Classic and Competition Car July 2013 Issue 34 Cholmondeley Pageant of Power Blancpain Silverstone La Vie en Bleu British GT Snetterton Contents Our Team Simon Wright - Editor. Page 3 News Simon has been Page 5 Sir Chris Hoy's Radical racing debut photographing and Page 8 Pietro Fittipaldi F4 Snetterton reporting on motor races Page 14 British Hill climb Championship Shelsley Walsh for many years. Served an Page 15 GT Cup Brands Hatch engineering apprenticeship Page 18 La Vie en Bleu Prescott many years ago. Big fan of Page 22 Archive Photo of the month. the Porsche 917 Page 23 Blancpain Endurance Silverstone. Page 27 Four Ashes Car meeting Pete Austin. Page 31 British GT Championship Snetterton Pete is the man for Historic Page 34 BRDC Formula 4 Snetterton racing, with an extensive Page 36 Shelsley Walsh Breakfast club archive of black and white Page 37 Cholmondeley Pageant of Power images covering the last Page 42 VSCC Cadwell Park few decades of motorsport Page 47 Classic car of the month - Austin A90 Atlantic convertible in Britain. Very keen on Page 49 Corvette Club UK 60th celebration Coventry Transport museum. BRM. Front Cover. Mick Herring Allan Rennie Flies at Cholmoneley Pageant of Power in his F1 Lotus - Martin 35 © Simon Wright Mick's first love is GT Blanchemain/Beaubelique/Goueslard Ferrari 458 Italia Blancpain Silverstone © Janet Wright racing, including Historic's, Mike Ward Bugatti T13 La Vie en Bleu Prescott © Simon Wright especially the Lola T70. 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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 July 2013 Page 2 Editorial This has been a dark month for all motorsport fans, with many deaths occuring. Our sport has News got a lot safer in recent years and drivers have walked away from some serious accidents. Safety measures can always be improved, but motor racing is an inherantly dangerous activity. It is terribly sad when a marshal is killed and we mourn the loss of Mark Robinson, the Canadian Marshal who died while helping to recover a broken down car at the end of the Canadian Grand Prix. These volunteers are vital and motor racing could not take place without them. They are all © Simon Wright highly trained and skilled Colin Turkington takes double victory at Croft people and yet accidents can happen to anyone. To all the Former Champion Colin Turkington has taken the new E-bay Motors BMW 125i M Sport to family and friends of the people the front in the British Touring Car Championship by winning two of the latest races at Croft. we have lost recently, we offer He nearly made it three in a row, but had to settle for 2nd place in the third race behind our sincere condolences. Championship leader Matt Neal in the Honda Civic. © Janet Wright Turkington was in fine form around the Yorkshire circuit, grabbing Pole position on Saturday during qualifying, then leading the first race on Sunday from start to finish. His strongest challengers at Croft were the Honda Civic pair of Matt Neal and Gordon Shedden. Turkington was already the most sucessful British Touring Car driver around Croft with six former victories to his name at the circuit. His Croft winning tally is now eight. With the championship now at the half way point, Turkington has moved in to 5th place just 40 points behing current championship leader Matt Neal. Allan Simonsen Gulf Aston Martin Vantage Classic and Competition car July 2013 Page 3 New Lamborghini Aventador LP 700-4 Wizzo's Electric performance at Prescott © Simon Wright © Janet Wright Barrie Williams made a charging performance at La Vie Seen at the Cholmondeley Pageant of Power as part of a display to en Bleu hillclimb when he drove the new Renault Reo, celebrate 50 years of Lamborghini. The new Lamborghini Aventador LP the zero emission electric car in the competition. He 700-4 is very much a supercar. Powered by a 6.5 litre V12 engine which won the Electric Vehicle Class (He was the only entry) produces 700 HP, fitted to a 7 speed transmission and all packaged in a but he also set a very creditable 61.06 second time up Carbon fibre monocoque with aluminium front and rear frames, the car can Prescott which placed him 72nd overall out of a 135 car do 0-62 mph in only 2.9 seconds and reach a top speed of 217 mph. entry. He also got a drive in a Renault 5 Turbo where he © Simon Wright finished 7th overall in a time of © Janet Wright 51.93 seconds, 2nd in class. © Janet Wright © Janet Wright Classic and Competition car July 2013 Page 4 © Mick Herring Sir Chris Hoy's Radical Racing Debut 1st June 2013 by Mick Herring. Nearly all media attention focused on Britain's most decorated © Mick Herring Olympic cyclist, Sir Chris Hoy, as he made his motor racing debut on June 1st, his Radical SR1 Cup car carrying the number 1. Having qualified sixth for the 21 car grid, he would finish fifth in both of his races on Brands Hatch's Indy circuit and challenged relentlessly for fourth throughout his first race, finishing less than 0.4 seconds behind Brian Caudwell. His second race saw him go from sixth to second at Paddock Hill Bend on lap 1 but drop back to fifth over the course of the race, this time more than halving the gap to the driver ahead. Aged 37, with six gold and one silver Olympic medals to his credit the, now retired, eleven-time world champion cyclist is no stranger to sporting competition. Already a keen track day participant, he announced his intention last October to join the, new for 2013, Radical SR1 Cup which is designed as an entry-level rung for novice drivers on the Radical Sportscar ladder, comprising of ARDS test racing license completion, two dedicated track days and a total of eight races (two per meeting) at MSVR circuits. Following tuition from Radical works driver and Le Mans winner, Andy Wallace, Sir Chris described his race debut as "Brilliant fun". © Mick Herring © Mick Herring Classic and Competition car July 2013 Page 5 © Simon Wright © Simon Wright Le Mans 2013 winners Loic Duval, Tom Kristensen and Alan McNish New Vauxhall Cascada Audi win Le Mans. Spotted at the Audi clinched their 12th victory in the classic 24 hour endurance race with Pageant of Dane Tom Kristensen (right), already the most successful driver at the Power, the new event, winning his 9th victory. It was a sad victory for Kristensen, as fellow Vauxhall Cascada is a Dane Allan Simonsen lost his life in a tragic © Janet Wright accident on only the 4th lap of the race two door, four when his Aston Martin left the circuit at seater soft-top Tetre Rouge. convertible with The Audi R18 e-tron quattro was the first prices starting hybrid car to win the classic Le Mans 24 from £23,995. hours last year and this year victory went to Powered by a © Janet Wright the No2 car driven by Tom Kristensen/Alan brand new 1.4 McNish and Loic Duval. This was Audi's or 1.6 SIDI Turbo Ecotec engine or a 2.0 Bi-Turbo CDTI 12th victory in the last 14 years, with them diesel twin turbo engine, delivering power and economy closing the gap on Porsche who have won through a new highly responsive 6 speed automatic the most races with 16 victories over a 43 transmission. The high torsional chassis/body delivers year period since 1970. exceptional handling, precise steering and a smooth ride. Classic and Competition car July 2013 Page 6 CarFest 2: The sequels Mika Salo joins Blancpain series at Silverstone. Maintaining the idea of both a North and South Former Finnish Grand Prix driver Mika Salo got a event, this years CarFest events are shaping call on the Thursday evening before the up to be better than ever. This year it is the Silverstone Blancpain Endurance race, asking him North event which comes first, having moved to to drive for SMP Racing. He made his series debut the Oulton Park racing circuit on the 2nd to the 4th of August 2013. It is followed three weeks driving the teams No 71 Ferrari 458 Italia with later by CarFest South, again held at Russian drivers Devi Markozow and Victor Shaitar. Laverstoke Park Farm in Hampshire on the The car was running in the Pro class and finished © Simon Wright 23rd to the 25th 17th overall and 13th in class finishing 1 lap down August 2013.