Just another typical weekend club meeting at the Cheshire track, the chilly spring weather and occasional showers making it one for the real enthusiasts only. There were some meaty, thunderous Astons waking up the Little Budworth residents, including the former works 1977 V8 Le Mans car, but the star of the show, once again was Roger Eccleston, who ignored the rain...
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The BRDC International Trophy started in 1949 and was originally a non-championship race for cars meeting the contemporary Grand Prix regulations. The race, which had a long association with the Daily Express, was run for Formula 1 cars until 1977, and was run for F3000 from 1985 (the first ever F3000 race), with the intervening years being a Formula 2 event. The 1986...
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Sited across a steep sided valley, Cadwell Park near Louth in Lincolnshire is a real driver’s circuit. It twists and dips and turns in and out of the valley, providing some of the most challenging and enjoyable 3.477Km of tarmac anywhere. This meeting was dedicated to the visit of the Ford Credit Fiesta racers, who had a drizzly, damp track to contend with. Other...
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Not the normal club meeting but a monster, 2-day event with more than 500 competing cars, a marching band, and high-kicking Can-Can girls. What more could you want from a race meeting? The cars were lined up all around the Grand Prix circuit, to allow the spectators to wander amongst all the assembled racers, it was quite a meeting. Here is the line up: Road Going Sports...
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The 1986 Kouros 1000 km was the second round of the 1986 World Sports-Prototype Championship. It took place at the Silverstone Circuit, Great Britain on May 5, 1986. The race was won by Derek Warwick and Eddie Cheever in the Silk Cut Jaguar XJR-6, 2 laps ahead of the works Rothmans Porsche of Stuck and Bell. Support races were for Renault 5 turbos, Metro challenge and...
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The Historic Sports Car Club always provides a great event for any true enthusiast, with plenty of seriously important historic racing cars being put through their paces as they are meant to be driven, in anger. For me the ex-Ronnie Peterson Lotus 72 was the highlight, although a pair of Yardley McLarens, one driven by the late John Foulston, then owner of the circuit,...
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