FLYING CALUM LOCKIE LANDS A GOLDEN TREBLE
Three wins for Calum Lockie were among the highlights of the Historic Sports Car Club’s International Trophy event on Silverstone’s
Grand Prix circuit.
The Scot won both Thundersports blasts in the Dodkins brothers’ MarchChevrolet 717 – Sunday’s boldly in the wet – and competed his hat-trick over a magical GT and Sports Car Cup hour in Julian Thomas’Jaguar E-type.
Lockie’s Thundersports pursuers Dean Forward and Warren Briggs (McLaren M8F and M8E) both survived wild spins on Saturday, when veteran John Burton (Chevron B26) snatched two-litre gold from Tony Sinclair (Lola T292) on the line.
Thomas sowed Calum’s GTSCC seeds, scrapping with Kiwi Roger Wills (ex-Bruce McLaren Lotus 15). David
Clark leapt from a Porsche 911 into the Lotus and kept second, clear of Graeme and James Dodd (E-type). Mark Holme/Jeremy Welch (ex-John Gott AustinHealey 3000) and Jack and
Billy Bellinger (Morgan 4/4) won GT3 and GT2, Billy having denied Joe Ward/Chris Conoley (TVR Grantura).
Andy Newall hurled Drs Peter Taggart and Tony Goodwin’s Chevron B6 to a half-minute victory over Westie and
Ben Mitchell’s B8 in Saturday’s HSCC Guards Trophy championship opener. Richard Piper (Brahma) and Gonçalo Gomes/James Claridge (Lotus 23B) chased hard. John Spiers (TVR Griffith) was first GT on the road, but a short stop penalty dropped him behind Mike Whitaker and Peter Thompson’s ‘Griffs’. Triple champ John Davison was again the Lotus Elan crackshot.
Miles Griffiths blitzed both F2 races in Philip Walker’s Ralt RT1, but the scraps behind him were sensational. Matt Wrigley (Chevron B42) regained second from Frazer Gibney (B40) with Manfredo Rossi (March 762) and Glenn Eagling (GRD 273) in tow on Saturday. Matthew Watts (debuting his Marc Surer-liveried March 782) worked overtime to repel Andy Smith (742) and Martin Stretton (712) who both charged from the back.
In Historic FF1600, where the chases of Cam Jackson were equally frenetic, Merlynmounted Callum Grant and Ben Mitchell came closest with a second apiece, in feisty Horatio Fitz-Simon’s company. Michael Lyons dominated Saturday’s Aurora Trophy, but day one retiree Mark Dwyer easily won Sunday’s very thin wet race from the back.
Andy Smith was at his brilliant best in Classic F3, twice outrunning Benn Tilley (March 743) and Tony Hancock (Lola T670) and rewarding his team who changed a weeping crankshaft oil seal between races. Murray Shepherd in Hancock’s Van Diemen RF82 aced the FF2000 section.
Simon Garrad was the Dunlop Saloon Car Cup standout in his Nissan Skyline, but Ric Wood’s sister car and the Ford Sierra Cosworths of Dave Coyne, Paul Mensley and Sean Brown kept Garrad focused, with superstar Steve Soper (BMW E36 M3) in their midst.
Morgan +8s won both Road Sports races, Will Plant heading father Richard in the ’70s set. John Williams split them until his Porsche 911SC faded as the track became damp again. After a scrape with Paul Tooms (Elan) into Copse at the start Robin Pearce won the soggy Historic contest in which spins at Copse and Village unzipped Kevin Kivlochan’s AC Cobra hopes. ‘KeKi’ salvaged second superbly, ahead of Davison’s S1 Elan.