Steven Parker wins Cam Forbes Trophy at Trac Mon

At this meeting on Anglesey each year the competitors in the CNC Heads Championship event compete for the Cam Forbes Trophy. This wonderful trophy was presented to the BARC North Western Centre by Dawn Forbes, widow of Cam, who was a regular competitor for many years. Dawn wanted Cam’s exploits and love of the championship to be remembered and supplied this trophy to the centre to that end. Cam’s favourite circuit was Anglesey so it was agreed that it would be presented at one of our meetings here each year. Dawn told the committee that Cam was always a slow starter at race meetings and his race performances were much improved over his qualifying efforts - as Dawn said “if only Cam could go quicker in qualifying he would win more class trophies at the end of the day!”

The committee decided that in honour of Cam’s tardy morning practicing and fighting spirit to improve his class position in the race we would present the trophy to the driver who improved the most from practice to race during the first two races of the Anglesey weekend. The rules are slightly more complicated to ensure that anomalies such as ‘sand-bagging’ in qualifying are identified and removed!

With the drop out level being a bit higher than usual it made it a bit easier to do the calculations this year. After the first race Steven Parker in his Class D Ford Fiesta and Alek Modro in his Class B Fiesta were tied in the lead, they had both improved their positions by a healthy 6 positions, they were followed by newcomer Jim Hutchinson’ Escort RSR with a progression of 4 positions. After the second race it was down to two still at the head of the table as Alek had retired from the race. In third place was Duncan Aukland in his Proton Putra with a total of 3 position gains, in second place was Jim Hutchinson with 6, but well ahead was Steven Parker with a total of 10 gains over the two races.

In the absence of Dawn Forbes the trophy was presented by long time driver and supporter of the championship Kevin Cryer.

John Leck