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| December ____________________ July 8th ____________________ June 6th ____________________ February 2nd Available to pre-order now and due for Winter 2023-24 release. The Scalextric Edition of our Escort. Click Here For More Information ____________________
October 27th ____________________ September 2022 Everyone has a bucket list of things they want to do in life and Friday 16th September was a massive box ticked. Driving a V8 Holden Commodore, with a rich history in the iconic Aussie V8 supercar series, surpassed a lot of expectation. With sincere thanks to Alex and Ben, plus the guys at Holden Racing UK, for making this possible. The car had previously been raced by Mark Skaife and Greg Murphy. Gary Hawkins For more photos see the 2022 gallery ____________________ January 2022 Jackson tops final 2021 Autosport National Driver Rankings as Birley grabs third ! Click For Link
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____________________ 22nd April 2017 ____________________ 4th April 2017 Motorsport TV will be showing our races from Brands Hatch (March 25/26) over two programmes. The first will be on Saturday April 29th at 12.25 and the second will be on Saturday May 6th at 11.55 ____________________ 13th February 2017 The winter rebuilds are in full swing. Joe and Ben at Hart power are working hard to get the new engine/turbo/restrictor sorted for the Escort. This year we have been pegged back even further with a 50 mm restrictor, which is requiring a lot of thought to resolve. Everything was stripped off the car straight after Mallory Park. The calipers have been checked and re-sealed at Techcraft, the gearbox went back to Quaife for a check over, the body panels have been repaired and painted by Luke at Chappell Coachworks. The prop shafts have been balanced and checked at JW Engineering and Phil Stewart has checked the front differential. Meanwhile the Honda Integra has been worked on as well. Dave at Boss Racing has stripped and checked the engine. Glen at GTS has sorted out the gearbox problem, whilst Mark at Brise has found an issue with the alternator. Could this be the cause of last year’s problems? The engine is now back in the Honda so it won’t be long before we are out testing, although the ECU will need to be programmed first. Our first meeting is at Brands Hatch on March 25/26, so not long to go now. Just one more win and we hit 600! ____________________ 8th December 2016 ____________________ 7th November 2016 ____________________ 24th July 2016 Good News ! Our fuel test was all OK. 99.4% fully legal on all aspects. ____________________ 28th February 2016 Just four weeks until the first meeting of the year. Already the registrations and entries are looking good. In class A of the Quaife Motorsport News saloons we have Andy Banham (Subaru), Alex Sidwell (Holden Commodore), Rick May (BMW V8), Martyn Scott (BMW E30), Marcus Bicknell (Ford Mustang V8), Luke Reade (BMW Mini turbo), Dan Cowan (Ford Sierra RS500) and Steve Dann (VW Golf turbo) all eager to give Rod a run for his money. In the Cannons Tin Tops, class T2 looks like being very popular this year. Joining our Bevan prepared Honda Integra will be the Honda Civics of Graham Richardson, Daniel Fisher and Chris Whiteman, the MGZR of Terry Searles, the Renault Clios of Vince Wheeler and James Alford, the Proton Satria of Daniel Adams, the Ford Focus of Phil Usher, the Ford Puma of Adrian Matthews and the VW Golf of lady racer Kelly Dann. Yes Steve Dann’s wife is having a go this year and we all wish her the best of luck. ____________________ 19th January 2016
____________________ 4th November 100 wins for the Escort on Brands Hatch Indy Circuit. ____________________ 19th May 2014 ____________________ 9th January 2014 Congratulations to Rod who finished second in the Kent sports star of the year awards. The annual event is sponsored by the Courier newspaper group and features many local sports people from a wide variety of sports. This year’s event was held in Tonbridge at the K college, and the awards were presented by Helen Grant MP, minister for sport, and former England footballer Gary Stevens.
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