GOULD PUTS HIS NAME IN HISTORY BOOKS
Organiser: Bugatti Owners Club When: September 14/15 Where: Prescott Starters: 191.
Sean Gould was the driver of the day at Prescott Hillclimb in Cheltenham for breaking the hill record by Jos Goodyear that has stood since 2014 .
Gould set a time in his Gould GR59J of 35.41s, which eclipsed Goodyear’s time by a tenth of a second.
That helped Gould win round 29 of the championship and he took 10 points for the win and a bonus point for breaking the hill record.
Missing from the first run-off of the day was Robert Kenerick in his Raptor 2, who had an off entering Ettore’s Bend.
Fortunately he was able to roll his Raptor 2 back down to the paddock and get ready for the second qualifying run for the top-12 run off.
Former British Hillclimb champion Trevor Willis was pushing hard in his OMS 28 throughout the first run-off and just outbraked himself going through Pardon Hairpin, locking his wheels up through the tight left-hander which slowed his speed down and dropped him into eighth place overall with a time of 36.66s.
Wallace Menzies, who took his first British Hillclimb championship at the end of August at Gurston Down, in his Gould 59-M finished second best to Gould with a time of 35.89s.
For the second run-off of the day, Menzies struggled to exit Pardon Hairpin smoothly and lost time on his run to finish ninth position.
Alex Summers, who is second in the championship in his family-run DJ Firestorm, was fourth to run in the second run-off of the day and set what was looking as the winning time of 35.95s as the following four drivers of Kenerick, Scott Moran, Will Hall and Gould couldn’t beat the time. Dave Uren was next in his Gould GR55B with a smooth run to the finish, he managed to beat the time that Summers had set and posted a winning time of 35.88s.
Results
Round 29: 1 Sean Gould (Gould GR59J DB4) 35.41s; 2 Wallace Menzies (Gould 59-M) 35.89s; 3 Dave Uren (Gould GR55B) 35.97s; 4 Alex Summers (DJ Firestorm) 36.12s; 5 Will Hall (Force WH-XTEC) 36.22s; 6 Scott Moran (Gould GR61X) 36.32s; 7 Richard Spedding (GWR Raptor) 36.38s; 8 Trevor Willis (OMS 28) 36.66s; 9 Eynon Price (Force TA Suzuki) 37.43s; 10 Zachary Zammit (Empire Wraith) 37.93s; 11 David Warburton (Gould GR59) 38.90s; 12 Paul Haimes (Gould GR59) DNS.
Round 30: 1 Uren 35.88s; 2 Summers 35.95s; 3 Gould 36.01s; 4 Moran 36.02s; 5 Willis 36.12s; 6 Spedding 36.14s; 7 Hall 36.20s; 8 Robert Kenerick (Raptor 2) 36.93s; 9 Menzies 37.04s; 10 Zammit 37.74s; 11 Haimes 38.52s;
12 Warburton (Gould GR59) 38.55s.
Points after 30/34 rounds: 1 Menzies 254 (champion); 2 Summers 207; 3 Uren 186;
4 Spedding 177; 5 Willis 156; 6 Hall 143.