The Ferrari Paddock enjoying the sun

Martin Jones with his 360

The Cali T of John Kennedy

Steve Nunney and his 348

The F430 of Dave Snelson

Following Saturday’s event most of the Ferrari entrants met up at the Bridge Hotel for dinner, where we were joined by entrants for the Sunday event plus one or two others.

A splendid meal was served in the Byron room, and Tony Attwood’s 75^th birthday celebrated in style.

Sunday morning dawned with the rain that washed out 3^rd runs on Saturday still coming down. However, by the time we arrived at Harewood it had ceased although the track was still damp for our first practice run. It was good to see Race series co-ordinator Steve Burns, Anne Swift, Scrutineer Andy Bush, and championship Steward Paul Skinner all in attendance. A warm welcome also to Rob Samuels who is thinking of signing-up for the championship and came along to see what it is all about. With the British Hillclimb Championship cars competing for the hill record and two top-twelve run-offs for them an exciting day lay ahead.

On to 1^st practice which was inconclusive considering the damp conditions, yesterday’s runners being around 5 to 8 seconds off the pace. Dave Snelson F430 led the way a second or so ahead of John Kennedy California T. Then the shared F430 of Lorraine & Chris Hitchman bagged the next two spots, Lorraine ahead by six tenths. Keeping just below the 80 second mark Brian Jackson’s 308 GTB led Pauline Goodwin’s 328 GTB by seven tenths.

The rest of the day was dry, warm, and sunny so 2^nd practice showed more representative times. Snelson and Kennedy remained 1^st & 2^nd, while Jackson moved up to 3^rd ahead of the Hitchmans. Pauline remained 6^th. The Attwoods shared 308 GT4 took the next two spots, Tony two tenths ahead of Iwan.

We were running as last class of the meeting but were due three timed runs against other classes two. So to make this work, immediately after practice we took our first timed run before the lunch break, after which the meeting would resume with class one.

The top four places remained the same over all three runs, with Snelson on a best of 66.11, Kennedy 67.97, Chris Hitchman 70.10, and Jackson 71.42.

5^th swapped between Pauline and Lorraine, with the latter winning out in the end on 72.42 v 73.58.

Steve Nunney 348ts was 6^th on the 1^st run with a 75.65 but this was prove his best time and he fell back to 8^th by the end. Iwan was 8^th after the 1^st run but took 2 seconds off on each of the following runs to end up 7^th on 74.37. Dad Tony swapped 9^th & 10^th places with Peter Hitchman’s F430, Tony taking the place on 76.64 to Peter’s 77.87. That just left Martin Jones who was enjoying himself in his 360 Modena to bring up the rear on 79.41.

The all-important top points went to Jackson, Snelson, Kennedy, and the handicap award to Steve Nunney.