Duncan Aukland wins Cam Forbes Trophy

DUNCAN AUKLAND TAKES THE CAM FORBES TROPHY AT ANGLESEY

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’ or simply out of position in qualifying are identified and removed!

This year qualifying was held on a drying and greasy track with several drivers only running enough laps to qualify and hence save their wet tyres for another meeting. There was no hiding from the organisers and they were removed from the competition. The competition was based on the combined results from the first two races of the weekend. Once the spreadsheet had done its job we had a well deserved winner in Duncan Aukland in his Class A Proton Putra who has been a regular in the Championship for several decades. “I’ve been after this trophy for years” said Duncan that evening when celebrating with his team and a bottle of champagne later that evening. Runner up for the award was Nick Haynes (TVR Chimera) with Andrew Armiger taking third in his Vauxhall Tigra. David Jones, BARC (NW) Chair, presents the Cam Forbes Trophy to Duncan Aukland