1972 - BARC Wales

There seems to be a national Ire:; " - :' -::- ~ "~ .• ,, '''c~,,,nt for former masters of the art to return. Geoff Rollason,
the "almost" Welshman from tt."'·::: .....:, :" S"':~£" ' 2 showed that the form he displayed back in 1968 has not
deserted him. His Lotus 69 FtJ.!, 2-:: '.; "~':_"~':::
=.,-",~,.-"ie Peterson engine shot up the damp hillinatime 0135.44,
a nearmiracleinviewofthe CO-::::-;;O~ .. ~ ,,:F ~ · -.=:.i:S. the Cardiff garage owner, showed that he is still a force to
be taken into account and ma"s;;~:': i" -ot,: ~ ..." "'g" single seater class after a struggle with Pembrokeshire's Michael
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climbing on this part:;;. 2- CE /•.: .. :: -:,e ,2< Z",j$,on.
Incessant drizzle, followed "=-"" '~ ' :C,' . '. '" ' ·.·;i-' s>,owers
during the course of t'le ;C'''2--:: : - -:.: ,: :- 23:: .: ' Wales
Centre of the BARC te ::.: ;:'~:" ::, ':- .., r -. :: :>ne run.
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to show its potential. A crash at the April meeting was
followed by an appearance at Talbenny, a repair beirg
effected in rapid time. Just in time for this meeting, David
caught 'flu and left Billy to fly the flag. Chris Cram er's 1.3
U2 M k.11 BM C soon had the class taped and was followed
in by the Landar R7 of Sandy Hutcheon, another former
Mini-man.
It was heartening to notice that the new
1.3 GT/SR Class, unlike some classes, is getting off the
ground.
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If some people were enjoying the sports car competition
on this occasion, one person was not. This man was John
Northcroft.
John made his malk at this hill in a Morgan
and then a Britten MG Midget. The Midget gave way to
the Marcos Volvo of Chris Boulter which won the 1969
Chevron-Dixon Modsports title. At Pontyrool, John was
gunning for the Modsports honours when the car spun
in the Avenue and split asunder; John luckily walked
away unharmed, The accident occurred in the very same
spot as Miss Hopkinson's shunt on the preceding run.
Wales' brightest ho::£O - : .. _: :-' " &, :,,_','g car class
was, as usual. John Pas:::" '-: _. S·a:;.:wood. On this
occasion, John was driving -:: :~ , ~ -- e '328 Mini Cooper
he has driven at the hill S;~:2 "
',:~;::,on;n 1967 but
also a Ginetta sports car, This:: " ,~ 3", t~ at once was seen
in the capable hands of the lale C- ' ; ...a.,.c~~t has a Richard
Longman modified Cosworth \;",,, e-~ ~0 el~arged from
998 to 1098cc.
By the end of the afternoon, Ja'1'l u,l,xL,.:lately h3d
to count himself lucky to drive home with two thrd-h-class.
The smaller racing car class was the property of
Bristoiian, David Franklin. His Vixen-Imp VB5 fairly shot
up the 840 yards in 36.29, Ro!lason preventing this from
standing as FTD. Boshier-Jones took the larger single
seater laurels from Micha91 Lewis at the end of a damp,
miserable day. The Top 10 run off was quietly forgotten.
Nicky Porter's very rapid 1328 Mini Cooper took the small
Touring Car Class. after a struggle, whilst Chris Seaman's
1.3 Toll Bar Garage MG Midget was the fastest 1300
Modsports Car. In the Marque Sports Car Class, the lower
division went again to Brian Kenyon in the 1.3 Austin
Sprite he shares with Miss Pat Hopkinson. These two lost
a little of their stranglehold on the Castrol/BARC Championship, for which this meeting counted, when Pat demolished
a park bench in the Avenue on one of her runs, Her consequent time must be one of the slowest ever seen at this hill.
Once again, the South Wales lads of the BARC were
unluckY with their weather. Bets were then placed en the
Shell/RAC round of 16th July and the weather on that,
day.
RESULTS
Car
Seconds
1.6 Lotus FVA 69
34.44
J. Davies
1.3 Mini Cooper
1.0 Mini CoopEr
1.3 Mini Cooper
38.12
38.17
37.48
B. Kenyan
1.3 .A.ustin Sprite
39.02
B. Harrisson
C. Seaman
1.6 Morgen
44.60
1.3 MG Midget
3B.75
4.2 Jaguar E
41.83
1.6 DMW-Ford
41.32
1.3 U2 Mk.1I E!~!.C
40.13
1.8 Bel
43.61
1.0 Vixen Irr.p V85
36.29
3.5 Brabham BT21-Buick 37.89
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The larger Marque Sports Car Class contained a few
nostalgia-inducing pieces of machinery. A notable nonarrival was one of the buttresses of the Pontypool hillclimb,
Howard Parsons. His white DB6, whilst no match for the
more highly tuned affairs, lends a touch of civility to the
Of those there, Malvern'S Bevil Harrison
proceedings.
trounced our Tommy Pascoe (father of John), driving a
Morgan Family 4 and Porsche 356B respectively.
FTD
G. Rallason
Class Winners
N. Porter
A. Boyle
N. Pow
David Morris is not having the happiest of seasons
with his U2. The car's chassis is that of a Mk8, brought up
to Mk.11 spec. The engine, plans for which were cunningly
concealed over the winter, is a FV A. and the beast has yet
G. Whittingham
C. Cram er
H. Hutchins
D. Franklin
P. Boshier-Jones
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improve his chances of succeS3 by dinging his Ginetta. MAE's su:np on the scrutineering platform in practice.
Some borrowed Araldite ensured that the Longman tuned
device ran in the afternoon, much to the chagrin of Robin
Leathert who whistled his 1.3 Spridget up in 34.58, 0.21
adrift of a new class record. John Houghton's Biota had a
blown mill and never appeared.
Tony Harrison mada one wonder whether there is
anything in co:nmon law to prevent the average citizen
fro:n driving Can-Am cars in the municipal park on a Sunday
afternoon. LO:Jking even more frightening than the Channon
Cobra, the 7.2 McLaren M12 skated up the hill with a
bellow and a cloud of dust. Not surprisingly, Jack Maurice's
1969 record set in the old Fry Ferrari 250LM took a drubbing,
only to b3 further beaten by David Gocd's Martin BMB-FVC
a couple of runs later and Good going to the record books.
Spotty Smith did not bring his GT40; he brought a
n.'lW Chevron B19-BMW. One was made suspicious when
one saw that. in the programme, the car was given a cubic
capacity of 3 litres whilst the average, run-of-the-mill
Chevron BMW usually has a two litre banger. Spotty was
late to practice after a few trauma but soon had the machine
in the groove. This came as no surprise to those who saw a
6-r:otAlpine-tuned rr:i:l nestling neatly in Bolton-builtdevice.
Amongst ell this two-seater excit~ment, the Welsh
were still getting a look-in. David Morris showed that the
FVA-engined Mallock is not an impracticable banger but
a rapid hill climbing car. For once, it went A-OK and
David was disappointed to hear that his sterling efforts
were not rewarded with a new class record. He did have
the pleasure of beating Chris Cramer's 1.3 Team Castrol
U2 Mk11-BMC and the whistling, turbocharged Lotus
7 of Simaon Riley.
Nigel Pow's 4.2 lighweight Jaguar E had little trouble
in vanquishing Nick Green's Modsports Cobra which did
not live up to Channon's earlier performance
David Franklin used to frighten us all by revving an
Imp over the 10,000 mark and living to tell the tale. The
king of the hi'l-lmps now rushes up these in a Vixen, Imp
engined of course. Need I tell you that he won? Welshman
Rees Gilchrist was out of luck when his pretty Lotus 20/22
lost its gears in its second attempt at the 1100 single seater
class and the English again reigned supreme.
That Michaal Lewis uses one of the first ever lotusFord twin C3ms is indeed a record, that it survives regular
use is a miracle. Credit must go to Mike for his efforts to
secure third in the 1600 Single Seater class from people
like Spencer Elton and Jim McCartney. Geoff Rollason
gave us a g'i:npse of the old style by winning from Mike
Hawley, the Lotus 69 recording 30.50 which stood as
FTD for a while.
PONTYPOOL •••
•• • THE PERFECT
HILLCLIMB
A frequent grouse about the RAC's hillclimb championship was that, whilst it would try to visit Jersey, the 10M
Scotland and Ulster to attempt to live up to its national
status, it steadfastly found a way to avoid coming to Wales.
This year, the South Wales centre of the BARC rr:anaged
to persuade the lads at Belgrave Square that Pontypool
is just as good as Bouley Bay, Prescott and Doune, not to
mention Wiscombe and Shelsey.
Any doubts of whether the meeting would click,
whether the organisation was up to the task and whether
the weather would hold were dispJlled'as practice went off
with but a few hitches, one of which being Jeff Hill's
tweaking of the Temple Meads Motors U2 Mk11. The
presence of the RAC's Mr. Neil Eason-Gibson no doubt
helped the fluidity of operations.
As for the event itself, it surpassed the wildest expectations held out for it for the hill record went twice in
the Top Ten run-off for championship entrants with the
world's fastest market gardener, Sir Nicholas Williamson,
taking the event, FTD, another hill record and 11 points
in the championship. As ever gracious in defeat was
Tony Griffiths in the Kidderminster Motors Brabham-Repco
BT36X. The green 'un was r.owever no match for the red
'un of Sir Nick, the little red March 712S scudding up the
hill in 29.66, beating Griffiths by 0.01 on the last run of the
day. The spectators seemed to love evory minute of it
and gave the drivers a standing ovation, which is quite
good going at a British event.
In the classes, Welsh drivers sought in vain many of
the awards, there being a great influx from down east of
the border. If one might be permitted to include Geoff
Rollason as a Welshman, then one can at I~ast claim a
Welsh first and third in the 1100-160:) Single Seater
class.
After his performance at the rainy, August meeting
last,year, many Welsh fans of speed events were rather
hoping to be entertained by the 4wd, 5.0 DH Special of
David Hepworth. They were disappointed. Dav:d instaad
chose to run his BRM P154/167 at an Interseri~ race at
Hockenheim, bein:! blown-off by the Pors~hes of Kinnunen
and Kauhsen, just for the record.
If a prize was awarded ever for the best stunt of the day
then surely Joe Nethercott would have taken the laurels
on this occasion. Driving his Citroen GS, Joe descended
from the holding paddock on three wheels, the left rear
haveing been removed. A quick puff at the suspension
jacked the hub clear and the FWD saw the red device right.
Incidentally, Richard White's Escort RS tonk the ra~ing part
of the Touring Car classes.
In the larger Special Saloon car class, John Davi.'ls
again proved that it is high time that he started to look for
a house in the Pontypool district such is the domination
of his injected 1.3 Mini Cooper. His nearest chall.'lnger was
over 1:5 seconds adrift, an awful lot of time in hi:1 climb'ng.
In the Touring Car classes, the amalgamation of the
classes kept John Pas~oe out of the money in the face of
such gargantuan doses of Ford power. John did not
FTD
Sir Nicholas Williamson
March 712S
29.66
1.6 Ford Escort RS
1.0 Mir.i Cooper
1.3 Iv.bi Cooper
4.7 AC Cobra
4.2 Jaguar E Type
1.6 U2 MkB/11-FVA
1.B Martin B MB
0.5 Cooper Mk9-Norton/Manx
1.0 Vizen Imp VB5
1.6 Lotus Hart-FVA
2.0 March Hart-BOA
35.60
39.19
37.B2
35.91
34.98
32.81
32.09
35.42
31.66
31.35
30.05
4.2 Palliser- Repco
5.5 McLaren M10B Chev
4.2 Palliser- Buick
5.0 Brabham-Repco BT36X
1.6 Brabham-FVA BT35
5.0 McLaren Chev M10A/B
5.0 McLaren Chev M10B
1.6 Lotus 69
5.0 Brabham- Rapco BT36X
2.0 March 712S
31.29
31.05
31.67
31.23
30.54
30.87
30.24
30.22
29.67
29.66
Class Resulls
R. White
Alan Cox
John Oavies
Paul Channon
Nigel Pow
Oavid Morris
Oavid Good
Colin Myles
Oavid Ftanklin
Geoff Rollason
Sir Nicholas Williamson
"Top Ten"
Peter Voigt
Richard Shardlow
Jack Maurice
Mike MacOowell
Mike Hawley
Roy Lane
Richard Thwaites
Geoff Rollason
Tony Griffiths
Sir Nicholas Williamson
The next meeting at Pontypool is on September 17th.
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B.A.R.e. News-September, 1972.
CE~VTBE
PA6E
A brief outline of Centres'
plans for 1973
SOUTH WALES
CENTRE
The South Wales Centre will
break new ground next year with
its first effort at assisting in the
organisation of a race meeting at
L1andow, Glam.
The Hill Climb programme at
the Centre's Pontypool Park
venue will include one national
meeting Ca qualifying round of
the Shell/RAC National Championship), as well as a restricted
meeting. There will also be one
autocross event qualifying for the
Welsh Association Autocross
Championship. It is a great pity
that with a first class programme
for speed events during the summer there is nothing much in the
way of social events in the winter.
The considerable successes achieved over the past two years by
the Centre have been carried
through by a total strength of
seven who whilst intemporate are
not inexhaustible. There are a
number of Welshmen in the Club
who are not in the Centre and I
have been asked to make a special
appeal to them on behalf of the
Centre, who urgently need their
support in order to carry out and
extend their programme.
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B.A.R.e. News-October, 1972
~~IVTB~E
PAGE
SOUTH
W ALES
CENTRE
SOUTH Wales Centre's own
popular member, David Morris,
from Pembrokeshire, took fastest
time of day at the last Hill Climb
at Pontypool Park, so winding up
a most successful year for the
Centre on a happy note. October
is a splendid month, a time to
take a break after the season's
hectic scramble, still a little
breathless over that fantastic
finish of Sir Nick Williamson
when in .the very last run of the
day he.
3\~t Cl.
nev/ uutrlghf
r~cord
of 29.66 seconds, beating Tony
Griffiths by one-hundredth of a
second! It was a wonderful
culmination to South Wales'
National meeting which, for the
first time, counted towards the
RAC/Shell National Championship. Another "first" for the year
was, of course, the Autocross in
April. That will not be forgotten
either, torrential rain, cars being
manhandled through the mud, the
sunshine in the afternoon, hilarious in retrospect.
It's Motor Show time again
and South Wales will be having
their own stand at the local show
where last year they took first
prize for the best stand, with the
Mallock U2, complete with the
Prescott Gold Cup, belonging, of
course, to the aforementioned
David Morris and his brother Bill.
Apart from getting the prize, the
show was significant in that it
seemed that a lot of people were
surprised to find the Welsh end
of the BARC so active, and to hear
that they welcome anybody who
is interested in motor sport.- The
fact that the club is so successful
tends to create a rather glamorous
view to the unenlisted so that they
do not see the Centre for the
ordinary, friendly fanatics that
they are!
South Wales Centre will be
having their usual Centre tables
at the BARC's annual "do" at
Grosvenor House, so that if you
care to join please get in touch
with the Centre Secretary, Nigel
lones, 5 Holywell Road East,
Abergavenny, Wales.
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Anti-Clilnatic finale to
Pontypool Season
For some reason, the South Wales Centre of the
BARC's final hillclirr.b of the year at Por.typeol just failed
to click and not even the spice of a fine ftd and new sportsracing and GT record fro;n David Morris could do anything
to relieve the general air of lethargy. At one point during
the afternoon, Clerk of the Course, Vic Hesketh had to
come on the air to complain about the vast numbers of
spectators who were wandering about the park oblivious
of their own safety. Added to all these problems was that
of the non-arrival of hordes of marshals which but added
to the organisers' difficulties.
On the credit side, there was some spirited driving
going on in the classes and also some very exciting motor
cycling run under the auspices of the National Sprint
Association. The event was the final round in their 11-round
national hillclimb championst.ip with the titles all going
to riders from Cornwall for some good reason. Undoubted
star of this side of the meeting was lecturer, Paul Spargo
on a 649 Ariel Triumph who set up a new two wheeled
hill record in winning the 750 class.
The meetir.g started promptly, in warm, overcast
conditions bang on time with the Touring cars doing their
thing. Alien Morgan proved that he was on to a winner
when he purchased the ex-John Pascoe 1328 Mini Cooper
for the car must know its way up the hill instinctively by now
With Morgan assured of first, interest centered on the battle
for second and third, which was resolved in favour of
Stuart Collins' alarmingly driven Volvo 142S. Newcomer,
Arthur Croasnell, drove a 998 Austin Mini into third.
But five hot Minis did battle in the Special Saloons
up to 1000 class and what value for money they gave.
However, who would win was never in dispute for Alien
Cox managed to smoke off Rich Fry, David Marfell, Terry
Duke and Mike Chenery with two runs which just had their
measure.
Twenty one starters came to the beam for the over
1001 Special Saloons fiver.
This beautiful delineation
of the Duke of Wellington can now be found in the wallet
of Robin Yeomans who sprung quite a surprise by beating
John Davies on what must be Davies'favourite hill. Yeomans
1.4 Mini Cooper did not seem a potential victor after the
first runs with Davies having over a second in hand over
him. A hirsute effort by Yeomans saw the man from Broadway relegated to second for the first time in many moons.
The various production sports car classes had the
comentating team in knots and more than one person
went home under the impression that Russ Ward had
set a new record for Modsports up to 1300. In fact, though
he had beaten the Marque record for the category John
Northcroft's Midget record went untarnished.
Geoff
Bevan's Porche 911 S lurched to a Marque classes victory
over Tommy Pascoe's 356b whilst Nigel Pow's 4.2 E Type
Geoff Inglis 1.5 Brabham BT 15/21 waits at the start line
soon had Russ Ward and John Pascoe, sharing the Aldon
Midget, figured.
John incidentally was also without
the Ginetta and there is talk of his withdrawal. The threecar clubman's non-event went to Alister Douglas-Osborn's
1.6 U2 Mk8b.
In the motor cycle category, Neville Tregembo took
his free-revving Yamaha to a new class record in the 250
category. By doing so, he pipped Dave Brierley (250
Zunspec) for the championship for the category. In the
350 class, Giles Merchant's 350 Velocette set a new record
and saw off the similar mount of champion lan Mitche I
with Dave Childs' 350 Velo/Norton being tail-end charlie.
The biggest shock of the two wheel competition came in
the 500 class when the "old man of the hill", Peter Isaae,
succumbad to the 500 Norton of Les Burgan who fell
at Pool on his first run and who then promptly returned
and had another go I Paul Spargo did his thing in the 750
class over sidecar-pilot, Edwin Luton, who went solo
for the day on the 650 Triumph-engined 'Hillwaye:
Luton was in fine form in the three-wheel category,
taking the amazing 750 Scitsu tri-car to the top in record
time with a second run that beat Phil Williams/ Alan Martin's
875 BAT-Imp. Luton had soloist Hugh Wilderspin astride
his rear wheel for the day, regular passenger Mike Griffiths
having come a cropper at Wisccmbe the week before.
Mike did turn out and commentate though, broken collar
bone and all. In fairness to Luton, Mike did fall off a solo.
Interspersed amongst all this fun was the SportsRacing and GT amalgam which saw Dave Morris rocket
the U2 Mk8/11 FVA to the top in 31.56 Rarely, in my
experience of Pontypool has anyone turned on such amounts
of power out of the Esses so early. The misfire being cured,
the bolide streaked into the plantation. It was a run no-one
could follow and Billy contented himself with the class.
Results
FTD D. Morris (1.6 U2 Mk8/11 FVA) 31.56
A. Morgan 1.3 Mini Cooper 36.31
A. Cox 1.0 Mini Cooper 36.39
R. Yeomans 1.4 Mini Cooper 34.79
G. Bevan 2.0 Porsche 911 S 38.02
N. Pow 4.2 Jaguar E Type 34.66
A. Douglas-Osborn 1.6 U2 Mk8 Ford 34.01
W. Morris 33.27
B. Brant 500 Cooper Mk1 0-Triumph 36.91
J, Frampton 1.1 Terrapin-BMC 34.31
M. Lewis 1.6 U2 Mk9 33.25
the following were a/l new records
N. Tregembo 249 Yamaha 36.30
G. Merchant 349 Velocette 37.04
L. Burgan 499 Norton 35.26
P. Spargo 649 Ariel/Triumph 34.63
E. Luton/H. Wilderspin 740 Scitsu-Triumph 36.21
B.A.R.C.
Hn,L~CLIMB
PONTYPOOL PARK
CLASSES 1a2111.
ENTRANT (DRIVER
~
1.
S.Shellard
2.
A.Croasne11
J.Nethercott
3.
AlIen Morgan
4.
6.
S.Collins
P. ¥.Ia cDona1d
7.
1st Run
46.69
43.12
46.76
36.31
42.04
45.08
CLASS 4
Rich Fry
10.
11.
Allen Cox
12.
Dave Ylarfell
14.
Terry Duke
Mike Chenery
15.
37.66
36.73
36.91
37.66
40.72
37.30
36.39
37.79
36.87
37.85
38.66
37.20
35.95
36.03
37.16
39.16
37.46
36.68
36.29
N/S
38.42
82.43
35.60
36.42
36.93
40.16
35.00
35.53
N/S
N/S
35.94
40.07
37.50
38.09
36.70
35.83
36.92
37.08
40.27
36.72
36.33
37.13
CLASS ,'2
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23
24.
25.
26.
27
28.
29.
30.
31.
32.
33.
34.
35.
36
37
38
39.
63.
F.Browno
S.Broroffie
Allon Humphrios
T.Poek
A.Roberts
P.Roborts
Nigo1 Phillips
Dos lrJoyman
Rogor 1>1a1ding
Miko Chand10r
A.Gilbort
Gordon Gilbort
A.Young
R.Yooman'5
P.Johns
J.John'5
J.Davios
C.Davios
G.M,'lstors
R.Payno
vI.Co1o
A.R.Petors
T.King
ClJ\SSES
40.
4l.
43.
17th SeEtemoor 1222
CUSS 1,'2
2ndRun
l.jo.29
42.78
l.j6 .37
37.11
42.93
41.87
36.99
39.26
35.99
34.79
36.ll
41.06
35.11
35.30
35.98
Rtd
36.83
627 & 8
A.C1eovo
Carol Moon
F.R.Turner
Tommy Pas coo
44.
G.Bovan
45.
H. J •Pars ons
46.
CLASSES . 9 ~ 10
J •Havl10y
48.
J.pascofi
49~
R.Ward
50.
Nigo1 Pow
52.
41.81
41.69
44.50
40.01
)8.54
43.48
41.91
41.52
45.49
40.82
38.02
44.13
38.02
38.06
36.16
34.66
38.75
38.15
36.11
35.21
CIJ.ss 11
I. Jamos
55.
S.Mndgo
57.
1I..0sborn
58
36.53
37.04
35.06
36.42
39.40
34.01
CLASSES 13 & 14
P.Davlkins
.59
D.Horris
60.
B.Morris
61.
64
H.Hutchins
N.Hutchins
65.
66.
B.Ogilvio
37.32
33.78
33.27
37.08
35.25
42.35
37.79
31.56
33.32
36.79
35.39
41.11
No.
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
89
ENTRANT /DRlVER
T.Cameron
R.Brant
Ron Warr
P.Rhys
L.Huhtala
L.Stone
P.Kerrlall
A.Nyo
K.Davios
A.Workman
J.Frampton
R.Gilchrist
T.Elton
·D. Eranklin
B.Saul1
CLASSES 16 &17
84
G.Coopor
S.Alton
85
86
P.Stnh1
T• Kavanagh
87
88
L.Wa1din
1'1.Lowis
90
G.Inglis
91
R.Jonos
54
SOLO lVIOTOR CYCLES
1
N.TrogoJ:lbo
D.Brior1oy
2
A.Blaokman
3
4
J.Loyo
F.lVIa1otroit
5
6
D.Childs
L.Mitoholl
7
G.Narchant
8
A.Morgan
9
10
L.Burgan
P. IsAM
11
P.Thomas
12
H.1Plildors pin
14
P.0.'Noa1
15
G.Hillial1lS
16
O.Rulo
17
A.Gimb1att
18
M.Griffiths
19
P.Spargo
20
SIDECARS
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P.ltlilliarns
23
E.Luton
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1st Run
40.11
36.91
39.98
40.21
Rtd
37.32
36.38
41.94
36.30
34.85
34.55
38.14
35.47
Rtd
35.49
33.45
Rtd
35.03
38.90
40.07
33.57
49.30
35.19
2nd Run
42.29
37.61
39.76
39.62
38.21
35.53
40.28
36.18
34.84
34.31
37.02
35.22
36.80
34.20
35.10
40.03
37.82
33.25
34.24
34.16
36.80
36.60
Rtd
47.10
40.06
38.88
37.40
37.23
41.48
35.88
36.09
38.26
39.71
40.71
38.25
38.01
37.13
)6.52
34.63
39.57
38.10
37.70
37.04
Rtd
35.26
36.74
38.25
40.24
1-1-1.66
38.19
37.84
)6.72
)6.06
34.94
51.15
42.13
38.02
36.51
Rtd
4).01
37.60
36.21
36.30
36.50
42.51
l.j6.35
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4 A.Cox
Class 5 R.Yoomans
6/7/8 G.Bovan C1ass9/10 N.PO"{oToll
13/14 1st D.Morris 2nd B.r1orris
II A.Doug1as-Osborn
1.5tt B.Brant
15 1st J.Frampton. 2nd A.vJorkman
3rd. T.E1ton.
Class 16/17 1st. M.Lowis 2nd. R.Jonos
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YU I
Morris returns to'
form at Pontypool
VHEN Dave and Billy Morris inserted an FV A into their
ilk 8 U2 during the long winter months, they kept it a secret
yen from their best friends. When the beastie appeared at the
reginning of the season, the project seemed somewhat fated.
'illy did the chassis a power of no good by stuffing the thing
!lto the bank at the first Pontypool and things thereafter seemed
I) go from bad to worse. A misfire set in and refused to shift
util the last Prescott, when Dave's chances of regaining the
;Old Cup had already faded. At Pontypool on Sunday the
'o mbination just clicked. Dave flew up the daunting hill in a
ime of 31.56s to take FTD and a new record for Sports-Racing
rnd GT cars over 1300cc.
Morris' performance was the
The Marque sports car classes
ligh spot of a non-championship were all lum~d together and. a
neeting co-promoted by the South grand total . SIX rather expenSIve
Wales Centre of the BARC and thoroughbreds marsh~lled for comcbe National Sprint Association. bat. The c!ass proVided the unfhe meeting, it should be stated, doub.ted biggest laugh of the
lid qualify for their champion- meetIng when the Porsche 356B
;hip and some of the two and of one F. R. .Turner. couJPled and
hree-wheeled antics · helped to shed somethIng gOIng mto the
Hone for the paucity of any real I Esses - a plug spanner.. Th~re
racing machinery.
was really only one man ill WIth
a cI~ance and that was mot~r-cyc~e
" As is often the case, the Tour- retaIler, Geoff Bevan With his
ing car classes were amalgamated. road-going Porsche 911S. In a
Seven cars assembled to do battle style reminiscent of the days of
md Penrice Castle's ebullient Clerk the great Elford, Geoff hurIed the
of the Course, Simon Shellard, black beauty from side to side
too k
the
opportunity
to I up the twisting course in two runs
acclimatise himself in his 998 of 38.54s and 38.02s. For the
Mini. All the winning here was record, Tommy Pascoe wound up
done by another resident of the second with a first-run best of
lovely city of Swansea, AlIen 40.01s.
Morgan in the 1328 cc Mini- I
Cooper driVeni , John Pascoe, The Modsports classes again
In days gon.e b
nasty rumour were fused and Nigel Pow's 4.2
was clrculatmg e padd0'ik t9 ~e E-type, resplendent with its new
effect that John Pascoe IS glvmg wheels, took. its expected win. The
up moto~ sport, t~ough whether main talking point was the peror !lot thiS IS true IS for .John to formance of Russ Ward though.
deCide .. Anot.her very hairy con- Driving the Aldon Automotive
tender m thiS class was another 1275 Midget, Ru~s whistled upof tl10se men from Swansea. Stuart wards on his first run. stopping
CollIns., a man .who refuses to that clock in 36.16s to beat Chris
r~ogmse the eXistence of any- Seaman's record by 0.14s. Russ
thll:1g other than Volvos. HIS l42S was also kind enough to share '
claImed a de faciO award for the the car with John Pascoe the Mini
most grass cut in any afternoon being sold as stated' and the
at the venue.
Ginetta u/s for the time being.
The fight for the honours in the
up 10 1000 Special Saloons class
was an all-Mini affair though John understandably played thin(!!!
none the worse for being so. All cool in a strange car but did
driving 998 Mini-Coopers, Rich return a time of 38.06s, not quite
Fry, DavH Marfell, AlIen Cox, good enough to prevent him being
Terry Duke and Mike Chenery beaten dow~ into fourth in class
staged a real needle match with' behing John Hawley's John
victory just going to the competent Brown-entered 1098 Midget.
Cox by virtue of a second rup. :
time of 36.39s as opposed to hiS
The Mallock U2 Mk8B of
nearest challenger. Terry Duke's Alister
Douglas-Osborn had no
time of 36.87s.
trauma in sorting out the chalWhat the large single seater ' lenges of the similar car of Ian
class lacked, the Special Saloons James and the Lotus 7 of Stephen
over 1000 cc certainly made up Madge. However, r if Douglasfor. The big surprise for 'pool Osborn could be said to nave
afficianados was the defeat of walked all over the Clubmans'
usual winner, John Davies (1293 opposition, then words fail for
Mini-Coo~r) at the hands of the the treatment the Morris brothers
1400 Mim-Cooper of Robin Yeo- meted out in the GT and Sports
mans Victory seemed assured for Racing class. David's second run
Davies after the completion of time, being FTD, took him out
the first runs for he had 1.42s in -of the running for the class award.
hand over the challenger. AlIen Billy did what was expected of
Humphries' 1650 Bence Escort him and filled the breach with a
seemed more of a threat in fact, personal best of 33.27s, his second
being only 0.95s adrift. A similar run being slower in 33.32s, though
performance by' Davies on the still very consistent. Credit though
second runs did not suffice, for must go to Hedley Hutchins for
Yeomans returned a time of taking the BEL- Mk 2 into second
34.79s. Indeed, at one point, it in 35.25s.
looked as though Davies' wife,
, Carol might spring a surprise for
she returned a time of 35.53s, not
bad for someone more used to
the Touring car class.
I
The 5008 did not turn up in
any quantity. though those that
did were more than welcome. Tim
Cameron's Emeryson-JAP provided much of the entertainment
by taking to tbe grass at the Esses
on each occasion, the front-wheel
drive saving it from an expensive
fate in the trees. Barry Brant's
Cooper Mk IO-Triumph did all
the actual winning with a respectable 36.91s. Paul Rhys took the
Cooper prototype into second
0.14s ahead of Ron Warr who was
sharing with Barry Brant. Cameron
wound up fourth and last.
The under llUO single seaters
came in reasonable numbers but
were no threat to Dave Morris
after David Franklin's Huntsman
Vixen pulled up at Pool on the
first run with what David dreaded
might be a snapped camshaft.
... John Frampton was looking a
r lot happier with the course than
, he has in the past and this was
reflected in his class winning time !
of 34.31s. The 1098 Terrapin again
also saw service in the hands of
Allan Workman who took second
from a spirited Tommy EIton,
driving the 1098 BTI8-BDA in
place of the Cooper which he bent
at Prescott
.
Spencer EIton, however, did not ,
turn up. The same was true of
the ex-Fred Saunders CrossIeRover of Haverfordwest's Richard
Evans who will be running the'
'car in all local events with the
5.0 banger fitted. The car was due
to be delivered at the weekend
and should add a bit of excitement to the local scene if Richard's
driving of the ex-Brodie Escort
is anything to go by. Without
these two the amalgamated large
single sea'ter classes were a little
devoid of interest. Making it a
Pembs MC day, Mike Lewis took
his unconventIonal U2 Mk 9 tic
to another class win, this car having recently broken the outriJPlt
record at the Talbenny spnnt
course.
So ended another season at
Pontypool, in a fit of lethargy.
With delays and problems, the
organisers unfortunately ran late
and were forced to abandon ideas
of a run off. The day saw a
further shadow cast over the hill
by a protest by the council over
noise. However, a full season is
booked for next year and, with
Penrice Castle drawing closer, the
state of Welsh hill-climbing can
be said to be pleasing.
M.P.T.
FrD: D. Morri. (1.6 Vl Mk 8BI
11 FVA), 31.56 •.
Class winners:
A. Morgan (1.4
Minl·Cooper), 36.31s; A. Cox (1.0
Mini-Cooper), 36.39s; R. Yeomans
(1.4 Mini-Cooper), 34.790; G. Bevan
(1.0 Porsche 911S), 38.01.; R. Ward (1.3
Midget). 36.16. (record); N. Pow (4.1
J,,~uar E), 34.66<; A. Dougla•• Osbom
(1.6 Vl Mk 8-Ford), 35.00; W.
Morris (U2), 33.27.; B. Brant (Cooper
Mk 10), 36.91s; J. Frall\pton (1.1
Terrdpin), 34.3ls; M. Lewls (1.6 Vl
Mk 9 T-O, 33.15•.
In the Clu.bmen's class Jen!O'n.Y HU'llIt (U2
I Voigt's Gurston
I The
!Bst of lIIIe MRC(SW) hillclimbo <4 0Ih0e
.""""" et Guroton Pow" last Sunday produced
a ....ther dlsappaillltlng """'Y and the hiljhHg!1t
of a none !tOo spedtacular mleetWe came f.rom
P<!ter Voigt 'Mho produ()Od two stim21g runs for
BTD wPtlh his 4.2 Nlli'ser-Repco_
" The dlree touring . _ cLassos opened lire
mefJt.ilng 'W'Lth .'jlmt Itwo cars in Itb& up to 1150
cc q,Mcket, and wolmy 10.11 .., tIIle Mazodo
RIOO <Jf ·Peter Cmnk .. 48.76 I. In Ohio up ""
1500 cc class AIan M<lrg8Il was ....eaks _
<4 Iil.e field In Itl,s ex-J obn Pa.sme 0cqlIer S
~ B spirited 42.11 ., ""d .JIoIIm POgIO'. 3.4
J3II- took dte large <ourlmg _
in 46.93 .,
0.141 In _
of dte 1650 Elloor,t at Paul
McDonald. Dale Clement and the Taurus
Oooper BgUt stamped i.hJe!r Impressioo on
1Ibe up ItlO 1 11tre speci.a1 sal'OOln cll8:ss land Wl8.S
within 0.1 • 01 C!uU;s Cntmor"s record f<t
39.S2. s. Da.v.e Bcray made i.t a w.eeloend doub1-e
In <he Y_speed _
t o take
n_ cl....
In 38.71 • from Jalm IJIav.les' CooperS.
The first of Ibhe marque classes SIBIW EL brave
winnlng drive from B8IITY 5t<>ck's ~y<
engInod F8fI1IIhorpe Zeta ill .3.66 ., Md iIle
hiMlonic spoIlts ·e8J[' cla:ss sew an easy wIn for
Motor's Mi'Cbael Bowler (F,mzer Na9h Sebrli·ng)
w;dt a olimb Of 43.53 s. Flaul CIliamon headed
tho large marque cla9s wibh his COOla, . . r.akIng Tony B~'. Tus""" reoonI, In
38.93 So W~ Jdhn P8I!IClOe 18. non stJw1te.r m
tile
hils Gm_ G4, R"•• Wan! (Midget)
cia6s in 40~35 ..
WQIl
Ms
Mk 4/6) _ _ hi. flMt run lead in 38.81 s.
Tony Brow.n,'s MarItin BM8 tried on the aec~
run '" get to terms with tile U2 of Jetf Hill
In d!ie neot class, but a .ligIbt brush w.lth •
bemk slowed Brown and his lime <4 3lI.70 •
!\oiled
'by
0.34
•
to demote Hill.
The BEL Mk 2 Of the Hu_ _• did
..:It tlake <he large _
nreina ear class 1'0< ,
the DexJtra Ford cl Dfnty Moores 9rl8Itched
victory at 39.71 ••
No less than 20 500 cc aingle BeaiterS
.~. 00H" My1<s m"""lled anoctJec In 41.02 " wibdle AIdIur Cumow surp!'i9l"8ly
demoted Jom Turner into tlhlrd spot. The
up to 1100 cc clus looked. like befog IIIIn easy ,
w>ft !!or the Hw>tsmoan Vixen at DaWd '
Fcanlilin but be trled I!o take tIIle KaroUsel
backiwards on tihe flm mn, recovering on the
IJeOODd to win in 37.29 s. Tommy El:tan
(Cooper JAl') took """""<I p""," in 37.60 "
will!. Teny SmIiIh'. similar car 0.06 • adrift.
Of the flour CBnI
appea<ed in IIbe U!p Ix>
1800 cc dl-wsion Peter SrImIhle's Lola T55 came
hiome finit in 38.10 s, 0.6 s In front of tlbe
sIJIIhtIy older version of Bruce Ilooan. WlIth
Gordoll . _ . . ~ the feel at dJe
Kltdhener V8 _
<be Mini, PElter VaI#'W
l1aIIiSer-«!.epoo had no opopooltJon blllt StiilI
produced • st:imng 32.32 • f.or BID.
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