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WOOLBRIDGE MOTOR CLUB
MAGAZINE – April 2020
Club Officials and contacts (Please, no phone calls after 9:00pm)
Board / Committee Members: -
President Colin Pook 01300-320200 [email protected]
Vice President Colin Rolls 01305 265872 [email protected]
Chairman Sarah Forsyth 01258 861030 [email protected]
Vice Chairman Vic Fancy 07836 389726 [email protected]
Club Secretary Vacancy [email protected]
Treasurer Merv Brake 01305-260124 [email protected]
Competition Sec. Graham Blake 01305-775721 [email protected]
Assistant Competition Secretaries: -
4x4 Trials John Kirby 01300-320784 [email protected]
Car Trials Mark Hoppé 07967-646086 [email protected]
Autotests/solos Mark Hoppé 07967-646086 [email protected]
Speed Events Vic Fancy 01305-813563 [email protected]
Internet Officer Tony Freeman [email protected]
Equipment Officer Graham Blake [email protected]
Social Coordinator Vacancy [email protected]
Membership Sec. Tim Gray 01305-815166 [email protected]
Club Safeguarding Officer Rory Weaver as above [email protected]
Other contacts (not always board or committee members): -
Awards Secretary Gary Morris [email protected]
Publicity Officer Geoffrey Pickett 01305-251662 [email protected]
Magazine Editor Steve Chaloner [email protected]
Chief Marshal Worth Birkill 07823-554246
Facebook Editor Derek Harris 01747-852913 [email protected]
Hardy Classic Andy Webb [email protected]
12 Car Series Keith Grant 01297-33501 [email protected]
Championship – Trials Andy Webb as above
Championship – Autotests Mark Hoppé as above
Championship – Speed Sarah Forsyth as above
Championship -- Victor Ludorum Mark Hoppe as above
Equipment Officer – Speed Events Tim Gray [email protected]
As I write this, things are changing by the day. Due to the current situation I have
decided not to print a calendar as a) currently ALL UK motorsport is suspended
and b) things are changing so quickly that it’s impossible to put out an accurate
calendar. My advice is therefore to check the club web site for the latest info. I
don’t know if committee will still meet but again check the web site first.
As some of us will have a lot more time on our hands then now is the time to
write something for the club magazine. How about reminiscing about past
exploits – dig out some old photos etc. To start you all off, I’ve written an article
about my memories of the road rallies that got me interested in motorsport.
On the subject of road rallies, and 12 car events in particular, this year’s series
has now ended as the final event at the end of March had to be cancelled. Keith
Grant has written a small piece about this and will be writing a more detailed
review of the series in a future edition.
I have also come up with an idea for a 12 car event that would attempt to bridge
the gap between our current events and full fledged all night road rallies. See
my advert in this magazine and please contact me if interested.
Thanks to everybody that contributed to this month’s issue and don’t forget to
start writing something for future issues. Now also might be the time to go
paperless with the eMagazine. Guaranteed virus-free!
This month’s cover photo is of Charlotte showing Elliot where to steer the
Bentley on the Tour of Cheshire Historic Rally (see Merv’s report inside). Photo
credit goes to Tony Large.
See you next month.
Steve Chaloner
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CHAIRMAN’S CHAT – APRIL 2020
The world is a very different place as I write this month’s chat. Yesterday
MSUK confirmed that there will be no motorsport until at least the end of
April and so sadly we have had to cancel all of our events that were planned
up until that date. Please keep an eye on the club’s website and Facebook
pages for updates on events going forward. Let’s hope that the Coronavirus
pandemic can be brought under control as soon as possible.
Before any restrictions were in place, I attended the launch of the British
Hillclimb Championship at Prescott on Saturday, along with Merv and Peter
Isaac from Wiscombe Ltd. Whilst the format of the 2020 season will remain
much the same (virus permitting), it is planned to reduce the number of
Championship Rounds in 2021 by only visiting each venue once. The format
of the weekends would remain the same, in that Saturday would consist of
practice runs and then 2 run offs on the Sunday, although there may be a
double-header weekend during the course of the year which would consist
of 2 run offs on each day. There is much more activity in terms of marketing
and publicity, so do have a look at the new website:
www.britishhillclimb.co.uk.
Elsewhere in the magazine you will find a summary of the actions from the
latest Committee Meeting and an appeal for new Timekeepers for speed
events. If you are curious to discover more about how the timing works then
do come along and see us at any event and we will be more than happy to
give you a guided tour.
I guess that over the next few weeks we will discover what anyone who isn’t
involved with motorsport does at the weekend! If you find yourself with some
spare time on your hands then how about writing an article for next month’s
magazine or why not post an item onto our Facebook page?! Stay safe and
hopefully if we all follow the scientific advice now, the sooner we will be able
to resume motorsport activities again.
The search for a Club Secretary continues…
Sarah Forsyth Chairman [email protected]
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President’s Ponderings
Is it too much to hope for that spring is just around the corner and we may
have seen the end of the atrociously wet weather?
Many of you will have learned that our April Wiscombe event will not run
bearing in mind the guidance issued by Motorsport UK and in line with
good practice in the current health crisis. The Woolbridge website (and
facebook) will be keeping members informed should there be further
developments.
Speaking with my hat on as Chairman of Wiscombe Ltd, our Publicity
Director Graham Vingoe has been hard at work promoting Wiscombe
through social media. He and his team were extremely successful in 2019
at increasing awareness of Wiscombe Park Hillclimb and significantly
adding to the number of spectators attending our meetings. In view of this
it is a great disappointment not to be able to start the new season but my
thanks go to Graham and his team for their excellent work.
I am particularly pleased to see the reintroduction of “Chairman’s Chat”
into the magazine over the last two months by our new incumbent in that
post Sarah Forsyth. It keeps everyone up to date with current news of
meetings and events and I don’t have to write about them!
So until further developments I wish you all good health so keep washing
your hands and keep your distance.
Colin Pook.
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9Geria News
An update on the exploding black oil tank in the last 9geria news: the final score was 1 Chinese and 4 Nigerians were killed. Alongside the burning tank was a 2nd full black oil tank and 2 diesel tanks, but they managed to keep them cool with water hoses to stop the fire spreading. Hate to think how much dash
(bribe) had to be given to the factory safety people to hide this under the carpet!
23rd Feb trying to get the GTM L-H door to fit, it is tight at the top front edge of the window frame, so unbolted the window frame, cut a little sliver off the Plexiglass window to try and get the frame to sit a little lower. Also slotted the hinge to chassis fixing holes vertically to give a little wriggle room. Still not correct though, thinking I may have to cut away the chassis tube that is GRP bonded into the body shell on the side of the screen aperture, drill out the pop rivets and cut away the silicon sealer where the shell is fitted to the chassis at the base of the screen. That would allow me to raise the left side of the body shell about 6mm to give a clearance above the window frame. Grrr… one step forward 3 back!
I’m having to modify the new cream mixing installation before it has even been tested with cream materials, to make it possible to feed melted wax/oil into the overhead tank. This meant extending the upper platform to one side and putting
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support legs to stop it falling over if there is too much weight up top. Removing the ladder that was OK for occasional usage and putting steps with hand rails to make it safer for regular usage, making another steam heated plate to melt wax/oil and connection steam supply and return pipework. Oh, and install a wire rope hoist (which I can’t find here, only chain blocks in the market) with a swivelling beam to take materials up from the lower platform to the upper platform, then I got annoyed as an admin type said just a small modification! When will you be ready!!!
29th Feb and the 1st SBK bike race of the year, watching at 3am long before sparrow fart from Phillip Island in Oz.
Sanitation Saturday so no movement on the roads till after 10am and in my little workshop re-hanging the L-H passenger door and finally got it working correctly, before scooting up the road to work, back home around 1pm for my salad nosh and afternoon cooking session to stock up the freezer.
Sunday morning more SBK from Oz long before it got light outside, then 6.30am out to work and try to get the front section lined up with door shut line, also making Bowden wire door opening thingies to attach inside the door handle mechanism and little handle to lock the doors from inside, a must here to stop unwelcome (police looking for a bribe) entries when stopped at lights or junctions. I will be popular, no opening windows and locked doors, you want to look my paperwork, through the Plexiglas no hand to hand, which they like. I am expecting to be stopped, its low, small, slap you in the face yellow and nothing
else like it in Africa!
Ahhh the simple delights of living in Nigeria, they may be the biggest African economy but you may have heard Nigeria cannot generate enough electricity. Most businesses and homes have to run generators, the less well-off have kerosene lamps and cooking stoves. If you have NEPA 50% of the time you are lucky, where I live is a former factory with 3 apartments in what was the office block. The factory area is now a warehouse, so we need to power 3 apartments and an admin office and have 2 gensets for backup power which we alternate. During our recent harmatan season with lots of dust, you heard about Tenerife flights being grounded by the Sahara dust storms, but no mention of similar conditions in all sub-Sahara Africa. The dust clogged up the radiators of both our gensets causing them to overheat after about 15-20 minutes running, so no Nepa, genset s bah lafia (no good) and a very quiet evening with only a rechargeable torchlight in the house. An early night and glad it was not too hot to sleep. Both my Lebanese and Syrian neighbours packed out for the night to
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stay with relatives or friends, leaving me and a couple of mechanics flushing out radiators, but at least the gen was still running this morning when I left to come to work.
I see your newly appointed chief medical officer had spent many years in Nigeria as a child and practiced in other parts of Africa after qualifying. From my own experience I do believe you gain an experience working here that would not be possible in “civilised” places. I heard a young newly qualified expat doctor explaining that whatever was thrown at him he had to cope. If in the UK there would be a specialist with many years of experience in charge of the procedure and if lucky, he would only be an onlooker. Also, we see extreme poverty and obscene (mostly un-earned) riches. Being here so long you tend not to notice the funny everyday things. One of my earliest “smiles” was seeing a sign board in Port Harcourt titled Hilton Hotel Restaurant above a corrugated tin roof supported by 4 wood legs. Inside was a long wood table with 2 benches to sit on, the kitchen was cooking pots on a wood fir. Other gems here in Kano: Cheta’s Business College; a bicycle with a big “L” plate on the back; a chap in my factory wearing spec frames with no glass, when I asked why, he said “it makes me look cleverer”. You would have to carry a camera to catch them all and most are quickly forgotten.
We then have the names given to children. From our former president ‘Goodluck’, a chap at work called Mai Cuddi (Money Boy), given by optimistic parents. There are many Comforts, usually attached to large ladies, then my 2 favourite Yuraba girls names: Titilayo, very good on well-endowed ladies and Funmi for the outgoing free spirited girl.
Sunday 8th March out at 1st light to fit passenger side door handle and door seal rubber. Then fitted front screen surround rubber, after I then removed the lights and catches before removing the front section, it needs the moulding extended on the R-H side as its ¾” shorter and leaving big panel gaps between it and the door. Before going outside I had been watching the sports car race from COTA in Texas and watched the finish when I came back for my tea break around 9.30am. Then from 12pm we had a documentary on the KTM and its satellite Tech3 team Moto GP efforts with details of all their riders before the start of Moto 3 and 2 from Qatar. Apparently the Moto 2&3 teams had been there for testing 2 weeks prior to the GP and had remained there so did not have the Carona travel restrictions inflicted on the Moto GP teams and riders where many are based in Italy.
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I must confess to being a little surprised that F1 was going ahead from Oz after all the talk of postpone/cancellation and can only think all the teams/suppliers based in Italy must have got out early before travel bans were imposed? But not at all surprised when I heard of the cancellation after the withdrawal of the McLaren team.
I did get to watch the Oz super cars instead and probably closer racing than we
would have got from F1!
I have entries in for Wiscombe and Werrington, my flight has been booked on Ethiopian Airways via Addis for some time and I have received my renewed
license, fingers crossed that events or flights are not cancelled!
That’s all for this edition.
John Bunting
4x4 results – Simon’s Quarry – 15th March
Woolbridge Motor Club 4x4 Trial 15th March 2020
Class1
Simon Crook 58 1st in class
Colin Osborne 80
Class2
Lee Dixon 62 2nd in class
John Tite 46 1st in class
Chris Tite 42 1st overall
Graeme Wills 93
Class3
John Kirby 51 1st in class
Simon Humphry 96
Zoe Humphry 64 3rd in class
Robbie Roskell 55 2nd in class
Gary Morris 83
Emma Kirby 92
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What the Hell is a Dastle Midget Racer?
Just seen a reference to my Dastle in the “As it was” section of
the magazine. Some may ask what it was and did I get it done?
Well yes I did with the help of Neville Cheeseman, Phil Gabe,
Stuart Tucker and the local scrappers Bucklers (after a lot of
rummaging and trial fittings we found Reliant Regal propshaft
sliding ends are perfect to attach mini drive shafts to a Herald
diff).
Here are a couple of before and after photos with the
completed car at Wiscombe in 2007 where John Forsyth kindly
came over and helped sort out tyre pressures and suspension
settings.
I had a four-page article about the rebuild in Oval Track Classic
magazine issue 1 (I think it only ran for 3 issues).
A loss of storage and somewhere to test it combined with new
safety clothing regulations which I couldn't justify for a couple
of runs out each meant it had to go.
I had a good offer and it has gone on to a new home where it
is again being rebuilt to a standard I could not afford.
I did save it from the skip with help from Woolbridge members
and as it is the only MK3 in existence I am happy with that.
Dick Nadin
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Woolbridge Navigational Challenge Update Hello all,
Since our decision to cancel the final 12 Car due on March 25th, the National situation has obviously moved on considerably. With MOTORSPORT UK having withdrawn all Motorsport permits; as the permit for our event had already been issued, Graham (our Comp. Sec.) has been informed that instead of a refund, we may be able to carry the permit forward to a later event/date. As all the hard work in organising Round 6 had already been undertaken by Pete and Richard Turner, the initial plan is to hopefully use their event/route for our first round of the new season in November. The standing Nav Challenge Regs state that the best 5 results are used to score final results. Fortunately for many past seasons we have been able to run all 6 rounds. The last time this rule was utilised was due to an event being 'Snowed Off.' With over 40 of you participating, be it as competitors, organisers or importantly as marshals: thank you all for your continued enthusiastic support which means we have managed to run another successful season despite it being curtailed prematurely. We welcomed several new faces as well as the usual 'Old Stagers'. Well done to all, class winners or not, for the friendly sporting competition. As there will be little action to fill the next few club magazines, I finish now, as I plan to write a fuller review of the season and some ideas on amendments to the Class Structure for next season. In the mean time I wish you all the best in the difficult weeks ahead. Stay safe and I look forward to seeing you all when 'normal service' is resumed. Best regards Keith.
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Shortly after passing my driving test back in 1981 I joined my local motor club
Bournemouth Motor Club. This club eventually joined forces with two other
clubs in the same area, Dudsbury Car Club and West Hants & Dorset Car Club (if
I recall correctly), to form what is now Bournemouth & District Car Club. At the
time I wasn’t aware of Woolbridge MC.
At the weekly meetups my mate Dave and I chatted with the many road rally
competitors in the club and we very quickly became involved by marshalling and
very soon had entered our first event, The Avalon, which I think was organised
by Yeovil Car Club. We used my road car, a VW Beetle, which had a tendency to
understeer. To attempt to cure this I had sourced an empty fertiliser bag from
my dad’s farm, filled it with sand and tied it up with baler twine. I placed this
hefty bag in the front luggage compartment under the bonnet. Although it
raised a few eyebrows at scrutineering, incredibly it was deemed acceptable and
we competed on our first road rally with Dave on the maps.
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I was instantly hooked and very soon sold the Beetle and bought a 1300cc lime
green Mk2 Escort. This was stripped and fitted with a roll cage by Adrian Patten
at his garage in Bovington. At the time I lived for Saturday night and the lanes. If
I wasn’t competing, I was out marshalling.
Eventually Dave was replaced in the left-hand seat by John Farnworth, who had
a lot of experience. He also had a great sense of humour and knew how to keep
an eager teenager in check. Event photographers on road events would usually
set up somewhere likely to produce interesting shots. On one event I
approached a hump backed bridge at speed and spotted the “Caution Flash”
sign warning us to expect the flash of the photographer’s camera. Without
looking up from the map, John said “Don’t do it!”. Good advice as, unseen to
me, the road went sharp right immediately after the bridge and had I attempted
to get a good photo by getting the Escort airborne, our event would have ended
in the hedge. On another event, I had overshot a junction and during the reverse
back down the lane had managed to reverse into the bank hard. At the petrol
halt John said he would fill up with fuel and told me to stay in the car because if
I got out and saw the damage I “would get upset”.
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These events ran using targa timing which meant the organisers could run
average speeds much higher than the legal 30mph limit. Some events would
have a very competitive driver running as course opening car who would wait at
each time control until the crew saw the lights of the first competitor coming,
set the clocks to 00:00 and then dash to the next time control to do the same.
This meant that the events were effectively driven flat out. Police attitude
towards these events differed greatly depending on areas of the country. In
Devon I rarely saw any Police presence on events while in Dorset they were very
active. On the Wessex Rally one year, the route took us over Bulbarrow Hill and
then on towards Blandford. As I accelerated onto the long straight that passes
the entrance of Shothole Kennels near Bryanston, the whole road lit up with
blue flashing lights, three squad cars and lots of Police waving me down. It was
4am and I, along with most of the field, had driven straight into a speed trap.
The officer showed me the speed gun and said “70 mph and accelerating!”. I was
eventually allowed to continue after giving my details. A few weeks later I went
to the magistrates court for my first and only speeding offence (unless you count
my German autobahn ticket when I drove home from Poland).
In 1986 Dave and I marshalled on the Bath Festival which was a round of the
Motoring News Road Rally Championship. We were given a passage control high
up on Exmoor at the start of a long straight. The crews would come to a T-
junction, then turn right and after about 100 yards come into our passage
control. After they left us, they would continue along a fast straight for a mile or
so across the moor. That night there was heavy fog over most of the route and
up on Exmoor where we were it was literally a pea souper and we had crawled
along at snail’s pace trying to find the junction where we were to setup our
control. First car on the road was the legendary Ron Beecroft in his 2.2 litre Mk2
Escort, “Virginia”. We heard him stop at the T-junction, then accelerate hard
towards us. Just when we thought he was going to drive straight past us he
braked hard and slid to a stop right next to us with all four wheels locked. The
navigator had his clipboard and timesheet already out of the window and as
soon as I’d signed it, Ron was back on the power. We both stood, mouths open,
and listened as Ron went hard up through the gears into the distance through
the fog. We got our torches out and looked in disbelief at the two solid black
lines of rubber coming into the control and leaving the control.
I used to buy Motoring News every week and I loved reading the two-page
spread after every Motoring News road rally. I decided that this is what I wanted
to do: compete at the top level. So, I made plans to first contest the ASWMC
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1300cc Road Rally Championship in 1987 as a stepping stone. At the time this
was a very competitive championship with some great events. I contacted
Baskerville Racing Engines in Barnstaple and they built and installed a very good
1300cc engine in my Escort.
As well as doing the ASWMC championship, I also competed on the Bath
Festival. I can honestly say that event was the hardest night’s work I’ve ever
experienced. The event started in Tiverton and had a route of 182 miles on maps
180, 181, 191 and 192, and featured 60 time and passage controls. Course
opening car was none other than Terry Kaby in a works GpA Peugeot 205 GTi
loaned by Des O’Dell of Peugeot Talbot Sport. Myself and John started at No.88
in a full field of 90 cars.
The whole route was blanketed in thick fog and it was reported that even Terry
Kaby was reduced to little more than walking pace in places. It was certainly very
difficult from where I was sitting. On the first selective, local man Derek Arnold
showed how competitive the South West crews were by taking a massive 1 min
18 seconds lead over the 2nd placed crew Steve Egglestone and Paul Waterton.
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Current BHC hillclimber Eynon Price was a whole 7 mins 30 seconds behind
Derek in 20th place.
The event had two petrol halts and because of the conditions it was a real battle
for a lot of crews to stay within the maximum lateness of 30 minutes. We, along
with nearly half of the finishers had to cut part of the route in order to avoid
going OTL and we all picked up 1 Fail each in the process. It was at the start of
the first selective after the second petrol halt where Derek Arnold lost his lead
due to taking the wrong route and missing a secret passage control to ensure
compliance with a late route change to avoid a PR problem area. Derek
eventually finished 5th while Dennis Quinn was a surprised winner. John and
myself finished 38th out of 39 finishers. I was just pleased to finish such a tough
event.
Event organiser Dave Whittock, who you may remember also organised the
Lombard RAC Rally in 1985, said “I can say without fear of contradiction that the
effort involved in putting on a MN event is no less than that required to make
Britain’s World Championship qualifier happen”. He said that the organising
team decided to run the whole event in Devon “because there was no way that
a competitive MN event could be staged in Avon and Somerset; the public
relations difficulties were just too much to overcome”. Devon Police though were
very clear, they told Dave that he would start with a clean map but, if his event
caused even one blackspot, he would not be welcome again. He was pleased to
report that, thanks to the dedication of his PR teams, the event didn’t put a
blackspot on any of the maps used and he would always be proud of that.
I guess it was inevitable really that these events would eventually be banned in
their existing format. Cars were getting faster and the popularity of the events
meant huge crowds watching and Motoring News was printing detailed reports
and photos of crews driving flat out on what after all were open public roads.
Police forces were getting much stricter and the RACMSA started to look into
the sport. During 1987 they announced their decision to ban targa timing which
effectively banned the sport in its current form.
We carried on with the ASWMC championship. After five rounds we were
leading the 1300 Championship but my season and road rally career were to end
on the Driveshaft Rally. This event was 210 miles over Wiltshire, Somerset and
Dorset. The first competitive section used 23 miles of unsurfaced tracks on
Salisbury Plain and running at Car 35 in a 77 car field we pulled out a lead of one
and a half minutes in the 1300 class and were about 5th overall. Coming into the
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final section of the rally we’d dropped to 2nd in class, 6 seconds behind the
leader. We headed along a straight unsurfaced white and on the map it looked
like it ran straight to a T-junction. However, as we approached a barn, I noticed
at the last minute that a deep trench had been dug across the road, and a
diversion went 90 left to go around the barn. I braked hard but locked up and
slid straight into the ditch, stopping very quickly. The force was enough to bend
the sump guard into a V shape. The damage was too much to continue and I
didn’t have the funds to repair the car to complete the season.
And that was the end of my dream. I still haven’t forgiven the RACMSA for what
they did. I think it would have been better to try to slow down the cars by, for
example, limiting cars to 1400cc or making cars more standard.
The next year I tried the ASWMC Autotest Championship in a 1300 Astra which
I managed to win. Then I bought an ex-Astra Challenge spec stage rally car and
entered the BTRDA National Clubman Championship. However, after two events
I ran out of money and, disillusioned, I sold the car and forgot about my dreams
of becoming a professional rally driver. Many years later I discovered
hillclimbing. In those early days of reading Motoring News I only really read the
rally pages and thought hillclimbs involved what I now know are sporting trials
cars and steep muddy fields! Well, most of my Wiscombe visits involved steep
muddy field, but that was just the paddock…
Of course, after falling in love with hillclimbing, I then had to give it all up when
I changed careers in 2007 and went to university for 3 years to train as a
radiographer. However, this year I have finally got myself a competition licence
and am currently looking for a car to use. Then along comes COVID-19 to scupper
my plans. However, even if we’re not allowed to play again this year, I will
definitely be back soon…
Steve Chaloner
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Calling All 12 Car Crews!
Your magazine editor has an idea for a pumped-up 12 Car event.
This event would feature:
• 150 Mile route
• All night format, with first car starting at 11pm and finishing at 5am
(hopefully at a venue serving a decent fry up)
• All navigation will be map references only (possibly pre-plot)
• Whole route to be regularity at 30mph average
• Hopefully a few smooth whites included
My aim is to put on an event that is challenging for both driver and navigator
In order to avoid route clashes with other events I envisage running in early
September and on a Friday night (if possible)
If there is enough interest within the club then I will run the event closed to
Woolbridge MC but if not then I may invite other local clubs.
The first stage is to gauge interest for such an event, so please, if you’re
potentially interested, email [email protected]
Depending on levels of interest and whether the world is back up and
running post-virus, the event could potentially run this coming September.
Steve Chaloner
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WMC Members @ Catch The Pigeon Sprint (Photos Geoff Pickett)
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WMC Members @ Catch The Pigeon Sprint (Photos Geoff Pickett)
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April Wiscombe falls victim to Covid-19
With the country / world coming to a standstill, Motorsport UK really had no option but to
withdraw permits for events running in March and April. For how much longer no-one
knows; there is a hope in some quarters that we might be able to run an event later in the
year, so some say postponed, some say cancelled. Whichever, we are refunding entry fees
and all entrants should by now have been asked for their preference as to payment method,
and received payment. Now that I’ve reached the age where I’m not supposed to go out in
case I get too close to someone and catch the virus, I have time on my hands to process the
dozens of refunds. Please get in touch if you haven’t received yours yet.
The Wiscombe championship registration fee hasn’t been refunded, because it is hoped to
run some of the events later in the year and declare a champion from a reduced number of
events. If that turns out to be impossible, then we’ll refund that as well or carry it forward to
next year.
Some of you have asked about the effect on club finances, so I’ll try to explain briefly the
Wiscombe Ltd. and Club relationship. The financial effect on Woolbridge is actually quite
limited. We haven’t committed to any significant expenditure so far on all the services we
would use, but the expected contribution to bank charges and insurances won’t materialise.
I’d expect us to be £500 - £1,000 down, similar to the weather cancelled Manor Farm last
September.
Switching hats now, to my role as Finance Director of Wiscombe Ltd., the picture isn’t so
good – we won’t have the rent income from the clubs and we won’t have our share of the
spectator gate receipts for as long as this goes on. Each club pays the same rent and
receives the same share of gate receipts, except VSCC who have a different arrangement.
Since I took over the Wiscombe finance role, six or seven years ago, we’ve had some
average years and a couple of good years; last year was particularly good financially.
Wiscombe is thus in a position to withstand a downturn. We have committed to spend
some of last year’s profits on surfacing at Wis, Martini & other areas (see the Wiscombe
website & Facebook for details) and we will shortly have our own mains electricity supply,
avoiding the need for generators for the PA & timekeeping, toilets, etc. These projects are
going ahead despite this turn of events. Fingers crossed that things return to some sort of
normality before too long – if this goes into the summer and affects the July British Hillclimb
Championship event then I will start to get worried.
Merv Brake
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Six go mad in Cheshire (with apologies to Enid Blyton)
After our 12-car event on 4th March with 10 crews or 20 members competing, no less than six of us headed 200+ miles north for the Tour of Cheshire on Saturday 7th March. Surely some sort of record? Winners of the 12-car, Elliott Dale and Charlotte Ryall forsook the Golf GTi for the joys of open top motoring in their 1937 Bentley Derby, Keith Grant & I were in the usual Volvo (with a new Bilstein on the front right, the clang on the February 12-car had been the bottom mounting shearing off), Cliff England was driving his Triumph 2000 and Mark Dunkerley was navigating in a 1980s MkII Golf GTi which now qualifies as ‘historic’. I must be getting old.
Keith’s Volvo Amazon & Cliff’s Triumph 2000
We all travelled up on the Friday for scrutineering, documentation and plotting time. The M5 was even more of a car park than usual and the M6 had ‘Smart’ motorway roadworks all the way so we opted to go for A roads and guess what, more roadworks. Best laid plans etc. Way down the scrutineering queue again! Eventually we got to signing on & were given most of the route instructions, and the navigation was mostly types that our local crews would have seen on our events. Plot & Bash was limited to one regularity section on private land (which permits controls less than two miles apart and higher average regularity speeds) and half the final regularity section, although we were given these instructions during the day and could use lunch & tea-breaks to plot.
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The event was based at the Bickerton Poacher Inn, about 8 miles west of Nantwich. The first regularity section took us south and east, and the second headed north from beside the Shropshire Union Canal near Nantwich via the quaintly named village of Aston juxta Mondrum. I suppose a visitor to Dorset from there would think some of our villages had strange place names. This second section ended at Oulton Park race circuit, for the first two special tests on the rally school stage. Last year it was damp and very slippery but it was drier and slightly more grippy this year.
After a coffee break, the third regularity was east of Northwich and led to tests 3 and 4 in the car parks of Radbroke Hall. A circular herringbone defined the fourth regularity, although we were given the starting point and direction, so not too much of a problem once I’d sorted out my left from my right while plotting it while eating on Friday evening. The route took us around the famous old 1950s radio telescope at Jodrell Bank before a run up the A537 to Knutsford and tests 5 and 6 in the car parks of Booth’s Hall. A short run then brought us to the lunch halt.
The fifth regularity was the off-road one, in the showground west of Knutsford and similar to ones we’ve done around the Glastonbury Festival site, some double loops, lots of split routes and merging traffic. Elliott & Charlotte had been running in the top ten until now and as high as 4th overall at one point, but had a momentary left/right confusion in here, and the subsequent off-piste moment led to the narrow tyres on the Bentley sinking up to the axles in the waterlogged ground, taking several minutes to extricate themselves and dropping right down to 56th place. It’s been raining in this part of the country as well – it is near Manchester after all.
Test 7 was also in here, just before we regained the public highway for the sixth regularity. This took us over the M6, onto the Manchester OS map west of Manchester Airport and led to test 8 at Hulme Barns. I blotted my copybook here, telling Keith to go outside a cone when he was actually heading the right way inside it. The wrong test penalty probably dropped us a place overall, but didn’t affect our class position. Oops!
The seventh regularity started from the test exit and briefly took us north of the M56 and it was here that Mark made a rare error along with several other competitors, misreading where to cross the county boundary and missing a time control. Another good run suffered a 5-
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minute penalty as a result. That might not sound a lot, but the winning crew dropped a mere 41 seconds regularity over dozens of controls, with a worst individual penalty of 9 seconds adrift from target time. How do they do that? We can drop more than 41 seconds on one control.
The last control of this section had to be deleted because of a road closure. If you think Dorset minor roads are bad, try Cheshire, it’s no different, almost needing a sump guard in places. We now had a run back to Oulton Park for the final two tests on the rally stage, a tea-break, and then the final regularity back to our starting point. There was a short off-road stretch in this section, around a farm yard with a control hidden behind a barn, but we found it after having to execute a three-point turn between various bits of farm machinery.
Provisional results showed that we ‘hadn’t troubled the awards engravers’ as one of our gang put it, so we set out on the 200+ mile homeward journey. Final results showed the winners to be Nick Bloxham & Niall Cross in a Mk I Escort Mexico on 11 minutes 10 seconds penalties. Last year’s winners, Ian Crammond & Matthew Vokes, were 4th this time on 11:38 (hillclimbers from the 1980s might remember Ian in the Sunbeam Lotus sponsored by ‘Snackpots’). Writing as an ex-Imp driver, it was good to see a Ginetta G15 in 8th overall and an Imp in 15th overall.
Cliff was the best of our bunch, navigated by Peter Rushforth and quietly getting it right while the rest of us were making our various mistakes. They were 20th overall from 80 entries and 73 finishers and 7th in class on 16:20 penalties. We were 27th overall and 4th in class on 18:36, Peter Engel & Mark were 30th overall and 4th in class on 19:28 and Elliott & Charlotte recovered to 46th overall and 3rd in class on 26:52.
The PR work for this event must have been well carried out, many people & families were outside their houses waving in a friendly manner as we passed by. One group of, I’d guess, young farmers obviously wanted a bit more excitement that cars trundling past at 22mph or whatever it was because they’d made up a sign that simply said ‘Floor it!’. Happy to oblige…
A new Historic event is planned for the Cotswolds in July so we won’t have so far to travel next time. Before that, we have the last of this winter’s 12-car events before the clocks change.
Merv Brake
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South Downs Stages
I marshalled on the Phil Collings Memorial South Downs Stages at Goodwood
on Saturday 8th February. The overnight rain had stopped, and the day stayed
dry before the storm that came on Sunday. I was marshalling with one of the
top Goodwood Marshals Club marshals. He told me the biggest threat to
motorsport in the UK is not global warming, but the lack of marshals. In the
last 2 years the Goodwood Marshals Club membership has greatly depleted
with so many of the aging membership retiring, or worse passing away. There
are very few new marshals coming through, and many of those are at
retirement age.
We were marshalling on the pit straight just after the pit exit looking after a
chicane made of 3 double pallets. The morning 5 stages saw a very close
fought battle between father and son crew of Ian and Oliver Hucklebridge and
local Bognor Regis MC crew Paul King and Alicia Miles, both in 2.5 litre Escort
Mk2s. Paul and Alicia set fastest time on the opening wet slippy stage, but the
Hucklebridges took the overall lead on SS2 and stretched out a fairly
comfortable lead by the lunch break.
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For the afternoon the stages were run anti clockwise and our chicane was
made a little tighter as we had the split just before the pit exit. So on SS6 the
course was 2 laps. This caught out the leaders Ian and Oliver who went the
wrong way at a split junction only doing 1 lap, ruining their chances of taking
the win. In fact, they didn’t come out again, leaving Paul and Alicia in a lead
that they would not lose. The commentator said later that he spoke with the
Hucklebridges, and the co-driver called it correct to go right at the split for a
second lap, but the driver went left down the pit lane to the paddock, and
retirement.
Our tighter chicane was also causing problems with a Nissan Pulsar totally
destroying our middle pallet chicane, then on the following stage he left his
right wing mirror on our exit chicane, along with another 4 wing mirrors we
collected in the afternoon.
The Nova crew of Christopher and Anthony Newton had a fantastic start. They
nearly lost it through our chicane in the damp on SS1, but they never lifted
once all day. They set very quick times on the first 2 damp stages, establishing
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themselves in 3rd place behind King/Miles and the Hucklebridges. However, as
the tarmac dried out, the more powerful cars were able to put down their
superior power, and the Newtons slipped to 6th overall by the lunch halt.
However, in the afternoon, their commitment deservedly saw them earn the
Spirit of the Rally award for an incredible push, culminating with fastest stage
time on the final stage in the dark. This saw them climb from 6th to finish tied
for second place overall, with the Subaru Impreza of Rob Dennis, and Andy
Boswell behind the event winners Paul King and Alicia Miles.
My favourite cars out of the 55 car entry were: the Group 4 Ferrari 308, which
ran in the top ten all day, along with an ex works TR8 that was running mid
field. Then the best: an ex-works Group B Metro 6R4 which was the ex-Harri
Toivonen Unipart 1000 Lakes car, which a spectator told me had the correct
registration number on it. They started off in the top twenty, but the engine’s
revs got higher, and they had climbed up to the top 6 just as darkness fell,
when sadly it retired. All three cars sounded glorious around Goodwood, with
the rally finishing at 7 pm after a long but enjoyable day.
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Chris Dennis
(Photo by Geoff Pickett)
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“As It Was” April 1975
The April 1975 magazine ran to 36 pages with only 3 trade
advertisements. The inside front cover was Vogue Motors of Weymouth
and Dorchester – then sponsors of our Classic Trial and run by club
member Pat McCausland. Merchants Garage – the main Chrysler dealer
for Dorchester and run by club member Frank Merchant appeared on the
inside rear cover while E Channon & Sons – long- time supporters of the
club occupied the rear cover. The advert depicted club member Paul
Channon in the lovely AC Cobra competing at Wiscombe Park.
I was Chairman and Competition Secretary with Tony Mowlam, Secretary
and Rod Purkiss, Treasurer. Our Vice Chairman was Peter Mardon and
Pete Moody was Social Secretary with Robin Wells and Carole Moore
forming his sub Committee. We had joint Magazine Editors; Pat Donnelly
and Colin (Noddy) Alborough. Other committee members were Ray
Briant, Vince Fullwood, Eric Moxom, Tony Pashen, Rick Pallister and
Tony Syrett. Our Press & Publicity Officer was Les Mace, a reporter on
the Dorset Echo Newspaper which ensured us wide publicity.
The Editorial was a cry for articles and contained also details of an active
search for advertisers to help to pay for magazine production.
I reported on the first autotest in the Bournemouth Assn Championship
run at Ibsley Airfield, near Ringwood , by the Bournemouth MC. There
was an entry of 53 contesting 7 classes but I was the only one from WMC.
Jonathan Mears in his Cooper S was well on form taking FTD by some 96
seconds. I managed to take Class 4 in my Escort Mexico 65 seconds
ahead of Dudsbury Car Club’s Brian Luker in his Cortina GT.
On the same page a note appeared to say that the time had come for us
to start considering a float for the Dorchester and Weymouth Carnivals in
the summer.
In the March Committee Report it was noted that membership currently
stood at 315, and that our March Slalom at the Bridging Camp at Wyke
Regis had run successfully with an entry of 50.
The Social Sub Committee had recently met and were currently
investigating arrangements for our Annual Dinner Dance and the first of
our Barbecues. Organisers for the summer evening Autokhanas were
being sought.
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Relevant regulation changes and staff changes at the RACMSA were
published on pages 8 – 11.
“Mad Dogs and Englishmen” was the title of Geoff and Angela Pickett’s
report on the club’s March Social Event. This was an evening Walkabout
Rally held round the streets of Weymouth in rather inclement weather.
The Rally began at the Hotel Prince Regent where the first drink was
consumed. Route cards and questionnaires were issued together with a
list of items to be collected en-route. The route was around the pubs of
Weymouth town centre, each having a marshal to check that the
obligatory drink was consumed and to sign each route card. It was an
enjoyable evening and it was said that Dorchester would be next!
In my Chairman’s Notes I congratulated organisers and members for
having run all our winter schedule of events despite some atrocious
weather and thanked landowners for their support. I noted that in the next
few months there was to be an Autotrial (trial am and grass autotest pm);
skittles; a barbecue; the Equinox Stage rally, and our team entry in the 6
Hour Relay Race at Silverstone Circuit. I also reminded members that
there would be a Night Trial in May.
My monthly “Have you Heard” section brought members up to date on
current rumours. Club member Ted Briant had been seen back in the
trials field with a 1600 Escort Estate car; Peter Moody wanted a buyer for
his MGB; and trials specials would have to run on standard treaded tyres
in our trials from 1st September 1976.
On 19th March Nick Finding organised a 12 Car Rally starting from Top o’
Town Car Park in Dorchester. Noddy Alborough and Paddy Donnelly
reported an eventful night, managing to achieve 2nd Place with Ray Briant
and Pat Samways the winners. The event finished at the White Hart Inn
in Maiden Newton.
West Hants & DCC ran their Living Fire Rally on 1st / 2nd March and I had
been persuaded by expert navigator Robin Ayles to enter in my Escort
Mexico. Club members Mike Manning and Dave Thomas in Mike’s Escort
RS 2000 were 1st Overall but we were happy to come 8th with no mishaps.
There followed 2 pages of members’ advertisements offering items as
varied as a Shorrock Supercharger to a 1966 Sunbeam Alpine GT and, in
the ‘Wanted’ column, a Mini Moke and some Mini reverse rim wheels.
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Last of all there was news that our Summer Autocross would be a 4
abreast event meaning 8 cars on the track at one time – sounded
interesting!
Colin Pook.
NEW TIMEKEEPERS NEEDED.
South West
TIMEKEEPING
Timing Services for Motorsport and Leisure Events
We are always looking for trainee timekeepers to join our team.
Interested? Please come and meet us at the start line to find out more
about who we are and what we contribute to the meeting, or contact one
of us by e-mail at the following addresses:
Steve Parker: [email protected]
Peter Locke: [email protected]
swtimekeeping.co.uk
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Unit 9 Barnack Ind. Est. Wilton, Wilts. SP2 0AW By Appointment.
Tel: 01722 741575 Mobile: 07910 084301
Email: [email protected]
www.harrismotorsport.co.uk Ebay - Harris-Eng
SUPPORTER OF DEWS SPEED SERIES Only 15 mins from Gurston Down, Hillclimb
Stockist For
50+ Years Experience Offers the Following Services - Rolling Road Services
VINTAGE – HISTORIC – CLASSIC – MODERN All types of Automotive Engine & Gearbox Rebuild & Machining Work undertaken
Vauxhall Development Car 1400cc – 1800cc conversion
producing 182 BHP @ wheels,
new developments for 2016
New For 2016 TEAM HARRIS
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1 Gary Morris 18 2 20 2 Yes 2
2 Andy Webb 8 8 2 Yes 3
3 Chris Tite 21 5 3 29 3 0
4 Mark Hoppé 21 3 24 3 0
5 John Tite 15 4 19 2 0
6 Garry Arnold 9 3 12 3 0
7 Emma Kirby ** 8 1 9 2 0
8 David Arnold 8 8 2 0
9 Dean Tite 7 7 2 0
10 Stephen Tite 4 4 2 0
11 Graham Blake 20 5 25 1 Yes 3
12 Elaine Blake 20 5 25 1 Yes 1
13 Nick Jones 14 5 19 1 Yes 1
14 Lee Scraggs 15 4 19 1 0
15 Guy Livingston 18 18 1 0
16 Merv Brake 15 2 17 1 Yes 5
17 John Kirby (4x4) 12 5 17 1 Yes 3
18 Charlotte Ryall 12 5 17 1 Yes 1
19 Elliott Dale 12 5 17 1 Yes 1
20 Dieter Swindley 13 4 17 1 0
21 Lee Dixon 13 3 16 1 0
22 Robbie Roskell 10 4 14 1 0
23 Ben Crook ** 14 14 1 0
24 Keith Grant 10 3 13 1 Yes 2
25 Carole Gibson 13 13 1 Yes 1
26 Mike Maynard 10 3 13 1 0
27 Simon Crook 8 5 13 1 0
28 Colin Miles 8 4 12 1 0
29 Roger Gibson 10 10 1 Yes 1
30 George Higgins 9 9 1 0
31 Colin Osborne 5 4 9 1 0
32 Rob Rhodes 8 1 9 1 0
33 Dan de Chazal 8 8 1 0
34 David Moss 8 8 1 0
35 Stephen Hall 7 0 7 1 Yes 1
36 Brian Cookson 7 0 7 1 Yes 1
37 Mark Thomas 7 7 1 0
38 Graeme Wills 4 2 6 1 0
39 Cliff England 6 0 6 1 Yes 2
Victor Ludorum*
Championship
2019-20
*From the Latin - 'winner of the
games', or best all rounder
** Eligible for under 23 award
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