Scottish Hill Climb Championship round

Fintray, 14 Jun 1981

Notes on the cars:

1. Toleman TG280H [10] (Chris Cramer): New to Chris Cramer (Stroud, Gloucestershire) and fitted with a 2.5-litre Hart engine for the British Hill Climb Championship in 1981. Retained by Cramer for 1982. Sold to Jimmy Jack (Evanton, Scotland) and Jim McGaughey for 1983 and converted to a GT with Lancia 037 bodywork and a BMW F2 engine. Debuted by Jack at Doune and raced by McGaughey in British GT racing in 1984 and 1985. In 1994, the car reappeared in Finland where it was raced by Ahti Juusela with a Ford engine, and in 1995 with a Mazda engine. It was then acquired by Jari Kämäräinen's team and raced by him, still with the Mazda engine, from 1996 to 2000, winning the Finnish championship in 1997. After a change to the rules, the car was stored until 2006 when it was raced again under Estonian rules. The engine broke after a race in 2007. Subsequent history unknown.
2. Pilbeam MP22 [3] (Alister Douglas-Osborn): New to Waring & Gillow Racing for Malcolm Dungworth to drive in the 1980 British hillclimb season, fitted with a 3.3-litre Engine Developments Cosworth DFV. Dungworth retained it for 1981, when it was shared at some events by Alister Douglas-Osborn. Douglas-Osborn gave the car its best result of 1981 with fourth place at Fintray. Dungworth retained the car for a third season in 1982, but qualified for fewer top-10 runoffs that season. It was sold to John Meredith (Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire) and raced by him in sprints and hillclimbs with Cheltenham Cameras sponsorship. He shared the car with Alan Payne at the Weston-super-Mare Speed Trials on 1 October 1983.
3. Toleman TG280H [10] (Jimmy Jack): New to Chris Cramer (Stroud, Gloucestershire) and fitted with a 2.5-litre Hart engine for the British Hill Climb Championship in 1981. Retained by Cramer for 1982. Sold to Jimmy Jack (Evanton, Scotland) and Jim McGaughey for 1983 and converted to a GT with Lancia 037 bodywork and a BMW F2 engine. Debuted by Jack at Doune and raced by McGaughey in British GT racing in 1984 and 1985. In 1994, the car reappeared in Finland where it was raced by Ahti Juusela with a Ford engine, and in 1995 with a Mazda engine. It was then acquired by Jari Kämäräinen's team and raced by him, still with the Mazda engine, from 1996 to 2000, winning the Finnish championship in 1997. After a change to the rules, the car was stored until 2006 when it was raced again under Estonian rules. The engine broke after a race in 2007. Subsequent history unknown.
4. Pilbeam MP22 [3] (Malcolm Dungworth): New to Waring & Gillow Racing for Malcolm Dungworth to drive in the 1980 British hillclimb season, fitted with a 3.3-litre Engine Developments Cosworth DFV. Dungworth retained it for 1981, when it was shared at some events by Alister Douglas-Osborn. Douglas-Osborn gave the car its best result of 1981 with fourth place at Fintray. Dungworth retained the car for a third season in 1982, but qualified for fewer top-10 runoffs that season. It was sold to John Meredith (Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire) and raced by him in sprints and hillclimbs with Cheltenham Cameras sponsorship. He shared the car with Alan Payne at the Weston-super-Mare Speed Trials on 1 October 1983.
5. Argo JM1X [018-F3] (Brian Frazer): New for Stefan Johansson to race in British and Swedish F3 in 1978 as an Anglia Cars entry, first appearing at Brands Hatch on 16 April 1978, where Motoring News described it as "totally new". Converted to Formula Atlantic specification for 1979 as the "JM1X", and entered by Anglia Cars for Rick Gorne to drive in the British Formula Atlantic series, with sponsorship from Barratt Developments. Gorne crashed heavily at Ingliston in July and was trapped in the wreck with a broken leg. The car was repaired and sold to Brian Frazer (Stewarton, Ayrshire, Scotland) for hillclimbs in 1980 and 1981 as the Boss Hogg Argo JM1X. Frazer wrecked the car at Rumster in August 1981 when he crashed heavily into the trees on his second run.
6. March 792 [21] (Max Harvey): New to Marlboro Team Tiga for Eje Elgh to drive in F2 in 1979, using BMW engines. Acquired in early 1980 by Max Harvey for British hillclimbs, evidently replacing the ex-Henton car that he had originally bought. Harvey retained the 792 for 1981, when it had a 2.5-litre Hart engine. It was acquired from Harvey in 1984 by Roger "Doc" Willoughby who fitted the Buick V8 engine from the March 721S that he wrecked at Wiscombe Park in September 1983. Raced by Willoughby in hillclimbs in 1985. Willoughby later sold the car to Adrian Moores who subsequently had a major accident at the Brighton Speed Trials in the car. The wrecked was sold to Roy Woodhouse, who stripped anything useful. Some time later, he sold it all to Richard Prosser, who rebuilt it with a 2-litre Vauxhall C20XE engine and used it in Sprints in 1996 and 1997. He sold it to Prosser, who ran the car in 1996 in the British Sprint Championship. Prosser sold the car to Stuart Ridge, who raced it between 2012 and 2014, at first with the Vauxhall engine and later with a 2-litre Cosworth BDG. Ridge sold it to to Chris Bentley-Jones, who still had it in March 2016.

Sources

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