Hot Rod Racing

ISSUE 6: APRIL 2012

whistlinjacksmith

Results

National Hot Rods WQ Rounds

205 History: part 3

Willie Hardie’s new Spedeworth

built National Hot Rod

WJS EDITORIAL

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the current font has taken about 4 hours and I’m still convinced it is the right one.

This copy contains a racing report from the traditional Good Friday meeting which is a real favourite of mine as it has the add-

ed benefit of F2 and Saloon Stock Cars. The entry as usual was great considering the potential fuel issues that had threatened

in the weeks leading up to the event. Makes you feel good when the sport you love has so many die-hard teams and drivers

that will still continue to put a great show week after week.

PAUL BALLARD

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contents 4 News and Reports: Northampton, Arena Essex and Swaffham

6 205 History: Part 3

All the familiar names were racing in the hunt for the top 20

qualifying positions barring 734 Ralph Sanders who has now

trying to sell all 6 (yes six!) of his National Hot Rods after last

weekend’s load-up for a weight infringement.

Heat 1

From pole position 67 David Brooks pulled into the lead. Lap 2

348 Shane Brereton spun on turn 2 and was hit by 209 Kym

Weaver who couldn’t avoid him and then 14 Phil Spinks ran

into him being jacking him up. Weaver and Spinks limped off

while Brereton got going again. Over recent meeting Brooks

had been quick recently and today was no different built a lead

of a straight over 116 Steve Burrows, 92 Jack Blood and 339

Danny Hunn. Hunn though lost out on his fourth place with

engine problems in the final few laps.

At the back 72 Willie Hardie, 95 Gavin Murray, 911 Malcolm

Blackman and 303 Matt Simpson had all been drawn in this

race. Simpson had ducked inside Blackman early on and from

that point onwards these four lapped as one; going outside 100

Dick Burtenshaw and inside 152 Shaun Taylor on tow. Murray

though moved beyond 10 Sam Holland on the final lap.

Res: 67, 116, 92, 219, 162, 95, 10, 72, 303, 911

Heat 2

Holland led for a short while before Blood eased past and into

a big lead. Holland had the other queuing up behind her.

Within that battle was 316 Paul Frost in his first meeting in a

graded position, he had fallen back a few places from his row 3

starting position but did repass 60 Mark Paffey for 7th place,

perhaps a little insignificant for this race but is the sign of

things to come for another newbie to the class. Frost did how-

ever get caught on the outside and fall outside the top 10.

Blood was clear by a long way while Holland had 5 cars

battling behind, Holland took her second successive second

place (in terms of meetings), one of those behind was Weaver

who equally had his second successive black cross (in terms of

meetings).

Res: 92, 10, 339, 60, 174, 115, 27, 209 (x-2), 780, 303

Heat 3

Brooks led from the flag before 780 Mike Loosemore and Bur-

rows moved past. Brooks had another retirement that would

put him out of the final as well. Burrows took up the lead easi-

ly but had nothing to stop the charging Paffey who was being

tracked by 31 Dick Hillard all the way. With 3 laps to run

Paffey eased into first place.

Res: 60, 116, 31, 780, 72, 911, 115, 174, 316, 100

Final

Holland had the front row to herself but couldn’t hold back the

second row starters of Loosemore and Burrows who passed on

each side before entering turn one. 27 Mikey Godfrey moved

into second place. Yet again it was Paffey making the moves

passing Holland, Blood and Loosemore in quick succession but

ran of laps to catch the front two. Blood lost out a decent fifth

place when clipping Brereton and was being forced to the in-

side of the track. Burrows and Godfrey's top positions would

help out in their quest for world final qualification.

Moving up from the back there was great battle from Hardie,

115 Chris Haird, 174 Jason Kew and Simpson. Blackman was-

n’t able to cut through the traffic as the protagonists battling

for a group one position and trailed the others by a quarter of a

lap. By the end of the race he was able to get within one place

behind but moving into 2012 the others do seem to have the

upper hand.

News and reports

The Good Friday meeting at Northampton hosted annually gives the one and only opportunity in England to see Na-

tional Hot Rods, Brisca F2 and Saloon Stock Cars racing together. Although no championships are being held it is the

best domestic meeting of the year. Northampton in the last few years been promoted by Incarace, the Good Friday

meeting is slightly different with Autospeed running the show. Autospeed stopped running National Hot Rods at their

tracks back in the mid-90’s when the qualifying trail dropped from 48 meeting to the modern 16-17 per year. They kept

their foot in the door with an annual meeting at Ringwood initially that transferred to Northampton in recent years

(possibly Arena Essex in 2013!).

National Hot Rods WQR NORTHAMPTON ROUND 12: 6TH APRIL 2012

Res: 116, 27, 60, 72, 115, 174, 303, 911, 780, 10

Blackman's better finish in the final heat had at that point

closed the gap in the chase for silver to one point but by the

end of the meeting Simpson finished it 2 points clear. Hardie

retook the place in group one from Murray. The biggest mover

was Burrows who has jumped from 20th to 10th place. No

movements in and out of the top 20 though Colin Gomm is

only 3 points from safety with Blood poised behind, his clash

in the final with Brereton proving costly.

21st April

Swaffham Hot Rods opening meeting

The Swaffham Hot Rods had their first meeting of the season

on a very wet Saturday 21st April, which saw 12 cars turn out

with a good mixture of car specs including non and full space-

framed. Drivers were 5 Terry Sewell, 17 Micheal Benstead, 19

Luke Retchless, 27 parviz, 28 Richard Ansell, 76 Neil Howitt,

150 Robin Ashman, 198 Steve Nash, 371 Mark Sewell, 373

Andy Stevenson, 448 Gary Farrington and 516 Shaun Lane.

Heat 1: 5, 28, 17, 448, 373, 19, 516

Heat 2: 28, 17, 371, 448, 373, 19, 516

Final: 371, 28, 448, 17, 373, 27, 19, 516

Thanks to Mark Sewell

22nd April

Arena Essex - Lightning Rods - English Championship

It is the true the English Champion is infact Scottish, Frankie

Cunningham is licensed with Incarace and won the title from

Spedeworth’s Ben Murray and the reigning World Champion

Gary Greenland.

Heat 1: 636, 227, 503, 240, 526, 106, 237, 87, 452, 416

Heat 2: 416, 267, 181, 730, 87, 781, 633, 452, 51, 22

Final: 87, 503, 267, 240, 227, 181, 730, 781, 452, 22

Results via mylaps

29th April

Northampton - Stock Rods - English Championship

At a very wet Northampton Dean O'Dell claims his first title in

the class after front row starters Smyth and Sturt collide before

collecting further penalties.

Heat 1: 447, 74, 288, 745, 394, 168, 900, 755, 876, 300

Heat 2: 168, 924, 171, 755, 300, 136, 151, 447, 823, 28, 91

English: 171 Dean O'Dell, 755, 300, 447, 924, 136, 876, 168, 91, 74

Results supplied by Terry M.

Northampton - 2L Hot Rods

Heat 1: 88, 11, 310, 96, 75, 565, 304, 303, 8, 306

Heat 2: 11, 303, 96, 88, 543, 87, 304, 65, 30, 8

Final: 87, 96, 11, 88, 304, 65, 303, 418, 43, 118

Results supplied by Terry M.

General news SWAFFHAM, ARENA ESSEX & NORTHAMPTON

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This touch-up piece has been in the making for several months,

thanks to those that have already commented. Recently for sale

on this site was a Peugeot 205 that had been racing at Buxton

with the Central Hot Rods, although a former National Hot

Rod, it wasn't one from the SHP workshop.

My dad Ken Marriott bought this car off Iain Grayson No 19 it

was used by him at Buxton for a season, he bought it off Paul

Green who also used it at Buxton as well, it's an Ex Keith

Lynam national hot rod and as I was told it's a lightweight

(t45) space frame built by Neville Stanley as a copy to the Lud-

low one he had made but was only used a few times for cham-

pionship meetings with it been lighter chassis.

Ste Dunston

Between Stanley and Lynam the car was also raced by Karl

Price who represented Scotland using the car in the 1998

World Final, it was possibly raced by Ian McGuigan as well.

Over the past few years the 205 has almost completely disap-

peared from the National Hot Rod scene, 57 Mike Oliver made

sporadical appearances in his 205 during 2009 and it is now

back with the Blackman family. Although not in it's 205 dis-

guise Mikey Godfrey does race a car that oncelooked like a 205

(now a Saxo). Heading down the ranks of hot rod classes at the

end of 2009 what 205's are still being raced?

Outlaw hot rod have suffered this year with a lack of numbers

even though there are plently of drivers and cars it's just a case

of getting them onto the track at the same time (easier said

than done!). At the start of the year 74 Lawrence Connors

raced a 205 with the Outlaws during the Expo meeting, that

day also gave the SEGTO drivers had a chance to race on tar-

mac and 178 Alan Relf was also sporting a 205.

My 205 went to Lawrence Connors but was not the car he used

at Expo last year, that was a tin car with nat kit fitted.

Jason Villa

At PRI 5 Roy Rawlins still races a 205 while 12 Mark Cook

stepped up from many years in Group A Hot Rods with the ex

-Phillips/Fray 205. 113 Richard Simmons's 205 served him well

up to this year and could have became the basis to the British

Championship and World Cup winning Mini.

As you mentioned I had one (originally Mick Phillips) which I

bought down from Scotland owned by Steve Jeffrey's who

rebuilt it after Mick Phillips had dumped it on top of a scrap

heap. I believe Dave Fry bought from Mick and sold it on to

Steve. I had the car for 10 years racing it mainly at Arena Es-

sex. It was the best car I have ever raced. It started with a 2Ltr.

pinto but then had to put a Vauxhall 2Ltr 16v to compete. Yes I

did sell this onto Mark Cook who was going to carry on at

Arena.

Rick Fray

The pug 205 run by Richard Simmons 07-08 is now the basis

for the Bmw Mini (and is now up for sale). The car started life

being built by Dave Longhurst and Phil (Mr Cheese) Young as

a tin car racing at Angmering, then being bought by Patsy En-

right who changed it to a plastic car, being bought by myself in

2006 and racing in outlaw at Arena in 07-08 then turned into

mini for 09 season. The ex-Dave Fry car bought by Patsy En-

right is now a 206.

Richard Simmons

The above mentioned ex-Lynam 205 stayed at Buxton with 7

Simon Hutt, the track also sees Ivan Grayson and Richard

Stilleto stay faithful to the 205's. GMP still has one 205 knock-

ing about with 172 Derek Connor behind the wheel that car.

This was believed to have gone through the hands of Mark

Jones, John Carding, Steve Mannett, Owen Will, Graeme Gor-

don and Ian Donaldson.

205 History Part 3 ORIGINALLY RELEASED ONLINE 22.01.10

Top picture: Richard Simmons

Bottom picture: Roy Rawlins.

Both taken at Arena Essex

Sorry to say but the 205 Ian crashed is dead, the extent of the

damage on it was huge. Probably some of the worst I have

seen on a hot rod. Ian bought another 205 rolling from down

south and transferred all his stuff on to it from the old car.

However the old damaged 205 that is still sitting on top of a

container at Ian's place looking a wee bit worse for wear. Im

not sure if its being kept for sentamental reasons or if it could

be sorted, I very much doubt it though.

John Sibbald – nationalhotrod.com forum

Hot Rods aren't dead yet in the South-West and drivers are still

keen to race Mendips; Langmead (although in possession of

Focus as well), Loram and Norton have been using their 205's

more many years. Although more likely to be racing at Grim-

ley 22 Andy Tidmarsh races a 205 (ex-Bland/ Fitch/ Wilcox) in

bright pink the same colour he used on his Porsche Super Rod

and BMW. Grimley are now running Outlaw hot rod racing,

although not an official title anything that caters for National

spec car is Outlaws. 171 Dan Lewis leads the way their in a

205. Ringwood's hot rods are pretty similar to Grimley and do

have a wide range of cars: 22 Steve Woods raced there in a 205.

Tipperary's 1600 Hot Rods definately has a few being raced.

The Spedeworth Slick Car events (any car with Slick Tyres,

mainly Super Rods) hasn't attracted any 205's yet.

This part may be alot shorter than the previous editions but

information is drying up and the cars are disappearing. The

price of scrap metal was high last year and perhaps some driv-

ers cash in. A car that definately bit the dust was 115 David

Haird's at Hednesford it melted! Over the last few years some

205's have been used omitted from this list as their where-

abouts was unknown, so what about these? Your knowledge is

appreciated.

What about these ones:

3 Ian Davidson

10 Chas Bain

10 Stephen Harris

17 Shane Newman

19 Keith Lynam—repanelled as 206

37 Kev Fulton

100 Phil Mitchell

103 Alan White

106 Alan Finnie

167 Rob Lowe—self built

171 Adrian Hall

174 Tony Collings

208 Phil Mansell—repanelled as 206

250 Ian Cross—built by Wills

263 Gary Deal

283 Allen Goddard

299 Nick Bass

306 Keith Lambert

311 Chick Laing

250 Patsy Enright—built by Autocross

473 Nigel Pike

637 Warren Farazmand

717 Trevor Bibby

906 Eddie Foott

935 Davy Gurney

Those names are just the drivers that were last known to have

raced a 205 or car that began life as a 205. The recent installa-

tion provided a plethora of information, but it now seems that

people are not just after information of what the cars are cur-

rently being used as but also the history of them. Some are

more well documented than others, the movements of the

Hunn and McKellar cars for example.

I purchased Phil Mitchell's 205 (raced at Buxton 2008) recently,

I am going to repanel it as 206 and run a redtop engine in it for

2010 season. I'm quite interested in who else has owned the car

and raced it before Phil, as I don't know any history of the car

and it would be nice to know. So if anyone has any info please

let me know.

Graham Jackson

There are at the moment three 205 National Hot Rods are rac-

ing on mainland Europe:

44 Dieter Baader most times race in Venray or Lelystad when

NHR are on as he does not like the Posterholt track where the

most races from NHR take part. He also did a public drag rac-

ing with the car and is very often on various events to show

the car.

120 Toon de Kleijn was only racing 1-2 times this year.. think

due financial problems.

99 Johann Baer is the most often seen guy from these 3 on the

tracks. He raced most times at Posterholt.

Sascha Paar

My step father Steve Burgess 286 had two, the one raced by

283 Allen Goddard came from Leon Facey? Originally Steve

never raced it and Allen sold it to Derek Luke 103 about a cou-

ple of years ago who raced it in a outlaw series, the other 205

Steve had I think was a SHP but he couldn't get on with it so

sold it to Paul Sheard and kept his trusty starlet. Come to think

of it Derek Luke 103 a SHP 205 and so did Neil Facey.

Culligan Ward

208 Phil Mansell repanelled as 206:

This car was brought by John Wood 486 and raced at Arena as

an outlaw, then sold to Mick Pagden 197, this car is now being

raced by Lee Pepper 155

Kim Pepper

174 Tony Collings - This car was originally that of 784 Mike

Serjeant, which we built using the roll cage from his ex Paul

Grimer Sonny Howard Fiesta. After Tony blew the engine, the

car was dismantled and I last saw the space frame hanging on

a garage wall in Cornwall!

Rob Sherrell

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