Barbon Manor Hillclimb - 13th May

[Steve Wilkinson]

NME British Hillclimb Championship Rd 5
1 Martin Groves (3.5 Gould-NME GR55) 21.78s;
2 Simon Durling (2.65 Gould-NME GR55) 22.19s;
3 Roger Moran (3.5 Gould-NME GR61) 22.22s;
4 Scott Moran (3.5 Gould-NME GR61) 22.40s;
5 Rob Turnbull (3.5 Gould-Cosworth HB GR55) 22.57s;
6 Mike Dean (3.5 Gould-NME GR55) 22.71s;
7 Willem Toet (2.65t Pilbeam-Cosworth HD MP88) 22.80s;
8 Chris Merrick (4.0 Gould-Judd EV GR55) 22.85s;
9 Paul Ranson (3.5 Gould-NME GR55) 23.30s;
10 Tom New (2.0 Pilbeam-QED V6 MP88) 23.84s;
11 Alistair Crawford (3.5 Gould-Judd CV GR37) 24.16s;
12 Jim Robinson (2.8 Pilbeam-Hart MP58) 24.59s

NME British Hillclimb Championship Rd 6
1 Groves 21.17s; 2 Dean 21.66s; 3 Roger Moran 21.69s; 4 Scott Moran 21.83s; 5 Durling 21.86s; 6 Toet 22.47s; 7 Ranson 22.63s; 8 Merrick 22.76s; 9 Turnbull 22.86s; 10 Crawford 23.56s; 11 Andy Coley (2.5 Gould-Opel V6 GR55) 24.13s; 12 New 23.58s

Class Winners: Robert Kenrick (1.1 Caterham-Honda 7) 26.95s; Martyn Silcox (1.9 Peugeot 205) 32.58s; Will Hall (2.0 Westfield-Vauxhall SEi) 28.00s; Graham Loakes (2.0t Subaru Impreza) 28.06s; Haydn Spedding (4.2 Jaguar E-Type) 29.04s; Gary Stephens (1.7 Mallock U2 Mk21/24B) 25.48s; Simon Fidoe (2.0 Pilbeam-Millington MP43) 25.32s; Graham Holmes (3.8 Proteus-Jaguar C-Type) 34.93s; Olivia Cooper (0.6 Jedi-Honda Mk4) 29.60s; George Brown (1.0 Force-Suzuki) 26.04s; Tim Wilson (1.4 OMS-Suzuki CF04) 25.03s; New 24.10s; Groves 21.80s; Keith Beningfield (1.4s MG TC) 33.89s; Vernon Williamson (1.0 Ecurie Ecosse-Imp) 32.00s.

A damp and miserable day. Groves aced both run-offs and closed the gap on the Morans. Tom New was the only two litre to qualify for the run-offs and performed well.

Martyn Silcox managed to go a whole day without rolling his Peugeot!