Welsh Motorsport

Tuesday 6th May

Natter & Noggin. Scrutineer Ronnie Roberts will host an educational evening on car preparation etc. Guests welcome. Starts at 8pm in the Telford Room upstairs.

Tuesday 20th May

NAVIGATION RUN

Starts 7pm from Brewers Fayre, Parc Britannia, Vaynol MR 114/545 697. Need map 114 & 115, romer and £5 entry fee. Get there early to avoid disapointment. First 12 entries only. Championship leader Gruffydd Parry is organising, so this is a chance to catch him up!

Established 1936

Affiliated to the MSA, ANWCC & WAMC

Patron - the Most Honourable Marquess of Anglesey

President - Mr Don Mills

Vice-presidents - Frank Campbell, Ken Jones, John Robinson

Chairman- Dylan Humphreys e-mail dylan152humphreys@btinternet.com

Secretary inc membership - James Robertson e-mail james@glanvillecottages.demon.co.uk

Competitions Secretary - Aled Pennant aledpennant@fsmail.net

Treasurer - Dafydd Edwards dafydd@lliwedd.wanadoo.co.uk

Club Photographer - Duncan Littler Motorsport Photography. All photo's in this website are copywrited

The club holds Natter & Noggin social nights onthe first Tuesday of each month at the Anglesey Arms Hotel, Menai Bridge. (Anglesey end of the Menai Suspension Bridge), starting at 7:30pm. Quiz nights, Tutoritals and just a good chat with fellow minded motor enthusiasts. Come and join us.

Results are on-line at www.anwcc.org

Above: Crews "Walking" the course before the off. This pictures is test C with the triangle in the background.

C&A MC held the anual Blas Mon Autotests at the Anglesey Showground on 15th March. As this turned out to be the afternoon Wales won the GRAND SLAM, the event was planned to finished early before 5pm so that the locals could watch their home side beat France to take all the silverware in the Rugby. With a 12 noon start this was going to be a tall order, as 44 entries turned up!

 

Above: Endaf Davies snapped a clutch cable on the Escort Estate, while Laurence Bentley ran out of petrol in the Volvo 480. I know the tests were long, but not that long surely!

3 sites were layed out, and ended up with just 3 runs at each, and what with the worst score to drop rule, results were going to be decided on the best 6 tests. The tests were quite long though, so no-one complained they weren't getting value for £30 entry fee. Site A used the first Tarmac road, starting at the Main road end, as did all 3 sites. There was a chicane half way down the straight, 90 left at the end, a 360' round a four cone square, then 90 right by the food hall and back through the chicane and onto the finish line. Best times were just short of a minute, although Joey Taylor retired here when he overshot the 90 right in his Nova and ended up in the Food Hall steel rail fence.

 

Above: Kevin Griffiths / Emma Mitchell were having a good day until the engine started to knock badly, the 1.3 short engine died. In the Ford Ka, Helen Williams took part in her first PCA to finish highest Lady driver, with Phil Russell co-driving.

Site B was the middle road, chicane, 90 left around the food hall, hairpin right around a 2 cone corner, and back. Times were similar to test A.

 

Above: Gordon Holmes finished 3rd AutoSOLO in his Golf Mk4, while a welcome return from Tomos Parry saw him dicing for the top places, finishing 4th AutoSOLO in his new Nova 1.3 Rally Car.

Site C was the longest, starting on the 3rd road (Mona F&T end), chicane, 90 right, chicane, then a 360 clockwise around the triangle and through the gateway, then reverse to the start/finish line. Times here were more like a minute and a half for the top runners, with many spinning on the turns, after early runners cut the corners and pulled mud on to the tarmac, as the weather was nasty, heavy rain, getting worse as the day wore on.

 

 

Above: Mark & Justin Campbell in the sideways Mk1 Escort, and an equally sideways John Hunter in the MX5 were both impressive to watch all day.

Most competitors missed the awards presentation at the end, as the last car finished the final test at 5:15 pm, and most had gone to the pub to watch the Rugby. Still, Lee Barnes/Stephen Roberts received the PCA winners awards, and John Ifan Jones had hung on to collect the Autotest section winners trophy, much to his surprise, as he'd borrowed a standard 1.2 Nova just to have some fun. A bonus then! The over-all Fastest Time of Day went to the winner of the AutoSOLO section, Siôn Matthews, now still just 17 years of age was always that bit quicker than anyone else in the MAS Nova 1.4.. He was unable to wait for his trophy, as he and second placed Gruff Parry were paired to compete on the Moonbeam Road rally that evening, so had to shoot off. (They finished 25th on that wet event in Sions road-going Ibiza. Should have entered in a canoe)

Above: Merfyn Williams & Gruff Parry share a barrier, and Ieuan Roberts on his way to get another. There were many others too, including Marshals Paul Cross, Dewi Hughes, Darren Jones, Tecwyn Jones and more. A huge thanks to all the Marshals and officials who stood out in those apauling conditions, and to all the helpers, many of them competitors, who helped set up and dismantle the site. Thanks one and all. A great days motorsport.

C&A MC & Rhyl & DMC co-promoted a double weekend of Autotesting in the pouring rain at the former FERODO Car Park, Caernarfon on Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th January 2008.

ELIM CITROEN GARAGE and HAFOD PEUGEOT GARAGE of Llangefni sponsored the events which formed part of the Welsh and ANWCC championships.

SATURDAY consisted of 3 seperate events, using the same two test layouts (One big and one small), but the WAMC & ANWCC Championship Autotesters had a couple of "reverse through lines" over the otherwise all-forwards tests which the AutoSOLO and PCA crews did... all-forwards.

DUNCAN WILD won the Autotest section in his ABS Freestyle by a fair margin, while Ian Chapmans "Grand a Second" Striker finished 10 seconds up on Gordon Holmes' much cheeper Dutton Phaeton (below left) for second and third positions. Fourth place Chris Champman had a wrong test at the beggining of the day. Without that error he would have robbed his dad of the 1st in class award.

 

In the AutoSOLO it was the biggest car that took the top spot, John North guiding his Passat TDi (below left)to an 11 second win over Mark Turners Metro, who in turn beat Jon sharing the same car by a similar margin. In fourth place we saw the welcome return of Robert Holmes, who has been away from Autotesting for a decade following a hip transplant, now behind the wheel of his Mazda MX5 (above right). Gruff Parry deserved the "entertainer of the award" for his sideways Sierra (Below right).

  

In the Club PCA section Wayne Allman/Justin Campbell were always that bit quicker than the opposition, winning not only the Saturday PCA in his Peugeot 205 Gti (above), but then repeting the achievment on Sunday too. Perhaps it was meant to be, as the event was sponsored by a Peugeot dealership. On Saturday, 14 year-old Joey Taylor had a great run in the white Nova (below left) to come 2nd O/A, while the XR2 (below right) of Chris Jones and Quinten Williams suffered a bent axle after a kerb got in the way. Made for intersting right hand turns!

  

The SUNDAY event