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seventies AN HSCC CHAMPIONSHIP SINCE 1996 July 2019 – No4 RACE REPORTS FROM CADWELL PARK AND LEGENDS OF BRANDS HATCH SUPER PRIX PLUS PROJECT GITANES CADWELL PARK – A GREAT WEEKEND. SUN, WIND, RAIN, THUNDER, RACING, LAUGHS, BEER, BBQ AND OH YEAH, A FLEDGLING PEREGRINE FALCON! HSCC 70s Road Sports – July 2019 comment Doesn’t time pass quickly, apparently this is issue 48 of the 70s Newsletter, we have come a long way since the first issue in March 2013. What on earth have we found to talk about? James Nairn takes a look back. Vehicle Identity Forms (VIF’s) were a topic of of the HSCC is for every member to race in a conversation in the first Newsletter along with competitive, safe, fun and social environment a request that the Invitation Class competitors and to return home after every meeting with should ‘respect the spirit of the Championship’ the sense of having spent a good weekend and not use it as an opportunity to enter a car with friends. that has a performance advantage. Perhaps In June 2018, 70s were the star of the show at cars entered in the Invitation Class should at Mallory Park with a 28 car entry, although a the very least be asked to comply with the club meeting in the true sense of the word Championship Minimum Weights for the with a widely varying mix of races, the skills of relevant vehicle, theoretically a relatively easy the competitors were roundly applauded by modification for a competitor to implement the spectators, widely reported in the motor and equally easy to enforce (although as we are sport press and discussed enthusiastically on still talking about weights in 2019 maybe not social media. as easy as implied). A month later at the 2018 Silverstone Classic, We also mentioned the Championship Road Sport competitors were excited to be Regulation and ‘penalties would apply’. Now part of the event and although the 70s entries as then enforcement of the Championship were capped at 30 I believe most competitors Regulations are carried out by representatives thought their efforts warranted more than 12 of Motorsport UK whose job it is to make a seconds in the 45 minute video of the event. judgement of fact. I would like to believe that if a 70s car is found not to comply it is due to Fast forward to 2019 and the weekend of an oversight by the competitor and not a 13/14 July competitors were offered the deliberate attempt to deceive. opportunity to race at the inaugural Tom Pryce Memorial Weekend on the Anglesey Circuit I know that some competitors have felt (situated on the coast overlooking the harshly judged for making a genuine mistake Snowdonia mountain range) 70s mustered a but competitors should try and remember 20 car grid (including two Invitation entries). that any opinion expressed is that of an individual and not the view of HSCC. The aim In idle moments I wonder what criteria HSCC 70s Road Sports – July 2019 competitors use when selecting which races In the previous Newsletter, sent out in June, New HSCC Patron-in-Chief, Richard Attwood they enter: cost, location, family commitments? we asked whether competitors would like a acknowledges the As Anglesey was a new venue for the 70s Championship race in Europe in 2020. appreciative spectators at Championship, with the opportunity to honour the Croft Nostalgia Pieter Bakker of Legendary Circuits who Meeting in 2017 the memory of Tom Pryce one of the great F1 organises events in Europe for Production Image: drivers of the 1970s, I had probably expected ©joshuabarrettphotography Road Sports Cars told me he had spoken to the pair of races to generate more support the Dutch KNAF (Koninklijke Nederlandse and be more appealing to 70s competitors Autosport Federatie) and the French FFSA especially as they would be the pioneers and (Fédération Francaise de Sport Automobile) to trailblazers with an opportunity to build and ask whether they would accept Motorsport UK shape this event into something special. Regulations, both Federations said they were If you have any thoughts or opinions on the ‘not keen to accept a less strict policy on safety’. subject of Anglesey, whether you feel there We know from past experience of Spa that the have been too many meetings between Belgium Authorities hold a similar view. Cadwell in the middle of May and Croft at the A copy of the Appendix K 2019 Safety beginning of August or what criteria you Regulations are now on the 70s website: apply when deciding which meetings you https://70sroadsports.co.uk/post-grid/ enter. Please send your message to Charles: Please take a look and let us know whether [email protected] you car complies or whether you would be Despite a recent reduction in race entries at prepared to upgrade to race in Europe. Please Anglesey and Croft there are a healthy send your replies to Charles: number of competitors registered for the [email protected] 70s Championship. Taking an overview of Our next race is the Croft Nostalgia on the competitors and class divisions up to and 03/04 August, another of our great summer including 13 July there have been 43 weekends on the 70s calendar. The best news individual competitors who have entered at is that there are no road works on the A1, it least one meeting plus seven additional entries has been completely resurfaced, its smooth, from the Invitation Class. wide and with plenty of passing opportunities. Class D have received 17 individual entries, And there is still time through the magic of followed by Class C with 10 and B with 9 the internet to enter the meeting and to sort Classes A & E had four and three respectively. an appropriate outfit. HSCC 70s Road Sports – July 2019 HSCC 70s Road Sports – July 2019 #3–15.06.19 HSCC 70s Road Sports – July 2019 CADWELL PARK Someone should create a 70s Road Sports version of Top Trumps, it would certainly be a challenging game as the individual performance of each particular marque appears to defy popular convention. With their helmets on, drivers appear ageless although some of the younger ones sport beards to prove they can, whilst the racing snakes don’t even appear to have any discernible advantage when looking at the depth of competition throughout the grid. Images: Martin Cooper & Charlie Wooding Design & words: James Nairn HSCC 70s Road Sports – July 2019 Charles Barter, Datsun It’s said that determination is a characteristic width glass air brake in place of aero screens 240Z and Jez Clark, Lotus that defines winners and the number one on and a hard top, although dispensing with the Elan shared the front row of the grid for both races the bonnet of Jez Clark’s Elan appears to flippy floppy doors allowing ‘Keki’ to get his taking a win apiece. With confirm that theory; but there is also a depth ‘elbows out’ and wrestle a time that was three Charles victorious on of intensity in eyes and a burning desire to tenths quicker than father Leverett’s Elan. Saturday and Jez winning on Sunday drive every lap as if it could be his last. First Image: out of the Assembly Area Jez moved straight Mark Bennett headed the next group of five ©martincooperphoto to the top of the time sheets posting a time in cars separated by a little more than a second, the low 1:50s on his first lap whilst no-one just a fraction over two tenths ahead of his else got within 10 seconds of his time. class rival Adam Bagnall,l whose home built However, Charles Barter only required three and road driven Jaguar E-Type almost set the laps before securing pole, then just to be sure speed trap on fire topping out at a scorching posted another lap also quicker than anyone 118.3mph. Adam was in turn just seven else could manage. Most people would think hundredths ahead of John Dickson, whose you had been imbibing too much Japanese Ferrari 308GTB sadly ingested something Niizawa Sake if you told them a Datsun 240Z solid and metallic that bent a valve. John shut can dance its way around the twists and turn down the V8 quickly hoping to limiting the of the sinuous Cadwell Park track quicker than level of internal damage inflicted to his wallet a small, light and fleet of foot Lotus Elan or but unfortunately it also brought his weekend Europa, but in 70s as in Tokyo, convention is of motor sport to a premature end. Howard often redefined. Payne and Rupert Ashdown rounded off the top ten in their Lotus’s. Rupert has recently Will Leverett struggled to get his Europa to been showing some good pace in the vibrant run cleanly but still hustled his way into third, green Elan and headed the eclectic group of half a second behind Jez and ahead of Kevin Invitation runners a couple of seconds ahead ‘Keki’ Kivlochan. The Scot had entered into the of Tim Hayes. Tim’s Alfa Romeo Sprint always spirit of 70s to join Class A by fitting his seems to run well at Cadwell Park and the Morgan Plus 8 with the equivalent of a full enigmatic pale blue Datsun YB110 (think HSCC 70s Road Sports – July 2019 CHARLES’S SPARKLING METALLIC BLUE DATSUN APPEARS TO COLLECT SUNLIGHT AND REFLECT IT IN EVERY DIRECTION WHILST THE TIDY LITTLE ELAN OF JEZ LOOKED AS DELECTABLE AS FRESH STRAWBERRIES IN A BOWL OF CREAM. Astra GTE but ten years ahead of its time) of brought with him one of the most interesting Steve Worrad, a car which always receives cars seen in 70s for a number of years: a much favourable attention squeezed a lot of Scirocco GTi.

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