Scottish Hill Climb Championship round
Doune, 19 Jun 1983
| Results | Time | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Martin Bolsover | 2.8-litre Pilbeam MP50 [2] - Hart 428R Guyson International |
39.93s | 1st in class | ||
| 2 | Martyn Griffiths | 2.8-litre Pilbeam MP53 [1] - Hart 428R Chase Web Offset |
40.34s | |||
| 3 | Alister Douglas-Osborn | 3.7-litre Pilbeam MP47 [1] - Cosworth DFL Smith V8 Waring & Gillow Racing |
40.92s | |||
| 4 | Max Harvey | 2.8-litre Pilbeam MP53 [1] - Hart 428R Chase Web Offset |
42.22s | |||
| 5 | Kenny Allen | (Clubmans Class A) 1.7-litre Mallock U2 Mk 21/24B - Ford Agra |
43.02s | 1st in class | ||
| 6 | Jimmy Jack | 2.2-litre March 782/79B [782-10] - Hart 422R Jack Crane Hire (see note 1) |
43.08s | |||
| 7 | Bill Lord | 2.2-litre March 782/79B [782-10] - Hart 422R James Jack Crane Hire (see note 2) |
43.40s | |||
| 8 | John Meredith | 3.3-litre Pilbeam MP22 [3] - Cosworth DFV Smith V8 Cheltenham Cameras (see note 3) |
43.72s | |||
| 9 | Jim Thomson | 2.5-litre Pilbeam MP40 [2] - Hart 425R Guyson International |
44.10s | |||
| 10 | Bill Wood | (sports racing) 1.6-litre Mallock U2 Mk 18 - Ford BDA |
44.65s | 1st in class | ||
| Qualifying | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qualifying information not available |
Notes on the cars:
- March 782/79B [782-10] (Jimmy Jack): Bernard de Dryver's car at Thruxton 27 Mar 1978 and presumably all season; run by Bob Salisbury Racing. To Godfrey Crompton's Douglas & Gavin for Chris Cramer in hillclimbs in 1979. Retained for Cramer to use in 1980, when he won the British championship. Sold to Jimmy Jack (Evanton, Scotland) for hillclimbs from 1981 to 1983. The car evidently returned to Cramer, as he used it once in the 1987 season, at Harewood. Cramer sold the car in 1989 to Wolfgang Bode (Germany), who started the restoration but did not complete it. It was sold to Franz Guggemos in 2004, and he sold the Hart engine and restored it with a BMW engine, restoring it to 782 bodywork after it had been hillclimbed without sidepods. Initially rebuild in Eddie Cheever's livery, it was run in German historic hillclimbs in 2008, but was badly damaged in practice for a Historic F2 race at Spa in 2010. Repainted in de Dryver's Paris Match livery by 2015.
- March 782/79B [782-10] (Bill Lord): Bernard de Dryver's car at Thruxton 27 Mar 1978 and presumably all season; run by Bob Salisbury Racing. To Godfrey Crompton's Douglas & Gavin for Chris Cramer in hillclimbs in 1979. Retained for Cramer to use in 1980, when he won the British championship. Sold to Jimmy Jack (Evanton, Scotland) for hillclimbs from 1981 to 1983. The car evidently returned to Cramer, as he used it once in the 1987 season, at Harewood. Cramer sold the car in 1989 to Wolfgang Bode (Germany), who started the restoration but did not complete it. It was sold to Franz Guggemos in 2004, and he sold the Hart engine and restored it with a BMW engine, restoring it to 782 bodywork after it had been hillclimbed without sidepods. Initially rebuild in Eddie Cheever's livery, it was run in German historic hillclimbs in 2008, but was badly damaged in practice for a Historic F2 race at Spa in 2010. Repainted in de Dryver's Paris Match livery by 2015.
- Pilbeam MP22 [3] (John Meredith): 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.
Sources
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Individual sources for this event
AS 23 Jun 1983 p69