Silverline Championship Rounds 2 & 3
Silverline Front Engined Championship Rounds 1 & 2

The Entry

Fact Cadwell is a superb circuit opened initially for motorcycles, it was later extended, hosting car races from May 1962 when Formula Junior played a prominent part.

The date wasn’t ideal for a UK race, with it falling on the Coronation weekend, but both MSVR and HSCC set their calendars when the Queen was still alive – even so, all things considered, 24 FJ’s and their drivers and teams will always make a good weekend.

It was wisely decided to combine the Front Engined Classes A and B with the early drum braked Class C cars, forming a Pre ’61 grid, as the respective lap times were likely to be similar. Otherwise there would have been only 7 Front Engined Cars. The Pre ’61 grid produced 13 cars, with 11 cars in the Rear Engined grid 11 for Classes D2 and E1. Quality not quantity is the key though, and the runners and riders held promise of evenly matched racing.

Qualifying: Pre ’61 Grid [Period E];

After torrential and persistent rain for private practice on Friday, and a river running down the paddock steps in the evening, the track remained damp and extremely slippery from Hall Bends to Barn Corner. The leading five runners were closely matched with reigning champion Nic Carlton-Smith (Kieft) narrowly heading the times from Alex Morton (Condor S II) and an on form Trevor Griffiths with his immaculate Emeryson with Robin Longdon (Lola Mk2) completing the second row.

Qualifying: ’61 – ’63 Grid

The slippery conditions continued for the “Rear Engined practice, which saw Tim Child and Nick Fennell trading fastest times throughout with Tim snatching Pole by 0.42 seconds. The two Brabhams of Geoff Underwood and Mark Carter were third and fourth, but sadly Geoff was caught out by extremely slippery conditions at Barn Corner and the inevitable contact with the barrier damaged the left rear corner sufficiently to prevent further play. Mark Carter (Brabham BT2/6) and Michael Hibberd’s Class D Lotus 20 were next quickest. Martin McHugh was clearly getting to grips with his Lotus 20/22 – he finished a couple of tenths off his friend and Barbon neighbour Peter Anstiss. Martin Aubert was only another few tenths adrift in his Lotus 20.

Race 1: Pre ’61 Grid  

The leading four cars set off running closely in the mixed conditions – sadly we lost Robin Longdon after lap 1 when the Lola’s gearbox developed a fault which could not be fixed at the circuit – a Dockyard Job and Graham Barron’s Gemini, tended by Bernard Brock, was out on the first lap with a reoccurrence of rocker failure which ruined his day.

After an indifferent start, Nic Carlton-Smith moved quickly into a comfortable lead which he had extended to 21 seconds by the flag.

Alex Morton came home second in his superb Condor won B2 from an interesting duel between John Arnold and Andrea Guarino, both in Elva 100s, the latter being the car to be driven by his son this season.

Class A promised a battle between Peter Fenichel’s delectable Stanguellini and the Fish & Chips meister Tony Pearson’s familiar Bandini. Sadly, Tony retired to the paddock on lap 4.

Race 5 – ’61 – ’63 Grid

With Nick Fennel making a slightly leisurely start, this allowed Tim Child to stretch a small gap at the start. However, Mark Carter in the Speedsport Brabham BT6 not only closed up to second place, but for  several laps was looking likely to take the lead, having a distinct straight line advantage along the finishing straight. Wisely he made no desperate or hazardous moves, missing out on the win at the line, by less than a second. Both Child and Carter drove well and with great skill on this difficult and narrow track, Nick Fennell fell 15 seconds back with Class D2 winner Michael Hibberd less than a second further back, after a fine drive in his drum-braked Lotus 20.

Race 9 : Combined Grid

In view of the numbers, it was decided to combine the two grids on Sunday, the first counting for Championship points, the second just for fun. 

We had a cracking points scoring race on our hands with 21 starters on Sunday morning – this time, Nick Fennell made a much better start and took the lead, pursued throughout by Tim Child and the uber experienced Michael Hibberd. On the move however was Nic Carlton-Smith, who, after a poor start, carved from ninth to third setting fastest lap of all along the way. In fact with two laps to go, it looked like he was going to win, but settled for third and the class win. Carter was up past Child but dropped back after a wild excursion which lightly touched the barrier, but without damage, allowing him to continue although he was passed by Aubert on the last lap. Keith Pickering, in his superbly self-restored Britannia, made up for his Race 1 DNF, having a dice with Peter Anstiss similarly self-prepared Lotus 20/22. The Britannia finished just 2 tenths ahead. Chris Wilks enjoyed a great scrap with John Arnold’s Elva 100, the Deep Sanderson looked a bit, err, lively, in the conditions, but Chris seemed to have the measure of his steed. The two Italian cars of Fenichel and Pearson renewed their scrap, the Stanguellini winning Class A by just under 2 seconds.

The Driver of the Day award was unanimously awarded to Nic Carlton Smith after winning Race 1 and coming so close to the later Lotus 22s and 27 in the much earlier Kieft – great drives – little wonder he won the 2021 and 2022 championships.

The overall race result was particularly significant, as it put Tim Child as the aggregate winner of the Rear-engined classes in the two Championship races, and therefore the Barry Westmoreland Trophy recipient. Barry as you will know died at Cadwell in 2008 at the top of the Mountain having had a fatal heart attack driving his Lotus 22. Cadwell was his favourite circuit, having raced not just motorbikes, but motorbike sidecars there before racing with us in Formula Junior. As is now a happy tradition, Barry’s widow Margaret came to Cadwell with their son Andrew and presented the prizes – we are greatly honoured by this each year – despite her loss, Margaret remains part of the Formula Junior Family and always will.

Race 15 (Non Championship)

A third race for your entry fee! By this time a number of drivers and/or their cars had had sufficient motoring and headed for home, however those left made the most of it! Child made a good start but so did Fennell, so these two raced closely and safely before Fennell took the lead, winning by 1.2 seconds. Third was Martin McHugh – his first podium in FJ – except there was no podium ceremony, no championship points and not even any prizes as this extra race had cleaned us out of our allocated ration of trophies! But he has the results to prove it to anyone who may question his stories an excellent steady race nonetheless.

In summary, a great weekend’s racing on a great circuit (this writer would like to see the British Grand Prix run here). The standard of driving in extremely difficult and slippery conditions was highly commendable – only one car damaged and remarkably few spins on this unforgiving circuit – well done everyone.

By Bob Birrell

A capacity grid, spectators aplenty and warm sunshine… the Hockenheim Historic delivered a fantastic start to our 2023 Lurani Season!

The Hockenheim Historic has been our traditional opener for many years now, and with a large and appreciative fan base for the event, it’s a warm welcome every time.

The weekend began with testing on Thursday, and a chance to meet our newcomers for the season; Mauro Scotti (ex-Serge Brison Lotus 22), Lukas Buhofer (ex-Amez-Droz Brabham BT6), Marco Coppini (ex-Lance Whitehead Lotus 20) James Astorian (Lotus 27 from Dan Setford) and returnee after many years absence, Giampaolo Benedini (ex-Comelli OSCA). It was 11 nationalities in total, including Marty Bullock (Wren) and Peter Strauss (Brabham BT6) back over all the way from Australia.

Unfortunately, Pierre Tonetti had a moment in Free Practice in his De Tomaso, and that was the end of his weekend, and before arrival, we had lost Lars-Gran Sjoberg, who yet again had a visit from the gremlins when his motorhome had a fault before even getting south of Sweden.

So, it was 35 out for qualifying, and Lurani newcomer Horatio Fitz-Simon was clearly going to be the man to beat, but not without maximum determined effort from Manfredo Rossi di Montelera and Clive Richards, making up the next 2 places on the grid. Then from fourth to tenth, there was only 1.3 seconds in it, so we were in for a treat come race time.

It was drama straight onto track for Race 1, as Clive Richards lost a wheel on the green flag lap, but luckily pulled up without damage, so we were down to 33 for the actual start, having also lost James Astorian in qualifying, with an engine issue. Manfredo kept Horatio on his toes for the first few laps, but an excursion or two off the black stuff had him down in 6th at the flag, unable to recover enough before the safety car came out on lap 6, after Adrian Russell (Lotus 22) contacted with Richard Bishop-Miller (Autosport) at the hairpin.

In the Classes, Marty Bullock had been the clear lead in the later drum braked Class D2, but a broken gear-lever had him stuck in 4th in the final laps, and when it came to the 1 lap sprint finish, it was Stuart Roach (Alexis Mk3) who capitalised and took the Class win.

Erik Justesen’s (U2 Mk2) position as Class B2 Front-engined winner was never in doubt, the same for Christian Lange (Envoy) in Class C2 and Daniele Salodini (Taraschi) in Class A.

A Coronation paddock party followed the race, and then it was once again warm and sunny for Sunday morning as the cars headed for a midday Race 2 start. With Clive back on four wheels, and Andrew Hibberd’s fuel feed issue sorted, which had seen him have a pitstop in race 1, we were treated to a brilliant 3-way race long battle for second position, decided in the most unexpected of ways at the line. It was Rossi hanging on to 2nd for the most part, from Richards, but rarely more than a car’s length between their pack throughout. Hibberd was ahead of Richards on lap 6, and then up into second on lap 9 when Manfredo went wide at the hairpin during an overtake, allowing Clive through too. He was wasting no time going off-line this time though, and was back up to third then second, before settling in behind what looked like a routine run to the flag for Horatio. It turned out to be anything but, when he too had a fuel feed issue in the closing few laps, and on the last lap was reduced to running in second gear, and just as he was coasting up to the line, Manfredo had caught him and took victory from right in front of him. 

Checco Tonetti was a solid 4th from start to finish, and that was enough to seal 3rd overall on aggregate, behind Horatio and Manfredo.

Marty’s luck in the Class D2 Wren didn’t improve, and he was out on the green flag lap with a broken master switch, leaving the Class double to Stuart Roach, having a good early race dice with Richard Smeeton (Wainer). Class B2 and C2 honours also went the same way as Race 1, but with Salodini a non-starter with a wheel issue, Benedini earned the Sunday Trophy.

There was close racing throughout the field too, including a spirited scrap between Gilbert Lenoir (Elva 200) and Carlo Maria Del Conte (Wainer 60). On the first lap Stephan Jobstl had a spin at the Hairpin, as did Lukas Buhofer a few laps later. All-in-all it was a tremendous return to the Lurani Trophy spectacles we were used to pre Covid.

Round 2 takes us to Dijon for the l’Age d’Or meeting, and with an entry already featuring a handful of reserves, it’s set to be more of the same!

by Sarah

Silverline Championship Round 1
Snetterton 22.04.23  

Like the flowers that bloom in the Spring, the UK Historic Formula Junior Championship came into blossom at the HSCC Autosport 3 Hour Meeting at Snetterton. The opening round attracted an excellent entry of 34 cars from across the classes of both front and rear-engined cars. With the event just a week after the Goodwood Members Meeting that had attracted an entry of 30 cars, it would seem the gentle winter nurturing could be heading towards a really fruitful season of racing.

Amongst the entry were several new faces along with some welcome returnees. Father and son Andrea and Edoardo Guarino in Lotus 22, and Elva 100 (ex-Taff Smith) respectively had come across from Italy. Andrea of course being a regular competitor in the Lurani Trophy, while Edoardo was making his debut in the UK, but sadly Eduardo’s experience did not last beyond testing with a diff failure in the Elva.

Brazilian Pedro Castrioto De Azambuja fielded the Ausper T3 formerly owned by David Drew and Alex Morton, in its new Brazilian national flag livery. Alan Schmidt in a Lotus 22 was the third of the Speedsport prepared cars to have completed the graduation of his fellow team members Mark Carter and Geoff Underwood from the cut and thrust of Historic Formula Ford, to the competitive but more genteel racing of Historic Formula Junior.

Last of the newcomers was John (Chip) Fudge in the ex-Peter Morton Lightening/Envoyette. For Chip, competing at Snetterton was the culmination of a lifelong ambition to compete at the Norfolk circuit. Now for many in the UK, Snetterton is not necessarily high on the list of circuits they want to compete at, but for Chip, being a fan of Archie Scott-Brown, there was nowhere more important to visit. Before getting onto the track his special time was complete when he saw the big picture of Archie in the Lister that is on the wall inside the caf. Chip, who not only has three Historic Trans Am cars that he races at home in the USA, but a Cooper T59, really enjoyed the experience and was looking forward to continuing his Formula Junior season at Dijon in June.  

Roger Woodbridge had switched from front-engined to rear-engined propulsion. The restoration of the ex-Brian Gubby Ausper T4 that raced at Monaco in 1962 had been arduous, lengthy, and at times challenging. Roger had to undertake a number of changes, including switching the car from the Hewland box it came with to a period correct Colotti. Cranking the engine over to 30 degrees, as it ran in period, necessitated a spill shield to prevent any unburnt fuel escaping from the Carb onto the exhaust and switching from left to right hand drive. A big project still very much in the development process but Roger was very pleased to get the car out on track.

Further to Edoardo Guarino’s previously mentioned withdrawal the others missing from the entry were Adrian Holey’s Rennmax (after he broke ribs off road biking), Simon Jones Elva 100 (engine issue in local testing), and Peter Edbrooke Lotus 18 (awaiting delayed licence). It was unfortunately not to be a good weekend for Lotus 18 as Stuart Monument and Clinton McCarthy both withdrew their cars following qualifying with differential failures, Clinton having only completed two laps before coming to a halt at the end of the pits.

In the opening laps of Qualifying on the Snetterton 300 circuit, Clive Richards set the early pace in his Lotus 22 until Horatio Fitz-Simon settled into his stride setting a series of times that left the chasing pack well in the distant wake of his Lotus 22. Horatio was almost three seconds faster than Clive, with Adrian Russell, also in a Lotus 22, 3^rd, 2.2 seconds behind Clive with the remaining top 6 runners of Mark Woodhouse (20/22), Tim Child (22) and Nick Fennell (27) all closely bunched just over half a second behind Adrian.

It was left to the Speedsport pair of Mark Carter and Geoff Underwood, Brabham BT6 & BT2 respectively, to be the first of the non-Lotus cars. Nic Carlton-Smith headed the C2 Class with his 2021 and 2022 Championship winning Kieft, followed by Alex Morton in his B2 Class Condor SII who was the fastest of the front-engined runners, with Michael Hibberd (Lotus 20) leading D2 Class. Two gentlemen in a class of their own were Richard Ferris in his Donford in Class E2 and Peter Fenichel (Stanguellini) in Class A.

Qualifying left work to be done on the Lotus 20 of Martin Aubert whose car dislocated a rear trailing arm which created an interesting shift in the drive shaft, whilst Hans Ciers similar car had some work to do following a lack of brakes. Stuart Tizzard, after qualifying his Cooper T56 8^th in Class C2, remarked that the car was okay but said the driver needed some work.

There was never to be any doubt concerning the top two podium finishers. Horatio produced a storming performance from the outset drifting under throttle through the corners, hands characteristically crossed at times on exit. Despite a lunchtime change of gear ratios, Clive Richards was unable to keep pace with the on-form Horatio. The top two dominated finishing almost 40 seconds clear of their rivals with Horatio trimming 0.127 from Cam Jackson’s 2021 lap record.

The race for third place was, however, a lot closer. Tim Child, who had started 5^th, was up to 4th behind Adrian Russell, maintaining his qualifying position in third.  Relegated Mark Woodhouse to 5^th at the end of lap 1, Mark dropping back a further position when Nick Fennel Lotus 27 slipped past him on the following lap.  Mark gradually lost touch with the battling three whose dice lasted throughout the race.

Michael Hibberd dropped a couple of positions on the opening lap, locking up and running wide, whilst Hans Ciers started from the pit lane, bedding the car in to finish the race 25^th of the 28 starters. The race settled into a pattern with some close fought battles taking place throughout the pack.

Andrea Guarino had made a great start from his 15^th place on the grid to be following Alex Morton in the Condor, who was lying 11^th at the end of the first lap. Problems on lap 5 dropped Andrea down the order to finally finish 21^st.

In the closing laps of the race the contest for mid field positions became a lot closer. Alex Morton in the Condor was onto the back of Keith Pickering in the Britannia lap after lap, and Tim Child was having a great tussle with Adrian Russell and Nick Fennell. Tim’s pursuit of Adrian faded at the end as a fuel pick up problem increased, robbing him of power on the straights. This allowed Nick Fennell to finally breeze past him closing to within less than a second of Adrian Russell.

Mark Carter had for the majority of the race held the honour of being the first non-Lotus car, lying 7^th overall in his Brabham BT6. Geoff Underwood, after 5 laps, had caught his team-mate and was trying to find a place to overtake. On the last lap Geoff made one final attempt to pass Mark into Russell. The resulting spins and contact, in what can best be described as a racing incident, relegated Mark to 9^th place behind Nic Carlton-Smith, with Geoff Underwood taking 7^th place in the Brabham BT2.

As for Stuart Tizzard, I am not sure what they tightened or adjusted, it is always best not to ask, but he did move up the order from qualifying 22^nd and 8^th in class so that he finished in 18^th overall with a 4^th in class, one position away from a podium. 3^rd spot in Class C2 going to Ian Simmonds, a welcome returnee after a few seasons absence, in his Envoy Mk1.

28 Cars started the race and 28 cars finished, not necessarily in as good a condition as when they started, but passing the chequered flag nonetheless. Chip Fudge was very pleased with his 14^th place finish at Snetterton, and delighted to be racing in such a healthy grid, used to being one of only a handful of FJ’s in the US. Roger Woodbridge was simply pleased to finish, as always, the gentleman racer, keeping his eyes focussed on his mirror waving faster competitors through as he continued to sort the Ausper. Class winners were C2 – Nic Carlton-Smith Kieft, with a new class lap record D2 -Michael Hibberd Lotus 20, 21 years after Andrew first raced the same car here, B2 – Alex Morton Condor SII, E2 Richard Ferris Donford FJ, who enjoyed a close dice with Ian Simmonds for 16^th overall, and collected his first FJ trophy, now his papers and car have him period correct with a 4 Speed gearbox. Completing the winners was Peter Fenichel in the Class A Stanguellini. Tim Child was awarded Silverline Driver of the Day, as nominated by Marcus Pye, commentator on the day. 

Prizegiving took place outside the garages in the sunshine and continued with drinks and social until sunset.

Report by Alan Jones

THRELFALL CUP 2023

The European FJ season opened with a fantastic invitation race at the 80^th Goodwood Members meeting, this year for Front-engined FJ cars. It was named after Elva driver Chris Threlfall, as in 2014 and 2018, who sadly lost his life at Aix-les-Bains in 1960 when a wooden pedestrian bridge crossing the circuit suddenly collapsed and Chris ploughed into the debris.

There was an excellent and very varied entry including a great turn-out of eight Fiat engined machines. Qualifying was postponed for some three hours when a long red flag in a previous session put the schedule behind and live TV coverage of two early afternoon races dictated that someone had to suffer the consequences!

In dry and pleasantly mild conditions the cars came out on track at 16.00 for 15 very intensive minutes, and with 30 cars, it meant that finding a clear lap was challenging. On the first flying lap Chris Drake (Terrier) was fastest with a 1’32.48 from Ray Mallock (U2 Mk II) and Stuart Roach (Alexis Mk2). These three were consistently the most rapid and Mallock’s 1’29.849 on the third lap was good enough for pole, from Drake 1’30.286 and Roach 1’31.871. Alex Morton (Condor S II) put in a very fast last lap to be fourth on 1’32.254 with Tom Waterfield (Hillwood-Fiat) completing row 2 and fastest (unofficial) class A car with 1’34.393. The session was fairly trouble-free except for Nick Taylor (Elva 100) who had the throttle cable snap on his first lap.

The race was at 10.15 on Sunday. Earlier rain meant that the grass was wet for anyone venturing off the black-stuff, as several discovered, but the track itself was dry. Missing from row 3 was Mark Woodhouse (Elva 100) who had a clutch issue and opted to start from the pit-lane. Chris Drake made a slow getaway from the middle of the front row and Mallock led Roach, Morton, Waterfield and Michael Gans (Stanguellini) with Drake about eighth. Drama struck at St Marys where both Drake and Gans were making up places, and fast approaching Morton and Waterfield, who were side by side in front. First Drake ran wide onto the grass after passing Gans, bouncing along whilst avoiding the bank, to rejoin at part two of the corner, meanwhile Gans tried to take Morton and Waterfield in one go, but locked up and spun, causing Morton to take to the grass in avoidance, happily all without damage, but leaving Morton and Gans well down after he got going again. So at the end of the first lap, Mallock and Roach enjoyed a big gap, from Waterfield, Drake, Robin Longdon (dark blue Lola Mk2) and Justin Fleming (light blue Lola Mk2).

The race was all about a splendid struggle between the U2 and the Alexis. Roach nipped ahead on lap 2, Ray led lap 3 and Stuart was back in front for laps four to six. They swapped places again on laps 7 and 8 until, on the tenth lap Ray retook the lead and eased open a gap of a couple of seconds. After the race Stuart said the U2 was some 10 mph faster down the straight but that he could keep up with the benefit of the tow but once he lost that it was over – except that it wasn’t! On the last lap at St Marys, Mallock caught Richard Bishop-Miller’s Autosport and took a tight line to lap him, but this took him onto oil that had been dropped by Justin Fleming’s ailing car and the green U2 slid inexorably wide onto the wet grass to a 360 degree rotation. Such was the lead these two had over the rest that after Stuart took the win, Ray recovered to still be second, and applause from the knowledgeable crowd, with a lonely Tom Waterfield in third.

Other interest in this most absorbing race was provided by the recovery drives of Alex Morton, Michael Gans, Nick Taylor and Mark Woodhouse. After their spins, Alex was 24th and Michael 28th and last. The red Condor’s progress was sensational:- 17th; 13th; 13th; 11th; 11th; 10th; 7th; 6th then 4th to the flag. Nick Taylor, from the back row, was also spectacular, from 12th on lap 1 to chasing Robin Longdon across the line for 5th and 6th after 14 laps. Michael Gans run was also good to 11th but Mark unfortunately retired after 6 laps with gearbox maladies.

As mentioned, Justin Fleming went out with engine trouble and the oil he dropped caused a moment at Woodcote when Gunther Leidig spun his Elva and stopped broadside across the road, causing the closely following cars, including Gans, Malcolm Wishart (Faranda) and Nick Taylor, to have to take hasty avoiding action, which particularly delayed Taylor.

Chris Drake’s race ended after only three laps with a suspect differential. Other casualties were Stephane Rey with his Scorpion (throttle cable) and Tony Pearson who went off on the oil at St Marys. Laurent de Meeus in Guy Verhofstadt’s Elva caused some excitement on the grid, when the diff failed, leading to a first lap retirement; and Colin Nursey (BMC) non-started due to potentially oily engine problems.

A very good race much enjoyed by all, and long to be remembered with a dramatic speed photo of the victorious Alexis in its first race in correct Team Alexis orange colour gracing the pages of the national “The Time” newspaper on Monday morning.

Richard Page

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FJHRA Silverline Formula Junior Championships Finals – Silverstone

The FJHRA/Silverline Formula Junior season drew to a conclusion at an occasionally blustery Silverstone National Circuit. The winds also drew in some brief periods of damp just to enliven qualifying with very damp, testing, circuit conditions.

The season concluded with some drama, as well as great drives. In the Rear-engined races, Samuel Harrison demonstrated great maturity and craft to win both races and gaining fastest lap in the Speedsport Brabham BT6, a car he had not previously raced. Sam Wilson, starting from the back of the grid of both the Rear-engined races in the Cooper T59, carved through the field on both occasions to finish 4^th overall in the first and 3^rd in the second. Whilst the second of the Front-engined Junior races produced a Front-engined Championship winning drive from the master Ray Mallock in his father’s U2. All this at the expense of the unluckiest person of the weekend, Graham Barron, whose car failed him in the second race denying him the finish he needed to take the Front engined title.

In the absence of her father Duncan Rabagliati the organisational duties rested upon the shoulders of Sarah Mitrike to keep the boys in order and ensure the prize-givings maintained their usual humour and Pa-zaz.

An entry of 42 cars was posted for the two double header Formula Junior races, unfortunately during the week we lost two entries from the Rear-engined grid, reducing it to 17 cars. These were Syd Fraser in his Lotus 20/22, liveried as it appeared in the film Grand Prix, and the Ausper T4 of Roger Woodbridge. The Ausper expiring much to Roger’s disappointment during the Friday test when a lay shaft broke in the Colotti gear box. So, whilst no car was on track he still had the didgeridoo and Australian flag flying in his garage in honour of the absent car. Hopefully he still had the Italian Coffee and Chianti in the trailer in respect of the faithful Volpini that ensured he did get to race over the weekend.

The Front-engined Formula Juniors were the third qualifying session of the morning, and joined again on this occasion by the 5 Class C early drum braked entries. The damp track was slippery but improving as the session progressed. As the track dried, so the times tumbled and the leader board constantly changed with Peter de la Roche in the Lola Mk2 of Pat Barford, heading a 1,2 for the marque as Andrew Hibberd was second in his wheeltracks just half a second off the pace with Ray Mallock a mere two tenths further back.

Such was their speed that fourth man and 2022 Silverline Historic Formula Junior Champion, Nic Carlton-Smith (Kieft) was over three seconds behind the pole man. He had Michael Hibberd in the De Silva Lola Mk2 close on his heels. The group from 4^th place to John Hutchison Jr in 11^th place, was covered by just over 2 seconds. Close racing was promised.

The “flying carrot” was entrusted into the hands of Iain Rowley to maintain the car’s appearance record whilst regular driver Duncan Rabagliati was performing other duties away from his much loved Formula Junior family. Iain coaxed the Alexis into 15^th on the timing sheets behind the Mitter of Rudolf Ernst.

In the fight for Italian honours, Tony Pearson who, it is rumoured, brings the best sausage rolls to the paddock, led in his Bandini from Peter Fenichel, switching from his usual Cooper T56, to his recently reaquired blue Stanguellini, and Roger Woodbridge in his Volpini.

On a dry track later in the morning it was the turn of the Rear-engined cars to qualify. It became a battle of the Brabhams, with Alex Ames and Samuel Harrison in their BT6s heading Sam Wilson in his Cooper T59 from Andrew Hibberd in his Lotus 22. Benn Simms was the first to split the class E1 runners coming in 5^th fastest driving Jim Blockley’s drum braked Caravelle Mk2, 1.3 seconds off the pace of the front runners, who were split by just over 8 tenths of a second. Whilst the next group headed by Simms in 5^th to Michael Hibberd in 10^th, were covered by an interval of a further 2.2 seconds. Each group held the promise of great racing for the afternoon.

The HSCC always try to keep ahead of time, particularly as October always come with the risk of fading light towards the end of the day. The officials did a great job to get the afternoon racing to start half an hour earlier than originally scheduled.

On the warm up lap of the first Front-engined race, Rudolf Ernst had a scare when he accidentally turned off the fuel supply, resulting in him starting from the back rather than his 14^th place grid position. At lights out it was Peter de la Roche who led from Andrew Hibberd in the Lola Mk2, but a mistake at Becketts dropped Peter to second with Ray Mallock in third place. Keith Pickering had made a good start to come through in 4^th place whilst Nic Carlton-Smith in the Kieft had dropped down to 7^th. Rudolf Ernst had gained five places from his starting position of 23^rd, but for Crispian Besley sadly it was an early bath with the Elva 100, loaned by Niall McFadden, not completing the first lap.

On lap 2, Peter de la Roche returned to the lead followed by Ray Mallock, with Andrew having dropped back to 3^rd. Keith Pickering remained in 4^th place but Nic Carlton-Smith had moved back up to 5^th place. Michael Hibberd was in 6^th with James Denty the second of the early rear engine cars in the Cooper T56 usually driven by Jeremy Bouckley, lying 7th. On the following lap Nic Carlton-Smith found some clear track and put in a lap almost a second quicker than Pickering to close the gap, however it wasn’t such a good lap for John Hutchison Jr, as he dropped from 9^th place to 17^th just ahead of a recovering Rudolf Ernst, following his back of the grid start.

On lap 5, Peter de la Roche put in a very fast lap, breaking the tow and extending the interval between him and Ray Mallock, the pair having slowly eased away from Andrew Hibberd. On this lap James Denty retired to the pits with a misbehaving engine, whilst Tony Pearson also ended his race due to electrical issues, but on track Nic Carlton-Smith passed Keith Pickering.

The order for the top 4 positions was now set. Further down the field, the next change came when Martyn Astley (Elva 100) came into the pits on lap 7, reappearing again on lap 10 having lost two laps on the leader, elevating Nick Taylor to 8^th place. He was trailing Justin Fleming in his Lola Mk2 who was 7th^th.   John Hutchison Jr, lapping at similar times to Justin Fleming, had now recovered to 11^th place.

Lappery was now stretching the field in some cases, but, when getting a clear track Michael Hibberd was slowly closing on Keith Pickering at times running almost a second a lap quicker only to lose time or record a similar time on the following laps. John Hutchison Jr. was having the same kind of race he had moved to 9^th place and was in pursuit of Nick Taylor in the Elva 100 ahead of him. John completed his pursuit taking 8^th place on lap 16. The remaining place in dispute was 5^th place, when, on the last lap coming into Luffield, Michael swept past Keith Pickering to take the position. At the time Graham Barron finished 12^th with a class win only needing to complete Race 2 to be the Front-Engined Champion whilst Ray Mallock, having finished 2^nd, had pretty much conceded the title. Iain Rowley brought the carrot home in 13^th place with Rudolf Ernst following in 14^th.

The first Historic Formula Junior Rear-engined race had been anticipated to be potentially as close as the Front-engined with young Samuel Harrison up against a number of previous race winners, including both Alex Ames and Andrew Hibberd, who are no slouches and they know how to win on the Silverstone National circuit. Sam Wilson, despite having qualified third in the Cooper, had elected to start from the back because of gearbox issues. There was certainly some debate amongst the commentators about how quickly and far up he’d progress.

Samuel surprised Alex with his pace away from the lights. Alex later admitted that he had probably been too cautious and not put enough heat into the Dunlop tyres before the start. With a series of very quick opening laps Samuel had opened up a 3 second gap to Alex after 4 laps. As Alex set about his pursuit of the fellow Brabham driver they swiftly eased away from Andrew Hibberd who was having a lonely race in 3^rd place. In 4^th was Benn Simms, who was already being reeled in by Sam Wilson, who had got into 5^th place by lap 2.

Following them, a dice was developing between Tim Child (Lotus 22), Geoff Underwood (Brabham BT2) and Rudolf Ernst (Lotus 22). Relegating Rudolf behind them, Child and Underwood would continue to battle for the remainder of the race. The trio set lap times equal to Benn Simms in 5^th place but some quick opening laps had given him the cushion to avoid being threatened by the trio. For Rudolf it was Lukas Halusa he needed to watch out for, who was recovering from a bad start that had him left second to last on the opening lap.

At the front Sam Wilson had whittled down the distance between himself and Andrew Hibberd in third. The question of if Sam would catch had now changed in the commentary to when would Sam catch Andrew.

At the back, Colin Lloyd was having his first outing in the Lynx Mk2 of Justin Fleming. He had only passed his ARDS test in the week of the race meeting and, sadly, problems with the car meant he did not get to test it on the Friday. So, he was having a very steep learning curve to encounter in this highly competitive pack of cars, however, to his credit, he did not in any way interfere with the racing and for his first time was doing exceedingly well. But, like many in the previous races he made a small mistake into Luffield that spun him around, fortunately onto the grass infield, but in his frustration the engine stalled and would not restart. No damage and he was quickly recovered to be able to race the following day, but the yellow flag ,whilst the car was cleared, did prevent any overtaking or late braking manoeuvres at the start of the complex.

Adrian Holey was having better luck at controlling his car on a track he thought was rather slippery and was concerned there may have been oil on the track. The oil was coming from his own overflowing catch tank that was spilling onto his rear tyre. He did finish, having enjoyed the race for possibly all the wrong reasons.

On lap 15, Sam Wilson produced the move the commentators had been forecasting into 3rd place on the road which was converted back to 4^th place in the results as Sam had a 5 second penalty for exceeding track limits. It was not until the penultimate lap that Lukas Halusa passed Rudolf Ernst to complete the final overtake of the race. There had been some good racing throughout and with the promise of Alex Ames getting his tyres up to temperature in time for the start, the second race held a lot of promise. Saturday ended with Sarah Mitrike multi-tasking, as MC and presenter, of the race day awards.

The last round of the Historic Formula Junior Front-Engined Championship came to the grid on Sunday morning. A number of non-starters elected to load happy selves and cars up for the winter, together with the previous day’s DNF’s, which left just 17 starters. Unfortunately though, this was the end of Graham Barron’s season when his diff broke on the line, with John Hutchison Jr retiring the Envoy at Becketts on the first lap too when the half shaft UJ snapped.

In the commentary box the abacus’s were running as they tried to calculate the points position following Barron’s retirement. As in the first race, it was Andrew Hibberd who accelerated away to the lead on the first lap, but on lap 2 it got a little more exciting, with Peter de la Roche now leading and Championship contender Ray Mallock, now second. Nic Carlton-Smith had from the outset slotted into 4^th place with Keith Pickering in 5^th. Michael Hibberd moved into 6^th place on lap 2 displacing Justin Fleming. From the sidelines all Graham Barron could do was watch. The Championship would still be his so long as Ray remained in second place.

Unlike Race 1, the leading duo were able to stay together, never more than half a second apart. The field was gradually splitting up with Roger Woodbridge getting to enjoy the fight for the lead as they passed him on lap 5. The pace at the front was very quick and for this writer’s confused brain trying to keep everyone in the right column on my lap chart got a little muddled at times. Lap 4 saw Michael Hibberd retire the Lola to the pit as he was not happy with the engine, which was not running well and rather than risk damage to his customer’s engine he came in to retire.

Rudolf Ernst was having a better race and was in a little trio of cars headed by Mark Haynes in the Nota, with Rudolf following and Dave Wall in the Gemini Mk2 the third of this pack. This little gaggle of cars was slowly being caught too by Jeremy Deeley in his Lotus 18. On lap 7, Jeremy also not only joined the tail of the group, but went on to pass both Ernst and Wall, with only Mark Haynes to catch.

On lap 8 the lead of the race changed, with Ray Mallock making the pass at Luffield. Peter de la Roche was not giving up though and there were several occasions when on the exit from Woodcote onto the pit straight the leading pair would be indulging in a drag race to the line. The utilitarian shape of the U2 punching a huge hole in the air on acceleration.

On lap 10 Jeremy Deeley’s charge stuttered with Rudolf now leading Dave Wall, both clearing Jeremy. Deeley regrouped and regained one of the lost places when Dave Wall retired to the pits, Jeremy himself retiring one lap later.

The duel for the race lead had the eyes of the commentators focused with Marcus Pye and Ian Titchmarsh concurring that if Ray stayed in the lead he could be the Front-engined Champion.

On lap 16 it looked like Peter de la Roche was going to retake the lead, but Ray’s experience and race craft sealed the race on the following lap when they caught Bernard Brock going into the complex. Ray was able nip in front of Bernard leaving Peter to wait until he could clear Bernard, who did his best to ensure he did not interfere with the race battle. Post race Peter admitted it had been a very difficult race as he had little braking. A surprised Ray could not believe that he had won the Front-engined Championship again. At the prize giving he thanked everyone for the pleasure of the opportunity to race with them and have so much fun. Rudolf Ernst completed our list of retirees when one of his spark plugs failed.

At the prize giving Sarah had an illustrious pair of presenters in the form of Tony Goodwin and Howden Ganley; who better to help in the end of season celebrations.

The Rear-engined Formula Juniors assembled in the afternoon to close the curtain on the UK Historic Formula Junior year. As in the first race, Sam Wilson was starting from the back of the grid but on this occasion he had two less cars to pass with the withdrawals of Chris Drake and Martin McHugh.

As he had predicted, Alex Ames stayed with Samuel Harrison at the start, the two Brabham BT6s again pulling away from Andrew Hibberd in 3^rd place. The opening laps saw the front two matching each other and trading fastest laps between them, making it an interesting comparison. Experienced head versus rising talent. Ultimately it was consistency that drew Samuel clear, but he had to work very hard for the victory.

Behind the dicing duo Sam Wilson had carved through to 8^th on lap 1 and as he found clear track was starting to match the times of the two leaders. It was a shame that Sam had not started at the front as we lost the opportunity to witness a three way battle. Perhaps that is something to look forward to next year.

Someone who had a less than favourable first lap was Geoff Underwood, who afterwards admitted that in his attempt to run with the big boys nearer the front, had run wide and lost a lot of places.

On lap 2 Lukas Halusa moved up to 4^th place passing Benn Simms but on the following lap he was passed by Sam Wilson who was now in pursuit of Andrew Hibberd. With a smaller field of 15 cars there was more clear track but Andrew was not hanging around and for several laps it looked like the task would be too great on this occasion.

The race settled down with Samuel Harrison gradually extending the leading margin to just over a second on lap 10 which, as they became involved in lappery, extended to 4.5 seconds.  On lap 12 Sam Wilson finally caught and passed Andrew Hibberd, but he was too far back to make any further progress. This time he kept the Cooper within the white lines and retained his 3^rd place.

Lukas Halusa finished 5^th ahead of Benn Simms. Tim Child was a lonely 7^th with Rudolf Ernst having a better run with the Lotus 22, finishing 8^th. Geoff Underwood climbed back to finish 9^th passing Michael Hibberd in his Lotus 20 on lap 17. Whilst not classified Colin Lloyd successfully completed his debut race in the Lynx. John Arnold saying there will be a lot more testing prior to the new season so Colin can get to enjoy some racing rather than learn his way around both car and circuit during the race.

The day concluded with the final prize giving where Nic Carlton-Smith was reminded he had now won all of the Silverline Tool selection, and that Sarah would be expecting a short video of him giving a practical demonstration of the use of each piece of equipment for the awards luncheon at the end of November. Book your tickets now.

Alan Jones