Porsche Club Hillclimb Championship Loton Park 14/15th May

[jwhillracer]

Great entry of Roadgoing and Modified cars, plus 911 Hillclimber and his Lola-Porsche with another possible Class win on the cards!

42 Robert Lancaster-Gaye Berkhamsted Porsche 997 Turbo 3600t
43 Simon Tarling Gotherington Porsche GT3 3600

775 Laura Wardle Woodborough Porsche 911 Carrera 3200
70 Melvin Spear Englefield Green Porsche 911 3600
71 Andy Norris Streatley Porsche 911 Carrera 3300s
72 Richard Davenall Halesowen Porsche Boxster 3400
73 Nigel Elliott Witney Triumph TR7-V8 4600t
74 Peter Turnbull Broadway Porsche 911 GT3 CUP 3600
75 Jonathan Williamson Taunton Porsche 911 Carrera 3200
76 Duncan Andrews Droitwich Porsche Cayman 3900
77 Paul Howells Coleford Porsche 911RSR 3000
78 Mike Turpin Allensmore Vauxhall VX220 2198s

Come along and cheer us on in the sunshine!

JW

[Uk911]

Have a good one jw lotons a great hill........Mark.

[amallagh]

Is Saturday just a practise day or is it 2 separate events across the 2 days with practise in morning and times runs in the afternoon ?
Might try to make it down to have a gander if I can persuade Sarah to come along.
Andrew

[jwhillracer]

Yes, Saturday is just practice for the Midland Championship round on Sunday.
Hope you can make it.

JW

[amallagh]

Hi John, hopefully might be able to make it on Sunday so might see you there.
Good luck
Andrew

[amallagh]

Hi John,
hope you had a good event. Plan was to come down in the RS having worked on it all day Saturday. But sadly it wasn't ready to go by the end of the day and I've ended up working on it all day today so didn't manage to make it. As ever, every little job took twice as long as expected, came across as many little jobs as I completed, and broke 1/2 as many things as I fixed

I'll have to come out and do one of the sprint/hillclimb events then I can't back out. Any recommendations after CLM ?
Regards
Andrew

[jwhillracer]

It was a good event in the end..................
I was struggling with a bad back/sore neck for several days before, had a flat tyre on the trailer on the way there, weren't really on the case in 1st practice, broke a drive-shaft on the line in 2nd practice, and then the week-end brightened up!!
In true hillclimb fashion, all of the competitors rallied round to lend a hand, and we managed to fit our spare (but not quite the same...... ) drive shaft, do 3rd practice, and both Laura and I improved to more sensible times in the actual event - although a very long way off the storming times Mr Howells was doing in his beautiful RSR!
I'll post a photo later of the drive shaft - it was an absolutely classic torsional fracture!

So yes - brilliant event!

The next ones are -

May 28 / 29 Gurston Down BARC SW Centre
July 2 / 3 Harewood BARC NE Centre
July 30 & 31 Wiscombe Park Woolbridge MC
Aug. 27 & 28 Gurston Down BARC SW Centre
Sept. 24 / 25 Loton Park Hagley & District LCC
Oct. 1 Prescott Bugatti Owners Club

Enter one or two (or more!) Andy - they are great events, tight competition, and brilliant company!

JW

[amallagh]

Hi John, sounds like it was a test in more ways than one ! Well done at sticking with it. Those are the wknds we all remember in the future.