wheeler Dealers Live Stage, alongside hosts Mike Brewer and Edd China. Mike will once again be setting Edd a challenge: can a car be brought back to its former glory during the three-days of the show? The 2015 Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show will be held from 13th to 15th November at Birmingham’s NEC. For more information visit www.necclassicmotorshow.com. November 2015 Page 4 Duncan Cowper is at it again! Chateau Impney Hill climb back in 2016. Following on from a hugely successful summer of competing, which included a number of It has been announced that following the successful return of Chateau Impney to the motor sport scene in impressive appearances at the Litchfield GTROC/MLR Sprint series and also at the Ten of the 2015, the hill climb will become an annual event and Best event held in York, Turbo Dynamics’ customer Duncan Cowper was back out on the track will take place over the 9th and 10th of July in 2016.