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Sunday 22nd April 2007
Tables of Achievement |
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Cirencerster Car Club hope you all had an enjoyable day. Tables of Achievement are posted above in six different catagories. A selection of photographs have been posted in our Gallery. Many thanks to all who helped in the running of the event.
Photo:
Keith Wilson/Dave Cooper, 1931 Riley 9 Biarritz. 
22nd April saw the fourth running of Cirencester Car Club’s Corinium Run. This 120 mile scenic tour saw 80 crews head south and west of Cirencester towards Chipping Sodbury, a lunch halt at the truly splendid Tortworth Court near Wotton-under-Edge, prior to running back past Dursley and Stroud to the finish at the Highwayman Inn, Elkstone. Along the way, a chance to enjoy the beauty of the Cotswolds was on offer – rolling fields, hills of all sorts, “chocolate box” villages and stately piles. New for 2007 were “Travelling Marshals” – Cirencester Car Club members who covered the route, but set off early, ran a Control, then trailed in at the back. This meant that more Controls could be manned, rather than relying on Code Boards to ensure that the planned route had been adhered to.
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John Rockley/Zog Ziegler BMW MZ4
Crews came from far and wide to take part and all enjoyed a cracking roadbook and a route that was made even more splendid by fine, sunny weather prevailing from late morning. The Corinium Run is an economy run where cars are even weighed so that efficiency, as well as mile per gallon can be compared. The efficiency table makes sobering reading for old car owners as the manufacturers’ effort put into this aspect of car design in the last twenty-five years pushes even the most humble of modern cars past their ancestors.
Keith Wilson / Dave Cooper’s Riley 9 Biarritz form 1932 managed a creditable 25.27mpg. Peter Houghton and Sheila Mawdsley’s 1956 Austin A35 came out at 43.08mpg (the best pre 1980 figure). However, Cheltenham based economy run “expert” Michael Stevens, with Ian Pritchard, teased 72.91mpg out of a 2006 Skoda Octavia to show what a modern car (complete with all its weighty safety equipment) was capable of! Once again, Michael Crafer and David Smith’s 1971 Merceded 220 came out best old car on the efficiency side once the weight of the car had been factored in. It actually managed 35.65mpg - which is most respectable for a large, four-door saloon.
As crews gathered at the Highwayman Inn at the finish, each one was quickly presented with a certificate (showing the vital statistics attained on the day and a photograph taken on the event). Cirencester Car Club’s Corinium Run was very well received and places on the 2008 event will be bound to be in great demand.
Full tables of achievements and further information can be obtained from the Cirencester Car Club website: www.cirencestercarclub.com
If you require any specific further information, or high resolution copyright free photograph(s) of specific cars on the event, please contact the writer – Simon Marks: (07973) 412530 or simonmarks@targetstatical.com
For further enquiries regarding Cirencester Car Club,
please contact Martin Saunders: (07798) 584713 or ted163@gmail.com
Corinium Run 2008