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CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND 8

The BMMC August event attracted a very large entry, and was lucky to see great weather as, with 85 entries and a few incidents, even running through lunch meant a really late finish. The marshals did a great job in the heat to get through the entry with a fair bit of sweeping and cone replacement needed!

Class Sa, (or the MGZR Challenge!), got the meeting started with Jack Twomey taking his first win of the season and setting a new class record of 72.24. Graham Harvey claimed second, despite a big off on his second timed run, with current championship class leader Craig Tock pushed back to third. David Owen was 4^th, with Sara Holland 5^th and Tim Burrill 6^th.           

A good entry in Class Sc produced a win for Paul Glendenning in his Clio from Neal Bateman’s Fiesta ST.  Paul Gough was third in his Clio, just pipping Wayne Park in fourth.

Warwick Bourton won Sd in the Focus ST3, from new SDCC club member Patrick Johnston, enjoying his first ever outing, in his BMW140i.

The larger capacity road going class saw David Connell back to winning ways in the Mustang, over Steve Smith’s Impreza.  

In the road going Lotus class, 2La, David Whiteley took the win, from Martin Roberts both in Elise’s.

John Caldicott claimed the 2B kit car class in his Caterham R300, beating Terry Dutton’s HPC.

The small capacity Mod Prod class, 3a, saw the Nova of Laurence Bond back after missing a few rounds to take the win fairly comfortably, with the Mini’s of Stuart Ballinger and Al Henley 2^nd and 3rd respectively.

Matt Frost’s Clio claimed a close win from Dean Ratcliffe’s Metro, with Liam Ulyatt 3^rd in his Peugeot 106, in the Larger capacity Mod Prods class.

Mark Williams won the 4 car Mod Prod Kit Car class in the Westfield Megabusa, from Derek Hodders’ Westfield type R.SC.

Great to see a larger number of single seaters out again, Steven Potter won the up to 1100cc class in his OMS from second placed Martin Duffield’s Jedi.

FTD went to Peter Goulding in his Mygale FF 2000 with a time of 52.71.

Again a big thank you to all of the officials, and marshals, who did a splendid job in the heatwave, and also to SDCC member Owen Cule, who did a marvellous job in the new commentary “tower” !

Current top seven.

1. Craig Tock    ( 141)  MGZR
2. John Caldicott  (137.5) Caterham R300
3. Paul Glendenning  (137) Clio Sport 200
4. Matt Frost    (132.5)  Clio Mod Prod
5. Mark Williams (132)  Westfield MegaBusa
6. Stuart Ballinger  (131.5)  Mini 1380
7. Martin Roberts (131) Lotus Elise

With some people having already dropped their worst scores, and a few still to do their 7^th event, many of the Championship and Class positions are still up for grabs, so I hope to see as many of you as possible at the SDCC Finale on September 8th, which is the usual single lapper,                                       Steve Wood  

Results Round 7

The MCMRC August event attracted a full entry again, as last year. There were also a few disappointed competitors on the reserve list, which really emphasises my regular bulletin reminders to get entries in early these days due to the popularity of the Championship. With some rounds needing to be rounds of other Championships to avoid clubs making a loss, entries are always first come, first served, and event entries cannot be guaranteed, as with any Speed Championship. The Club did a great job of offering to have just one practice run , allowing them to get a timed run in before lunch due to the weather forecast – even though the weather didn’t play ball !

Class Sa, got the meeting started with Graham Harvey taking the Championship class win by 0.11 secs from “your scribe” in 2^nd. Although class interloper, Gordon Peters pinched the class on the day on the third run by 0.03 in his Fiat 500 sport! David Owen was 4^th, all 4 cars being under the class record!

A good entry in Class Sc produced a close contest again with the Clio of Mark Williams taking the win by 0.14sec from Paul Glendenning in his Clio. Third went to Neal Bateman in his Fiesta ST.

The small capacity road going class, 1a, saw Keith Waters’s Metro and Julian Fishwick’s Mini pushed back to 3^rd and 4th by the rapid “family” Mini of Tom and Tony Bishop.

The larger capacity road going class saw the most spectacular “off” of the day by Steve Smith in his Impreza, but he had done enough on his earlier run to take the win from the Mustang of David Connell.

In the road going Lotus class, 2La, Martin Roberts took the 3 car Championship class win, although pipped on the 3^rd run for the pot on the day by Mike Hull, both in Elise’s.

John Caldicott “just” took the 2B kit car class in his Caterham R300, beating Terry Dutton’s HPC by  0.07 sec!

The large capacity Mod Prod class, 3b, was really well supported and the Metro of Dean Ratcliffe took a close win from Matt Frost’s Clio, with Liam Ulyatt an ever improving 3^rd in his Peugeot 106.

Bev Fawkes took the large capacity Mod Prod class in his spectacularly driven Scimitar SE6.

The two Libre Classes were won by David Bickley and Mark Williams, who were 3^rd and 2^nd fastest times of the day respectively in their Radical SR7 and Westfield Megabusa’s.

FTD went to Glynn Sketchley, with a 54.08 sec run in his Force PT, who also had the second most spectacular off of the day on his second run!

A big thank you to all of the officials, and marshals, who did a splendid job in the changing conditions, and also to SDCC member John Stonard  for stepping in and doing a great commentary job.

Current top six.

1. John Caldicott ( 137) Caterham R300
2. Matt Frost    (131.5) Clio Cup
3. Terry Dutton  (128) Caterham HPC
4. David Bickley (123.5)  Radical SR7
5. Mark Williams (122.5)  Clio 200
6. Craig Tock  (122.5)  MGZR

I hope to see as many of you as possible at the BMMC event on August 24th, which is also a full entry, and remember it is a Saturday, so don’t turn up a day late!                                         Steve Wood

Championship Results 2019 Round 6

The regular SDCC July event of the year attracted a full entry, mostly Championship contenders, and attracted quite a few spectators even though competing with the British G.P., Cricket World Cup final, and Wimbledon’s Mens Final on the day!
Standard Cars upto 1400cc, Class Sa, kicked the meeting off with 11 MGZR’s! Craig Tock took the win and a new class record, with “your scribe” second, and David Owen third. Graham Harvey, Simon Parkin, were 4^th and 5^th respectively, and in the SDCC Academy car, on his first Sprint,  Lee Willars got down to a very good time in 8^th, just behind the regular combatants!
Sb saw Steve Barrow in his Twingo Sport also needing to break the class record to take the win from Steven Burns Suzuki Swift by just 0.09sec, with Bob Smith’s ever improving Saxo third.
Another 11 car class was SC. Car problems had Mark Williams Clio 5^th after the first runs, but the other class members assisted fixing the car, in the usual Curborough Spirit, and Mark thanked them by taking the win and breaking Mark Wilsons 10 year old S2000 Class record! Paul Glendenning was second in another Clio, and Neal Bateman’s Fiesta ST, Wayne Park and Paul Gough’s Clios were 3^rd, 4^th and 5^th respectively, and three split by 0.13sec!
In Class Sd the Boxster of David Tilley took a comfortable win from second placed Warwick Bourton Focus ST3, with Paul Cammerer’s Z4 third.
Keith Waters Metro won 1A, with Graham Harvey Mini pushing him to a PB. Julian Fishwick was 3^rd, he and Graham having a busy day both double driving in two classes, in SA and 1A!
The over 2.0L Class went to Steve Smith in his Impreza Sti, from the Mustang of David Connell.
In the 2B kit car class, another close Caterham 1, 2 saw John Caldicott first from Terry Dutton by 0.16sec. Third and fourth were the Westfields of Simon Price and Paul Evans respectively.
A 5 car Road Going Lotus class went to David Whiteley, with Martin Roberts 2nd, John Healey 3^rd,, and Andy Palmer 4^th.
In 3a, Stuart Ballinger won, with Stuart Gadd second and Alan Henley third, all in Mini’s .
The Larger capacity Mod Prods saw Dean Ratcliffe take the Metro to the class win, from Matt Frost in his Clio Sport, with Liam Ulyatt third in his Peugeot 106.
Peter Shenton in the Escort Mk1 took the Rally car class just before running out of crank sensors as the Escort seemingly took to devouring them during the day!
David Bickley took the Sports Libre class win in his Radical, and the family celebrations continued as Stuart Bickley used the “force” to claim FTD in his Jedi !

The Championship top 6 looks like this, after 6 rounds:

• Craig Tock                   122.5

• John Caldicott  119

• Stuart Gadd                 112.5

• Matt Frost                   112.5

• Terry Dutton                111

• Warwick Bourton        110.5

The next round, the MCMRC Figure of Eight on August 11th, is already oversubscribed so I hope you all got your entries in early, Hope to see you there.                                                             Steve Wood

Championship Results 2019 Round 5

The second S&HMC event of the year attracted an entry of 44, mostly Championship contenders. Scattered showers made it a bit of a lottery on some class runs, but the club did manage to offer 3 timed runs for everyone, despite a delayed start due to timekeeping issues. As usual only the first two timed runs counted towards the Championship points.

Standard Cars up to 1400cc, Class Sa, kicked the meeting off with another close MGZR scrap, with Graham Harvey taking the win from Craig Tock, with David Owen third only 0.11sec back! Jack Twomey and Sara Holland were 4^th and 5^th respectively, with novice Jack Snape 6^th and gaining ground on every run on his first ever go in the SDCC Academy ZR.

Sb saw Steve Barrow in his Twingo Sport, take the win from Bob Smith’s Saxo, with Andrew Ward’s BMW Mini Cooper third.

After trying to total his Clio Sport at Woodside on his brand new tyres in practice, Mark Williams recovered to take the win from Neal Bateman’s Fiesta ST. Paul Gough was third in his Clio Sport, with Peter Darlington fourth in the MR2.

In Class Sd Warwick Bourton took the win in the “family” Focus ST3, with Paul Cammerer’s Z4 second, splitting the “Bourton Brothers” and placing Richard third.

In the up to 2.0 Roadgoing class, 1B, the MX5 of Paul Swarbrick took the win from Rosemary Collins’ MGZR160.

The over 2.0L Class went to the Supercharged Mustang of David Connell, taking the win by 0.3sec from Steve Smith in his Impreza Sti, with Alan Taylor 3^rd in his Impreza WRX.

As in the previous round, the usual closely contested 2B kit car class, saw a Caterham 1, 2 with John Caldicott first from Terry Dutton.  Third and fourth were the Westfields of Simon Price and Paul Evans respectively.

Closest win of the day was in 3a, with a Mini 1,2,3. Stuart Ballinger beating Stuart Gadd by 0.14secs. Third was Alan Henley.

The Larger capacity Mod Prods saw the double driven Metro of Owen Cule and Dean Ratcliffe taking a one, two, with the Clio of Matt Frost 3^rd, all three split by 0.5 second!

The rapid “family” Westfield Megabusa of Mark Williams had looked a possible FTD contender, but a couple of dry runs gave that honour to the Force PT of Glyn Sketchley.

With the Championship now just past halfway, after 5 rounds the top 6 looks like this, although not exactly a true picture as some possible contenders have obviously not done as many rounds as others:

1. Craig Tock                   102
2. John Caldicott              99
3. Stuart Gadd                 95.5
4. Matt Frost                   93.5
5. Terry Dutton                92
6. Warwick Bourton        91.5

The next round is the SDCC’s second of the year, on July 14th, Hope to see you all there.

Steve Wood

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CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND 4

 The annual Owen “Graham Hill” Sprint was, as in recent years, oversubscribed, but the Club tried to accommodate it and ran an extra number of competitors on the figure of eight. Luckily the scattered showers forecast for the afternoon didn’t arrive and it stayed dry all day.

This years’ MGZR “Challenge” continued in Sa with another win, and a maximum, for Craig Tock, with Graham Harvey second. David Owen took 3^rd from Sara Holland in 4^th. The first two were both under the Class record.

As usual, a great entry in Class Sc produced a really good contest with the Clio of Paul Glendenning taking the win from the Fiesta ST of Neal Bateman. The Clio’s of Paul Gough and Dave Chesterton were 3^rd and 4th respectively.

In Class Sd Warwick Bourton took the win with his first run time, then celebrated on his second run by entertaining the crowd with a spectacular pirouette at Woodside!

Class 1a went to Keith Water’s Metro, from Julian Fishwick’s Mini.

The over 2.0L road going class was won by the Mustang of David Connell, from Steve Smith in his Impreza Sti.

The road going Lotus class, 2La, saw Martin Roberts just take the win from David Whiteley.

A very good 2B kit car class, saw a Caterham 1, 2 with John Caldicott winning from Terry Dutton.  Third was the Westfield of Simon Price.

The 3a Mod prod class saw a win for Laurence Bond in the rapid Nova, with the Mini of Stuart Ballinger in second.

An unusually large Rally car class saw the always entertaining Escort Mk1 of Pete Shenton taking the win with Mk2 version of Bill Rushton a close second.

With the Championship entries now up to 65, after 4 rounds the top 5 looks like this:

1. Craig Tock                           82.5
2. John Caldicott                    79
3. Paul Glendenning            78
4. Stuart Gadd                        76.5

4=   Martin Roberts                 76.5

The next round, S&HMC’s second of the year, is this weekend, 16^th June,  Hope to see you all there.

Just a note to competitors, following various timing issues that have been occurring at some meetings this year. The issues have not all been due to the same problems and are being addressed by the timekeepers, but please be aware that the organising clubs simply employ timekeepers on an event by event basis and the timekeepers are all (including their equipment) licensed by MSUK.

Steve Wood

The first SDCC event of the Championship was, as usual, oversubscribed, and attracted a high Championship entry. The scattered showers forecast for the afternoon, luckily stayed away and the timed runs were dry, and cool producing a couple of class records, and a few personal bests.

This years’ big entry continued in Sa and the battle of MGZR’s continued with a 3^rd win for Craig Tock, with Jack Twomey a close 2^nd, and David Owen taking 3^rd.  4^th and 5^th respectively were Simon Parkin and Tim Burrill. The first two were both under the Class record.

Steve Barrow took the win, and a new record, in a good variety of cars in class Sb in his Twingo Sport, from Steve Burns Suzuki Swift, with Bob Smiths Saxo VTR third.

As usual, a great entry in Class Sc produced a really good contest with Clio’s 1,2,3,4. Mark Williams took the win by 0.16sec from Paul Glendenning, again both under the old record! Wayne Parke was third, from Paul Gough, but it went to their second-best runs having recorded identical times on their best runs!

Sd went to the 718 Porsche Boxster of David Tilley from John William’s 350Z, with Warwick Bourton’s Focus ST3 third.

In Class 1a, the win went to Keith Waters’ Metro, from Julian Fishwick’s Mini.

The over 2.0L road going class was won by Steve Smith in his Impreza Sti, from the WRX version of Alan Taylor.

The road going Lotus class, 2La, saw David Whiteley turn the tables on Martin Roberts to take the win, both in Elise’s. John Healey was 3^rd, from David Lee’s LHD Elise on his first outing.

Caterham pilot John Caldicott reversed the previous round’s result by snatching the win from Oliver Swadkin’s Westfield, by just nine hundredths! 3rd was Terry Dutton in his HPC Caterham.

3a Mini battle went to Stuart Gadd from Stuart Ballinger.

The large capacity Mod Prod class, 3b, went to the Metro of Dean Ratcliffe, having fixed the clutch problem from the last event, from the Clio Sport of Matt Frost, with third going to the 106 of Liam Ulyatt.

A three-car Formula Ford dice, went to David Owen in the Merlin 11a.

Martin Duffield won the “Jedi” battle in the upto 1100cc Racing Car Class, from Peter Clark, and FTD went to Ben Waine in his Magnum 843 in the over 1100cc class in a time of 55.63sec.

With the Championship entries now up to 65, after 3 rounds the top 4 looks like this:

1. Craig Tock                   61.5
   1= Mark Williams(Sc)  61.5

• John Caldicott 59
• Stuart Gadd             58.5

The next round. OMC, already has a full entry with reserves, showing the importance of early entries. As previously mentioned, the Clubs take entries on order of receipt, and do not cash cheques until closing dates, so early entry doesn’t empty your accounts. For interest the August MCMRC as we go to press has only 27 entries, Do not leave it too late!  Hope to see you at the Owen event on June 9th.

Steve Wood

The BMMC May event was, as usual, the second round of the Championship, and attracted 40 Championship entrants. Even with a few short showers during the day, everyone got the opportunity of at least one dry timed run in the afternoon.
A Class Sa of 9 MGZR’s got the meeting started with a win for Craig Tock, with Graham Harvey second and your scribe third, all within 0.24sec and all 3 well under the existing class record! 4^th, 5^th and 6^th, were Tim Burrill, Jack Twomey and Sarah Holland respectively, and again all close and within 0.23sec! David Owen in 7^th, picked up the fastest novice award.
Steve Barrow took the two car Sb class in his Twingo Sport, from Andrew Ward’s BMW Mini.
As usual, a great entry in Class Sc produced a really good contest with the Clio of Mark Williams taking the win by 0.6sec from Paul Glendenning’s similar machine. Neal Bateman was third in his Fiesta ST.
Sd went to the 718 Porsche Boxster of David Tilley from Warwick Bourton’s Focus ST3.
A close 1a, saw the win go to Julian Fishwick’s Mini, by 0.24sec from Keith Waters’ Metro.
The road going Lotus class, 2La, went to Martin Roberts, from David Whitely, both in Elise’s.
Oliver Swadkin stormed to a comfortable win in his Westfield in the usually very close 2B kit car class, from second placed John Caldicott’s Caterham.
3a saw the Nova of Laurence Bond also taking a comfortable win from the Mini’s of Stuart Gadd and Stuart Ballinger, 2^nd and 3^rd respectively.
The large capacity Mod Prod class, 3b, went to the Clio Sport of Matt Frost, from the 106 of Liam Ulyatt. Dave Bennett’s MX5 was 3^rd, and the “Spirit” of Sprinting came to the fore as a group of competitors all helped push Dean Ratcliffe’s Metro GTI all the way down to the start and back to enable him to get a timed run in, and score points, after his clutch failed in practice!

Mark Williams won class 4b in the “family” Westfield Megabusa, which also deservedly picked up the Best presented car award.

FTD went to John Loudon in his Force HC with a time of 54.15sec.                    

A big shout for last year’s Championship runner up, Metro GTI pilot, Owen Cule for doing a splendid commentary job, despite a temperamental tannoy system,  and to Andrew and Anita Chesterton who volunteered to assist the new Marshalls at the start for the afternoon timed runs.

 With the Championship entries now up to 63, after 2 rounds the top 5 looks like this:

• Laurence Bond          41.5

• Craig Tock                  41

• Mark Williams (Sc)    41

• Martin Roberts           39

• John Caldicott            39

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I hope to see as many of you as possible at the SDCC event on May 26^th.

                                         Steve Wood  

Championship Results 2019 Round6

Here we go again!

The 21^st season of the Championship kicked off with the S&HMC event, back after it’s unfortunate forced cancellation in 2018.
The figure of 8 event attracted a really good Championship entry of 46, and some close competition.
With MGZR’s seemingly breeding like rabbits over the winter, Class Sa kicked off the season with 8 of them and a win for Craig Tock from your scribe, by 0.3sec, both being under the old record. Third was Simon Parkin from Sara Holland in Fourth and Jack Twomey Fifth, all 3 within 0.7 sec.
The usual large class Sc, had Mark Williams storming to a win in his Clio 200, over a second under the record! Paul Glendenning’s Clio was 2nd and Neal Bateman 3rd in his Fiesta ST.
Class Sd saw a win for David Pattison in his Boxster from the Focus ST3 of Warwick Bourton.
Class 1a win went to Keith Waters in his Metro with Mini’s of Julian Fishwick and Stuart Ballinger 2^nd and 3^rd respectively.
The well supported kit car class, 2B, went to John Caldicott’s Caterham R300. Terry Dutton’s HPC, and Oliver Swadkin and Simon Price’s Westfield SEiW’s were 2^nd,3^rd and 4th  respectively all split by just 0.1sec !
In class 3A, a returning Laurence Bond in his Nova led the way from the Mini of Stuart Gadd 3^rd.
With 2 entrants unfortunately withdrawing, the remaining four Elises in 2La were led home by the S190 of Martin Roberts from the S1’s of David Whiteley, 2^nd, and John Healy, 3^rd .
A 3 car Rally Class was won in the usual entertaining fashion by Pete Shenton in his Mk1 Escort.
FTD went to Steven Potter in his OMS, in the upto 1100cc racing car class.
A HUGE thanks on the day must go to the two S&HMC members in the commentary bus, as technical issues for the official timekeeper meant they had to manually record the times and print out a paper copy after each run had completed!
The Championship organisers would like to say, a BIG thank you to P.J.S Sports Cars and Paul Green Jewellers for continued support in 2019.

With entries still coming in we now have just over 60 to date, and are looking like bettering last years’ total of 64.

 IMPORTANT NOTE TO ALL Championship Entrants; All of the rounds have links from the Curborough website Championship Page for the regs and entry forms. Please remember that some of the events are also rounds of other Championships and may get oversubscribed, and Championship registration, as with all other Speed Championships, does not give you automatic entry to the 9 events.

Hope to see as many of you as possible at the next round, the BMMC round on Saturday May 11th,

                                                          Steve Wood