Dave Dutch :

Classic Minis hold their own in Isle of Wight Car Club autotest

Thanks to John for sharing the latest report from the Isle of Wight Car Club. Ed


Round Nine Sealed Surface at Isle of Wight College
With the weather on our side, Round Nine saw an epic battle between the old classic Mini cars of Dave Dutch, John Dutch, Chris Greenen, Andy Greenen, Kevin Richardson, Adam Greenen and Steve Brett with Ryan Munt in his Locost, Dan Morgan in his Sub Zero and Darren Taylor in his Mazda 323 thrown into the top ten mix. Resulting in seven out of the top ten cars being made up of classic Minis.

Once again Dave Dutch was setting the pace for the rest to follow and follow they did with John Dutch, Chris Greenen, Ryan Munt, Dan Morgan, Andy Greenen and Kevin Richardson were pushing hard to keep in touch of Dave and were the only ones to get under the one minute barrier. John and Chris thought this time they may actually catch Dave, but Dave had other plans and set an untouchable time of 56.72 seconds, leaving John 1.24 seconds behind him in second place and Chris 1.51 seconds behind Dave in third place.

Final Overall Result
1st Dave Dutch 56.72 seconds
2nd John Dutch 57.96 seconds
3rd Chris Greenen 58.23 seconds
4th Ryan Munt 58.68 seconds
5th Dan Morgan 58.96 seconds
6th Andy Greenen 58.96 seconds
7th Kevin Richardson 59.93 seconds
8th Adam Greenen 1:00:51 seconds
9th Darren Taylor 1:01:05 seconds
10th Steve Brett 1:01:16 seconds

There were also many class battles going on as well..

Class 1
1st Darren Cole

Class 2
1st Daniel Kozakowycz
2nd Daryl Turner
3rd Dean Long
4th Tom Silvester
5th Steve Stotesbury
6th Tony Long

Class 3
This hotly contested class was once again dominated by Dave Dutch in his DUTCHSPEED Mini Pickup, but Chris Greenen was chasing hard but could not get anywhere near the pace of Dave, Chris was followed by his son, Andy Greenen, then Kevin Richardson then Adam Greenen, Steve Brett, Wayne Hole, Dave Goodwin, Marion Saunders, Jemma Western and finally by new member Dominic Clements.

Class 4
This class saw some new names come to the fore as many of the top runners were not attending, which gave other drivers the opportunity to grab the bigger points on offer.

1st Ricky Sheppard
2nd Mike Hughes
3rd Russell Hector
4th James Robbins
5th Vicky Cox
6th Linda Burt
7th Matthew Griffin

Class 5
This also was a hotly contested class this year with twice the entries of last year, but saw last year’s champion of this class John Dutch in his DUTCHSPEED Mini Special once again coming out on top. Hot on his heels was Ryan Munt, who pushed John hard all day followed by Dan Morgan, Darren Taylor, Terry Steele, Andy Williams, Chris Wilson, Jill Williams, Callum Steele and finally Kai Steele.

Ladies leader board
Marion Saunders, Vicky Cox, Linda Burt, Jemma Western, Jill Williams.

For more information see the Club Website www.iowcc.co.uk

Next meeting
Atherfield round 10 (USS) on the 15th September

Image: © Used with permission of Allan Marsh