REPORTS : HISTORIC SPORTING TRIALS
Peter Hore starred at Ashtree Farm
Frank Lyons and Trevor Wood
Holly Dore and Richard Disbrow
The trials of
December
Mark and Paul Goodyear
The Historic Sporting Trial year wrapped up with two excellent events during December . Martyn Halliday reports .
An excellent entry of 52 competitors was received for the Monty Peters Historic Sporting Trial held at Ashtree Farm , West Malling , Kent on Sunday 4 December . It was decided to run two laps of nine observed sections with the lunch break between laps This format worked well with the trial over by 3.30pm . It was first time out for Alan Hockham in his self-built Faux Cannon / He was passengered by Simon Fowler , who is Competitions and Clubs Manager at
Motorsport UK and they did really well to finish the course in an untried car , winning the ‘ Spirt of the Event ’ award in the process .
At the end of the first lap the positions were fairly predictable with Simon Kingsley in Post Historic having a clear round . However , he had a serious challenge from 70s Road Sports racer Peter Hore who was having a purple patch in his Concord and dropped only one mark all morning .
During the lunch break the sections
were modified for the final lap . Unfortunately , Peter Hore ’ s engine developed a stalling problem which dropped him out of contention . The Historic class went to Ian Wright on 10 and Simon Kingsley continued his winning way in Post Historic without losing a single mark all day .
One of the marshals , Herbie Rossiter , emailed the organisers saying : “ What a brilliant day I had marshalling . It ’ s such a refreshing day , with great banter and brilliant driving .” Summed it up perfectly !
Andy Wolfe and Ben Tinkler
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