Sep 4, 2022
The 2022 Cavendish Ships Stores BARC SW Top Ten Challenge champion is Tony Wiltshire in the Ralt RT34.
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Position
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Driver |
Car |
Points
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1
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Tony Wiltshire |
Ralt RT34 |
69
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2
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Ben Bonfield |
Jedi MK4 |
50
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3
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Paul Crute |
OMS Jaguar |
49
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4
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Steve Holland |
Caterham 7 |
48
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|
5
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Andrew Forsyth |
OMS |
48
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Ben Bonfield and Tony Wiltshire have had a great battle this season. The final double point August meeting could have completely changed the outcome of the 2022 Cavendish Ships Stores Challenge. Ben suffered technical difficulties just before the August Sunday run-off forcing him out of the final challenge.
Paul Crute in the lovely OMS Jaguar was third, just a point behind Ben.
A Few Honourable Mentions
But we can’t write a report about this year’s Cavendish Ships Stores Top Ten Challenge without mentioning Steve Holland and his Caterham 7. His fourth place is not only a great achievement for any car and driver but Steve’s Caterham is the only non-racing car in the first eleven of this championship.
And Mark Crookall in the OMS PR. In his first season in a racing car, he has, not only scored great points in the Top Ten Challenge, finishing sixth but finished second behind, the superfast Ben Bonfield in his class. Some super performances all around!
We would like to thank Cavendish Ships Stores for the support of our Top Ten Challenge.
Sep 4, 2022
Our 2022 season at Gurston Down concluded with a great weekend’s hill climbing.
The 2022 Turbo Dynamics Championship was finally concluded after some stunning performances by many drivers.
We are pleased to announce that Clive Stangle is the 2022 Turbo Dynamics Gurston Down Champion.
Clive Stangle driving the Mitsubishi Evo, he shares with his wife Jennie, had an outstanding season with an almost perfect score in every round.
Second, was Stephen Wareham in his Mini. Stephen had a great season with perfect scores in every round he entered. He also reset the Road Cars up to 1400cc car class record on multiple occasions. Stephen scored 154 points, the same as Clive, which lead to the championship tie-break rules coming into effect. This ultimately meant Clive became the champion.
Third was Ben Bonfield, who was also second in the Top Ten Challenge and had a super season. Ben’s performances in the 998cc Jedi Mk4, were great to watch, always exciting and looking like they were “on the edge”.
The Overall Championship Results can be found here:
2022 Turbo Dynamics Gurston Down Championship – OVERALL
E&OE
Sep 2, 2022
Our 2022 Annual Dinner will be held at The Stones, in the evening, on the 26th of November 2022.
The booking forms, with menu choices, are available below. Please submit your form as soon as you can. The formal closing date will be announced in due course.
Awards Evening 26th November 2022 – pdf Form
Awards Evening 26th November 2022 – MS Word Form
ROOM BOOKINGS:
Rooms can be booked directly with the hotel on 01722 782020 at the special rate of £75.00 for a standard double/twin (including breakfast) or £85.00 for an executive double/twin (including breakfast) must quote the ‘BARC SW Awards Evening/ref Jo Hall’ when booking.
Aug 31, 2022
We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Turbo Dynamics Gurston Down Championship is Clive Stangle.
Clive scored maximum points in the 2022 season as did Stephen Wareham. However, under the tie-break rules, Clive became the 2022 Turbo Dynamics Champion.
The full championship results have not been published as there are a number of tie-break situations that are yet to be resolved.
Aug 22, 2022
Our 2022 Annual Dinner will be held at The Stones, in the evening, on the 26th of November 2022.
Please make sure you save the day.
Menus and Reservation Forms will be published in the next ten days.
Aug 21, 2022
Revised Finale Instructions and Entry Lists, including numbers, batches and paddock spaces, have been issued for the Turbo Dynamics Championship Finale weekend on Saturday, August 27th and Sunday, August 28th.
Fire Risk – We have added some extra items to the Final Instructions that include information to reduce the on-site fire risk, particularly in the camping areas.
These are a summary of those details below, but you must familiarise yourself the whole document:
“FIRE PREVENTION …. PLEASE NOTE IMPORTANT POINTS WE ASK EVERYONE TO
FAMILIARISE THEMSELVES AND ABIDE BY:–
The two most vulnerable areas for fire are the Camping Field and Hollow Bend. Therefore:–
1. We are forbidding the use of ANY fires or cooking outside motorhomes and caravans, meaning no BBQs
whether or not on the ground, no CADACs, etc, in the camping field.
2. All cars using titanium skid plates MUST have them removed or covered with an inert material, i.e. duct
tape or similar. These must be checked or replaced after every run.”
Aug 14, 2022
The 2022 Turbo Dynamics Gurston Down Championship will be decided at the August meetings.
The two likely champions are Stephen Wareham and Clive Stangle. Both have had outstanding performances this year in their classes. They have consistently beaten their respect class target times in every event entered. Additionally, Stephen has lowered his own class record at almost every event.
If Clive and Stephen score in the same manner as they have done at previous events, then we would expect the tie-break rules to come into play.
The first tie-break to be applied would be “a) The competitor with the higher number of scoring rounds wins”. Clive would become champion.
With double points on both timed runs on Sunday you cannot discount other drivers. Ben Bonfield or Chris Burch are both still in with a chance but they need some really great performances and errors or issues for Clive and Stephen to jump to the top of the championship leader-board.
It looks like the August Sunday timed runs will decide the Turbo Dynamics Championship.
Aug 12, 2022
The Provisional Entry List for the two August meetings and the Final Instructions have been issued.
DOGS ARE NOT PERMITTED ON-SITE DURING THE WHOLE WEEKEND, THAT INCLUDES THE CAMPING AREA.
Final Instructions – August 2022
Provisional Entry List – 27th and 28th August (Combined)
Jul 24, 2022
We have published the Overall Results of the Turbo Dynamics Championship after the July meetings. These are available on the Championship and Challenge pages or here.
Overall Results Turbo Dynamics Championship after July Meetings
Jul 24, 2022
The Turbo Dynamics Gurston Down Championship – Class Results – have been published on our website. More on these results in later news articles. These are available on the Championship and Challenge page or here.
Class Results 2022 Turbo Dynamics Championship
