VSCC Racers show their support for Mallory Park with a superb turnout for the Bob Gerard Memorial Trophy Race Meeting this Sunday. As Mallory Park dominates the headlines due to threats from the local borough council to reduce the number of days of track activity because of noise issues, Vintage Sports-Car Club competitors have entered the VSCC’s Bob Gerard Memorial Trophy Race in their droves showing their endearing enthusiasm and support for Leicestershire’s ‘Friendly Circuit’. The VSCC has held the event at Mallory Park since 7 July 1991. Nearly every grid of the eleven race programme is full including five popular Scratch and Handicap races for Pre-war cars, one of which gets the action underway at 1.00pm. It is followed by the ‘Mallory Mug’ Race for Standard and Modified Pre-war Sports-Cars which is bursting at the seams with original Pre-war Sports-Cars and past race winners, including Sue Darbyshire, Andrew Mitchell and John Guyatt. Expect the aforementioned trio to be at the sharp end of proceedings whilst Mark Brett (Ballamy-Ford ) and Jerome Fack (Brough Superior ) will look to use the power advantage of their imposing machines. The fight between Justin Maeers’s 6-litre GN and Robert Carr’s 1930 GN/AC will be one of the main focuses of the Vintage Racing Cars Race, alongside a three way dice between Bugatti racers Chris Hudson, Bo Williams and Bruce Stops, who races in his home county. Adding a post-war element to the meeting the focus of the John Taylor Memorial Trophy Race for Formula Junior Cars will come from the front engined cars – Richard Ellingworth in his ex-Tony Goodwin Gemini Mk II, will be battling Crispian Besley’s Elva-BMC, and ERA stalwart, ‘Mac’ Hulbert in his similar car, while the two slim and purposeful American built BMC Mk1 cars of Stephen Barlow and David Brand, may provide some surprises. The day’s title Bob Gerard Memorial Trophy brings together the cream of the immediate Pre-war and Post-war eras of Grand Prix racing for what will undoubtedly be an exhilarating 12 laps in honour of the race’s great namesake here at Mallory Park. A trio of ERAs will probably set the pace whist Tom Dark’s beautiful Type 73C and William Nuthall’s Cooper Bristol challenge make this a spectacular race that you will not want to miss. Edwardian Cars are a popular feature of the VSCC Meeting at Mallory and twelve of these Pre 1916 leviathans start the 6 laps Handicap race for the Dick Baddiley Trophy including Julian Majzub’s 1916 Sunbeam Indianapolis that took Class victory at last weekend’s Goodwood Festival of Speed. They race alongside a host of Austin 7s in different guises who are fighting for the Burghley Trophy. This meeting is third of the VSCC’s busy programme of five UK based race meetings. Gates open at 8.00am, Practice commences from 9.30am and the first race is from 1.00pm. Tickets are available on the gate priced at £15.00 per person (children under 16 go free) and there is a Pre-war car park on the outside of the circuit for those arriving in suitable vehicles. Mallory Park is situated in the heart of the Midlands in Leicestershire just off the A47 between Leicester and Hinckley and easily accessible from the M1, M69 or M6. For more information please see click here or visit mallorypark.co.uk
Posted on: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 10:50:43 +0000
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