The 2005 Season
SHELSLEY WALSH – 2005 SEASON STARTS THIS WEEKEND
This
weekend sees the opening meeting of the 2005
season at Shelsley Walsh Speed Hill Climb in Worcestershire as the celebratory
100th year of hill climbing at the venue gets underway. With the high point
of the season being a special three day meeting in August, this weekend’s
bumper entry will see cars and drivers bed themselves in to the famous 1000
yard hill before what promises to be the best season of hill climbing ever
on the hill.
Saturday May 14th will see a variety of cars, the majority of which are modified
road going cars, but that in no way means that they will be speeding up surrounded
with wafts of air conditioning and music on inside! Audi Quattros, Metro 6R4
rally cars, Mitsubishi Evos, Caterhams and Westfields all will supply the
action.
The Michelin Porsche Club Speed Championship sees 24 cars all jostling for
class position over their two timed runs on Saturday afternoon. Porsche 911s,
924s, Carreras and the stunning Porsche 993RSR will all be on show from the
Stuttgart manufacturer. For earlier motoring and Monte Carlo Rally wins, the
Austin Healey 3000 cars will stir some memories together with the Frazer Nash
class that will include the GN Spider that held the outright record at Shelsley
in the 1920s.
Sunday looks equally as interesting with classes for TVRs, Westfields, Triumphs,
modified road cars and some very quick single seater racing cars too.
Deryk Young from Hereford is a former Best Time of the Day driver at Shelsley
Walsh, and this year he has a new Gould racing car in his garage. It is actually
the car that held the record on the hill in the hands of Graeme Wight Jnr,
but now Young has bought the car, he has put another engine in it that is
a 4.0 V8 with about 600hp. His wife Sue will drive the car too over both days.
She is the current ladies hill record holder in 26.98 seconds after an awesome
run last September that humbled most of the boys!
Practice on both days is at 9.30am with the timed class runs starting at 2pm.
Entry is £10 each day, or free to Midland Automobile Club (MAC) members.
NEW SHELSLEY WALSH BOOK OUT
There is a brand new Shelsley Walsh book hitting the shelves in the next few days. The Shelsley Walsh Story – A Century of Motorsport has been written by Simon Taylor who has been editor of Autosport, BBC Radio’s commentator on F1, ITV’s F1 pundit. Simon has seen a great deal in Motorsport all over the globe, but his favourite venue has always been Shelsley Walsh where he continues to compete in his historic HWM Chevrolet.
Contact Melodie Nightingale on to order a copy, or buy one at the hill climb this weekend.BIG ENTRIES FOR THE BIGGEST MEETING
Entries are already pouring in for the August 21st meeting at Shelsley Walsh
with the cream of the modern F1 powered cars, former hill climb champions
and snapshots of cars from every era since Shelsley Walsh started competition
runs in 1905.
Big Screen TV and mouth watering car displays in the paddock and car park
are also booked