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The
Vintage Sports-Car Club makes an eager return to Pembrey Race Circuit
in South Wales for the
prestigious Richard Seaman
Memorial Trophies Race Meeting on Sunday 25 July. With over
eighty
Pre-war Racing and Sports-Cars participating in a programme of ten
races,
Pembrey will be bursting with history and nostalgia. How
fitting that one
of the most legendary Land Speed Record Cars of the 1920s,
‘BABS’, will
hopefully be present at Pembrey on static display for the re-naming of
the
media centre, ‘The Parry-Thomas Centre’.
John
Godfrey Parry-Thomas, the legendary enginer and Brooklands Racer, made
three
attempts to break the Land-Speed Record at Pendine, just across the
estuary
from Pembrey between 1925 and 1927. He was successful in
breaking Henry
Seagrave’s existing record and exceeding 170 mph.
On the third attempt he
was tragically killed when trying to break 200 mph. The car,
restored
from being buried in the sand for over forty years, now resides at the Museum of Speed at
Pendine.
Vintage
Racers from all of the UK will be
traveling to South Wales to contest some
of the most highly
regarded Trophies in the VSCC’s illustrious
cabinet. Two ERA ‘Voiturette’
Racers line up for the Historic Seaman Race for Pre-1961 Racing cars
which is
running alongside the Vintage Seaman Trophy for Pre-1931 Racing cars,
making
for an interesting battle. Ben Fidler’s 1936 ERA
AJM1 and David Morris’s
ERA R11B will be setting the pace whilst Stephen Shoosmith’s
1931 Type 51
Bugatti will be one of the front running two seater
sports-cars. Anthony
Howat’s 27 litre engined Hispano/Delage will be battling
against Welshman
Geraint Owen’s 1930 Type 35B Bugatti and Robert
Carr’s AC/GN Special for the
Vintage Seaman Trophy.
Bryan
Gill’s 1930 Lea-Francis Hyper TT is one of the more
competitive cars in the
Standard and Modified Pre-war Sports-Car Race, he will be making the
most of
his 600 mile round trip from Harrogate in North Yorkshire and will be
giving the similar car
of Jeremy Brewster, also in a Lea-Francis a real run for his
money. The
French Talbot-Lagos of John Guyatt and Richard Black will also be front
runners, with Toby Heelis in his 1939 Delage hot on their heels.
Frazer
Nash fans will not be disappointed by the presence of no fewer than
eight
‘Chain Gang’ cars present in various guises.
Equipe
GTS are running two 30 minute races at the event; their grid of late
50s and
60s historic production sports-cars features two Triumph TR4s, MG Bs, a
TVR
1800S, WSM Sprite and a sole MG A.
Tickets
cost £12 on the day and children aged 15 and under are
free. Advance
ticket sales are now closed. Practice gets underway at 9.00am, with the first
race, Equipe GTS at 11.30am.
After lunch Race 2 a short
scratch race for Pre-war Cars gets the afternoon’s racing
underway at 1.15pm.
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more information please click
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