Mallory park29th of this month special saloons

Post by **colin rooney** » Fri Aug 19, 2011 12:07 pm

Race Entries
Race Entries for
Mallory Park August Bank Holiday Race Meeting 2011 on 28 Aug 2011 at Mallory Park

Print Date: 18 Aug 2011 Page Number: Page 1 of 1
Competitor Team Sponsor Vehicle CC
Race No 7 CSCC Modsports and Super Saloons Revival Challenge
Competitor(s)
A
6 Dominic Mooney Driver Lenham GT 1380
13 Mary Grinham Driver Maguire Mini Clubman 1460
14 Colin Rooney Driver Hillman Imp 998
22 Anthony Hansford Driver Solo Davrian Stilletto Imp 1120
31 Thomas Carey Driver Hillman Charrington Imp Californian 1040
34 Robert Knox Driver Maguire Spaceframe Stiletto 998
57 Mike Bratby Driver Davrian Imp Rawlson 998
62 David Weston Driver MG Modsports Midget 1460
B
9 David Brewis Driver Lotus Elan Modsports 1998
26 Bill Richards Driver Rover Metro 1998
28 Wayne Langridge Driver Ark Sprite 1600
40 Michael Bell Driver Ford Escort RS 1600 1989
48 Ron Harper Driver Triumph Spitfire 1997
78 Myles Castaldini Driver Davrian Mk8 2000
97 Andy Wilson Driver Maguire Mini Clubman 2000
112 Pete Edwards Driver Ford Escort Mk2 2000
C
1 Peter Stevens Driver Vauxhall Carlton TS 5700
2 Jon Doubleday Driver Ford Cortina 5000
3 Vince Woodman Driver Ford Capri V6 3412
4 Simon Allaway Driver Lotus Esprit Silhouette Special 5500
5 David Tetley Jack Tetley Opel Manta 400 6200
7 Mike Wilds Driver DAF V8 4500
8 Andy Gardner Driver Vauxhall Firenza 4000
10 Joe Ward Driver Vauxhall Baby Bertha 5700
12 Jeff Wilson Driver Volkswagen Beetle 5700
16 Phil Price Driver Porsche 930 Turbo RS 3200
19 Iain Daniels / Ben Gough Driver Reliant Scimitar 3000
21 Lee Costello Driver Ford Escort Mk1 4800
25 Bob Claxton Driver Skoda 110R 2500
33 Pat Thomas Driver Lotus Elan GT car 2400
43 Jon Mann Driver Vauxhall Calibra V8 5000
46 Kevin Doyle Driver Jaguar XJ12 6000
47 Piers Grange Driver Ford Sierra MK1 XR8 5750
65 Simon Lane Driver Chevrolet Camaro 6600
81 Patrick Smyth Driver Lotus Elan S3 2498
83 Simon Frowen Driver Reliant Kitten 4000
113 Joss Ronchetti Driver Sunbeam Talbot Lotus 2678
159 Bernie Chodosh Driver Chevrolet Corvette 5700
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Post by **capriman** » Fri Aug 19, 2011 12:13 pm

Hi,

We will be there cheering you on - really looking forward to seing the imps in action against Baby Bertha

cheers

Darren

Post by **Woodstock** » Fri Aug 19, 2011 12:56 pm

Also a Davrian "get together" on the Monday at this event.
I'll be camping all weekend there, so looking forward to this.
See you there, Colin, hows the arm?

Graham

Post by **pimpdriver** » Fri Aug 19, 2011 1:26 pm

Colin
I'll make the long journey over to Mallory on Monday (about 15 mins), as long as I get back from competing at Gurston on Saturday and Sunday okay.

Eric

Post by **colin rooney** » Fri Aug 19, 2011 2:42 pm

Nice 1 eric yes we will have the kettle on for you after that long drive

Post by **Meltdown** » Sat Aug 20, 2011 6:33 pm

Is the modsport race on the sunday or the monday?

Post by **colin rooney** » Sat Aug 20, 2011 8:07 pm

monday 3 races field is split up into 3 races

Post by **Meltdown** » Sat Aug 20, 2011 8:51 pm

/\/\Good 'cos we can't make sunday

Post by **jch1imps** » Sun Aug 21, 2011 2:21 pm

what a great line up of cars hope they all turn up

Post by **ImpManiac** » Sun Aug 21, 2011 5:40 pm

Dammit. I can't make the Monday. Just the Sunday.

IM

Post by **tomcat** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 8:58 pm

Plan to be there on the Monday, to view the racing and meet some of the racers too

Post by **Meltdown** » Fri Aug 26, 2011 9:00 pm

Anyone got a timetable for Monday? I need to synchronize a:getting there, b:the Imp modsport race and c:the UK's best race circuit breakfast by far

Post by **colin rooney** » Fri Aug 26, 2011 9:31 pm

Post by **colin rooney** » Fri Aug 26, 2011 9:36 pm

sorry nick the time table wont come up pm me your email and i will send to you

col

Post by **Meltdown** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 6:35 pm

Great to see these cars out on a race track again! I have several snaps of each Imp so owners are welcome to PM me their email address for full-size pics

Post by **Meltdown** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 6:38 pm

Some more pics.

I know Colin's gonna get me back for this one...

: MR1.jpg (109.23 KiB) Viewed 33371 times

Post by **bazzateer** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 8:05 pm

Who'd have thought it eh? Colin Rooney in a shell-suit!

Post by **colin rooney** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 9:46 pm

Thanks Nick i will get you back 1 day

Post by **tomcat** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 7:42 am

There was a moment when Colin was doing a 'quick-change' to get in his race-suit.

I was walking over to introduce myself with camera at the ready.
Discretion overcame me and the moment passed, as he disappeared for his first practice session.

Post by **stuartbrownsey** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 10:29 am

I also saw Colin showing off a pair of M&S finest boxers, not a good sight

There was some great cars at Mallory yesterday, lets hope
this championship takes off next year, there must be more
imps lurking in barns that could come out and play.

Rob "suger ray" Knox had a great day with everything still
holding together at the end. Tom in the black Imp snapped
a drive shaft at the hairpin towards the end of his race (Too much power!!)
Colin went well but had a few engine gremlins set in , hopefully not to
major. Not sure what happened to Mike Bratbury, he did have a bit of
a moment when a 600bhp thunder saloon went by . He said it almost blew his doors off

Hopfully Colin and Tom's problems can be sorted quickly as were off to Mondello in a couple
of weeks for some guinness, oh and a bit of racing

Cheers........Stuart

Post by **impmann** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 12:37 pm

It was an ace day (bleeding cold though!).

Sorry I didn't get to catch up with many of you - too busy watching the racing.

Post by **tomcat** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 4:21 pm

Thanks to Colin for bringing the part I was after.

Found the journey OK but last part of road network was a bit confusing.
Never been to Mallory before so found everything there of interest. Luckily got there early.
Heard about the confusion of which practice session he should have been in. Also hope the water pump on the camper did not play up too much on the return journey.

I had decided to let everyone get on with their preparations in peace during the morning.Plan was to use the lunchtime period to introduce myself to others.
Sadly that did not happen as I had a family problem which meant I left fairly sharply.
Ah well another time.

Took some pictures but not of cars on track. So some memories.

Post by **colin rooney** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 6:31 pm

Wel what a day ,i was told i should be out on track in qualifing so jumped in and off i went only to get called to race control ,and be told that i was not ment to be out there and that i should be in the next session only thig was that the next session was the swinging 60s and when i said no im a special saloon then the fat controler realised that it was there fault as much as mine ,funny thing is he wanted me to say sorry to which i replied you control the pit lane lights so why did you not put the red light on to stop this sort of thing happening and he then said that an M.S.A official wanted to have a word ,i think he was hopeing i would get points on my licence but as it happened the official seemed to understand that it was there mess and just told me to forget it and have a good day
And it was a fantactic days racing even if i did pull off after 7 or so laps
Mike went well in the davrian and his times were quick
rob knox had the best day out of all the imps and was going well in race 1 only to get a missfire which turned out to be a damp dizz cap due to the wet track
Tom was flying in the black imp until a drive shaft let go
And me well i think i need a spaceframe if im to keep up with this lot as my car is around 100kg heavier and a lot higher or i get some others out with semi spaceframe cars so i have someone to race with oh yeh nearly forgot my engine damaged a bigend which is starnge as it was a fresh rebuild after imp national me thinks i might just stick it away for a few years and get on with some restoration projects

col

Post by **Meltdown** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 6:38 pm

Don't put yourself down, Col, you were going well considering the weight disadvantage. Now that a modsport series looks to be happening I'm sure there will be more coming out of the woodwork

Post by **colin rooney** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 7:07 pm

Meltdown wrote:Don't put yourself down, Col, you were going well considering the weight disadvantage. Now that a modsport series looks to be happening I'm sure there will be more coming out of the woodwork

No im putting myself down its just like say putting my car out with the tintops you will end up with the weight disadvantage only it would be in my favour

Post by **ImpManiac** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 9:41 pm

I too had a great day out.

My friend that came with me enjoyed it all too.

Mallory Park is a lovely little track - great for spectating and taking photos. But you can get so close to the cars that getting the car in centre of shot is really tricky! Well, it is with my fairly humble camera!

I shall sort my photos and post them in due course.

It's a pity that the Imps did not acquit themselves as well as we know they can do.

But it was great to see them anyway. And all the other lovely, characterful, indivual - nay unique Special Saloon and Modsports cars.

And in some of the races, there was some proper, close racing too!

Really great stuff!

It was really fabulous to catch up with some fellow Impistes too! (Sorry I missed you, Tim and Vicky.

)

IM

Post by **speeddemon** » Thu Sep 01, 2011 4:44 am

IT was a fantastic day at Mallory with 4 spaceframed Imps on the grid. I think that must be some recent record. All the imp drivers enjoyed themselfs and got excellent results. Colin suffered again with some gremlins and had a pretty awfull trip just getting to the track but Myself Rob and I think its tom who drives the black Californian went well in our class. I think we were near quickest in the 1500 cc.

I think we have to remember that this meeting was a good test of whats to come, there were no medals for going out and breaking the cars. All 4 drivers had little knowledge of the track and put some fair times in . I think the 3 full spaceframes were all within quarter second of each other and colin just 2 seconds off due to weight .

We were in a race where the cars competing were somtimes in excess of 200 to 500hp and these cars are now fully set up and the job has moved on. We have cars that are 100 hp or so and are probably running near there maximum.

For me I thought it was brilliant, and its the first time on the circuit that i wanted to be competitive within reason. I enjoyed qualifying and then had a great race with Rob only for a 911 porsche to make a very late rash manouvre entering the sss leaving me nowwhere to go and spraying the car with its oil.

Hopefully there will be a series next year consisting of 4 double headers so looking forward to that, I have another stead in the garage for a light rebuild that I can also run, so not sure what to do with the imp at the minute.

Well done all and thanks to everyone who came down to support the cars.

Big thanks to JIm and his pal who came all the way from scotland to view my car and watch us race, he had owned it 30 years ago and it raced at ingleston . Got some great history and had a great chat.

Regards mike

Post by **SimonBenoy** » Thu Sep 01, 2011 8:03 pm

Colin gets into the picture with the Esprit and the Carlton on page 87 of Autosport - sounds like it was a great meeting...

Post by **Meltdown** » Thu Sep 01, 2011 8:15 pm

That 911 was spewing oil fumes from one bank of cylinders for a couple of laps - I'm surprised he wasn't black flagged. Great memories from my early days at Brands Hatch came flooding back - wonderful

Post by **ImpManiac** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 9:36 pm

Chatting to the owner - briefly, coz he was busy - the 911 spat its turbocharger innards out. And a good deal of oil too.

IM

Post by **oneofapair** » Sat Sep 03, 2011 8:34 pm

Colin, Tip for going faster I would suggest is :- LOOK WHERE YOU ARE GOING

Post by **Meltdown** » Sat Sep 03, 2011 8:47 pm

/\/\He was just making sure the takeaway curry hadn't spilt

Post by **colin rooney** » Sat Sep 03, 2011 8:56 pm

No i was checking my mirror with all them fast cars out there it was near on a full time job my eyes were like this little fella

Post by **knocker** » Sun Sep 04, 2011 1:08 pm

oneofapair wrote:Colin, Tip for going faster I would suggest is :- LOOK WHERE YOU ARE GOING

'' WHATS THIS HANDBRAKE ON FOR''

Post by **bazzateer** » Sun Sep 04, 2011 1:26 pm

'twas one of the little people giving him pointers on racing lines etc

Post by **Woodstock** » Wed Sep 07, 2011 10:51 pm

Great weekend, if a little bit wet at times. All the special saloons looked great in paddock and on track, they really were the highlight of the show.

Post by **jch1imps** » Fri Sep 09, 2011 11:05 am

traveled down from scotland on the sunday and stayed to the monday.i would like thank all guys and girl for bringing there cars out and made this avent possible.also rob knox, colin rooney and not leased mike bratby and his mate ian for making it a great week end for me and my mate.to see my old car after all these years(30) had a wee tear in my eye. what stunning job that mike and friends have done to it that made my weekend.had great chat with mike and ian.cant thank you enough mike hope you will try and keep in touch
cheers jimmy hall

Post by **knocker** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 1:07 am

Just a line to inform you the black stiletto and red stiletto will be down Lydden on the 22nd of October for the last social of the year,maybe the last time to be seen together a sad moment in motorsport history..

Post by **speeddemon** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 9:07 am

Whats that about Rob !

Post by **colin rooney** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 10:38 am

As far as i know rob is taking the maguire off track to restore it and the black car could be sold on but not confirmed yet