Skelta goes international

The Queensland Skelta sports car is now available in UK and Europe with the formation of Skelta Racecars Europe.
Is everyone familiar with the Skelta? Just in case there were a few "nos", here's a little potted description of these "super-light, ultra-tough" Skeltas. Their chrome-moly steel spaceframe is reinforced with a centre tunnel and sidepods made of carbonfibre/aluminium sandwich. The body is made entirely from carbonfibre composite. The result is a dry weight of only 720kg.
Power comes from either a supercharged 2 litre 4 cylinder Honda of a mere 340bhp or the 3 litre Hartley V8 of 460bhp, both engines driving through a Honda 6-speed. Suspension comprises rose-jointed double wishbones front and rear with inboard spring/shocker units, fully adjustable for track, camber, caster and toe-in. Brakes, front and rear, are four-pot calipers on ventilated discs.
The Skelta is available in 2 styles, the Spyder and the G-Force. The Spyder is a wide-bodied open two-seater and the G-Force is a 2-seater with detachable gull-wing targa top. Both styles have heavily finned front air intakes and large rear wing and diffuser, which exerts 200kg of downforce at 90mph. Couple all this with the 50/50 weight distribution, it's no wonder that the cornering power is described as phenomenal.
These cars were born out of former Australian rally champion, Ray Vandersee's determination to win the Targa Tasmania outright. His first assault was in a cleverly modified Westfield that was almost as quick as the dominant Porsches and Nissan GTRs. However, for outright victory, it was going to take something more than a clubman no matter how modified. Starting with a clean sheet of paper, he created the Skelta. Since that creation, Vandersee and his customers have won countless events across Australia and New Zealand and Vendersee himself is getting closer and closer to that elusive outright Targa win, with class wins and many quickest stage times to his credit. An even faster Skelta is under constant development and Targa 2010 can't come soon enough.

Now I feel compelled to tell you about the Hartley V8.

Bufori BMS R1

Earlier in the week I mentioned the release of the Bufori sports. The R1 version has now had its race debut on Sunday at the Macau GT Cup. Driven by Alex Yoong, this Malaysian carbon-fibre and Kevlar bodied sports car completed only 4 laps before an accident caused by debris on the track.

Starting 28th on the grid, the car showed plenty of potential to immediately work its way into 23rd when a piece of debris got caught in the throttle linkage causing it to jam open. It's now back to Malaysia for some repairs and refinements before its next outing. Despite its short time on the track, lots of useful data has been gathered for use in the road cars and for future race outings. All looks good for the release at the Beijing Auto Show in April 2010.

Opel GT

Remember the 1973 LHD orange Opel GT that Noel from Mooroopna took to the Bay to Birdwood this year? His mate, Graeme, in Adelaide, imported a white 1970 example from America too, sight unseen. Well, it's arrived and hasn't presented any disappointments. A bit of a tidy up and it'll be on the road and he'll be able to bring it out for a run. This is it.

3 different places, 3 different times, same car (I think)

Below are a couple of shots taken at Calder in 1979 when the Ikara was released. Tony G. brought this black sports along. He had built it while working at the factory.

This shot was taken in Sydney by an exotic car spotter, not sure when, but the car lived in NSW at this stage.

Now, here it is back in Victoria in the custodianship of Tony B. at this year's recent Show'n'tell.

I have a feeling this is the same car. Please feel free to correct me. Not too sure about the chassis number so can't work from that.

A Datsun/Nissan post

On behalf of all of our Road Closure officials on the Stafford Ridge Stage I really want to thank Jack Monkhouse for their entertainment with the well executed drifts on each of their corners in the drift car. This photo is not at Stafford Ridge (looks similar) but was taken by Jim McGough at Ironbank earlier in the day.

No wonder Neville Whittenbury is looking so pensive at stage start. And, by the way, is that really a carbonfibre door skin?

What a great rally car this Pulsar GTI-R is. I presume that's why the aforementioned Jim McGough rallies one. Congratulations to Sammy and Simone, a good result. They're a couple of hard chargers.

Zs were everywhere and no wonder. Everyone who doesn't own one would really want to. 1, 2, 4 and 5 in the Classic Section.

There were 3 of these monstrous new Godzillas.

Another Mark 7 for sale

This one's in Queensland, Brisbane in fact. Just go to the "Drive" website for details.

Thenks, Steve, for pointing it out.

New Releases

Here's a few new cars from around the world that might be candidates for Dino's top 10.
This one is the Arash AF-10 from Great Britain due for release next year. It has the GM LS7 90-degree V8 mounted longitudinally. The LS7 is 7 litres (427 cu. in.). Transmission is the Graziano GT-ME1 6-speed.

....and this is how it goes together.

This is the Plethore LC-750 3-seater from Canada which uses the old McLaren F1 central driving position. The car is merely 6.2 litres (376 cu. in.) but at least it's supercharged. It's the HTT 90-degree V8 with 6-speed sequential box.

And here's the about to be released Bufori CS from Malaysia. It is powered by a longitudinal front mounted 2-litre turbo straight 4. A racing version will make its debut in the Macau GT Cup and is homologated to FIA GT3 requirements.

Some notes on the Classic Adelaide

The car is standing still here but what a sight and sound it was for everyone as Peter charged through the hills in this amazing vehicle. Keep an eye out for brother, Max, on the weekend in the Mustang at Eastern Creek.

Here's the CV8 again approaching the Stafford Ridge start behind Charlie Nott's TVR Chimaera.

This was the view from our position at the Stafford Ridge start near Lobethal prior to the stage getting underway.

I hope this shot of Hagen Zerk's XA GT hardtop is an inspiration to Eric Bana to get the finger out on the XB and get down to the real business of getting it back on the road instead of messing about starring in movies and stuff.It was great to catch up with Udo over the weekend. That's one of the plusses of the Classic, the old friends from interstate that you haven't seen for a while. Udo tells us that he's still not getting the times in the Roaring Forties GT40 at Hidden Valley that he was doing in the Nagari.

Congratulations to the Weeks team. 3 in a row's not bad hey.

Gary Tierney, who died in the event along with his co-driver, is remembered by his friends and ours in Victoria as "a hell of a nice bloke". He was a very successful businessman in Bendigo. He started Classic Rallying in a black DAX Cobra (with the loudest exhaust ever heard on a street car) and later competed in a Shelby Replica before moving on to Porsche 911s. Peter G was heard to comment that he hoped this and Brockie's crash don't see an end to this sort of motorsport. I don't think it will, but Peak Oil might.

The Spanish connection again.

Ramon and Joe's Nagari is decidedly incomplete and now that they are getting serious about rebuilding it, they are going to need lots of advice and help. Already they have discovered that there is a distinct lack of manuals or other publications to help them. It is not their intention to build a race car but if that plan changes down the track, they want to have an operative road car to begin with anyway. There are just so many items needed for the car that it might be a good plan to deal with this in stages and kick off with the immediate needs which are listed below:-
* front windscreen
* side windows
* tail lights
* front direction indicators
* all the rubber seals

That's a good start and all comments would be welcome and if you want to take it to Dino's forum that would be good too.

What I thought was funny was when I asked Joe if it had any suspension. The answer was "no". This was later qualified with the fact that it did have the original suspension but they didn't like it much which led to questions about improvements, things that have changed over the years and new suspension kits.

Apparently about 4 years ago the chassis was was stripped down, sand blasted and sprayed and the body was fully repaired and sprayed as well. At about that time when in England to buy a TVR Tuscan, they picked up a Cleveland V8 and a couple of gearboxes. I'm thinking now, at chassis no. 44, Bolwell were still using Windsors (or were they?) and there may be the need for the odd modification to squeeze the Cleveland in.

A nice car being left at a workshop and the owner never coming back reminds me of a time when I lived at Parkside and one of my neighbours who had retired from his spray painting and panel business and did a few paint jobs in the shed in his back yard, was presented with a red BMW coupe not unlike this one to repaint.
This he did, and did a beautiful job on it and, you guessed it, never heard from the owner again and had no contact details. For years he regularly started and ran it just to make sure it would be ship-shape when the owner did turn up. It was quite a few years before he eventually put some rego on it and used it for country trips. Eventually he died and the riddle was never solved.

HSRCA Eastern Creek

For the benefit of NSW people and others who may be around the place over the 28-29 Nov. weekend, there is a huge HSRCA meeting at Eastern Creek. Here's a link to the rather formidable entry list......
http://www.hsrca.org.au/default.asp?action=article&ID=111.w/media/EC%202009%20Sample%20Grids.pdf
which includes South Australians John Virgo - 1954 Riley Special
Bruce Hartwig - 1939 Chrysler Special
David Armstrong - 1968 Cicada BMC Clubman
Peter Whelan - 1977 Chevron B42 and 1984 Reynard 83/84FF
Sean Whelan - 1982 Ralt RT4
and other such notables as Jason Lea - 1968 Datsun 2000
Dick Willis - 1952 Anderson Special
John Scott - 1959 MG Milano
Ray Kenny - 1965 Thompson Sport
Steve Webb - 1970 Elfin Repco
Andrew Kluver - 1970 Milano GT2
Max Ullrich - 1964 Ford Mustang
and Paul Manton - 1964 Valano GT 225

Targa Tasmania entry list

This is a page of the Rookie Section in the catalog of entries for the next Targa Tasmania.I believe Robert is the former owner of Simon Peryer's Nagari.

Red Sports Cars.

They go faster don't they?
I just had to take a photo of this. I thought the back wheels and tyres on my old Pantera were big enough......but this?

This is the rest of the car. I guess it must belong to the DeTomaso boys as well. It had the same number on the side as the other one. Probably a spare car in case something went wrong with the first one.

Here's the two cars together on Friday night. I've decided there might be money in the vegetable business so today I planted a few more potatoes.

Here's the usual non-winged car at the start of our stage at Stafford Ridge.

Sean Brennan tricked us. He entered a Pantera but turned up with a Ferrari. Apparently the Pantera wasn't ready in time. We didn't see the Ferrari at Stafford Ridge. It had broken down earlier. Scott Baxendale caught up with Sean on the side of the road. Scott was riding shotgun in Roger Adamson's E-type and, judging by the big grin on his face, was thoroughly enjoying it.

....and here's another red sports car. I'm sure this was the NSX that was competing at Mt. Alma.I hope it managed to get through the Classic in good shape because next weekend is the NSX run to Currency Creek and so far there's 14 NSXs going. Can't wait for the photos. Tony Cullen is thinking about putting his NSX in next year's Classic. If Scott, Jim and Garrie join him we could have a team of four!

Desert sport

I have a Facebook friend in Lebanon called Bilal. He is an avid reader of Bollyblog and keen on the Lancia Stratos. From him I learn that there is a large following of Muscle Cars in Lebanon, that they have a rally series through the villages outside Beirut where Evos reign supreme and classic hillclimbs are not uncommon. They also have weekly organised events called "Desert Sport". I'm not sure if "organised" is the operative word. From the videos it would appear that the purpose is to gather together a bunch of Jeeps (mainly Wranglers) and go mad in the sand dunes. This activity takes place in Saudi Arabia every Friday, their weekends start earlier than ours. They must fly down from Lebanon surely. It would be a long drive and I'm not sure how they would get through Palestine.

Here is Bilal extracting himself from his pristine Jeep.There's no blaming women drivers in these parts.

Bond Equipe

This is a Bond Equipe. You can see the Triumph Herald base in the doors, windscreen, scuttle etc. The Equipe is the first 4-wheeler Bond made. Their factory was closed down after Reliant took them over.

Anyway, we were talking about Duane in the previous post. Duane has a Bond Equipe (see below) and he's making good progress on its restoration although that progress recently stalled when his partner injured herself, doubling the parenting duties among other things. The engine is siezed, overdrive gearbox needs a rebuild, there's substantial rust in the floor to repair, plus the fibreglass.

These last two photos were taken after Norm had begun to tackle some repairs to the rear body. Always chasing a deal, Norm is helping with some glass work in exchange for some design/CAD work on his new car.

Why a Bond Equipe? It wasn't intentional. Duane fished it out of that huge wrecking yard in Port Wakefield about 5 years ago. He couldn't leave it there could he? It's a bit like an NSU Prinz I'd like to rescue from a wrecking yard in Ebenezer.

"Car Styling" magazine.

Duane de Gruchy stumbled across a website with a quantity of new old stock Japanese "Car Styling" magazines, one from 1981 featuring that article on the Ikara. The price was around US$30 + postage per magazine. I'm sure Graham Nichols has a copy and without checking, I reckon there's a mention in the "Ikara Project" website. Duane has contacted these people and they have let him know that they have 17 copies of #34 in stock. Here's a link:-http://www.carstylingmag.com/default.tpl?pageID=1&page=full&cart=1258440653503702&--eqskudatarq=0340481
If he gets 5 copies, the price comes down to about $20 - $25 each. They are great magazines and the articles are quite in depth, with lots of design content. Duane will have a copy and so will I. If anyone else wants one let me know and I'll pass Duane's email address on or whatever it takes.

It's all happening!

Last night I was down in Adelaide to pick up our equipment for the Stafford Ridge stage and to get the artwork under way for next year's calendar and to look in on the timing meeting at the Torrens Parade Ground. Here's a couple of entrants that were there.

And.... Sunday night Jack Monkhouse was wrapping up a creditable 9th in the Alpine Rally in his 180B SSS in "the hardest rally he has ever done". Next afternoon, here's the car at the parade ground where Jack had to be for a course car briefing. It's a busy life being a rally star.

Rick Clough (Datto fanatic extraordinaire) was an official at the Alpine. You couldn't have missed this mighty SA machine, Rick.

Panteras in this year's Classic Adelaide.

I'll begin by saying there are no Bolwells in the Classic this year. There are two Panteras though, both entered in the Thoroughbred Tour section. One is the familiar red one entered by DeTomaso and DeTomaso and seen here at the start at last year's Macclesfield stage.

The other one, though, is entered by our old friend Sean Brennan.

Still trying to clarify where B8/44 came from.

Ramon Lopez, now retired and able to indulge his passion for Classic sports-racing cars, was a Renault dealer in Madrid for over 40 years. His proficiency in fibreglass was well known in the motor racing community, having worked on and repaired such cars as Lancia Stratos and Porsches 908 and 917. Due to this reputation, the owner of the Nagari, whoever that may have been, delivered the car to Ramon, minus engine, gearbox and other running gear for body and/or chassis repairs presumably. Joe was not with the organisation at this stage so there was no English speaking person to call on and this was necessary to gain information about this largely unknown car. The car ended up in a dark corner as the owner never came back. That was 35 years ago apparently. 35 years takes us back to 1974 which makes a 1971 model car relatively new. I'm still only aware of one Nagari going to South Africa so it didn't take long for it to get to Spain. The one floating around England has to have been a different one. It is now the turn of the Bolwell to be restored.

Joe has sent some more photos. You have already seen the Bolwell body and chassis. Here's a few other interesting shots.
Picture 1 is Ramon disembarking from the Chevron. The men in yellow are his pit crew.

This is what the Chevron is up against. It is seen here on the grid behind a white Pantera. Had to throw that one in.

Picture 3 - The Porsches in the workshop.

Picture 4 - Ramon Lopez.

Picture 5 - A driver change in an endurance race.

Joe in Madrid

This is Joe who looks after Ramon's race cars in Spain.

His nick-name is Joe Surtees because he is friends of the great man (who is still getting over the loss of his son in an F2 incident).

Stafford Ridge and other stuff.

The text messages keep rolling in from officials assigned to my Stafford Ridge stage in the Classic Adelaide, piking out. It's just as well we have a few of our regulars from Macclesfield coming on board. I think we'll be allright (so far). Last Friday Colin L and I went over to "case the joint". I'm glad I did. I have a real feel for it now. It's an exciting stage. I'd like to be a spectator there one day. There's no chicane (no need for one) and no SOS point but there will be a need for hazard boards. There's hardly any houses along the stage and very few gates to tie but there is a big spectator viewing area, many more road closures than we are used to and an unfenced orchard that is going to require heaps of tape and droppers. I've got a bit of quiet time in the museum this afternoon so I'll be able to do my sums and get my order in for the necessary equipment (hopefully). I've just been informed of a Timing Meeting which will be taking place on Monday, 16th Nov. at Torrens Parade Ground from 8.00pm. It would be good if some of our timing people could get along to that, namely, Dean, Sheryl, Norm, Sarah, Jane, Phil, Barry H, Colin, Paul, Andrew, Astrid, Beven, Jenny.

Tyre Power at Blackwood are having a Pizza Night at 7.00pm on 17th November where wheels, tyres and suspensions will be discussed and options for individual cars will be explored. All Cobra and Bolwell Club members are welcome. Let Roger know if you are coming - 8278 7491.

There's hardly a weekend goes by without a car group travelling to or through Kapunda. Last weekend was MGs turn. MGs galore. The odd TA, TC, TF, MGRV8, and scores of TDs, MGAs, MGBs and MGFs. They were on their annual run which took them to Balaklava I think. They all had their Alpine Rally style sign screwed on the front. One white MGA was doing the trip on a car trailer with the rally sign attached to the towing Land Cruiser. I've never seen that before.

And finally here's Zander's new dog, Crumpet. He's a Spoodle. I haven't met him yet but I'm looking forward to it.

The solar challenge

Last Sunday we had to go down to the Torrens Parade Ground for timing practice for the Classic Adelaide. We shared the grounds with the Solar Challenge mob. While the big budget ones from Japan, Holland and Michigan Uni were up on display in Victoria Square, here's a few of the the others who weren't far behind them. There's a Pommie one, an Aussie one and a couple of Canadians. And good on the combined secondary schools for getting right into it.

Mallala Supersprint, a short pictorial

3 Mark 7s, from left to right, John's, Ron's and Roger's. Where's the Nagaris these days?

Scott and Dean (B) came in the NSX.

This immaculate looking Montreal is a supersprint car.

Here's Roger's old Supercharged MX5 racer. The new owner is getting serious, note the rear spoiler.

Remember Kym who built the yellow Clemente and then drove it around Australia with a trailer on the back. With the skills developed from the Clemente build, he and a couple of other clubman builders have made this clubman based car for track work, calling it a "Fidini".

The Tailem Bend Facility Announcement

Well, it's happening at last. I guess we were a bit too pushy prior to Easter. Never mind. This release came out Wednesday, embargoed to the following day. It all looks good for the future and at least it gives the drag racers somewhere to go.

Last word on Collingrove

I really like this old gum tree. The track winds around it.

And this is the Milano on its way home on its lay down trailer. It's all blurry because it's not easy taking pictures while bouncing around on the Eden Valley Road.

Some other hillclimb notables

What a great little car this early MR2 is. Doesn't go too bad either. Smeetsy picked it up for a song on ebay. It's got the supercharger, the mags, everything. If they're that cheap I wouldn't mind one for a road car.

This MGBGTV8 (mid-mounted 4796cc V8) really flies. It was built years ago by Simon Aram. In one stage of its life it was owned by former Nagari owner and club member, Dave Maxwell.

And here's the Milano. At one stage the course announcer referred to it as 'the Zephyr' which is fair enough I suppose but next time around he called it the 'Magnolia'. The only Magnolia I can remember was that lovely little Lotus Eleven type sports car that Gavin Sandford-Morgan built and named it Magnolia after reading the tag on his wife's bra. Or somebody's bra.

I can't believe how quick this Evo is of Doug Lehmann's.

This is where the action was. There were 3 of these monsters, all red. There was the Shrike of Andrew Mitchell's, Tom Donovan's Pilbeam and Peter Gumley's Wortmeyer which broke the outright record. Bolwell club member, Allan Foster, with the Suzuki Special gave them a run for their money as did a few other hillclimb specials.

A European motorsport article

Just in case you haven't seen it before, here is an article that appeared in a Dutch motoring magazine last year or the year before. This is the car mentioned in the previous post.

A European Nagari mystery.

Most of the Bolwell fraternity would, by now, have read in the club forum or by the various other means of the Spanish Nagari. A large number of photographs (just a few are reproduced here) and correspondence was relayed to the now almost defunct Bolwell club website and susequently relayed to the recognised spokesman for all things Bolwell, Graham N. I will summarise the letter from Madrid which was written by "Joe". Joe is a car restorer working solely for a 78 y o man by the name of Ramon who drives and races, among other things, such delectables as a Porsche GT2 993 (525bhp), a 1963 Ford V8 powered TVR Griffith 400, a split window model Corvette Panamericana racer, a 2000cc BMW powered (210bhp) Chevron B8 GT and a Seat Leon 2 litre "endurance version" (310bhp). Ramon also has a Bolwell Nagari coupe (see pictures below) and it has come time for Joe to begin its restoration, hence the letter seeking advice and parts sources. Ramon was formerly proprietor of a Renault dealership and now, in retirement, plays with his cars with Joe as his full time employee. The Bolwell is B8/44 (see chassis plate). The owner is aware that the car was originally delivered to a South African customer and the original colour was yellow (another one).

I have a somewhat sketchy knowledge of the car which is as follows. Yes, it went new from Australia to South Africa minus engine and gearbox I believe. Some time in the nineties it turned up in the UK ("for sale" advertisements stated that it was from South Africa I seem to recall). On the 14th July 1997, Ramon Lopez Villalba of Andorra, Madrid, wrote to the Australian Automobile Association in Canberra requesting information to assist with the restoration of his car, Bolwell Nagari B8/44. Some time later the letter was passed on to the NSW Bolwell Club to deal with. Prior to this (early 90s I'm told) it was briefly owned by Victorian member and UK resident, Chris Camp, who owns a Mark 7 over there. In 1999 a Nagari coupe, painted in the pale blue and tangerine colours of Gulf Oil and believed to have been B8/44 was advertised in "Autosport" magazine for 15,000 pounds which was quite a sum in those days we thought. Anyway, in 2007 and 2008 we were aware of a Belgian man, living in Holland who raced a Nagari B8/44 in European GT events, predominantly in Germany. The homologation papers to allow him to race were based on that chassis number which produced the year of manufacture. I have copies of those papers somewhere. I must dig them out. I must say I haven't heard from Leo, the Belgian race driver, for about a year now. Anyway, if Ramon has had this car sitting in his garage all along, are there at least two Nagari coupes in Europe?

Out of the past

One of the really nice things for me in doing this blog is the ability to catch up with old friends from way back who discover the blog and make contact. This happens regularly and constantly. Last night I heard from Rick and Lynn Clough which was great. Many readers will remember them from the 70s. Rick was one of the small band of original Mk.7 builders that goes back to before there was a Bolwell club anywhere. We South Australians in the late 60s encountered Victorian Bolwell builder/drivers like Rick, Doug, Ron, John, John etc when we ventured over to Calder and when they drove over together to Mallala. Rick and Lynn currently live in Traralgon but are planning a move to Langwarrin soon to be closer to children and grandchildren. They still have the Mk.7 and Rick is competing in hillclimbs in this "historic" Datsun 1600SSS.

I'm sure there are others who are pleased to hear from the Cloughs.

Those Lancia units.

Following on from the "last post", here's another Lancia FWD unit that inspired me. I'm no expert on Lancia models but this is in a Monte Carlo rally car which to me looks like a lowered Fulvia, but I've got room in the Ikara to fit all that in the back.

But then last weekend I went to Mallala and saw this Fiat X1/9. Lift the engine hatch and this looks promising too.

Then lift the lid on the luggage compartment and you find this turbo. I've got room for all that as well.

This is the Fiat in question.

Lancia Stratos in Australia

I keep hearing that there's no such thing as a Stratos in Australia, not even a replica.
Well, here's one in Western Australia.

Here's a South Australian one.

A New South Wales one.

And here's a Queensland one competing in the Targa Tasmania.I believe there's plenty more as well. They might not all be real ones. I know that the top one is. There's a couple of places in the UK that produce replicas. They are so authentic that owners of real ones buy their bits from them. They are supposed to be powered by Dino V6 engines but some replica builders are using the turbocharged Lancia Beta/Fulvia units in 2 litre form. This is what has made me sit up and take notice. I keep thinking about what would be good in the Ikara.

Mirror Image.

22 years apart, the Nagari image in the Nov. 2009 Wheels article is the same one from the cover of Great Australian Sports Cars and Specials, turned inside out.

It's B8/18 which in its early days was the subject of many magazine articles, probably when it was owned by MR Motors of Bayswater. I remember it many years later being a bright red car when it lived up in Gladstone, Qld and last I heard it was dark blue and living in Victoria.

Another page from Nov. ACC

This one is the 3rd page from a very relevant article about sports car racing in Australia when it used to be significant before the vested interests took over. The photographs are from Autopics' archive and include the Canon Bolwell and a Datsun 2000/Turner battle. Whoever was given the job of providing the captions wasn't doing it from their own knowledge base. I would have thought John Latham was well known enough not to have been referred to as "J. Lattan" and on a previous page an XK120 is called an Austin Healey 100S. Even in the text, I became a bit confused with "Bond's Bolwell was contending with Allan Moffat's Hamilton when they finished up clashing in the Loop". The clash was actually between Bond's Bolwell and Hamilton's Porsche which Moffat drove one year. Hamilton was the driver on this occasion.

The article itself is quite pertinent and took me back I must say.