Curborough Championship

2019 CURBOROUGH SPRINT CHAMPIONSHIP, supported by PJS Sports Cars and Paul Green Jewellers .

2019 SEASON CHAMPIONSHIP APRIL UPDATE

The Curborough Championship, sponsored again this year by PJS Sports Cars & Paul Green Jewellers, kicks off this weekend with the usual April S&HMC event, and is already just about a full entry. With 46 of the entries being registered for the Championship, it is a great turn out from the 59 registered contenders at the point of this going to press. This shows the importance of early entry into the events, as many will get oversubscribed.

Some of the entrants for this weekends’ event are previous Championship entrants that have not registered this year, so if you have overlooked sending the Championship registration off, ( in all the excitement!), please do so before Sunday to score points!

Many of the Classes are looking very competitive, especially Sa, Sc, 1a, 2La, 2b, and 3b, and we have 5 Championship previous years’ outright Champions entered!

Once again we have quite a few novices entered, approaching double figures, showing the Championship is continuing with it’s original intention of supporting grass root sprinting.

Just the usual reminder, especially to new novices, that registration for the Championship does not automatically give you an entry into each round. Most of the Clubs do not cash entry cheques until the event entry closing dates, so unless you chose the online payment that some now offer, entering them all early does not mean a sudden attack on your bank account!

Here’s to another successful year in 2019,

Steve Wood

Curborough Championship

Curborough Sprint Championship 2019

Supported by PJS Sports Cars and Paul Green Jewellers

NOTE: Last years entrants will receive Regulations and Registration form in the post.

2019 Regs and Entry Form now CONFIRMED and PDF format documents can be obtained by clicking the links on this page.

Championship Permit Number is CH2019/SO12.

Calendar of Rounds 2019 (Provisional)
Date	Grade	Club
April 28th	Nat B	Sheffield & Hallamshire MC
May 11th	Nat B	BMMC
May 26th	Nat B	Shenstone & District Car Club
June 9th	Nat A/B	Owen MC
June 16th	Nat B	Sheffield & Hallamshire MC
July 14th	Nat B	Shenstone & District Car Club
August 11th	Nat B	Mid Cheshire MRC
August 24th	Nat B	BMMC
Sept 8th	Nat B	Shenstone & District Car Club

Download 2019 Regulations

Latest Results 2019

Championship Entry Form 2019

Round 2

Round 1

Round 2

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

Championship Results 2019 Round 2

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

Steve Wood

Round 1

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

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