Archive - Competition News 2011

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The Castle Combe Climax to the Revington/TR Register Sprint & Hill Climb Championship, featuring The Bristol Pegasus Motor Club Regency Laundry Pegasus Sprint

Roger McEwen

This event was something special. A large turn-out of TRs, an extended course, fabulous weather, a Championship decider, and thousands of spectators the majority of whom had come to Castle Combe for the Classic Car and Automobilia Auction but were more entertained by the action on the circuit.

The Championship was on a knife edge. Jonathon Weedon, driving the immaculate red TR5 shared with his father John, would be crowned Champion if he could pick up at least 9.93 points regardless of what anyone else did, but David Hardcastle, venturing South with his and Simon Allaby’s Gulf liveried TR7 V8, could drag the cup away if he scored the maximum 10 and Jonathon failed to score 9.93. The rest of the competitors were there just to enjoy the day and watch how things developed. There was John Weedon sharing his TR5 with Jonathon, Dale Huxford out only for the second time this year in his Triumph Spitfire, Tony Browne out for the first time in…Read More >>

Prescott, October 2011

Kevin Bryant

Some weekends are good; some are very good, and some not so good. Our long awaited weekend at Prescott Hillclimb fell into the “not so good” category.

It started well enough as I took a friend out for a drive in the TR3. It was a lovely Saturday afternoon and I sat in the passenger seat whilst he took the wheel and had his first drive in a Triumph TR3A. He just loved it. Loved the steering; loved the handling; loved the feeling of speed. We had a beer and natter in a quite local county pub and made our way back through the…Read More >>

Shelsley Walsh 17th September

Nick Smith

Shelsley Walsh is a fantastic location for a hillclimb. It is well off the beaten track, about fifteen miles west of Worcester. It is the oldest continuously run motorsport venue in the world, and as such it is packed with atmosphere and history.

The course itself winds steeply up the side of a hill (sic) with continuous and mature viewing facilities most of the way up. Great for spectators but fearsome looking when you are behind the wheel. Walking the course is a must, not least because the views as you reach the top are truly breathtaking, and hard to appreciate from a…Read More >>

The Castle Combe Climax!!

Roger McEwen

Featuring: The Bristol Pegasus Motor Club Regency Laundry Pegasus Sprin

This event was something special. A large turn-out of TRs, an extended course, fabulous weather, a Championship decider, and thousands of spectators the majority of whom had come to Castle Combe for the Classic Car and Automobilia Auction but were more entertained by the action on the circuit.

The Championship was on a knife edge. Jonathon Weedon, driving the immaculate red TR5 shared...Read More >>

The Castle Combe Climax to the Revington/TR Register Sprint & Hill Climb Championship, featuring The Bristol Pegasus Motor Club Regency Laundry Pegasus Sprint

Roger McEwen

This event was something special. A large turn-out of TRs, an extended course, fabulous weather, a Championship decider, and thousands of spectators the majority of whom had come to Castle Combe for the Classic Car and Automobilia Auction but were more entertained by the action on the circuit.

The Championship was on a knife edge. Jonathon Weedon, driving the immaculate red TR5 shared with his father John, would be crowned Champion if he could pick up at least 9.93 points regardless of what anyone else did, but David Hardcastle, venturing South with his and Simon Allaby’s Gulf liveried TR7 V8, could drag the cup away if he scored the maximum 10 and Jonathon failed to score 9.93. The rest of the competitors were there just to enjoy the day and watch how things developed. There was John Weedon sharing his TR5 with Jonathon, Dale Huxford out only for the second time this year in his Triumph Spitfire, Tony Browne out for the first time in…Read More >>

Prescott, October 2011

Kevin Bryant

Some weekends are good; some are very good, and some not so good. Our long awaited weekend at Prescott Hillclimb fell into the “not so good” category.

It started well enough as I took a friend out for a drive in the TR3. It was a lovely Saturday afternoon and I sat in the passenger seat whilst he took the wheel and had his first drive in a Triumph TR3A. He just loved it. Loved the steering; loved the handling; loved the feeling of speed. We had a beer and natter in a quite local county pub and made our way back through the…Read More >>

Shelsley Walsh 17th September

Nick Smith

Shelsley Walsh is a fantastic location for a hillclimb. It is well off the beaten track, about fifteen miles west of Worcester. It is the oldest continuously run motorsport venue in the world, and as such it is packed with atmosphere and history.

The course itself winds steeply up the side of a hill (sic) with continuous and mature viewing facilities most of the way up. Great for spectators but fearsome looking when you are behind the wheel. Walking the course is a must, not least because the views as you reach the top are truly breathtaking, and hard to appreciate from a…Read More >>

The Castle Combe Climax!!

Roger McEwen

Featuring: The Bristol Pegasus Motor Club Regency Laundry Pegasus Sprin

This event was something special. A large turn-out of TRs, an extended course, fabulous weather, a Championship decider, and thousands of spectators the majority of whom had come to Castle Combe for the Classic Car and Automobilia Auction but were more entertained by the action on the circuit.

The Championship was on a knife edge. Jonathon Weedon, driving the immaculate red TR5 shared...Read More >>

Update on Sprint and Hill Climb Championship

Kevin Bryant

With just four rounds left of your Sprint and Hill climb Championship things are still wide open for most of the awards.

Only the best five scores count towards the awards and so top spot currently goes to Jonathon Weedon with a tremendous 49.87 points in his dad’s TR5. Pressing Jonathon hard is the TR8 team of Simon Allaby (49.59) and David Hardcastle (49.55).

Last year’s champion, John Weedon, is currently placed in fourth with 48.26 points and championship co-cordinator, Roger McEwen, is currently in fifth with 47.66 points.

The best newcomer award will go to Nick Smith (48.81) who has put in some tremendous performances over the course of the season.

Twelve other drivers remain in with a chance with sufficient rounds to challenge for the top five spaces with Graham Ramsey best placed to challenge for a top five slot.

To see the final standings go to the competition pages on the TR Register web site or our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/trhillclimb

Three Sisters – 7th August

Kevin Bryant

We (Ian and I) just love the Three Sisters circuit meetings. Simon and David in their more powerful TR7 V8 thought otherwise. It was a single lap, you see, using some of the twistier bits of track. This meant that in the dry the TR3 flowed from one corner into the next with only the occasional short bit of straight to get in the way. I imagine it is somewhat different and frustrating in a TR7 V8...

David Hardcastle says: “Indeed it was. Having driven the "original" course many times in kart races it was a shock to...Read More >>

The MIRA Sprint - 6th August 2011

Roger McEwen

The Midland Automobile Club (Est 1901) Ltd organised the Sprint at the Motor Industries Research Association (MIRA) facilities near Nuneaton and it was a shame that not more competitors entered. At MIRA you are not allowed to take in cameras, and spectators are a definite no-go, but the track is absolutely awesome. The grip is just totally unbelievable and I suspect the car would roll over before it breaks away; this is one of the fundamental attributes to understand to achieve a fast time.

And so it was that three TRs - Simon Allaby and David Hardcastle in their very nice looking TR7 V8 in Gulf livery...Read More >>

Revington/TR Register Sprint and Hill Climb Championship – Tony Marsh Memorial Hill Climb, Gurston Down 17th July

Graham Ramsey

This was the second visit this season for the Championship. Gurston Down is located nine miles west of Salisbury on a working farm, so that the competing cars in the paddock are surrounded by farm buildings and machinery. Hill climb events have been held here since 1967 and in the Club House there is a picture of a TR2 driving the hill, non-competitively, for the first time on what had once been a farm track, and had just been re-surfaced.

The day consisted of a range of classes, including Ferraris, Ginettas, Roadgoing Production Cars...Read More >>

Dead Man᾽s Curve

Roger King

This year`s Three Castles Welsh Trial in a TR7 Sprint did not go according to plan!
It happened so quickly; probably in just two or three seconds. Yet long enough in my own mind to curse my inadequacies as I awaited the crunching outcome; the moment when as a driver one becomes a passenger as the car adopts a course of its own seemingly on a route to destruction. So it was for me in a leafy lane in North Wales competing in this years Three Castles Welsh Trial.

It was the first day of the three day event. Last year one of my twin sons navigated for me and we finished fifteenth overall...Read More >>

TR5 Racer to Australia

James Owen

My Roadsports Triumph TR5 and I have been absent from the HSCC season so far, having made a trip Downunder to race at Phillip Island and in the Targa Tasmania. The Phillip Island Classic Festival, run by the Victorian Historic Racing Register, is the biggest Historic Racing festival in the Southern Hemisphere, attracting more than 500 competing cars in 45 races over 2 days of racing. The event attracted a record crowd of around 25,000 spectators this year. There were nearly 100 cars in the Group S classes, which approximates to our Roadsports, with whom we raced.

Phillip Island is one of those circuits revered by drivers around the world...Read More >>

Youth vs Maturity, North vs South

Kevin Bryant

It’s down to the wire. Unlike the F1 Championship, our sprint and hillclimb championship will be decided at the last event of the season, next weekend at Castle Coombe. Nail biting stuff. It simply couldn’t be closer.

Jonathon Weedon is currently in top slot with a maximum 50 points...Read More >>

Weedon Dynasty Domination?

Kevin Bryant

Championship positions to 17 July – up to our second visit to Gurston Down but excluding the Goodwood results which as ever are late being published.

Newcomer Nick Smith retains his first position with 48.8 points

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A tale of two breakfasts at Harewood Hillclimb – Sunday 5 June

Kevin Bryant

Now don’t get me wrong, I love my TR. I love looking at it, I love driving it. But there is something special about the Harewood Hillclimb VSCC day that meant I just had to do the Saturday and the Sunday.

On the Saturday I found myself lined up against Geoff Mansfield’s (yes he of Northern TR fame) immaculate New Zealand built Jaguar C Type, William Hidyard’s Trimuph Spitfire (his mum and dad are TR owners) and Geoff Maskrill’s race prepared Triumph Vitesse. Honestly I did not notice the 50 or so Fraser Nash cars; the 24 litre Napier Bentley; the gorgeous little racing Austin 7s; the exotic Peugeot 148 GP; the beefy ERAs or the sleek and sexy Rileys.

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The Three Sisters Circuit – drive it in August

Ian Prout

The Three Sisters Recreation Area at Ashton-in-Makerfield was created some thirty years ago out of three giant colliery spoil tips (the “Three Sisters” or “Wigan Alps” as they were ironically known). The track is accredited to stage international karting events, and is one of the most challenging race circuits in the UK. It features an exciting blend of low and high speed corners which are available in many different configurations from 400 metres right up to 1600 metres.

The Revington TR / TR Register Sprint and Hillclimb Championship 2011 will visit here this year on Sunday 7th August.

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Revington TR / TR Register Sprint & Hill Climb Championship - Werrington

Nick Smith

Werrington, 30th April 2011 (just outside Launceston in Cornwall) featured a mostly sunny day and a wide variety of interesting machinery, but only two TRs: Hugh Maund's immaculate TR8 and Nick Smith's recently prepared TR6 PI. Roger McEwen's TR6 PI unfortunately had fuel pump problems which meant he did not make it.

The track is narrow and runs gently up through splendid parkland, over a cattle grid, then twists tightly round the main house, through a challenging "S" then into a lane with grass down the middle, before finishing just before the local church carpark (with attendant vicar).

Hill climb courses are simple to drive up steadily, but the satisfaction comes in the finesse and skill with which you do it, leading to improving times. Essentially this means anyone can enjoy participating, with no pressure to score a fast time, but lots of pleasure when you do.

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Latest Championship placing's after Harewood Hillclimb on 5th June 2011:

With most drivers now having competed at least one round of the championship the points tally after Harewood Hillclimb on 5th June looks like:

Position	Name	Notes	Points
1st	Nick Smith	Three events and two outright wins	29.85
2nd	Hugh Maund	With three events	26.44
3rd	Rod Warner	Leading those with two events	19.25
4th	Graham Howard	Also two events	19.09
5th	Roger McEwen	Championship Co-ordinator	18.70
6th	Johnathan Weedon	Leading those with just one event	10

TR Register restructures its Sprint and Hillclimb Championship

The TR Register is changing its Revington TR / TR Register Sprint and Hillclimb Championship to enable all 4 wheel Triumphs to compete and in doing so has abandoned its structured classes in favour of a personal target time.

Previously, competitors were slotted into one of six classes according to modifications made to the car. For the 2011 season competitors will be awarded a target time at each venue they compete at based on their previous best times. Where competitors travel to new venues, a cross referencing system will be used to award the target time.

Competitors new to sprinting and hillclimbing will awarded their first target time based on the specification of their car. Subsequent times will be based on performance and competitors will be eligible for the Newcomer Award during their first two seasons.

In making these changes the club aims to at least double the number of competitors in 2011.

Phil Tucker, the TR Register’s new Competitions Secretary says: “These changes enable us to do a number of things. First, we should see more TRs competing as the old class system occasionally put some would be competitors at a significant disadvantage. Second, it will allow existing competitors to further develop their cars in a way they would like to do without fear of taking them into a higher class. Third, we hope it will bring in a much more diverse mix of cars on the hills and we’re really looking forward to seeing Spitfires, Stags and Saloons running alongside Roadsters, Renowns, Heralds, Estates and, of course TRs.”

Nigel Clark, Club Manager of the Triumph Sports Six Club welcomed the news saying: “This change is most welcome and it will allow our members to compete on an equal footing with the TR boys. I hope that many of our club members participate in what will become a wonderful display of sporting Triumphs at their best.”

To register your interest for the series simply contact Roger McEwen, the Revington TR / TR Register Sprint and Hillclimb Co-ordinator, via the TR Register website. Roger will also be able to help any potential competitors with any queries they may have or assistance they require. He says : “We’ve even bought a new race suit and helmet which we’ll lend to anyone who has a suitable car to have a go without incurring additional expenditure.”

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