HSCC August 2021 issue 130 | Page 40

REPORT : CADWELL PARK
Benn Simms and Andrew Park battled in HFF2000
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Successful

Wolds Trophy at Cadwell Park

Fine racing , excellent grids and warm sunshine made the Club ’ s Wolds Trophy another great success at Cadwell Park over the first weekend of June . Paul Lawrence reports .
With spectators welcomed back into the venue in good numbers and a full programme of 20 races , it was a great weekend of racing at the threedimensional Lincolnshire venue .
Headlining the programme were four races for the Historic Formula Ford 2000 Championship , with a heat needed each day to accommodate a tremendous 36-car entry . Back in the
The Classic FF pack pours through Coppice
pack was former multiple champion Andrew Park in his first race since blowing an engine at Silverstone in October 2019 .
In the opening championship race Park spent most of the race chasing Benn Simms and it was a fabulous contest as they went wheel-to-wheel . Simms usually kept a nose ahead until they caught some backmarkers on the exit of Charlie ’ s on the last lap .
Simms was held up and Park seized his chance to squeeze ahead on the run to Park Corner and get to the line threequarters of a second ahead to score a fabulous win . Simms , however , had done all the hard work only to lose out on the last lap .
Graham Fennymore went after them , but lost time with a very grassy spin on the exit of Park , which allowed Paul Allen to come up into contention . Fennymore battled back ahead but Allen chased to the line in his first race in the ex-Ian Briggs / Callum Grant Delta T78 .
Earlier , young Ben Glasswell dominated the qualification race to ensure a place alongside the top 10 fastest qualifiers for the championship race . Sunday ’ s qualification race fell to category veteran Adrian Reynard , while the later championship race went to Simms by a comfortable margin over Park and Fennymore as Murray Shepherd took fourth from the URS Classic FF2000 ranks .
Cam Jackson made it six wins from six races in Historic Formula Ford , but seldom has he had to work harder than he did on Saturday afternoon when teenager Samuel Harrison really took the fight to the reigning champion .
Harrison kept his Elden on the gearbox of the Winkelmann for lap after lap and even had several bold attempts at passing the pacesetter . However , Jackson used all of his experience to repel the impressive contender , and only in the final laps did anything of a gap appear .