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Ipswich Spedeweekend from Hot Car, October
1969
As Hot Car was represented by Tony Bostock
in his Anglia powered Dastle Midget, let's see what went on
amongst these single seaters.
Tony's Dastle, as with most, races on Goodyear
Grand Prix crossplies. Having got a couple of new wide rear
wheels from Dastle's Geoff Rumble he fitted some India radials
- against the advice of those who said radials weren't right
for Midget racing where you need gradual and progressive break-away.
Sliding out on corners is one thing,but zig-zagging
around them is quite another! Despite several pressure changes
things couldn't be got under control, so Hot Car pit man Chris
Marfelt refitted the crossplies. This really paid off as in
the first Midget race Tony led the race throughout until the
last lap, when he was pipped by Mick Miller's Centaur.
That was Tony's best race ever - as the man
with the mic said - and he was clocked at lap times equal
to the fastest super stock cars which were previously doing
lap trials for grid positions. So don't think Midgets are
slow or tame - they are very hairy!
Tony did battle with the Armco fencing a couple
of times during the next two races when lap times were getting
even faster, with John Houghton (the Biota Mini-kit man -
May Issue) knocking several tenths of a second off Tony's
lap times in his Cooper powered 'Black Lawnmower'.
Footnote of interest - Midget newcomer from
saloon car circuit racing, Tony Stubbs, has just bought a
Dastle which once lapped the Brands club circuit in 59.3 seconds!
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1960's 
