SALISBURY & SHAFTESBURY CAR CLUB LTD Registered in England No. 1204384 FULL CHAT October 2014
Editorial Welcome members, September has been a very busy month for me, starting with competing at Wiscombe Park Hillclimb, where I beat the other Gilbern (an early GT1800), but where we were both beaten by a Zetec powered Westfield. Then again with the Gilbern I went to the Goodwood Revival, as a spectator. On leaving the classic car park Saturday night I went passed the campsite. There was a group of 7-‐8 people looking at the classic cars as they went pass. As I approached, suddenly a large 8, and 10 numbers were put up, with lots of thumbs up. Well pleased with my score, really made my day. Last weekend I competed at Charmouth Hillclimb, and now I am off to compete at Prescott this weekend, all in the Gilbern, hence an early Full Chat. Another reason to have an early Full Chat, is to remind you dear member your club membership is now due for renewal from the 1st of October. I’m happy to say Ted should be at club night next Tuesday 7th October to take your money, or send him a cheque in the post. Rally ace Dick “Paddy” Appleton, with his son Mark “Henry” Appleton in the co-‐driver’s seat, have been rallying in Belgium again, on the Westhoek Rally. They were seeded 8, but came a fantastic 2nd overall. Dick has sent me some great photos, which are included later in this newsletter Finally our Chairman went to the Silverstone BTCC as a sponsors guest last weekend, despite him telling me for years that circuit racing is boring!. Has he seen the light?, read his report to find out. See you at club night on Tuesday the 7th October All the Best Chris (All opinions expressed are only personal, and are not of the S&SCC committee). COPY DEADLINE FOR NOVEMBER FULL CHAT MONDAY 27th OCTOBER Forthcoming Motorsport Event 4th Oct Exmoor Endurance ERRC Rally Burnham +2 4th Oct HRCR Throckmorton Challenge Hero 12th Oct Warminster Autotest (S&SCC invited) Bath MC 25th Oct HRCR Regis Rally Bognor Regis MC 25th/26th Oct Ilfracombe Rally North Devon MC 8th Nov Tempest Rally Sutton & Cheam Forthcoming Shows & Events TBC Christmas Dinner & Awards S&SCC 25th Dec Christmas Santa CC Chairman’s Report October 2014 Hi All,
Hope you all had a nice hot September, to damn hot for my business! Not many
people thinking about heating oil at these temperatures.
Month started with an outing for the Scooby at Smeatherpe. After a successful
year so far was looking for a good result as the car had been running well. All
looked good until stage 5 when the turbo blew!! End of rally for us so someone
has now won the prize for stages completed by Mike and I this year.
Tried to order a new turbo for Caerwent towards the end of the month only to be
informed it would be at least a month for delivery! End of the season for us then
as the next event after that is the Regency Stages at the Bath & West. Mike and
I have decided to hold things until Jan next year and Brean as there are other
things to be done to the car and the fewer events I do the more pennies I have to
spend.
Mike and I had intended to go over to Caerwent to marshal but I had a late
invite to the BTCC round at Silverstone. So Will went in my place. I am sure Ed
who also attended will fill us all in with a report.
My trip to Silverstone was most enjoyable, invited by Exocet who sponsor Rob
Austin in an Audi. What a great day, good company and access all areas
including a start grid walk. Up close and personal and the girls were not bad
either!!
I have included some pics of the day how the other pit lane lives!!
I hear Chris has been very active in the Gilbern so look forward to some more
pics and results!!!
All the best,
Peter
Bodmin.
Silverstone BTCC
(copyright Pete Self)
WILTON HOUSE SUPERCAR SHOW (copyright Chris Dennis) The Westhoek Historic Rally Belgium
(copyright Mark Appleton if not labelled www.classicrally.be)
SALISBURY & SHAFTESBURY CAR CLUB
RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP 2014
DRIVERS
Event
Brean Stages
Bovington Stages
Horneland Rally
Corinium stages
Abingdon Stages
Westhoek classic
Date
25.01.14
01.03.14
13.03.14
04.05.14
08.06.14
19.09.14
Start
96
71
84
67
100
125
P Self
pos pts
25
72
17
55
17
19
TOTAL
D
Appleton
pos pts
84
1
2
124
51
82
260
125
M
Appleton
pos pts
M Gray
pos pts
NAVIGATORS
Event
Brands Hatch Rally
Brean Stages
Red Kite Stages
Bath Festival
Bovington Stages
Date
12.01.14
25.01.14
02.02.14
15.02.14
01.03.14
Start
81
96
31
53
71
25
1
J
Flippance
pos
pts
29
53
72
17
15
21
51
53
17
55
Tour of Cheshire
Horneland Rally
Myotis
Tulpen Rally
Abingdon Stages
Westhoek classic
01.03.14
13.03.14
19.04.14
20.04.14
08.06.14
19.09.14
TOTAL
80
84
47
59
100
125
6
84
2
19
75
1
46
41
2
124
19
340
82
209
119
SALISBURY & SHAFTESBURY CAR
CLUB
"MARSHALS CHAT"
Chief Marshal, Mike Gray, 07974 568107,
[email protected]
OCTOBER 2014.
September has seen our marshals out on a couple of events, firstly the
Primamotor Sport Stages at Smeatharpe on Sunday 7th September
2014.
This popular event had attracted a full entry plus reserves for this
ASWMC stage rally organised by Bournemouth & District Car Club.
With Peter and myself, competing it was good to see a number of
S&SCC members out marshalling from the club. Running the arrival
control & start line plus flying finish & stop/finish line controls on the
stages all day long.
Sally had travelled down with me in the service van to meet up with Gill
& John Parram, JJ & Di, Aaron and John Border.
With a full entry of over 60 cars to be put into the stage & received at the
finish end they had a very busy day, but as usual the S&SCC marshals
did a fine job.
Sunday 21st September 2014, saw a marshals training day at Thruxton
Raceway near Andover, this event was not very well attended mainly
due to prior arrangements. However, I did attend to keep the S&SCC
flag flying, this time the training looked at Stage incidents & Timing plus
accident & recovery of vehicles of vehicles and injured people etc with a
Rescue unit from Goodwood Circuit showing us their skills.
Four members travelled to MOD Caerwent on Sunday 28th September
to marshal & do 81 radio duties on the Patriot Stages Rally. Myself, Ed
Littlefield, Will Self and Sam (from Mere) journeyed over picking up
Richard Dyer in Frome on the way. Richard had recently been involved
in a serious accident and was unable to drive and had agreed to meet
some fellow Tavern MC members at Caerwent to marshal with.
This sealed surface stage rally had attracted a full entry of 100 cars +
reserves for the 6 stages totalling just about 80 miles. Running at
number 1 was Peter Lloyd in his full WRC Impreza. However, he retired
after only 1 stage feeling unwell.
S&SCC members, Mike Dunning and Jeff Talbot in car 86. Retired (we
think) after stage 4. Our marshalling/radio point on stages 1 & 2 saw us
manning 2 junctions where we positioned ourselves on top of 1 of the
‘blast banks’ which gave us a very good view point of the MOD site and
stages.
After stage 2 the event was stopped to allow the ambulance to collect a
marshal not feeling well along with the event doctor they waited nearly 2
hours just outside of the camp for a county ambulance this held the
event up considerably.
Stage 3 was started then almost immediately stopped and cancelled due
to car 4 on fire needing to be extinguished and recovered by the
recovery crews stages 4 ,5 & 6 then were changed to run without having
to stop the event any further. At the end of stage 4 a army convoy
needed to access the camp through our point and back again. The last 3
stages ran without too many problems other than broken cars in many
places.
Now for future events
An important one for us. 4th October 2104. Exmoor endurance rally in
the Somerset forest above Minehead this ERRC event has asked the
club to help with the daytime selectifs and evening sections finishing in
Taunton at about 11.30pm.
Saturday 25th October 2014 we have been asked to help out on the
Regis Rally in East Hampshire/West Sussex this HRCR event is always
a well run rally, with test starts and finishes and road time controls to
man. If you can help please contact me
And, finally, Saturday 8th November 2014 is our usual trip up to the
Tempest rally around the Basingstoke and Aldershot area. We have
been asked to man the finish controls on the Pavilion stage and also to
run the 81 radio system at this location. If you can help, please contact
me. (Transport maybe available).
All the best
Mike Gray
SALISBURY & SHAFTESBURY CAR
CLUB
"MARSHALS DIARY DATES"
Chief Marshal, Mike Gray, 07974 568107,
[email protected]
OCTOBER 2014
Saturday 4th October 2014.
Exmoor Endurance Rally, ERRC event based in the forest above
Minehead. Selectif and road rally controls etc.
Contact M G or Gavin Rogers 07733 234942.
Saturday 4th October 2014.
HRCR Throckmorton Challenge, at RAF Pershore Worceshire
Test & Regularity Sections.
Contact M G or Chrys Worboys [email protected]
Saturday 25th October 2014.
HRCR, Regis Rally, Test and Regularity sections in West Sussex,
Contact M G.
Saturday & Sunday 25 & 26 October 2014.
Ilfracombe Rally organised by N Devon MC a traditional night road rally
through the lanes of Devon.
Contact M G.
Saturday 8th November 2014.
Tempest Rally organised by Farnborough and District MC. Multi venue
loose surface stage rally (we are running the finish control on Pavillion
Stage).
Contact M G.
More next month.
All the Best
Mike Gray
AN INVITATION TO JOIN THE SALISBURY & SHAFTESBURY CAR CLUB Are you interested in motor sport? Would you like to get involved in a local club? • We organise local motor sport events such as autotests and rallies and have access to a number of good venues for motor sport including Henstridge Airfield and Worthy Farm • We go karting a couple of times a year at the Wessex Raceway Coombe Bissett • We meet on the first Tuesday every month at The Coppleridge Inn, Motcombe near Shaftesbury • We produce a monthly newsletter called Full Chat • We run our own club championship and have an annual Xmas dinner and awards ceremony • We are affiliated to the Motor Sports Association and we support the Somerset & Dorset Air Ambulance • We turn out regularly to marshal and help at local motor sport events • Fill in the membership application form overleaf or go to the club website For more details visit our club website at www.sandscc.co.uk
MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION FORM Please enrol me/us into the Salisbury & Shaftesbury Car Club for the period up to 30th September 2013 Name/s______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Address______________________________________________ ______________________________Postcode_______________ Phone_______________________Mobile___________________ e-‐mail________________________________________________ Signature________________________________Date_________ Full membership £15.00 ______ Joint membership for couple £20.00 _______ Additional family member at same address And Junior member under 16 £5.00_______ TOTAL _______ Please make cheques payable to “Salisbury & Shaftesbury Car Club Ltd”. Send completed application form with cheque to Ted Howles Membership Secretary, 125 Harnham Road, Salisbury, Wilts. SP2 8JT CLUB CONTACTS Chairman Pete Self, 11 Longhill, Mere, Wilts, BA12 6LR 07515 579343 [email protected] Secretary Ed Littlefield, 24 Lovage Way, Mere, Wilts, BA12 6RU 0771 9997707 [email protected] Treasurer Paul Heal, Culberry Farm, East Pennard, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, BA46TT 01749 860452 [email protected] Marshalling Co-‐ordinator Mike Gray, Bradmere, Castle Street, Mere, Wilts, BA126FJ 07884 446489 [email protected] Equipment Officer Position Vacant apply to Pete Self Championship Coordinator and Awards Secretary Dick Appleton, 21 Linthorpe Rd, Poole BH15 2JS 01202 676350 [email protected] Child Protection Officer Di Jackson 01935 812085 [email protected] Membership Secretary Ted Howles, 125 Harnham Road, Salisbury, Wilts. SP28JT 01722 502056 [email protected] Website Administrator Wayne Bale 07889 996834 [email protected] Newsletter Editor Chris Dennis, 59 Granville Way, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 4AT 01935 509442 [email protected] Club Scrutineer Aaron Wingrive (contact details to be confirmed) Without Portfolio John Jackson 01935 812085 [email protected] Without Portfolio Judy Howles, 125 Harnham Road, Salisbury, Wilts. SP28JT 01722 502056 [email protected] Without Portfolio Chris Damper 01258 857177 [email protected] Web Site: www.sandscc.co.uk