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Old 24 Nov 2010, 19:26 (Ref:2795341)   #17
Rupertlt1
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Rupertlt1 should be qualifying in the top 10 on the grid
Bodiam Hill Climb 23rd September 1979

Tim,

Good work. The only thing I got wrong was the date. Here is what Autosport had to say - and I'm not sure now when this was published - (does anybody know? Page # etc.):

Controversy at
Bodiam

Trevor Stiles, driving his Formula Ford
1600 Crosslé, set BTD at the Bodiam
Hillclimb in Sussex on Saturday. His
time of 25.1s was 1sec outside Doc
Willoughby's record, which stands from
last year.
The meeting was the scene of con-
troversy over the eligibility of 'road going
cars' running on racing tyres, This led to
the exclusion of over 1300cc class winner
Ian Crammond (RS2000) and Deben-
hams Escort racer George Polley, who
finished fourth. Crammond, who was
protested by Graham Holmes (declared
the class winner after a stewards meet-
ing), has appealed and the matter will go
before an RAC Tribunal.
The class for road saloons up to
1300cc was won by Martin Kelly who,
despite running on slicks, was not af-
fected by the protest and retained his
class win.
Stiles beat A. Thompson's Brabham-
Holbay to BTD by a mere 0.03sec and
Barry Dutnall's 3.5-litre Brabham was
third, just 0.1 sec behind. Dave West's
Caterham 7 was easily the quickest of
the modsports car and was only 0.5sec
off BTD.
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