Blyton Sprint 9+10 July 2016
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2016 12:52 pm
Organised by the Westfield Sports Car Club -- other marques invited, but had to run in separate classes from the Westies competing in their own championship.
"Interesting" weather, varying from the occasional deluge (Saturday's event had to be stopped for 30 minutes) to bright sunshine -- so every run brought a new challenge.
JPSC honours were upheld by Jeff Wiltshire, Leon Spinks, Chris and me.
They could not find any other vehicle to compete on level terms with Jeff's mighty Phoenix, so (as ever) he was in a class of his own. Despite not being allowed to run his new slicks (a log book problem), Jeff won his class on both days -- finishing as fastest JPSC of the weekend with a time of 69.08s.
Leon, Chris and I had a larger class with which to contend -- three Caterham 1600s and two (non-championship) Westies on the Saturday, reducing to two Caterhams on the Sunday.
I am pleased to report that the JPSCs acquitted themselves well, with the fastest times of the weekend coming from Chris (70.20s) me (71.23s) and Leon (74.59s). Fastest non-JPSC was the Caterham of Daniel Hollis (74.74s).
In fairness it should be said that "Marmelade" (our Striker), whilst admittedly the heaviest, was also by far the most technically advanced car in the <1700cc class.
It is also worth saying that the JPSCs did not win every challenge -- in the only really wet timed run, Richard Abrahams (Caterham) headed the list with a 90.87s time (me 91.44s, Leon 95.90s) whilst Chris, and even Jeff, failed to keep on the black stuff.
Footnote: JPSC stalwart Simon Boulter took 2nd (Saturday) and third (Sunday) places in a crowded "racing cars under 1100cc" class in his OMS.
"Interesting" weather, varying from the occasional deluge (Saturday's event had to be stopped for 30 minutes) to bright sunshine -- so every run brought a new challenge.
JPSC honours were upheld by Jeff Wiltshire, Leon Spinks, Chris and me.
They could not find any other vehicle to compete on level terms with Jeff's mighty Phoenix, so (as ever) he was in a class of his own. Despite not being allowed to run his new slicks (a log book problem), Jeff won his class on both days -- finishing as fastest JPSC of the weekend with a time of 69.08s.
Leon, Chris and I had a larger class with which to contend -- three Caterham 1600s and two (non-championship) Westies on the Saturday, reducing to two Caterhams on the Sunday.
I am pleased to report that the JPSCs acquitted themselves well, with the fastest times of the weekend coming from Chris (70.20s) me (71.23s) and Leon (74.59s). Fastest non-JPSC was the Caterham of Daniel Hollis (74.74s).
In fairness it should be said that "Marmelade" (our Striker), whilst admittedly the heaviest, was also by far the most technically advanced car in the <1700cc class.
It is also worth saying that the JPSCs did not win every challenge -- in the only really wet timed run, Richard Abrahams (Caterham) headed the list with a 90.87s time (me 91.44s, Leon 95.90s) whilst Chris, and even Jeff, failed to keep on the black stuff.
Footnote: JPSC stalwart Simon Boulter took 2nd (Saturday) and third (Sunday) places in a crowded "racing cars under 1100cc" class in his OMS.