Historic Sports Car Club dates 2013.

[dikko]

Here's a few dates of Historic racing, Cortinas, F5000's, Juniors F3 FF 1600 & FF2000 you know, Brabhams, Lolas, that sort of thing. If you can make tea or weald a spanner, know when not to distract and generally like and understand cars that have points you are welcome to join us. Bring extra milk...we have the tea bags... Always subject to change of course but here's some dates for your new Christmas Calendars. HSCC Provisional 2013 dates as of Oct 2012. Donington March 16 Thruxton March 30/31 Cadwell April 20/21 Silverstone GP May 18/19 Snetterton June 1/2 Brands Hatch GP July 6/7 Croft Aug 3/4 (or 10/11) Oulton Park Aug 24/26 Brands Hatch Sept 28/29 Silverstone Finals Oct 19 2012 October ? Spa race or Dijon-en-Prenois Trophees Historique de Bourgogne Edited by - dikko on 10 May 2012 08:27:48 Edited by - dikko on 27 Oct 2012 09:07:42

[dikko]

Snetterton Autosport 3 Hour Race Meeting, held on Saturday 11th June and Sunday 12th June .

The Saturday features the 3 Hour Race for cars confirming to HSCC Guards Trophy Championship regulations. Competitors can have up to 3 drivers sharing a car, and there are two mandatory pit stops during which fuel maybe added. Supplementary regulations for the Three Hour Race can be downloaded from the Calendar page of this website. Supporting the 3 Hour Race on the Saturday will be the Jim Russell Trophy Race for 500cc F3 cars, a 40 Minute Pit Stop Race for HSCC Historic Road Sports Championship and two 20 Minute Races for 70s Roadsports. On Sunday 12th June it is double header action all the way with Championship races for, Classic Racing Cars, Historic Formula Ford, Historic Formula Ford 2000, Historic Touring Cars, Historic Formula Junior and Classic Formula 3.

 

Brands Hatch Super Prix on the Grand Prix Circuit Friday 1st July - Sunday 3rd July

 

Three days of action all on the Brands Hatch Grand Prix circuit, heralds the 4th of the HSCC major Championship events for 2011. The weekend starts on Friday 1st July with testing for FIA Historic Formula One, and Group C Sportscars, there will also be qualifying for FIA Lurani Trophy Historic Formula Juniors, The E-type Challenge, Martini Trophy Group 6 Sports Cars, Historic Formula 2, Historic Road Sports, 70s Road Sports, Historic Formula Ford, Historic Touring Cars, Classic Formula 3, Guards Trophy, and Derek Bell Trophy.

 

 

 

Saturday 2nd July has the qualifying for the FIA Historic Formula One and Group C Sportscars along with races for all the above which qualified on Friday. Sunday has qualifying and racing for Classic Racing Cars, and Historic Formula Ford 2000, along with the races for FIA Historic Formula One, Group C and the second of the double header races for the FIA Lurani Trophy, E-type Challenge, Martini Trophy,Historic Formula 2 and Derek Bell Trophy.

[dikko]

latest 2012 dates as at Decenber 2011 on web site at

 

 

http://www.hscc.org.uk/resources/Provisional%20Race%20Dates%202012.pdf

[CHRIS TODD]

Brands Superprix clashes with Goodwood FOS again 😔

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updated for your convenience

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News from the Historic Sports Car Club

 

Wednesday 18 December 2013

 

Formula 5000s to return to Thruxton

 

The spectacle of Formula 5000 cars back racing at Thruxton will be one of the highlights of the 2014 Thruxton Easter Revival Meeting (19/20 April) during the Historic Sports Car Club-organised race meeting.

 

The 5-litre monsters from the late 1960s and early 1970s will feature in a double-header for the Derek Bell Trophy. It is nearly a decade since Formula 5000s were last unleashed at the Hampshire track and close to 40 years since the final dedicated F5000 race at Thruxton. The Derek Bell Trophy races will also incorporate Formula 2 cars, which will again compete for the Jochen Rindt Trophy.

 

“I’ve been pushing for a long time to take the 5000s there,” said leading F5000 racer Michael Lyons. “I really enjoyed racing at Thruxton in Formula Renault and I love the idea of racing something with 500bhp there. It if doesn’t clash with my GT programme, I’ll be there. Thruxton is a proper circuit for these cars.”

 

The second Easter Revival meeting will mark 46 years since the first Formula 2 event in 1968, which was won by Rindt in his Brabham BT23C. The following season he won again at Thruxton in a Lotus 59 and then completed the hat-trick in 1970 in a Lotus 69. However, six month later, Rindt was killed in qualifying for the Italian Grand Prix at Monza. He duly became the sport’s only posthumous Formula One World Champion.

 

Following Rindt’s death, the British Automobile Racing Club commissioned the Jochen Rindt Memorial Trophy in time for the Thruxton Formula 2 race at Easter 1971 when Graham Hill took victory in his Brabham BT36.

 

Formula 5000 race winners at Thruxton:

1970: Peter Gethin (McLaren M10B) and Frank Gardner (Lola T190)

1971: Graham McRae (McLaren M10B)

1974: Ian Ashley (Lola T330) and Bob Evans (Lola T332)

1975: Ian Ashley (Lola T332) and Teddy Pilette (Lola T400)

1976: David Purley (Chevron B30 – in a ShellSport Group 8 race)

 

For more details about the HSCC, please visit www.hscc.org.uk

 

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For more information, contact the HSCC on 01327 858400, by fax to 01327 858500 and by e-mail to office@hscc.org.uk For media enquiries, please contact Paul Lawrence on 01952 510382.

 

 

 

[dikko]

News from the Historic Sports Car Club

 

Friday 9 May 2014

 

400-car entry for HSCC International Trophy

 

With 400 entries for a fabulous 14-race programme, the Silverstone International Trophy (17/18 May) is going to be another highlight of the 2014 season for the Historic Sports Car Club.

 

Sensational entries across the weekend will put huge grids of cars onto the full Grand Prix circuit, with single-seaters, sports, GT and touring cars from the 1950s to the 1980s in action.

 

With a massive 72-strong entry the Guards Trophy is as strong as ever and requires two grids. A key feature this weekend will be the ‘big banger’ sports-racing cars, topped by the Goodwood-winning McLaren M1B of Chris Goodwin and the Lola T70 Spyder of Jon Minshaw.

 

Ranged against the V8 monsters in the Guards Trophy sports-racing field is the Donington winning Ginetta G16 of Graeme Dodd and a gaggle of Chevrons. In the GT section, which has its own 40-minute race on Saturday afternoon, a gaggle of Jaguar E-types will take on the TVR Griffiths.

 

More GT cars of the early 1960s will be in action in Sunday’s opening race, the hour-long GT and Sports Car Cup race. From a 40-car field, Jon Minshaw will start as the man to beat and his opposition centres on more E-types, notably those of Chris Scragg/Matt Nicoll-Jones and Jeremy Welch/Mark Pangborn.

 

Continuing the sports car theme is the weekend’s opening race for the HSCC 70s Road Sports Championship. Defending champion Oliver Ford is the man to beat in his Lotus Europa, but the Silverstone GP circuit should play to the strengths of Julian Barter (TVR 3000M) and Peter Shaw (TVR Tuscan).

 

The HSCC Historic Road Sports Championship shares a grid with the FISCAR series for 50s sports cars and the result is a near-capacity field of 56 cars. In the Road Sports, the rumbling Morgan Plus 8s will relish the chance to stretch their Rover V8 engines as Richard Plant takes on Bruce Stapleton, Roddie Feilden and Thruxton winner Robin Pearce. A wonderful array of cars will contest the FISCAR element of the half-hour race including Jonathan Abecassis, grandson of former period racer George, in an Austin Healey 100/4.

 

Racing both days are contenders in the Martini Trophy for the 2-litre sports-racing cars of the 1970s. What the field may lack in overall quantity, it certainly makes up in quality and it is Graeme Dodd who heads the entry in the Chevron B31 most recently raced to good effect by his son James. Other quick Chevrons include those of Julian Hire (B26) and Andrew Schryver (B23), while Mark Richardson runs his ex-Jo Bonnier Lola T290. However, the major threat to Dodd could be Robert Oldershaw in his non-winged Lola T212.

 

A first class line-up of single-seater racing starts on Saturday with a round of the HSCC Historic Formula Ford Championship. A superb 36-car field is headed by Benn Simms (Jomo JMR7) and rising stars Max Bartell and Michael O’Brien in Merlyns.

 

Half a dozen Formula 5000s top the Derek Bell Trophy field for a pair of races on Sunday, including 1970s category ace Ian Ashley (Lola T330), but they will be hard pressed to contain the quickest of the 1600cc and 2-litre cars and it is the March 79B of Richard Evans that stands out.

 

A fine field will assemble for the Historic Formula Ford 2000 Championship race, which also includes a round of the URS Classic Formula Ford 2000 Championship. Ian Pearson (Van Diemen RF83) is the benchmark in the newer cars, while Benn Simms (Royale RP30) and Andrew Park (Reynard SF81) are among the front-running drivers from the HSCC category.

 

The HSCC Classic Racing Car Championship and the HSCC Historic Formula 3 Championship join together for a race on Sunday and it is hard to see anyone matching the pace of multiple champion Ian Jones in his Lotus 59. Leading 1-litre F3 exponents are Steve Seaman (Brabham BT21), Steve Smith (Chevron B15), Peter Thompson (Brabham BT21) and Benn Simms in what should be his first race in his rebuilt Elfin 600.

 

With a 40-car field, the HSCC/FJHRA Millers Oils Historic Formula Junior Championship round will maintain the quality of the programme. A fabulous entry promises a mighty race and includes the return of former champion Jon Milicevic (Cooper T59) to take on drivers like Callum Grant, David Methley, Andrew Hibberd, Peter Morton, Michael Hibberd and Jack Woodhouse.

 

Finally, a round of the HSCC ByBox Historic Touring Car Championship adds the tin-top element to this fine programme. Reigning champion Tim Davies (Lotus Cortina) is the man to beat but can expect a big challenge from the similar car of Mike Gardiner and the Ford Mustangs of Mike Whitaker and Peter Hallford.

 

On Saturday qualifying is from 9am, with the first of six races at 13.30.

On Sunday qualifying is from 9am, with the first of eight races at 11.50.

Adult admission is £10 each day.

 

For more details about the HSCC, please visit www.hscc.org.uk

 

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For more information, contact the HSCC on 01327 858400, by fax to 01327 858500 and by e-mail to office@hscc.org.uk For media enquiries, please contact Paul Lawrence on 01952 510382.

 

 

[dikko]

News from the Historic Sports Car Club

 

Wednesday 21 May 2014

 

Full grid for HSCC’s Autosport three-hour

 

A fabulous capacity field of 44 pre ’66 GT cars will contest this year’s HSCC Autosport three-hour race at Snetterton on Saturday 7 June as the event celebrates the 50th anniversary of the final edition in the original sequence of three-hour races.

 

The 44-strong field will be the biggest grid in the history of the annual Historic Sports Car Club race and comes as a result of a partnership with the GT and Sports Car Cup. The field includes ten Jaguar E-types as well as AC Cobras, Bizzarrinis and lots of smaller-engined cars including MGBs, Porsches, Lotus Elans and Morgans.

 

Leading drivers include Alex Buncombe, Sam Hancock, Chris Ward and Matt Nicol-Jones in Jaguar E-types, Andrew Haddon (AC Cobra) and Scottish trio Tony Wood, Alasdair McCaig and Andrew Smith in a Lister Jaguar. Eight cars will be driven by family teams, including fathers and sons, fathers and daughters and married couples.

 

“This is great news and much credit must go to Flavien and Vanessa Marcais from the GT and Sports Car Cup for supporting the race,” said Grahame White, CEO of the HSCC. “The change of format to making the race solely for GT cars has certainly rejuvenated the event.” The entry is split roughly in half between cars from the GTSCC and cars from the HSCC’s Guards Trophy.

 

It is hoped that Jack Sears, who won the 1964 race at the wheel of an AC Cobra, will be on hand to present the awards at the end of the race. His daughter Suzanne will contest this year’s race in an MGB. The grid is thought to the biggest since the original Autosport three-hours ran at the Norfolk track in 1957.

 

Winners of the original Autosport three-hours

1957: Ken Rudd (AC Ace)

1958: John Lawry (Lotus Elite)

1959: Jim Clark (Lotus Elite)

1960: Dickie Stoop (Porsche 356B)

1961: Mike Salmon (Jaguar D-type)

1962: Mike Parkes (Ferrari 250 GTO)

1963: Jim Clark (Lotus 23B)

1964: Jack Sears (AC Cobra)

 

For more details about the HSCC, please visit www.hscc.org.uk

 

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For more information, contact the HSCC on 01327 858400, by fax to 01327 858500 and by e-mail to office@hscc.org.uk For media enquiries, please contact Paul Lawrence on 01952 510382.

 

 

[dikko]

Brand Hatch coming up....

 

27th - 28th September Brands Hatch Indy Circuit, The Anglo - French Motors Cup.

A friendly invasion of competitors, from the French, Classic Formula 3, Historic Formula Ford and the Maxi 1000 Championships, will take part in our Brands Hatch Indy circuit meeting. Extending to two days from the traditional one day, there will be double header races for all of the French Groups and in the Classic Formula 3 grids, the first race of the weekend will be for Championship points whilst the second will be for the honour of the respective countries. Will it be the Tricolor of France or the Union Flag of Great Britain, which will reign supreme in the Final head to head? The HSCC Historic Formula Ford, will also have a double header race, there will be a double header for the Alfa Romeo Owners Club, whilst the Classic Clubmans bring their Championship season to a close with a double header too. Supporting the package on Saturday will be races for Historic Road Sports, and 70s Road Sports, whilst on Sunday, there will be races for Historic Touring Cars, Classic Racing Cars, and Historic Formula Junior.

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News from the Historic Sports Car Club

Monday 13 October 2014

Finals day at Silverstone for HSCC

Five of the Historic Sports Car Club’s race championships will be settled at Silverstone on Saturday 18 October during the club’s annual Finals Meeting on the National Circuit. With nine quick-fire races in less than five hours, it promises to be fitting conclusion to the club’s championship season.

Four drivers are bidding to clinch back-to-back crowns including Road Sports racers Oliver Ford (Lotus Europa) and John Shaw (Porsche 911), who are defending titles in the 70s and Historic categories respectively. While Shaw has the upper hand over rival Kevin Kivlochan (Morgan +8) among the older cars, Ford will lose his 70s crown to former champion Peter Shaw (TVR Tuscan) if the TVR driver finishes the race.

In Historic Touring Cars, Tim Davies (Lotus Cortina) will retain his crown if he takes at least second in class as he battles to fend off the Hillman Imp of former champion Simon Benoy. Welshman Davies goes into the race with 99 points to Benoy’s 90, but Davies has to drop a score of four and so needs second in class to be sure of the title, assuming Benoy wins class E again. The Imp racer is unbeaten in class in the 10 races he has finished.

Marcus Mussa (March 763) and David Shaw (March 803B) are level in Classic Formula 3, and with no dropped scores to factor in whoever finishes ahead will be champion.

Meanwhile Jon Milicevic (Cooper T59) has a small advantage over reigning champion Mark Woodhouse (Elva 100) in the Millers Oils Historic Formula Junior Championship. Towcester-based Milicevic should be the man to beat at his home track, although his friend and rival Sam Wilson will be a major challenger in his similar Cooper T59.

Although Benn Simms has already sealed the Historic Formula Ford 1600 Championship, a superb 34-car grid will surely deliver another fabulous race. Former champion Callum Grant (Merlyn Mk20A) heads a quality-packed field which includes former multiple champion Neil Fowler (Lola T200). Other leading contenders are Maxim Bartell (Merlyn Mk20A), Mike Wrigley (Merlyn Mk20), David Wild (Lola T200) and Josh West (Merlyn Mk20A).

Jonathan Baines (Merlyn Mk20) is already confirmed as champion in the HSCC Classic Racing Car Championship, but it is former champion Ian Jones (Lotus 59) who heads the entry from the similar car of Antony Ross. More single-seaters will contest the final round of the Derek Bell Trophy, where the destiny of the end-of-season award remains wide open. Neil Glover fields a Formula 5000 Chevron B37 against the Lola T300 of Ian Ashley and the Gurney Eagle FA74 of Frank Lyons.

Finally, the Guards Trophy season will conclude with a 20-minute sprint race which should be another mighty contest between the Chevrons and the Ginetta G16 of James Dodd. The title, however, is already settled in favour of TVR Griffith racer Mike Whitaker. Quickest of the Chevrons will be Michael Schryver (B6) and Hugh Colman (B8) while the leading GT cars include Paul Tooms (Lotus Elan), John Spiers (TVR Griffith) and Bob Brooks (TVR Griffith).

After qualifying from 9am, the first of eight races will be at 12.50. Adult admission is just £10.

For more details about the HSCC, please visit www.hscc.org.uk

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For more information, contact the HSCC on 01327 858400, by fax to 01327 858500 and by e-mail to office@hscc.org.uk For media enquiries, please contact Paul Lawrence on 01952 510382.