*Shelsley Walsh has a busy month starting with the weekend of 4^th and 5^th July.*
The busy summer at the world famous Shelsley Walsh Hill Climb continues with an even busier July starting on the weekend of 5^th and 6^th July. The Reg Phillips Memorial Trophy Meeting is on Saturday incorporating rounds of the Toyo Tires Midland Speed, the Lotus 7 Club, the Ginetta Club and the Aston Martin Owners' Club Championships. On Sunday is the ever-popular annual MAC Vintage meeting with the Vintage Sports Car Club which is a special draw for lovers of Vintage racing cars.
On Saturday the Reg Phillips meeting has 145 cars entered and the class for the Lotus Seven Club Championship has 25 cars in their own 5 subsidiary classes by engine size and type.
Vying for the Best Time of Day award and the Reg Phillips Memorial Trophy will be a number of competitors but the leading contender must be Nic Mann who is making his 2009 Shelsley Walsh competition debut in the amazing self built Mannic with a turbocharger powered by a miniature gas turbine that was a helicopter starter motor. You must see the astonishing and unique starting procedure of this unbelievable car. Nic already holds the hill record for supercharged Shelsley Specials of 26.46 seconds for which this car was built and will be looking to reduce this time even further. No less astonishing is the Spectre Mark 7 of Karl Schollar. Entirely home built this car has been in constant development since the 1980’s and features three axles with six tiny Go-Kart wheels and tyres. Karl even built a wind tunnel in his garage to test out his home-brewed front and rear wings during last winter. Also in the hunt for honours will be 2008 Midland Hill Climb Champion Peter Cox from Abberley in his historic Chevron B42.
Local drivers entered include Briony Serrell from Ombersley, who is a regular at Shelsley and is entered in the family Aston Martin DB2/4. Briony is the wife of TV Antiques expert Phillip. John and Nikki Cotterill from Upton Snodsbury and Simon Durling who lives at the top of the historic Shelsley Walsh hill are entered in the pre-1975 handicap class.
On Sunday is the celebrated Vintage meeting in association with the Vintage Sports Car Club. The entry at the 104 year old hill features some of the most historic cars to be seen at any motor sport meeting anywhere in the world. Oldest car on view will be the 1907 Berliet of John Dennis. This car has been fitted with the Curtiss engine from a first World War aeroplane. The honour of having the largest engine falls to the Delage of Anthony Howat that is powered by a 27 litre Hispano Suiza aeroplane engine.
Not only is there great competition on the track, but on vintage day many spectators arrive in cars as historic as those competing and many of these will be worth inspecting.
Don't try to choose between the two days of fascinating motor sport action, make sure that you go to both!
Shelsley Walsh is AA signposted approximately 10 miles North West of Worcester. Practice starts at 9:30 am on both days and the each event starts after lunch at between 1:45 pm and 2:00 pm. Admission is £14 on Saturday, and £17 on Sunday and accompanied children under 16 get in free. This includes parking, transfer to the paddock, and seated trackside enclosures. Excellent catering and light refreshment/bar facilities are available as are a range of souvenirs and regalia.
Note:
Later in the month on the weekend of the 18^th and 19^th of July is the next Shelsley Walsh event with the annual ‘Clubman’s’ day on the Saturday including a round of the MG Luffield Championship and on Sunday is the annual Classic Meeting.
