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A selection of Gurston pictures from meetings in 2009

 

The Gurston Championship and Top Ten Challenge finale, September 13th

The hard trying Jules Freeman had to settle for third overall in the Gurston Championship in his 2.0t Subaru Impreza
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Nigel Watkins came through to take the runner up spot in by just 0.32 points his 3.6 Porsche 964
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Sarah Bosworth set her quickest time of the year and emerged a thoroughly deserving Championship winner
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 Simon Marsh was in very determined mood in the family 2.5 Gould GR55, and was not to be denied the 2009 Top Ten Challenge title on the course his father Tony, who passed away in the spring, had co-designed
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The British Championship event on August 30th

The conditions were not good for records, but nobody told Will Hall, and he shaved five hundredths off the 1600cc mark in his 1.6 Force PC!
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Rob Turnbull was the delighted winner of the first British Hillclimb Run Off of the meeting in his 3.5 Gould GR55
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The remaining BHC title challenger Trevor Willis spun his 2.8 OMS CF06 at Karousel with an over-ambitious approach on a greasy track and thus failed to qualify for the first Run Off.
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But Scott Moran still needed a few more points from the second Run Off to seal his scond consecutive BHC title with the family 3.5 Gould GR61X, and he duly delivered with sixth place
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The Inaugural Tony Marsh Memorial Meeting, July 19th

The Marsh Collection: cars, sons and cousin!
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The demo runs of the late Tony Marsh's cars generated warm applause. This is the Dellow trials special.
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This is the famous four wheel-drive Marsh Special
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And this is the twin turbo GTD40
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Nick Stevens reset the Ginetta class record
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Andy Bascombe set a new up to 2000cc modprod saloon class record
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Dave Gardner set BTD and scooped 10 points in the Top Ten Challenge
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Glyn Poole won his class and the bike Top Ten Run Off
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Events on June 20th & 21st

Sarah Bosworth went well sub-37s to win the roadgoing series production class on Saturday in her 1.8 Elise S1
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Ian Cameron won the up to 2000cc sports libre class on Saturday in his 1.2 Mallock Mk 18BK
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Peter D. Smith won the up to 1600cc racing car class in the 1.4 Force from driving partner Richard Gaylard
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Peter Marsh grabbed his first '2nd BTD' of the weekend on Saturday, setting a good 28 second time in his first event in the 2.5 Gould GR55
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Terry Pigott carved over a second off his MG cars class record in his well-developed 3.6 MGB V8
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'Smokin' Bjorn Arnhils entertained in the 8.0s Dodge Viper, and won the GTD40s and Invited Cars class on Sunday!
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Neal Masters closed to within a quarter of a second of the up to 1400cc modprod saloon record in the family 1.4 Austin Mini 16V
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Star of the weekend was Simon Marsh, who took a double BTD in the 2.5 Gould GR55, and went deep into the 27s on Sunday
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The British Championship event on May 24th

Andy Griffiths set a blistering new record in the up to 1400cc modified limited production sports car class in his 1.4 Caterham Hayabusa
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Martin Groves won the first Run Off and set BTD in his 3.5 Gould GR55B
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Reigning British Hillclimb Champ Scott Moran set a new class record and won the second Run Off in the 3.5 Gould GR61X by one hundredth!
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The irrepressible Glyn Poole broke the outright bike hill record again on his Honda 500
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Events on April 18th & 19th

 

Jules Freeman reset his class record in the roadgoing series production class on the Saturday with his Impreza WRX RA, but his grasp on it lasted just one day.
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Ben Stapley came from behind to steal the over 2000cc modprod marque sports car class with his faithful 3.1 Datsun 240Z from regular rival Steve Holley
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James Blackmore was too quick for everybody on the Saturday, setting BTD in his 1.6 OMS CF04
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Dave Gardner made amends on Sunday in John Forsyth's 3.5 Pilbeam MP58, setting BTD by just six hundredths from his partner after they had dead heated on the first runs!
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