The Historic Sports car club returned to Mallory park on the 9th August, but unfortunately the meeting did not run as smoothly as planned.
Good entries for most of the 9 race program saw a variety of cars competing,
but things got off to a bad start in the first race for Historic Saloons, when
Tim Brook in his Mini Cooper crashed out on lap 3. He demolished one of the
posts securing the crash barrier and there was a delay of around 30
minutes while the
barrier was re-assembled. The next race for Historic Formula Fords proved to be
even worse. On the first lap, a collision between Westie Mitchell and Amanda
Whitaker
caused Mitchell to spin, collecting Diogo Ferrao on his way to the tyre
wall on the outside of Gerrards. Whitaker was able to continue but the other two
had hit the barrier
fairly heavily, bringing out the Red flag. Unfortunately Whitaker's nosecone had
been bent up and she did not see the red flag, and collided on the start
straight with the Lola of
David Wild, which launched her high in the air as the car rolled end to end. She
got out of the car in shock. Meanwhile, the other two drivers involved in the
accident at Gerrrds
had to be removed from their cars. Mitchell had to be cut from his Merlyn.
Eventually Mitchell and Whitaker were both taken to Leicetser Royal Infirmary
where they were
both kept in overnight. Whitaker suffered heavy brusing while Mitchell suffered
fractures to his arm and a damaged vertebrae. This delayed the meeting for
nearly an hour and a half.
These delays meant that the remaining races were shortened. The Historic
Formula Juniors then added to the misery when Justin Fleming hit the rear of
another car at the exit to
Gerrards and launched his Elva 100 high in the air before crashing down and out
of the race, causing yet another red flag.
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After these delays the Guards Trophy which was due to run for 40 minutes was
scrapped completely.
To see results and photos, select the race from below
 Historic Saloon cars |
 Historic FF |
 Historic Road Sports |
 Formula Junior A |
 Formula Junior B |
 Classic Racing Cars |
 Historic Formula Ford 2000 |
 70s Road Sports |
 Guards Trophy race |