Historic Racing at Castle Combe - Easter Monday 9/4

Post by **Steve 155C** » Mon 26th Feb 2007 9:23 pm

The tophat masters series has a full race day on Easter Monday at Castle Combe. There will be 4, 2 driver 45 min races and a crowd of 10,000+ is expected.

There are 4 separate classes from pre 1960 touring cars upto 70's saloons and sports/GT's , including the Pre 66 GP2 Historic Touring Cars which should see some LC action.

More info on the race classes here:
http://www.tophatracing.co.uk/series.html

I'm going to try to get to this event myself , so if anyone fancies meeting up let me know.

Post by **Lashman** » Mon 26th Feb 2007 9:38 pm

LC's on 3 wheel's going round Quarry

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Pretty sure I'll be there!

Post by **Lashman** » Tue 20th Mar 2007 10:45 am

Just bringing this one back to the top.
Should be lots of great LC action. (and quite a few LC's in the car park!). Let Steve or myself know if you want to come along and support the racers.
Cheers
Louis

Post by **Steve 155C** » Tue 20th Mar 2007 10:47 am

Hi Louis - where's the best place to meet up , and at what time?

Post by **Lashman** » Tue 20th Mar 2007 11:07 am

Hi Steve,
The Chippenham road car park (yellow) is a good place to park up, being half way between Quarry and the paddock...

It's practice in the morning and racing after Lunch, so I'll probably get their about 10ish.

Post by **Lashman** » Mon 9th Apr 2007 6:08 pm

Great day out.
Loads of LC action (including a 'incident').
I'll post up results when I see them (could'nt hear the tannoy!).
Here's my first couple of photos...

Lovely mk2 in the car park, did'nt get a chance to meet the driver.

That's not coming from the LC!

This was the damage to the Ivor Miller car after a nasty T-bone incident with a Mustang.
Cheers
Louis
P.S Special mention to Nick Stagg who retired early in the stars of the 70's race and had to stay trackside the entire race, whilst being passed by some of his own built (great sounding) BDA escorts!

Post by **Michael Winstock** » Tue 10th Apr 2007 3:22 pm

Unfortunately, I couldn't make the Castle Combe meeting yesterday, but I was at the Easter Monday meeting in 1967...March 27th.
The saloon car race "B" that day had 3 Lotus Cortinas entered together with numerous Anglias and Cooper S's. Surprisingly, none of the Lotus Cortinas was placed, the winner being Brian Cutting in his 1900cc Anglia at an average speed of 86.05 mph.
The final race of the day, a handicap race , had just Vince Woodman driving a Lotus Cortina and he too was unplaced. The winner was Ron Fry in a Ford GT40 with an average speed of 92.77mph.

How do these speeds compare with todays?

Post by **Lashman** » Tue 10th Apr 2007 3:56 pm

Fastest LC time of the day was 1:24.7 which works out about a 78mph average speed. Of course they have put in those 2 chicanes since 67.

Post by **Lashman** » Fri 20th Apr 2007 10:25 am

Just realised I changed memory cards halfway through the day and I had caught some pics of the Ivor Miller LC getting spun round by the mustang just after Avon rise...

Matthew · Post by **Matthew** » Fri 20th Apr 2007 11:24 am

Ouch.... Thats gotta hurt.... but thats racing.