Mike Turner was in charge of the
organisation at Falcon's August Antics Autotest and had designed some new, challenging and long tests not
previously seen at Upper Caldecote. At first they looked a bit daunting
but they were logical and flowed easily and together with some new colour
coded marker posts there were fewer wrong courses than usual.
At first it looked as if Owen Turner would continue where he left off
last time when he was quickest on the first test. However, Keith Pettit
soon stamped his authority on the proceedings and was a second quicker on
test two.
Then on the long test three Keith was an outstanding eight seconds
faster than his nearest rival, Jamie Turner in his rally spec Metro. Owen
fought back on test four where he was two seconds quicker than Keith but
still had an eight second deficit on Keith at the lunch break.
After lunch Keith was fastest on the remaining tests to win by thirteen
seconds. Behind the Keith/Owen battle Martin Cheshire was doing well in
Arnold Lanes Mini and came close to beating the owner!
David Smoley won class C/D and Jonny Tovey the production class.