This Saturday – 5th of March – the AGM and Awards night at the Chequers Inn! Book your meal in advance using PayPal below. Arrive at 7pm to eat or you can come at 8:30pm just for the AGM and awards – see you there!

 

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Amount of people attending:

1 Person £13.02 GBP2 People £25.52 GBP3 People £38.02 GBP4 People £50.52 GBP

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Hi all, results from yesterday. I’ve done a few versions for you to look at.

Valentines Results
Valentines Test 1
Valentines Test 2
Valentines Results 1 + 2
Valentines F1 Eliminator

Cheers

Dan

Unfortunately the adverse weather has meant we’re going to have to cancel the event this weekend. The planned field has standing water in it and it will not dry for the weekend.

We hope to be able to re arrange if we can find a suitable venue at a future date.

Kind Regards

IOWCC

A bit of a late write up, however as usual the IOWCC members acquitted themselves superbly on the Sprint Royale event organised by FDMC

The early part of the day was shrouded in mist, but this did not deter the competitors from setting some solid times.

 

 

After the mist had burnt off, the times started to fall and by the close of play Will and Derek Thomas in their Porsche 911 had shown dominance and topped the leader board.

Derek drove brilliantly to finish in 5th overall and 3rd in class (11) comfortable ahead of the chasing pack.

Toby Allen proved his mettle as normal and driving his Mazda Mx5 supercharged posted some excellent times, sadly not improving his personal best at this venue, but taking away some more useful experience and 13th overall and 2nd in class (5).

Just behind him in 14th was Matt ‘Fiddler’ Griffin in his Honda Civic VT who came home a creditable 4th in his class (10), despite an altercation with the barriers (see video below) which fortunately left car and driver relatively unscathed.

Darren Taylor, Peugeot 306 GTi6, also in Fiddler’s class drove well to 18th overall and 5th in class (10) ahead of Matt ‘Basra’ Price who finished 21st overall and 6th in class (10) making it a real duel between Fiddler, Darren and he as they jostled for class position.

 

 

 

 

 

However, the man of the moment was Will Thomas who just dominated the event in the Porsche and came home with top honours overall and in class with fastest time of the day.

A truly magnificent performance.

Will said,

‘Dad and I had a day competing at Prescott yesterday (Saturday 6th October) and I was rubbish! I’m not sure you can do much more with this course, by the end of the day i was holding a higher gear between some of the bends and that seemed to improve the time’

Well done to the competitors representing the IOWCC, all of who finished well inside the top half of the final results and netting some silverware to bring home along the way.

Results here

 

 

 

Once again the weather forecast earlier in the week was wet and windy for the coming weekends racing to be held by the Isle of Wight Car Club but this was not going to put off  The hardy few racers that turned up to sort out who was going to win the final round of the (unsealed surface) championship classes and the overall (unsealed surface) championship titles.. 

The surface was wet and slippery for the first three runs but the rain stayed away and as the sand and dirt came off the surface. The track slowly dried out, the grip levels came up and the run times came down…  

The first of the quickest run times were set by Ryan Munt in his Subaru 4WD, Neil Glasbey, Darren Taylor and John Dutch in his DutchSpeed prepared Mini, they all continued to trade fastest times throughout the day. They were closely followed by Steve Glass, Steve Brett and Terry Steele who were having a close battle of their own for 5th , 6th and 7th  overall.

The Final overall Round 10 positions were as follows

 

1st Ryan Munt on a 1:05:1

2nd Neil Glasbey on a :1:05:23

3rd Darren Taylor on a 1:06:03

4th John Dutch on a 1:07:11

5th Steve Glass on a 1:07:32

6th Steve Brett on a 1:08:16

7th Terry Steele on a 1:09:19

In Class 1

Wayne Hole took 1st place with a time of 1:09:33 followed by Jemma Western on a 1:21:97 

Class 2

No drivers competed in this class today

Class 3

Once again saw Steve Brett win this class in his Mini with a time of 1:08:16  followed by Marion Saunders in a time of 1:15:76

Class 4

This class was hotly contested with Ryan Munt coming out on top with a time of 1:05:10 followed by Neil Glasbey on a time of 1:05:23 then Steve Glass on a 1:07:32, Toby Allen on 1:09:80 , Matt Price on 1:11:19 , Paul Willis on 1:12:12 .

Class 5

Another hotly contested class with Darren Taylor and John Dutch who always seem to be trading fastest times for that 1st and 2nd places in class. This time Darren came out on top with a time of 1:06:03 and John 2nd on a time of 1:07:11 . In 3rd place was Terry Steele with a 1:09:19 and followed by Andy Lee on a 1:17:70 ..

Ladies Class

Normally 6 or more ladies contest this class (BUT WE NEED MORE) to come racing with us.

In 1st spot was Vicky Cox with a time of 1:12:69 and then Linda Burt on 1:14:38, Marion Saunders on 1:15:76  followed by a New Lady driver Sue Mitchell on 1:18:45 who drove very well for her first time and finally Jemma Western on a 1:21:97.

Congratulations to Ryan on a great drive and his win

 

More details can be found on www.iowcc.co.uk  Including the next and final rounds of the sealed surface championship to be held at BAE Systems and IOW College car parks were around 30 members of the Austin Healey club from the mainland will be coming to race with us on the 10th and 11th of November.

 

Pictures by Allan Marsh      Write-up by  John Dutch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Christmas Party Saturday 22nd December

Since the goose is getting plump et al we figured it time to wheel out the IOWCC Christmas party arrangements.

Saturday the 22nd of December see’s us back at the Melville Hall Hotel! The evening will commence with arrival from 6.30pm, and sit down at 7.30pm.

There will be entertainment from the Tony Martin Experience, with bar open until late. Cost is £25 per person, including festive novelties etc and some complimentary vino on the car club tables. There are a couple of other groups in on the same evening so it should be a good night, and Tony Martin will have a great bit of kit there.

If anyone wants to stop overnight, its £25pp based on 2 sharing, and that includes a leisurely full English breakfast on the Sunday morning and also full access to all the leisure facilities too, please see the Menu attached! To reserve a place you will need to phone the hotel directly and ask for Steve to take you booking and make payment, the number to call is 400500.

Festive Menu 221212

 

The Healey Weekend – 10th and 11th November.

 

The climax to the season is almost upon us, and this year we are expecting a bumper turnout with over 43 Healey’s coming down to the island of which probably 20 will be competing in what are the final 2 rounds of the 2012 calendar.

Round 11 will be on Saturday at BAE, then on Sunday we shall be at the College, after the event at the college we will retire to the Bargeman’s for a Beer and short awards ceremony to round off the weekend.

This is always by far the busiest event of the season; we will do our best to give you all 6 runs on both days, it is however dependant on how quickly we get started and how many people we have signed on.

To help make the day run as smoothly as possible we ask if as many people as possible can Sign on in advance via the payments page on the website, and when you arrive in the morning of each day to follow the instructions of the parking steward so we can dedicate as much space to the course as possible.

The Healey Club are staying at the Freshwater Bay House Hotel and will be having a disco on the Saturday night to which we are all invited to, they are hoping to see as many of us there as possible and since it bound to be an excellent night we hope you make the effort to come down for a beer!

 

 

The weather forecast earlier in the week was wet and windy for the coming weekends racing to be held by the Isle of Wight Car Club but as the weekend drew closer the weather changed to sunny and it was needed as the surface was wet and slippery for the first three runs, As the sand and dirt came off the surface and the sun dried it out the grip levels came up and the run times came down…

The first of the quickest run times were set by Andy Williams in his Special and John Dutch in his Mini who continued to trade fastest times throughout the day. They were closely followed by Darren Taylor and Neil Glasbey who were having a close battle of their own for 3rd and 4th overall and followed by Steve Brett.

 

The Final overall positions were as follows

 

• 1st Andy Williams on a 1:17:21
• 2nd John Dutch on a :1:17:52
• 3rd Darren Taylor on a 1:20:47
• 4th Neil Glasbey on a 1:20:86
• 5th Steve Brett on a 1:23:59

In Class 1

Wayne Hole took 1st place with a time of 1:26:22 , no others drivers competed in this class today.

Class 2

No drivers competed in this class today

Class 3

Once again saw Steve Brett win this class in his Mini with a time of 1:23:59 followed by Marion Saunders in a time of 1:34:29

Class 4

This class was hotly contested with Neil Glasbey coming out on top with a time of 1:20:86 followed by Steve Stotesbury on a time of 1:24:74 then Brian Robbins on 1:25:17, Ryan Munt on 1:28:59 , Callum Steele on 1:31:24 , Linda Burt on 1:33:55 , Jamie Duff on 1:40:04 , Nick Reed on 1:45:60 , Matt Daly on 1:48:43 , Rob Philips on 2:09:12 .

Class 5

Another hotly contested class with Andy Williams and John Dutch who always seem to be trading fastest times for that 1st and 2nd places in class , this time Andy came out on top with a time of 1:17:21 and John on a time of 1:17:52 . In 3rd place was Darren Taylor with 1:20:47 and followed by Chris Wilson on 1:24:96 then Terry Steele on 1:25:62 , Stephen Glass on 1:29:33 .

Ladies Class

Normally 6 or more ladies contest this class (BUT WE NEED MORE) to come racing with us.

In 1st spot was Linda Burt with a time of 1:33:55 followed by Marion Saunders on 1:34:29 .

More details can be found on www.iowcc.co.uk

Pictures by John Dutch

 

Write up by John Dutch

 

Congratulations to Andy on a great drive and his win

 

 

IOW COLLEGE Round 8 23-9-2012

The weather forecast was for heavy rain for most of the day and rain it did in bucket fulls but this was not going to put off the Isle of Wight Car Club holding round 8 of 12 rounds of it auto test championship at the IOW College car park.

Rain was not going to be enough to deter these hardy motorsport enthusiasts on this Sunday as 30 drivers prepared for the day ahead.

Apart from the overall club championship there were many battles going on in all the classes including the ladies championship up for grabs.

 

In class 1

Wayne Hole took 1st place with a time of 1:24:07 followed by Jemma Western with a time of 1:30:27 and then in 3rd was a new lady driver Jess Greenen who has only passed her driving test recently showing great potential with a time of 1:35:19

Class 2

Saw a close and hard fault battle between Dean Long and Daryl Turner with Dean coming out on top with a time of 1:19:35 and Daryl on a time of 1:20:00 followed by Chris Greenen in 3rd on 1:23:01 and then Dave Leppard in 4th on a 1:26:01

Class 3

Once again saw Dave Dutch win this class, that’s now four class wins in a row with a time of 1:14:08 which also gave him the fastest time of the day overall and another round win in his DUTCHSPEED Modified Mini Pickup. 2nd and 3rd places were a close battle between the brothers Andy and Adam Greenen..

Class 4

This class was hotly contested with Toby Allen coming out on top with a time of 1:15:14 , not enough to knock Dave Dutch off the top spot but enough to give him 2nd overall as well as the class 4 win.

Close behind Toby was another even closer battle going on for 2nd and 3rd place between Dave Bizzill and Matt Griffin , Dave grabbed 2nd with time of 1:16:27 and Matt a time of 1:16:28 only 100th of a second between them, followed by Steve Glasbey in a time of 1:17:96.

Class 5

Another hotly contested class with Darren Taylor and John Dutch who always seem to be trading fastest times for that 1st and 2nd places in class , this time Darren came out on top with a time of 1:17:85 and John on a time of 1:18:12 . In 3rd place was Andy Williams with 1:21:03 and close behind was Chris Wilson on 1:22:24 .

Ladies Class

Normally 6 or more ladies contest this class BUT WE NEED MORE to come racing with us.

In 1st spot was Linda Burt with a time of 1:27:51 followed by Jemma Western on 1:30:27 and then New Lady driver Jess Greenen on 1:35:19

More details can be found on www.iowcc.co.uk

 

Pictures by Allan Marsh

 

Write up by John Dutch

 

OVERALL POSITIONS ON THE DAY

 

1st Dave Dutch

2nd Toby Allen

3rd Dave Bizzill

4th Matt Griffin

5th Darren Taylor

CURRENT (SEALED SURFACE) CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS

 

1st Dave Dutch on 150 points

2nd Toby Allen on 145 points

3rd Dave Goodwin on 144 points

4th Dave Bizzill on 139 points

5th Matt Griffin on 138 points

 

CURRENT (UNSEALED SURFACE) CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS

 

1st John Dutch on 146 points

2nd Neil Glasbey on 145 points

3rd Darren Taylor on 143 points

4th Steve Brett on 140 points

 

CURRENT OVERALL (Combined) CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS

 

1st Toby Allen on 278 points

2nd John Dutch on 277 points

3rd Darren Taylor on 271 points

4th Dan Morgan on 268 points

5th Andy Williams on 251 points

A long awaited venue for many as it gave an opportunity to try out a new venue to the calendar kindly provided by Paul the owner. The track was laid out by Steve and Paul although looked a bit small to many on first viewing turned out to be a great little track with fast and slower bits in it, a good mix. The weather forecast was hot and sunny and was it hot indeed it was and it was needed as the grass field was wet and slippery for the first two runs but as the grass came off the surface and the sun dried it out the grip levels came up and the run times came down…

First to set the pace in RUN 1 was Darren Taylor known as the King of Knighton posting a time of 1:03:30 closely followed by Brad Cullen in a time of 1:03:64 and then John Dutch in a time of 1:03:84.

RUN 2.. Saw Steve Stotesbury in his 4WD Scooby getting a clean run without hitting any cones and posted a time of 54:52 followed by Darren Taylor on a 55:59 and then Neil Glasbey with a time of 55:73

RUN 3.. The track grip was now getting much better and the times were getting closer but Steve Stotesbury liked being on the top of the leader board and decided he was going to TRY and stay there if he could so set a time of 52:53 , Darren Taylor had the same idea but posted a time of 53:05 but he had to worry about Neil Glasbey who was only a 3 tenths behind him on a 53:33 who was followed by John Dutch on a 54:33

RUN 4.. Steve Stotesbury knew the chasing pack was only going to get closer as the day went on so posted a time of 49:76 and closer they got Neil Glasbey posted a time of 51:20 but Darren Taylor was getting a bit too close on a time of 51:87 , Steve Brett was not going to be left out of this chase and posted a time of 52:40

RUN 5.. Saw John Dutch winner of the last round finally getting on the pace and posting a time of 51:13 , he was chased hard by Steve Brett who wanted to let John know he was hard on his heels and posted a time of 51:36 , but now Ryan Munt said don’t forget me boy’s I am coming and posted a time of 52:09 just pushing Terry Steele into 4^th place posting a time of 52:84

RUN 6.. THE final chance for everyone to get there fastest time and knock Steve off the top of the leader board, John knew this so he threw caution to wind and just went for it but over drove his mini and could not better his run 5 time of 51:13 this left John in 2^nd overall at this point and wondering if he had blown it at the last minute and allowing the chasing pack to deny him a second place overall and chase they did, Darren Taylor posted his best time of 51:16 just three 100’s behind John, Followed by Neil Glasbey posting a time of 51:86

which was not an improvement on his run 4 time of 51:20 .

All a bit too close for Steve but his RUN 4 time of 49:76 was enough to give him the class WIN and overall WIN.

Congratulations to STEVE on a great drive and his win

OVERALL POSITION

1^st Steve Stotesbury

2^nd John Dutch

3^rd Darren Taylor

4^th Neil Glasbey

5^th Steve Brett

Fastest LADIES of the Day

1^st Vicky Cox

2^nd Marion Saunders

3^rd Linda Burt

4^th Jemma Western

5^th ………………..

class 1

1^st Wayne Hole

2^nd Jemma Western

class 2

1^st …………

2^nd ………….

class 3

1^st Steve Brett

2^nd Marion Saunders

3^rd Kevin Richardson

4^th ………………

class 4

1^st Steve Stotesbury

2^nd Neil Glasbey

3^rd Ryan Munt

4^th Toby Allen

5^th Matt Price

class 5

1^st John Dutch

2^nd Darren Taylor

3^rd Terry Steele

4^th Steve Glass

5^th Andy Williams