2015 Historic Formula Ford Race Series. Race dates, Info, contacts, news

[dikko]

2015 Historic Formula Ford Race Series. Race dates, Info, contacts, news.

One of the best UK Racing Series in Historic racing and we are pretty friendly too...!

Organised by The Historic Sports Car Club and sponsored in association with Avon Tyres.

Get the latest and a lot more from our website at www.HistoricFF.co.uk cars for sale or wanted, required driving standards, reports and of course our official HFF videos courtesy of Josh Barratt Film Enterprises.

Look in on us, (link above, click 'videos' then 'HFF Videos') we are a busy bunch and can be rather exciting at times....


VERY provisional 2015 HSCC calendar (as at Nov '14) (see further posts for firm dates).


PROVISIONAL HSCC (HFF in BOLD) 2015 Calendar - changes inevitable


April 4-5 Thruxton (Easter Revival) HFF X 2 race*

May 2-4 Donington Historic Festival

May 16-17 Silverstone Grand Prix Circuit (International Trophy)

May 30 Donington P ark.The delightful and beautiful parkland circuit.

June 13-14 Snetterton (Autosport 3-Hours) HFF X 2 Races*

June 27-28 Cadwell Park (Wolds Trophy) HFF X 2 Races* HFF Cricket match too!

July 11-12 Brands Hatch GP Circuit (Historic Super Prix) BIG meet - mega circuit!

Silverstone Classic 25-26 July Possible entry for HFF. Watch this space.

August 8-9 Croft (Terrific Nostalgia Weekend) HFF X 2 Races Dinner & Dance 40's style!

August 29-31 Oulton Park (Gold Cup) full circuit. Great crowds, great circuit and great cars off & on track.*

Sept 19-20 Spa 6 hours HSCC goes to Belgium

September 26-27 Brands Hatch Indy (Classic & Historic FF Anglo-French Weekend) HFF X 2 Race

October 17 Silverstone (National circuit) Trophy Finals Day.Party...

Then there's the Walter Hayes of course...

* Expect the occasional HFF BBQ or even Soup Kitchen gatherings!


Go to the HSCC website for the full programme of racing with us including F5000's F3's Touring Cars HFF 2000's and more. See link below.



Here's a link for more information on our series if you have an eligible pre 1972 car and want to join us.

link to the membership form.
http://www.hscc.org.uk/images/Member...Form_Blank.pdf . Please complete it and send it to the office.
Annual membership is £150. You will also need to register to a championship (HFF) by using the following form
http://www.hscc.org.uk/resources/Cha...ion%202012.pdf and sending it in together with your membership application.

You can of course have a one day membership for £20 giving you a one-off race at one meeting in the year.
Come and try us out for size...we race WITH friends not AGAINST them.

Finally the club has a useful website at http://www.hscc.org.uk/ for all forms/info.........and Formula Fordsters have a simple little website at www.HistoricFF.co.uk http://www.historicff.co.uk/

PS We are looking to finance a couple of people to look after our hospitality side of things and may have a budget to pay for costs for a few rounds. Contact us if you would like to be involved on our social side.

[dikko]

Walter Hayes is Oct 31st to 1 Nov.

[dikko]

Happy New Year to everybody.

Anybody with anything to say, sell or want mentioned in the next newsletter let me know. First message out end of Jan.
In the meantime we will be manning a Brabham FF at the Autosport Show in a week or so (along with a few other Brabhams in honour of the ol' fella) all are welcome to have a chat re the HFF Series.

[dikko]

Our next appearance will be here.........
20th - 22nd February 2015 RACE Retro International Historic Motorsport Show, Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire
The most popular show on the calendar Race Retro welcomes back the HSCC to its traditional spot on Speed Street, in Hall 2 stand number D36. The big show, for all Historic Motor Sport fans, covering Race, Rally, Trial, Autoteststs and yes those raucous bikes too. The celebrated marque for this year is Chevron which has its 50th Anniversary, so expect to see plenty of those glorious designs around the exhibition halls. With stalls of memorabilia, an auction presented by Silverstone Auctions, this is the place to meet before loading the car on the trailer to head to your first race meeting of the year. In the Review edition of the HSCC Historic Racing News, you will find details of the members advance ticket discount link.

....................We will be manning the stand for the 3 days for anyone to visit us and grill us on anything you want to know re the Historic FF's. Talking of grilling, we also pop over to the Malt Shovel at Bubbenhall a couple of miles away for a pleasant pub evening. Good ale and steaks. Join us?

[dikko]

First newsletter of the season now on our website.

come one come all.

PS we have an opportunity for anyone to help us out with our paddock Catering (chuck up easy-up, light snacks, occasional bacon butties, top up tea biscuits & urn etc.) there are tickets and a small budget in return. Anyone interested contact us.

[dikko]

April 4-5 Thruxton (Easter Revival) HFF X 2 race*

Entries already at 25 including one Tiff Needel. We have two new to the series along with regulars from 2014 Richard Mitchell & Lance Whitehead welcome to our throng. Details of the meeting on above links. To anyone else who wants to join us there should be tea or even hot soup on the go.

[McMuttley]

Ohh, if there's free soup I might come along to watch !

[dikko]

Soup dished out to all (including one or two visitors) and probably the best racing you could ever wish for - for the money...

See our vid report especially race 2 at Thruxton where even the on-the-edge-of-your-seat filming didn't do it justice!
Silverstone has happened and next up will be Donington. If you're there call by for a cuppa.

[dikko]

Donington; the top 2 were away with the fairies, the oldest car won with Simon (not his Son! - Yet) Hadfield in charge. Jono Baines had a great podium and boy was he happy! Will Nuthall Brian Morris David Wild James Buckton were there - but not at the end.
Watch the video.

Snett next, ritual sausage burning then 2 races Sunday.
Cricket match at cadwell with tea & cucumber sandwiches and orfully nace cake don't you know....oh and another two races...

[dikko]

Damn! This Snett 300 circuit is good to HFF's! Packed full of action all down the field our two races were a treat to watch and drive.

We had a convoy on the slowing down laps 3 abreast in honour of Rob Fowler (who ran some of our cars) after sad news that he died.

A mixture of excitement and sadness was in the air.

0.004 & 0.006 each race separated the front two.


At Cadwell there seems to be an HFF invasion. Well overbooked - overspill to Classic Racing Cars series, must be the cricket match that attracts.

[dikko]

Cadwell done and dusted - more dust than anything else...Tea Party went well but someone forgot to bring the stumps.

Next up is Brands-always-fabulous-Grand-Prix-circuit.....

Croft, we have a bring-your-own-onions French party on Friday eve and their 40's dance night on Saturday. We will sleep well on Sunday night...

[dikko]

Brands went well - apart from a slow Safety Car Qualifying....1 lap to do it?!

A certain young man called Richard Tarling turned up and showed the even younger men the way, good driving made a great event at a superb venue.

Next, bring a beret, it''s Croft.

[gary396]

It's not often you see 'Croft' and 'beret' in the same sentence!

Looking forward to seeing the HSCC annual visit up this way.

[dikko]

A brilliant social 'do' at Croft. French 'Alloo alloo' night with good food courtesy of the Dix's. a fun evening the next night by the 'Nostalgia'organisers, some of the best racing this year (according to Marcus Pye), a first win in our series by "Mk8" race sponsor James Buckton, James Hadfield had a big off by himself. Cracked a bone in leg. All wish him a good recovery.

Great Youtube coverage by Josh Barratt - worth a watch.

Oulton Park next - another big event with atmosphere.

[dikko]

Oulton, a lot of great racing all down the pack a few 'offs' due to damp and enthusiasm. Josh Has done us a terrific video.Also newsletter is out too.

We now have a DOUBLE event at Brands coming up along with our great grand creations (nearly 50 years on) - the F4 at Mr Palmers Sunday. Should be interesting to see who puts on the better show!!

[dikko]

Brands was rather good, damn good racing with a big result for one person.

We go into the last race at Silverstone with nearly 50 entrants... and we are going to fit them all in.

2 qualis and top & bottom of each quali race each other plus some! A mini Walter Hayes for historics no less.
Come and join us. Room for 20 more!

[dikko]

Mega field of HFF's a few end-of-term Phopa's, loads of racing up & down the field, a LOT of action - edge of seat stuff when it all finally got going. Josh's video should give justice to the excitement we all had and gave the crowds.

Anyone interested in joining us should see our web site and will be welcome at the HSCC stand for more info at Classic Car, Retro and Autosport Shows.

[dikko]

HSCC 2016 dates are provisional as at November 2015, they are;-

April 16th – 17th Castle Combe*
30th April/ 1st – 2nd May Donington Historic Festival
May 21st – 22nd Silverstone International*
June 4th – 5th Snetterton*
June 18th – 19th Cadwell Park*
July 1st – 2nd Brands Hatch Super Prix*
22nd – 24th July Silverstone Classic
August 6th – 7th Croft*
August 27th – 29th Oulton Park Gold Cup*
September 24th Brands Indy*
October 15th (Plus 16th Maybe) Silverstone Finals*

Issues outstanding, no date from Donington yet.
Possible grids to send to Thruxton at one of their race Meetings.
* HFF dates.