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Phil Brent in his Hartwell Imp. After many years of trying Phil won the Nationals at the Isle of Wight
Ex Mini7 racer Stuart Hayman winning his final at the Nationals 1990.
Penhow's Steve Holmes finally built a new shell for his Class4 in 1989 and won the Nationals with it a year later. Steve is living proof that you can be a nice guy and still be a winner.
Future Mini7 Champion Matthew Hayman in his 970S pickup leading Sean Fraser
Z-Cars proprietor Chris Allanson in one of his early Class 10 specials
Severn Valley driver Andy Sheppard drove a variety of Minis, Escort and Novas as well as this Class 3 Starlet
Teifi driver Ellir Morris regularly made the trip to Hereford to take on multiple Class 4 Nationals winner Allan Thomas
Ian Harvey and Paul Gillard do battle at Hereford's Stoke Lacey venue
Derek Adams throws his Ford pushrod engined Class 9 into the corner at the Hereford Nationals.
Hereford man Paul Bailey has been competitive in grassing for over 30 years with minis, specials, Fiestas, Novas, Astras and Corsas
Viv Cole on his way to his Nationals win at Hereford beating club mate Mike Manning
Leewood man Vinny Gibbons in his V6 Hereford Bull Class 10
Gareth Thomas seems to have tried every conceivable Class 7 configuration. This is a supercharged Rover V8 engined Fiat 127!
Mike Manning in his Class3 Starlet shortly before he switched to Rallycross
North Wales racer Dave Hill battling with Billy Macmillan in their Class 5 Minis. Dave went on to be a National Champion of Champions for Leewood in his Class 6 Nova
Possibly the best grasser not to win the Nationals - Simon 'Gently' Bentley now also races in National Hot Rods and came third in the world finals this year. Is he the Jimmy White of Autograss?
North Wales driver Darrell Williams always had tidy cars and this twin cam Class9 was no exception
Evesham man Fred Towey E40 was a top Imp man in Class4 for many years.
Nigel Bache in a tidy Border Counties Class 5 Mini leading Martin Bowen
Ludlow's Malcolm Mansell in the ex Peter Williams car
Typical West Midland League Class 6 battle between LUD717 (Arthur Evans??) and H99 Paul Bailey
Future British Rallycross Champion Mark Kaye in his Class 4 Mini before he moved to the Dales
An early shot of Class 5 legend Carl Wilde from Shropshire. Carl went on to be a National Champion of Champions
This is Martin Tinker who made his name in Minis before going Rallycrossing with a Nova, then returning to the grass with a Class 7.
Quick Ludlow Mini racer John Duggan here holds off Stephen Haggett at Hereford
Mike Holtby was a Class7 racer for many years before he started in National Hot Rods. This was his first truly successful car with supercharged Rover V8 power.
Radstock racer Clive Wareham never got a Nationals win despite leading the final on several occasions
Terry Brown sold his multi Nationals winning Alfa Montreal V8 engine on a trip to Belgium, and replaced it with a yankie V8 motor
One of Colin Tippins' early Class 4 Minis
Colin Hadley and Stuart Hayman dispute the lead in a Class 1 Nationals Final
Spam had one season with this pickup deciding he didnt like it much, and ended up chopping the body off and converting it to a Clubman.
Huw Beynon was arguably the quickest Class5 Mini driver of his era with his Tyler powered cars.
Clubmates Wynne Evans and Lyndon Phelps travelled to meetings all over the country together for many years. Both were National Champions
Nigel Pike on his way to second at the Nationals
Son of Nick, this is Graham Cleal in his quick Class 2 Escort
This is Mark Hoppe's Escort in 1991 at Mid Glamorgan. It was the first class 2 final Mark ever won beating Dai Jarvis in P41. Incidentally, the Lancia is NASA Chairman Keith Matthews'.
Sideways king Gareth Large with one of his quick class 3 Escorts
Andrew Sheppard had a brief flirtation with this class 5 1300 Nova
Pete Collins in his class 9 Nationals winning car
Steve Mundy's 5 litre Rover V8 Fiesta at Hereford
Ludlow's Joey Smith with his BDH special
Port Talbot racer Ainsley Earley in his very quick Tyler powered 1400 Mini
Mark Perrott out front in this West Midland League class 3 tussle
Tommy Williams semi-short-stroke class5 Metro
Long time Penhow racer John Morris came close to a national title with this class 2 Escort
John Williams' class 9 racer from the Bala club
Spam, Ainsley Earley and Roy Sheath battle over the first corner at the Nationals
Tommy Williams and Billy Macmillan dispute the Class 5 final lead at Norton Radstock in 1988
Gary Worlock in an ex Billy Macmillan shelled car at the MAP Open 1997
