FERRARI HILL CLIMB CHAMPIONSHIP
REPORT : ROUND 10 : LONGLEAT : 22 SEPTEMBER 2001
by Richard Allen

It was, amazingly, a dry meeting at this spectacular and daunting course. A good entry of ten Ferraris was mostly heavy metal, with three F355s, two 348s and a 512TR to overwhelm the smaller engined tipos. Jon Goodwin, a rare sight this season, looked favourite with his red F355GTS, and sure enough he headed the practice times, though Brian Jackson was not far behind in his 355.

On the competitive runs Jon Goodwin fairly stormed off, setting a new class record and taking the maximum point score too. Brian Jackson ran strongly about half a second back, with your reporter third, over a second off Goodwin's time. I was out for the first time in my re-acquired F355, and very nice it was too!

Peter Hayman soon got the hang of Longleat, punching his big car up nearly as fast as my 355, to win the Club handicap and finish nearly a second ahead of points rival Nick Frost (348GTC). Nick, new here too, made it home ahead of Geoff Dark's 308GT4, the quickest of the smaller cars. richard Prior put his 348ts next, to head Mike Spicer's 308GTB comfortably, Mike in turn having a useful margin over Philip Whitehead's 328GTB and Jos van de Perres' 308GTS.

The cumulative points update looks interesting, with one rounds still to go. With scores now being dropped series leader Geoff Dark is only four points ahead of Nick Frost, so Nick is in with a chance at Curborough, though if our August round there was any guide he will need a dry meeting!

RESULTS :

POINTS STANDING AFTER ROUND 10 :

Pos.	Driver	Tipo	Points
1.	Geoff Dark	308GT4	105
2.	Nick Frost	348GTC	101
3.	Peter Hayman	512TR	92
4.	Brian Jackson	F355/Ch / 308GTB	87
5.	Michael Spicer	308GTB	68
6.	Richard Allen	360M / 328GTB / F355B	63
7.	Richard Prior	348ts	41
8.	Stuart Bailey	246GT	35
9	Jon Goodwin	F355GTS	33
10	Christopher England	308GTS	31
11.	Philip Whitehead	328GTB	29
12.	Geoffrey Rollason	F355GTS	28
13.	Jos van de Perre	308GTS	26
14.=	John Dobson	328GTB / 308GT4	25
14.=	Len Watson	328GTS	25
16.	Terry Esom	328GTB	22
17.	Simon Clark	328GTS	20
18.	Chris Hitchman	308GTS	18
19.=	Peter Hitchman	F355GTS	15
19.=	Keith Maddox	328GTB	15
19.=	Jeff Simpson	246GT	15
22.=	Robin Ashley	246GTS	13
22.=	Peter Rogerson	F355GTS	13
24.	Sally Maynard-Smith	328GTS	1

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