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Back
to back Championship wins for Ian
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Ashburn
congratulates Jones on his superb C-class win
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The
happy O-class winner: Terry Esom
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Janet
did a roaring trade in the paddock
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One
of Everingham's rare PMFC outings went well
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They
lock kids up at Snett; Ashley tries to get away
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The
ex-hillclimbers confer: Ward, Esom and Allen
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Sue
tries to calm them down before the start
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pics
by SwiftyPix and Derek Seymour
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PIRELLI
MARANELLO FERRARI CHALLENGE
RACE REPORT : ROUND 14 : SNETTERTON : 14
OCTOBER 2001
PADDOCK STORIES
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- With
the possibility that Nathan Kinch could still pinch the Maranello
Championship from him, Ian Hetherington's SCS team took no chances
and brought along David Ward's 360/Ch as a spare. In the event it
wasn't needed as Ian's own car ran faultlessly. And Nathan never showed
up, being busy with important Challenge stuff in Monza.
- There
has to be some kind of record here: Richard Allen's completely standard
328GTB has retired with mysterious gremlins from every single race
entered. There don't appear to be many "experts" left in
the country that Richard has not consulted and the bits that have
been swapped would just about build a second car. Some more theories
are now being tried out......Feng Shui being one, although Richard
was also seen trying acapuncture with what looked suspiciously like matches.
- An eruption of oil smoke in practice signalled the end of yet another
creaky 308 engine - this time Duncan McKay's, with a well-ventilated
block. He wisely decided to end the racing days of this venerable
car (a past Maranello series winner!) and went off and bought Rod
Carmans 355/Ch. Have we now seen the last of this overaged and overworn
tipo in the PMFC?
- Jim
and Janet Race took over hospitality duties from the usual Moodies
people, and did an excellent job just like last year. They set up
shop in the paddock by the Ferraris and the close proximity and excellent
fare were welcomed by all the teams.
- Lap
records took a bit of a pounding. Where do they all get it from? Tony
Jones took 1.5 seconds off Marco Attard's 355/Ch record, Hether's
"S" class time was also handily under Alan Cosby's previous
record but there was nothing doing in the "O" class. Shaun
Powell's time from last year was still nearly four seconds quicker
than this year's "O" boys managed
- Trailers
are notoriously wayward devices but Swifty actually managed to back
his into two separate objects in the paddock. Rumour has it that the
second one was someone's pride and joy, a Mercedes no less. Anyone
got a pic of the incident?
- As
befits an end of season meeting, the amount of paddock business done
in trading racing cars was phenomenal. Everyone was, of course, sworn
to secrecy and there was lots of "don't tell anyone but.....".
Suffice it to say that in 2002 there will be lots of 360/Chs, lots
of 355/Chs and so far four names have been mentioned in connection
with the 550 "Challenge" version recently approved by the
PMFC Technical & Regulatory Committee.
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