Sport

The 50th anniversary of the Chevron B8 was honoured with a special race at the Oulton Park Gold Cup meeting from 25-27 August. Andrew Kirkaldy led away the grid of B6/ B8S, with Andy Wolfe and David Pittard giving chase. Pittard got ahead of Wolfe before the pitstops, which caused a nervous moment for Kirkaldy when he struggled to get his car going again.

The delay reduced his advantage over Pittard, then a safety car eliminated it completely. When the field was released, Kirkaldy built a lead as Pittard fought to hold off Wolfe, who moved into second on the final lap. Dan Eagling, meanwhile, won the class for Dunlop-shod cars. The awards were presented by Chevron ace Digby Martland.

Kirkaldy also took the B8 to victory in a wet Guards Trophy race, while Simon Hadfield – in Andy Yool’s B8 – charged through to second from the back of the grid, despite losing his windscreen wiper on the warm-up lap!

Andrew Park won both Historic Formula Ford 2000 races, while father-and-son Mark and Alex Morton took a win apiece in Formula Junior. Jon Milicevic’s Brabham was the class of the Historic Formula Three field, John Davison (Lotus Elan) won in Historic Road Sports and John Williams came out on top in 70s Road Sports.

Calum Lockie tamed Richard Dodkins’ mighty March 717 to take comfortable victories in the Pre ’80 Endurance races, John Cleland twice won in Super Touring, and other race winners included Jon Minshaw and Phil Keen (Jaguar E-type), Paul Hogarth and Chris Boardman (BMW M3), Richard Belcher (Lotus Cortina) and Ben Mitchell (Merlyn).

Andrew Kirkaldy was a double winner at Oulton Park as the Chevron B8’s half century was marked

Clockwise from above: Jon Milicevic en route to victory; the Super Touring cars were an evocative sight; Calum Lockie won twice in the March 717