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Excellent and Entertaining

Photos: Kerry Dunlop

The Classic Touring Car circus bowled into the Silverstone paddock over the May Day Bank Holiday to put on some excellent entertaining racing.

 

All categories had double headers with BOSS split from Classic Thunder and the event saw the first of the new CTCRC/Alfa Romeo Owners Club Classic Challenge Series races sponsored by Mangoletsi.

 

With all CTCRC competitors housed in the garages for the weekend there was an excellent atmosphere and the Saturday evening awards presentation and BBQ got everyone together.

 

Hero of the weekend was Phil Manser who trailered Tim Dodwell back to Somerset when his Mini expired during Saturday’s race and the AA declined the invitation. Well done Phil. That is in the true spirit of the club.

 

The Thermex Classic Saloon and Historic Touring Car races saw a newcomer take double winner honours: Mark Ashworth in his newly-acquired Ford Mustang powered from fourth on the grid in the first race to win from David Hall (Ford Cortina) and Phil Manser (Mini Cooper). And then the trio put on a repeat result in the second.

 

There was drama for Autoglym Post Historic Touring Car driver David Howard when his tow vehicle broke down on the way to the circuit and he had to miss qualifying for the combined Autoglym/Hammerite Racing Classic Group One race.

 

Starting from the back of the grid in his Jaguar XJ12 Howard powered his way to third in the race just over a second behind Riorden Welby (Rover SD1), but they were 14 seconds behind a dominant Tim Scott Andrews (Rover Vitesse).

 

On Sunday for the second race it looked like Howard was in a hurry to get to Brands Hatch for his scheduled afternoon races when he stormed into the lead, but Scott Andrews upped his pace and took the win ahead of Howard and Welby.

 

BMWs dominated the SVG Motorsport Pre ’93 encounters with Snetterton winner Lawrie Dunster taking a double. Saturday’s race saw him take the laurels ahead of Roger Stanford and Paul Bellamy. Stanford helped change the order on Sunday with a spin which allowed Millar to take second and Jim McLoughlin having a first run in his new “drop dead gorgeous” Ford Sierra through to third.

 

As was expected the Nissan Skylines of Darren Bly and Mark Biggers along with Andy Robinson’s Ford Falcon and Joss Ronchetti’s Vauxhall Monaro dominated qualifying for the Sub-Zero: Wolf Classic Thunder Championship races.

At the start of race one Paul Dobson’s cheeky Mazda RX7 started mixing it with the big metal and when Ronchetti pulled off after spreading oil, and Biggers dropped back, he was able to grab a third place behind Bly and Robinson.

 

Dobson was a non-starter on Sunday and so it was qualifying order much resumed with Biggers, Bly and Robinson taking the podium places.

 

It was close order in qualifying for the Pro-Driver Blue Oval Saloon Series with Colin Tester (Sierra Cosworth), Ashley Bird (Sierra XR4i) and Scott Matthias (Escort) within a second.

Race one saw Tester take a win over Bird with David Matthias (Sierra Cosworth) a distant second.

 

Sunday’s race saw a repeat of the first two places in Tester and Bird but with a remarkably close run thing for third with Scott Matthias taking it from Laki Christoforou (Escort RS1600) by just one thousandth of a second.

 

The club’s activities were rounded off with two races for the new Mangoletsi Classic Alfa Romeo Challenge Series.

 

Both races went to Roz Shaw in her GTAm, both ahead of Richard Merrell (Giulia GTJ). Having started from the back of the grid in race one after qualifying problems Merrell managed to snatch second from Dave Messenger (75) by 0.3s.

 

Messenger was a non-finisher in the second race and Jonathan Griffin (Giulia Super) took third.

Peter Edwards