Bo'ness Hill Climb Revival

In Class 3 Neil Bennett was storming in the Batten Special and was too quick for George Cooper in the little supercharged MG J2.

Class 4 was another win for Martin Spencer in the crowd pleasing Spider II - he really got to grip with the track and recorded a best run of 29.68 seconds, a time which bettered much of the more modern machinery entered!

Class 5 was rather depleted on the Sunday with only three runners. Kenny Baird managed to take advantage of this to record a Class win in 32.74 seconds from Alastair McCaig in the lovely Ecurie Ecosse XK120 and the overheating Terrier of Scott Goodfellow.

In Class 6, George Laycock was delighted to run a sub 32 second time in Peter Speakman's Chapman Mercury.

Class 8 had another win for Stewart Robb in the indecently fast 1963 based Midget with Alistair Simpson in second place again in the Tiger. Jamie and Shonagh Gibbon overcame their problems and ran a standard P6 Rover 2000 saloon which was nonetheless good enough for Shonagh to win the Sunday Ladies prize.

Neville Anderson had Class 9 all to himself and had the Nike running better than Saturday to record a best of 31.04 secs

Similarly, Class 10 was a solo affair for Chris Merrick who finally got to grips with the ex James Hunt Dastle for a best time of 29.58 seconds.

Class 11 once again belonged to Andrew Smith's +8 Morgan with Brian Beverley again in second place in the Escort. Special mention must go to the McKinnons in their Triumph TR4 which ran consistently below 32 seconds.

In Class 12 local lad Mark Jardine managed a 29.55 second run to win the Class from Alloa's Jock Ramsay driving (what else?) an Opel Manta. Alistair Mathieson enjoyed his weekend in the monster TVR Griffith 500 despite a couple of near misses, although on one run he did manage to leave the track completely and "take out" the timing clock! No harm done to car or timing equipment!

Class 13 was another Andy Smith benefit in the very, very fast +8 Morgan. He was the only person all weekend to dip into the 27 second category and he ran 27.97 and 27.96 seconds to give him the Class win and also FTD. Last years Revival winner Stan Bernard was almost a full second behind at 28.74 secs with Russell Paterson third in another +8 Morgan.

Fraser Ewart managed two wins in the Bentley Classes 14a and 14b but there were no runners in the 500cc Class due to problems with the Turner's JP and David Reid's Squanderbug.

Class 16 had no less than five Formula Junior cars running. Fyrth Crosse did well in his lovely Mallock to win the Class at 29.34 with Stephen Cooper finally getting down one late, fast run in the Cooper T59 at 29.84 secs to take second place.

Class 1 saw Peter Wilke in the Bugatti T44 take a full 2.5 seconds off his Saturday times to win the Class comfortably from Tom Richardson whose Riley Brooklands was unusually off-song.

The Sunday awards were presented by Lynsey Wallace, Falkirk Council's Events and Promotions Officer.

Lynsey presents Andy Smith with his FTD Trophy - Treasurer Steve Smith forces a smile while counting the cost of it all.

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THE SPLITS

not what you think!

Kenny Baird, our statistician (and Press Officer/Minute Secretary/Programme Editor etc) has produced these Top Ten tables from Ken Laidlaw's report on splits. (link to splits)

Ten Best 64 foot split times
Sunday		Secs
Adam Bernard	Porsche 911	2.35
Stan Bernard	Porsche	2.42
Stan Bernard	Porsche	2.46
Martin Spencer	G.N. Spider II	2.47
Stan Bernard	Porsche	2.51
Adam Bernard	Porsche 911	2.56
Stewart Robb	MG Midget	2.57
Adam Bernard	Porsche 911	2.60
Martin Spencer	G.N. Spider II	2.62
Colin MacKinnon	Triumph TR4	2.62

Ten Best Split Times
Sunday		Secs
Andy Smith	Morgan +8	17.78
Andy Smith	Morgan +8	17.92
Andrew Smith	Morgan +8	18.50
Stan Bernard	Porsche	18.52
Adam Bernard	Porsche 911	18.53
Russell Paterson	Morgan +8	18.62
Andrew Smith	Morgan +8	18.70
Stan Bernard	Porsche	18.76
Martin Spencer	G.N. Spider II	18.86
Chris Merrick	Hesketh Dastle	18.93

Ten Fastest Speeds through Trap
Sunday		MPH
Jonathan Brown	Morris Cooper S	61.3
Stewart Robb	MG Midget	59.6
Andy Smith	Morgan +8	58.9
Fyrth Crosse	Mallock Mk2	57.8
Jock Ramsay	Opel Manta	56.9
Neil Bennett	Batten Special	56.4
Adam Bernard	Porsche 911	55.9
Andrew Smith	Morgan +8	55.8
Alistair Simpson	Sunbeam Tiger	55.7
Andy Smith	Morgan +8i	55.6

Ten Fastest Times
Sunday		Secs
Andy Smith	Morgan +8	27.96
Andy Smith	Morgan +8	27.97
Andrew Smith	Morgan +8	28.74
Stan Bernard	Porsche	28.74
Adam Bernard	Porsche 911	28.91
Andrew Smith	Morgan +8	28.91
Stan Bernard	Porsche	28.96
Russell Paterson	Morgan +8	29.31
Fyrth Crosse	Mallock Mk2	29.34
Brian Beverley	Ford Escort	29.38

Ten Best Mid Split to Finish Times
Sunday		Secs
Andy Smith	Morgan +8	10.04
Fyrth Crosse	Mallock Mk2	10.19
Stan Bernard	Porsche 911	10.20
Gordon Naismith	Triumph TR8	10.21
Andrew Smith	Morgan +8	10.21
Jock Ramsay	Opel Manta	10.30
Brian Beverley	Ford Escort Mk1	10.35
Russell Paterson	Morgan +8	10.35
Jimmy Crow	Ford Escort Mk1	10.40
Tom Wilson	Talbot Sunbeam	10.43