GOODWOOD 2006 - Morgan SLR on Pole !

Andy Downes · Post by **Andy Downes** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 9:22 pm

Fordwater Trophy

Great work in Qualifying today (Friday) by Adrian van der Kroft and Keith Ahlers.

Keith is on Pole & Adrian is alongside him 2nd fastest - Terrific I can't wait to see the Grid form up tomorrow for the race proper.

The TR-based SLR is also in the race but somewhat further back as is Striling Moss.

Qualifying
17 Keith AHLERS 1 Morgan Plus 4 SLR 1:35.074 16 90.87
18 Adrian VAN DER KROFT 2 Morgan Plus 4 SLR 1:36.607 15 1.533 89.43
1 Michele TOMMASI 3 Ashley Sprite GT 1:37.005 10 1.931 89.06
9 Gareth BURNETT 4 Abarth-Simca 2000 GT 1:37.742 13 2.668 88.39
31 Ian HULETT 5 WSM Sprite 1:39.080 15 4.006 87.20
11 Trevor GROOM 6 Jaguar XK140 Lightweight C 1:39.162 15 4.088 87.13
6 Antonio BERTINI 7 Austin Healey Speedwell Sprite 1:39.918 13 4.844 86.47
20 Adam RICHARDSON 8 Porsche-Abarth Carrera GTL 1:40.015 14 4.941 86.38
25 Tony WILSON-SPRATT 9 WSM MGB GT 1:41.641 8 6.567 85.00
8 David WYLIE 10 Austin Healey Speedwell Sprite 1:41.664 13 6.590 84.98
3 Paul WOOLMER 11 Aystin Healey Sebring Sprite 1:41.857 14 6.783 84.82
12 Mark WRIGHT 12 Lenham Spitfire GT 1:41.938 8 6.864 84.75
27 Ivor MILLER 13 WSM Sprite 1:42.712 8 7.638 84.11
16 James WILLIS 14 MG Midget Jacobs Coupe 1:42.803 14 7.729 84.04
10 Wolfgang MOLITOR 15 Abarth-Simca 2000 GT 1:43.311 11 8.237 83.63
23 Tony GRIFFIN 16 Triumph TR4 SLR 1:43.358 11 8.284 83.59
4 Martin DAVIDSON 17 Austin Healey Sebring Sprite 1:44.303 10 9.229 82.83
22 Mark HALES 18 Sunbeam Harringtons Alpine Le M 1:44.907 12 9.833 82.35
2 Stirling MOSS 19 Austin Healey Sebring Sprite 1:45.646 8 10.572 81.78
14 Barry SIDERY-SMITH 20 MGA Twin-Cam Le Mans 1:45.742 12 10.668 81.70
30 David STUBBINGS 21 Lenham GT 1:45.970 14 10.896 81.53
5 Christopher CLEGG 22 Austin Healey Sebring Sprite 1:46.744 14 11.670 80.94
28 Clive COCKS 23 WSM Sprite 1:47.008 13 11.934 80.74
26 Jim LOWRY 24 WSM Midget 1:47.092 12 12.018 80.67
15 Bob RIDGARD 25 MGB Berlinette 1:47.626 11 12.552 80.27
24 Mike OTTO 26 Triumph TRS Le Mans 1:49.395 13 14.321 78.98
21 Keith HAMPSON 27 Sunbeam Alpine Le Mans 1:49.909 14 14.835 78.61

Have (Fordwater) Fun

Andy Downes · Post by **Andy Downes** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 5:22 pm

Morgan SLR 1 - 2 at Goodwood

Keith Ahlers won the Fordwater Trophy at the Goodwood Revival Meeting this morning followed home by Adrian van der Kroft in 2nd.

Congratulations and Well Done to both Teams.

More details and pictures later.

Have (SLR) Fun

Andy Downes · Post by **Andy Downes** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 7:57 pm

It was just wonderful to see the SLRs at Goodwood today, they are fantastic looking motor cars, the weather was horrible â€“ but the driving was heroic !

Keith Ahlers was in the ex-Chris Lawrence/Tony Howard car having itâ€™s first outing resplendent in its TOK-green livery (following a two-year restoration by Brett Syndercombe and Rick Bourne at Brands Hatch Morgans).

Adrian van der Kroft was in his sleek looking polished aluminium SLR (the history of which Iâ€™m afraid I donâ€™t know) prepared by Brian Gateson at Techniques.

The third SLR was the singleton Triumph-chassis car driven (and owned ?) by Tony Griffin in dark blue and with an appropriate â€˜SAHâ€™ number plate.

For the race I can do no better than quote the Goodwood website http://www.goodwood.co.uk/revival/ :-

â€œMichele Tommasi in his Italian-liveried Ashley Sprite GT provided the drive of the Revival so far in the Fordwater Trophy. But his long battle with Keith Ahlerâ€™s beautiful Morgan Plus 4 SLR ended with Tommasi in the gravel trap, and gifted victory to Ahlers.

Tommasi and Ahlers swapped the lead constantly during the race, with Tommasi employing some dramatic late-braking manoeuvres to nick the lead, before his over-enthusiasm resulted in a huge slide over the grass and a ten-second deficit.

He stormed back into contention before taking the lead again, losing it and then beaching the Sprite after a hopelessly over-optimistic late-braking attack on Ahlerâ€™s lead in wet conditions and on narrow tyres.

â€œIt was such a battle,â€

Leigh Sebba · Post by **Leigh Sebba** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 8:30 pm

What else happened ? We all got very wet but there were some very cose races. I had a good view of a screen. Congrats to Keith who really kept cool when the Sprite was all over him. It spun once and lost 20 seconds and then made that up (when Keith was held by a back marker) in 3 laps and Sprite really should have won but seemed keener to entertain the crowd by climbing all over Keith at every corner.

Andy Downes · Post by **Andy Downes** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 10:38 pm

Just couldn't resist one more....

Have (SLR) Fun

Mary Lindsay · Post by **Mary Lindsay** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 11:19 am

How as it that Keith managed to get number 17? This number is usually sported by a VERY FAMOUS RACING DRIVER.

Andy Downes · Post by **Andy Downes** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 11:30 am

Mary Lindsay wrote:How as it that Keith managed to get number 17? This number is usually sported by a VERY FAMOUS RACING DRIVER.

All you Famous Racing Driver's stick together - it's a tribute to another VFRD !

Have (well known) Fun

PS - you can ask him in person when the two cars meet in Holland next week.

Leigh Sebba · Post by **Leigh Sebba** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 9:19 am

I thought 17 and 7 are reserved for those who drive to the circuit and want to economise and make their race numbers out of sticky tape. Mary â€“ you should support the Triumph SLR â€“ that had a tax disc.

Sunday started wet with good pre war race including a race long battle between the Napier Bentley and the 3 wheeler Mogs of Gary Caroline and Sue Darbyshire. 95 year old Tom Delaney did not start â€“ the reason given by the commentator was that he had died on Friday ! The moral of that is â€“ if you want to race at Goodwood try to get an entry at a slightly younger age.

The afternoon brightened but was very windy. There was a tribute to the late Ray Hanna and a Spitfire taxied along the main straight. Then Mog racers included Grahame Bryant (in MG Magnette and Cobra) and Dion Kremer in Elva (which I missed ).

Chris Acklam · Post by **Chris Acklam** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 10:00 am

Sounds like a great weekend. Thanks for the reports and congrats to Keith and Adrian for the 1-2.

Mary Lindsay · Post by **Mary Lindsay** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 10:31 am

I thought 17 and 7 are reserved for those who drive to the circuit and want to economise and make their race numbers out of sticky tape.

Most of that is correct Leigh except that I use re-usable race numbers rather then sticky tape which I think is Jack's preference.

Mary â€“ you should support the Triumph SLR â€“ that had a tax disc.

Was the tax disc current Leigh and, more importantly, had the car been driven to the circuit?

Kelvin Laidlaw · Post by **Kelvin Laidlaw** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 12:39 am

Serena give me number 71 as 7 and 17 had been taken and 1 has to be won. You try making 88 out of tank tape! Mary and Jack like their cars to be taxed as theirs are tax exempt. Congratulations to Keith and Adrian.

Tim Hill · Post by **Tim Hill** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 2:29 pm

A Date for your Diary

The Goodwood Revival will be televised both in the UK and on the Speed Channel in the USA. The date for the Revival to be shown in the UK on ITV1 has now been confirmed as Tuesday, October 24 at 2300hrs. Speed Channel timing will follow at a later date.

Regards

Tim