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Issue 4—Whistlin’ Jack Smith 1

WHISTLIN’ JACK SMITH

Hot Rod Racing

ISSUE 5: MAR 2012

National Hot Rods are back after

the winter break

New race cars

Peugeot 205 History—Part 2

2 Whistlin’ Jack Smith—Issue 4

March is when the short oval racing season gets into full swing especially the National Hot

Rods starting at Northampton. Alongside those early reports this edition also covers the sec-

ond part of the Peugeot 205 history that again has great input from former drivers.

Paul Ballard


COVER SHOOT:

Hot Rods lining up in the pits at Northampton

INSIDE COVER:

The only time National Hot Rods raced at Aldershot in 2010


Contents

4 Classic Hot Rods 2012

5 Wimbledon reports

6 2L English Championship

8 The history of the 205 Hot Rod

OPPOSITE: National Hot Rods at the 2011 Spedeweekend.

Peter Ballard photo

FRONT COVER (top to bottom)

1—Ricky Hunn at Arena Essex. Keith Duke photo.

2—Daz Owen’s rental Classic Hot Rod. Daz Owen photo.

3—New English Champion Paul Wright


Hot Rod Racing

ISSUE 5: MAR 2012

CONTENTS

4 News and Reports

Fords update

Northampton NHR WQR 10

New to the team

Serious overseas contender

Ipswich NHR WQR 11

14 Peugeot 205 History (Part 2)

CONTRIBUTORS:

Peter Ballard (photos)


10th March

FORDS update

Fundraising update

Over the quiet season we have

just a couple of items to report -

thanks to Mendips for their Din-

ner Dance raffle in aid of

FORDS; also to Nutts Corner

Oval starting the year with a col-

lection for us. We'd also like to

thank the Bears Banger Team -

collectable button badges are on

sale featuring every team mem-

ber priced at £1.49 with 50

pence being donated direct to

FORDS.

Help with fundraising

We're looking to recruit some

more regional helpers urgently

to help organise events, gener-

ate local sponsorship and coordi-

nate fundraisers on the day. Ar-

eas to cover are: South-East;

Anglia; Midlands; and North.

There are no set boundaries but

any help will be a big help to us

- no more than 5 tracks, one

event each, full support from our

Secretary including training.

You'll get free entry but we do

expect you to work for it! Please

contact Manuela on 0117

3851540 / 07870 383096 for a

friendly chat.

Analysis of injuries - the how

and the what

We have tried to keep figures

simple while drawing meaningful

data from them. It should be

noted that a sample of 19 claims

can only be regarded as an indi-

cator - next year's figures will be

more meaningful and we know

that many injured drivers did not

claim. Injuries we consider seri-

ous are potentially life-changing;

this includes all head or spinal

injury and internal organ dam-

age. Broken limbs are consid-

ered relatively minor although

not all are straightforward and

some need surgery and may re-

sult in a long recovery period.

In considering the type of impact

causing injuries we have broken

this down into forward and side-

ways; sideways includes a knock

or spin, forward includes (mainly

National Bangers) following in,

jacking trains and head-ons -

News and Reports


what counts is whether the force

on the driver is forward or side-

ways. Impacts are classed as

major, eg full in the door or fol-

lowed in, or minor, eg caught

between another car and the

barrier. It is not our place to

speculate on whether an incident

was deliberate or accidental.

Claims to date

· The total paid to date is 19

claims of which 2 are ongoing,

receiving a total of £10,515

· 3 of the 19 claims were from

non-contact formulae

· 5 of the 19 claims were for

serious injuries

This year we will be collecting a

lot more data. Drivers please

help us to get these figures if

you are unlucky enough to be

injured this year. Even if you

don't wish to claim, if you could

help us with this research it will

help us to help you in the long

term. There will also be a follow-

up call after a claim has ended

to evaluate the way claims are

handled and the longer term im-

pact of injuries.

11th March

Northampton - National Hot

Rods - WQ Round

After the winter break the Eng-

lish series resumed with World

Champion and points leader 911

Malcolm Blackman heading the

entry as the season embarks on

the second half road to Ipswich.

32 drivers arrived chasing the 20

available positions, though 482

Jason Cooper (20th going into

this round) was not present after

previously leading the points. On

the new car front, former Stock

Rodder 316 Paul Frost started

his National Hot Rod career in a

Tigra. Also out in new Tigra’s

were 72 Willie Hardie and 348

Shane Brereton who raced brief-

ly last year in his old Corrado.

278 Colin Gomm raced the ex-

Polley Tigra for the first time.

162 Car Waller-Barratt was still

racing his 206cc but now re-

painted in red. Both the Hunn

cars now in classic Ricky Hunn

colours of yellow with red bump-

ers.

Heat 1

734 Ralph Sanders led off the

race with Brereton. Brereton

tried the outside line but this al-


lowed 39 Terry Hunn to move up

to second place. This trio be-

came four when 339 Danny

Hunn closed in, both Hunn cars

tried the outside line but this al-

lowed Brereton back to second

place. 130 Andy Lane moved in

for a top 5 group and 10 Sam

Holland spun out of sixth place.

The two Hunn cars clashed going

into turn 3 which put D Hunn

into the wall (although was still

able to continue), from the back

303 Matt Simpson and 209 Kym

Weaver were closing in quick.

Simpson was only able to move

beyond Lane but it was a sign of

things to come from him during

this meeting. Lane finished

fourth but this position would be

later removed.

Res: 734, 348, 303, 209, 39 (x-

2), 116, 339, 60, 174, 278

Heat 2

Sanders turned pole into another

lead with 152 Shaun Taylor on

the outside. Taylor was bumped

sideways on turn 4, heading

down the home straight Lane

pushed 27 Mikey Godfrey off the

track and he crashed into the

infield banking. Running in sixth

place 67 David Brooks (who had

been one of the quickest cars on

track) had a big lock-up going

into turn one and that resulted

in a yellow flag.

The race resumed with Sanders

leading 74 James O’Shea and

Holland. Lane moved to the out-

side of 780 Mike Loosemore

which enabled 491 Colin Smith

on his inside. Smith moved up to

second place with Simpson

tracking his moves. With 3 to go

Smith and Simpson were on the

back bumper of Sanders, head-

ing onto the back straight Smith

clipped the inside kerb which put

the car offline and forcing him to

the outside. Smith took to the

outside of Sanders and cleared

him quickly with Simpson be-

hind. The next lap Simpson

barged inside Smith to put in

front for the final lap of the race.

Simpson was duly docked two

places while Smith was handed

the win. Whilst on the control

car Smith commented on his im-


provement being due to a new

engine and gearbox thanks to

his sponsors (next time Colin

mention those people/ compa-

nies!!). This was short lived as

he failed a tyre check due to not

logging them correctly which re-

sulted in a load-up. Lane was

also loaded-up for retaliation.

Res: 734, 74, 303 (x-2), 115,

14, 10, 72, 155, 780, 219

Heat 3

The quietest of all the heats Tay-

lor turned pole position into his

first win in the class. The only

significant movement being 60

Mark Paffey who charged around

the outside for third place.

Res: 152, 74, 60, 348, 39, 27,

555, 162, 116, 115

Final

Before the final race of the day

started there was a minute si-

lence for photographer Dave

'Smiffyman' Smith who had

passed away during the week.

A bigger field of National Hot

Rods around Northampton nor-

mally ends in carnage and God-

frey was sent out spinning on

turn 4 and Weaver on turn 2 at

the start. The cars was able to

move around the outside of the

Weaver machine but unable to

move the yellows were brought

out after a few laps. Sanders

had been leading with Taylor be-

hind, his attempts at an outside

move saw him slide into the

wide when he outbraked at turn

3. The top three of Sanders,

Brereton and T Hunn edged clear

of the pack but Simpson was fly-

ing from the back and easily

moved around the outside of all

3 as they hugged the inside line.

Simpson’s drive showed one of

the highlights of hot rod racing

however the main pack got

themselves into a muddle with D

Hunn, Holland and Loosemore all

facing the wrong way and

stranded on the straights and

116 Steve Burrows in the wall.

Res: 303, 734, 348, 39, 95, 72,

115, 31, 911, 60


14th March

New to the Team!

Spedeworth Motorsports is de-

lighted to introduce the latest

member our team. Mark Butler

has joined us to head up our

Sales & Marketing division and

has already made a positive con-

tribution by helping to secure

Sky TV coverage of the National

Hot Rod World Final - as well as

securing a number of new spon-

sorship deals. Mark has also se-

cured a major sponsor for the

National Hot Rod World Final -

as well as the majority of the

remaining races at Spedeweek-

end - opportunities do still exist

to become involved but these

are going fast! Mark has been a

fan of short oval racing for many

years and is also an example of

the many family connections in

our sport as Mark is the brother

of one of our Managing Directors

Janet Wood.

Mark has highlighted a number

of exciting and unusual sponsor-

ship opportunities and there is

something in our remit to suit

every business. So if you would

like to become involved with

Spedeworth Motorsports please

do not hesitate to contact Mark

on 01252 322920 or email

[email protected].

18th March

Serious overseas contender

Current South African Hot Rod

Champion Neville Loosemore

(racing under #11) will be racing

a brand new Spedeworth Fabri-

cations car at this year's

Spedeweekend at Foxhall Stadi-

um, Ipswich (IP4 5TL) and the

combination of Neville's experi-

ence and a state of the art rac-

ing machine should make him a

serious contender when the

green flag drops on the World

Championship Final - possibly

the first genuine SA contender

since Jesse Huggett.

Of course, such a huge logistical

operation could not become a

reality without the support of a

number of generous sponsors.

On behalf of Neville, we would

like to thank the following com-

panies for their support:


· Anderson Race Engines

· Quaife

· Tran-X

· Image Wheels

· Six-O Signs

· Paint Dynamix

· Questmead-AP (TBC)

· Corbeau Seats (TBC)

· Security Fencing (South Afri-

ca)

· Spedeworth Motorsports/

Spedeworth Fabrications

It is great to see drivers coming

from other nations making this a

genuine World Final. Don't miss

all the action at short oval mo-

torsport's biggest racing week-

end.

Thanks to the Spedeworth

http://www.stockcar.co.uk/


31st March

Ipswich - National Hot Rods -

WQ Round 11

Although the days running up

the meeting has posed the pos-

sible problem of no fuel, all the

booked in drivers arrived for a

big 34 car entry including over-

seas drivers 66 John V.D Bosch

and 467 Winnie Holtmanns; plus

Irish duo of 874 Steven O’Shea

and father 74 James O’Shea.

Making his debut after a year

racing Slick Cars was 44 Dave

Garrett in the ex-Gomm 206.

Garrett had previously raced in

the 2 Litre Hot Rods and last

year had raced the ex-Gomm

Colt.

Heat 1

Starting at the front this time

was 160 Frank West and made

an early lead. 152 Shaun Taylor

was inside him before West spun

out on turn 4. A few laps later

348 Shane Brereton did the

same thing, unlike West who

was resting up against the fence

he spun the car around infront of

leader Taylor. Taylor swung

around the outside but Brereton

didn’t want to be put a lap down

and moved ahead once the lead-

ers had to navigate past Garrett.

Taylor had 734 Ralph Sanders

and 339 Danny Hunn following

his every move but none at-

tempted any challenge on him,

in the last few laps 10 Sam Hol-

land went spinning out of fourth

place and onto the shale track.

The battle for the points champi-

onship between 911 Malcolm

Blackman and 303 Matt Simpson

(who was now leading the points

chase now by 4 points going into

this round) was taking place half

a lap back but two sets of eyes

were required for this race.

Simpson had taken the early up-

per hand, but whilst battling

with 72 Willie Hardie, Blackman

moved past though the pair

spent most the race behind 27

Mikey Godfrey.

Res: 152, 339, 209, 162, 31,

174, 92, 74, 116, 911

Heat 2

67 David Brooks turned his front

row start into a lead. Brooks was

past the backmarking 874 Ste-


ven O’Shea quite easily but the

bigger pack behind struggled

with the slower driver. O’Shea

was able to keep a clean tight

inside line. 780 Mike Loosemore

was the first in trouble when he

was bumped aside through turns

3 and 4. 209 Kym Weaver

tagged the back of O’Shea and

sent the slower Fiesta into the

wall – he did pick a black cross

for this. Whilst these few chaotic

laps happened leader Brooks

had pulled off to end his night.

This put Sanders into the lead

with James O’Shea and 555

Gavin Taber now behind. God-

frey had another race finishing

the wrong way, this time the in-

cident slowed down 174 Jason

Kew but yet again the field ap-

peared to straighten up. Going

into the final few laps Weaver

put himself inside Taber for

fourth place who fell back on the

outside line. Simpson had by

now made good progress and

with Taber out wide took 6th on

the road, this however was to

become 4th place.

On the final lap with the compe-

tition out of sight J O’Shea tried

the outside of Sanders and was

able to get half way alongside

when the chequers fell. Sanders

though failed the weigh-in and

lost this win and the second

from the previous heat.

Res: 74, 10, 95, 303, 209 (x-2),

278, 115, 555, 100, 72

Heat 3

Taylor lead off from pole posi-

tion. There was an early spin for

92 Jack Blood who was collected

by 60 Mark Paffey. Paffey half

spun on turn 4 which blocked

the progress of 162 Carl Waller-

Barrett and 348 Shane Brereton.

Paffey retired while the other

two continued. Waller-Barrett re

-joined into front of Taylor as a

repeat of heat 1 but pulled clear

of the leader. Eyes were glued to

S O’Shea as the pack built up

behind him, 39 Terry Hunn did-

n’t move past instantly and 780

Mike Loosemore had the chance

to steal third place. Loosemore

didn’t capitalise and started

loosing places. From the back

the only driver making any real


progress was 115 Chris Haird;

Blackman and 14 Phil Spinks

spent too much time behind 155

Lee Pepper. Haird was able to

nick fourth place from 278 Colin

Gomm on the final lap, at the

front Taber stayed behind Taylor

who took win number two of the

night.

Res: 152, 555, 39, 115, 278, 95,

31, 100, 911, 780

Final

Things got messy as the green

dropped with 116 Steve Burrows

and 27 Mikey Godfrey making

poor starts from the second

block. 100 Dick Burtenshaw got

caught and was parked up by

the next corner. At the front

Taylor wasn’t making it hard for

the competition and easily let

Taber and T Hunn past. Looking

to the back of the grid Simpson,

Blackman and Haird circulated

the track as one but when the

competition queued up behind

the slower back-marking S

O’Shea there was a big shift as

Loosemore and J O’Shea tan-

gled. Blackman was now 5 plac-

es in front of Simpson and that

was soon the length of the

straight.

Weaving in and out of traffic

there was a real lack of blue

flags for Taber and T Hunn was

able to close up. Behind those S

O’Shea was once again sorting

out the drivers that could pass

and those that couldn’t. Weaver

crashed into the back of him

with 4 to run and that put 339

Danny Hunn into the wall as

well. As the final few laps ticked

past Taber sat behind 4 back-

markers and T Hunn was able to

move on his back bumper as the

final lap board became replaced

by the chequered flag.

Although a damaging race the

only noticeable disqualification

was for 72 Willie Hardie who

sent 10 Sam Holland spinning

out on the home straight.

Res: 555, 39, 152, 174, 911, 95,

115, 303, 14, 31

In the chase for silver (and ulti-

mately the English title) Simp-

son and Blackman both scored


35 points to keep the gap at 4

points. Haird outscored both

with 42 but is still over 30 points

adift of these. 95 Gavin Murray's

third and two sixth place is

enough to leap-frog Hardie into

the final group one position.

Sanders drops out of the top 20

and is replaced by 116 Steve

Burrows with Blood one point

adrift. Points to be officially con-

firmed.


Following on from the first part the history

lesson will continue. The 205 might look

very dated now to the modern cars but the

shape was perfect for a hot rod. Something

that I like is the fact the wheels look the

right size, not swamped in an oversized

arch in the Focus or Colt.

Starting off with the cars that have been

destroyed. The first ever SHP 205 was writ-

ten off at Aldershot with Mark Jones behind

the wheel, Ricky's last 205 (ex-Seager)

went as did the Clein/Kinane car in Ireland.

Adam Scott’s first 205 become a Corsa

which met its match at Wimbledon. So the

quest continues where are the others. Ad-

am Scott’s replacement car was another

205, he upgraded to a 206 later in the

year.

I owned the 205 of Adam Scott for a little

while, it was pretty much stripped but roll-

ing with the body work detatched. I sold

the car to Gary Thomas who I know passed

it on to Tick Steward who I believe still has

it sat in a lorry container!

CHRIS GOLDSMITH

Heading across the water (unlike part one)

starting in Northern Ireland Stevie Williams

has the ex-Skitmore Corsa (originally a

205). Alvin Doak has a 205, and son Stew-

205 History


art recently destroyed his Corsa which

started as a 205. Roger Peck’s British

Championship winning 205 went to Alan

Wilson but was barely raced. The fastest

205 ever though was John Steward’s car,

that became a Corsa and now is one of the

spare cars for the Woolseys.

Moving south Joey Butler first raced in the

Nationals with the ex-Andy Steward 205

which became a Corsa, likewise with Pat

Canavan who still races his. Welshman

Mike Oliver races the ex-Blackman car that

Des Stainer first raced, Mike did race an-

other 205 when he first joined the class.

Eddie Foott jnr possibly races an ex-Paul

Sheard machine. The Tipperary class has

some SHP 205’s, but this writer doesn’t

know how many.

A 205 that made it’s way to Ireland and

then back to England started with Ricky

Hunn (his fourth and final 205) in the late

90’s. Terry Grant used it to qualify for the

World in 1998, before Gordon Brown and

Robin Pickett raced it. This was an awe-

some car, Pickett surprised a lot of people

with it’s pace. That became a Saxo and

now youngster Mikey Godfrey has a chance

to show what he can do in the Nationals.

There was an ex-Cliff Butler left hooker

converted, Ricky used this then sold to Ian

Butler who sold it to Carl Boardley.

Ricky's final 205 which was an evo 2 was

sold to Terry Grant then to Robin Pickett

and is now a Saxo driven by Mikey Godfrey

think that was all of them from memory

might have missed one.

HUNN MOTORSPORT—nationalhotrod.com


The third 205 for Hunn once sold to Butler

was raced in the first year of PRI Hot Rods,

which preceeded Outlaws and ran to the

same specification as GMP with 2 Litre Pin-

to engines. Butler stepped up to Nationals

after a few months and Boardley made his

National Hot Rod debut with this car in

1999. The third driver to enter National Hot

Rods with the car was Neil Stimson, it was

repanelled as a 206. This article originally

quoted the car being sold to Alan Milford,

but this wasn't true. Milford possibly raced

the first 206 that SHP built, now in the

hands of Iain Grayson.

The one I raced I sold it to a guy called

Chris Selleck and now have it back.

NEIL STIMSON

Anthony Hawkins came through the Outlaw

system in the ex-Clack/Holtby 205 this be-

came a 206 but vanished after Hawkins

moved to the Pick-ups on the circuits.

Some of the 205’s did start on the long cir-

cuits but came back to the ovals, Mark

Skilton’s and Dave Fry's did as did the car

Nigel Pike campaigned up to 2003. Former

Ringwood racer Chris Brockhurst repanelled

his 205 as a 206 and now races with the

Silhouette series.


That car was built by Robin Pickett's me-

chanic, he built the car as a copy to Robin's

and made a good job of it too, we then

bought this car and sold it to Chris original-

ly it come with the ex 175 panel kit and

Robin's 205 kit, but I cant remember if

Chris had it or not, I remember Keith

Lynam coming down to our workshop to

clear out aload of old 205 panels when he

was racing.

JASON KEW nationalhotrod.com

One of the last 205 Nationals was that of

Keith Lynam, that resurfaced at Buxton.

Patsy Enright’s version is an Autocross ver-

sion.

Going back to another favourite car of

mine, Mick Collard's 205. The car almost

won the world out the box (that’s another

story). The white colour scheme copied the

Peugeot rally colours and looked very

good. That was an Autocross car and

changed to green and white the next year.

I'm pretty sure Duffy's car was bought by

Cyril Wilcox, complete with Peugeot engine

that had suffered from years of being sat

outside. It was used by Terry I think as

well. Maybe it was the same one used

around by Russell and a few others?

TIM MOODY


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Duffy Collard's 205 was last race in anger by myself at Alwalton

Raceway (Peterborough) in 2001. The car is now sat in my work-

shop at home.

RUSS WILCOX

This may have given insight into a few more cars, but are some

like the ex-Peck car sitting in a garage idle, how many are gather-

ing dust in the back of a workshops? Were more written-off of

were they cannibalised for a newer machine? Anyone’s views are

greatly appreciated on this subject which I have written to the best

of my knowledge.

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