A whopping 28 cars took part in the lastest rounds of the 2CVParts.com Championship, held at the Croft circuit in North Yorkshire.  Pole position for race 1 was taken by Nick Paton, with double 2011 champion Sammie Fritchley joining him on the front row.  In the race, Paton managed to break away and was joined by Philip Myatt and Alec Graham, both of whom were in contention to take the 2012 title.

With two corners to go, Graham tried to get past Paton for 2nd, but in his attempt to defend from the attack, Paton collided with Myatt in front, gifting the win to Graham.  Paton failed to finish, whilst Myatt rejoined to finish 4th, behind Matthew Hollis and Steve Panas.

Race 2 saw Simon Clarke on pole position ahead of his Gadget teammate Peter Rundle.  After losing the lead on the run down to the first corner, Clarke re-passed Rundle halfway around lap 1 and was never headed again, eventually winning the race by over 5 seconds.

2nd place went to Alec Graham, who had fought through brilliantly from 12th on the grid, which was enough to take the 2012 2CVParts.com Championship.  The final podium position was taken by Ainslie Bousfield, who passed Rundle on the last lap.

Full results are available here: http://www.tsl-timing.com/barc/2012/1229212cv.pdf

Photo gallery: Here

Rounds 5 and 6 saw the 2012 ECAS 2CV Racing championship head to the Leicestershire circuit Mallory Park, where a whole day of club racing was televised on satellite TV channel Motors TV. Each race was a 10 minute sprint, and as usual provided plenty of entertainment for the fans at the circuit, as well as those watching from home.

The surprise winner of race 1 was Pete Sparrow, returning to racing after a few years away, and driving the #97 Fine Print car. This was Fine Print's first win for 9 years!

Everyone who started race 1 finished it, which unfortunately can't be said of race 2, which was a bit of a crash-fest. The major accident was trigged by a coming together of Christer Hallgren in the #44 car and Richard Hollis in #71. Hollis was turned around, and both cars headed off to the outside of the Esses, where Lien Davies, lifting off the throttle to avoid wreckage, spun into the side of Hollis. Davies was then himself hit in the door by Katy Storey. Hollis and Storey retired pretty much on the spot, but Davies was able to continue, finishing 15th. Meanwhile up at the front, a great battle between Simon Clarke, Alec Graham and Nick Paton raged all race, before being settled in that order - a delighted Clarke taking the win.

Thanks to Motors TV, you can enjoy coverage of race 2, here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czh4RbCjoxE

Full results available here: http://www.tsl-timing.com/barc/2012/1223212cv.pdf

Galleries of the event: Here

After a great start to the championship at Oulton Park, rounds 3 and 4 of the 2012 ECAS 2CV Racing championship took place at Silverstone on May 5th and 6th. Each race a 14 lap sprint around the short Silverstone track, which usually provides some fierce racing!

Peter Rundle took race 1 honours in a close finish, with Phil Myatt coming second after a race-long fight.

Race 2 was another close finish between Sandro Proietti and Wayne Cowling - the pair of them finishing just 74 thousandths of a second apart, with the next car 12 seconds back!

Full results available here: http://www.tsl-timing.com/barc/2012/1218212cv.pdf

Galleries of the event: Here, here and here

The Classic 2CV Racing Club have produced a poster featuring the details of the race dates for 2012 and some extra info. Click the image below to download the poster to your computer in PDF format.

Update on the 24 hour race entries:

The following teams have made an entry for the 24 hour race this year:

• Hollis MotorSport
• Crisis Racing
• Iceni Racing
• Team Twin Snails
• Daughters&Dads
• Dogfish
• Team Fine Print
• MIM Racing
• Car 63
• Crusader Vans
• Lucky Jon Racing
• BCOT
• The Pie Men
• Flying Dutchmen
• SJ
• Rent Boys Racing
• Team ECAS
• Grease Monkey
• Tete Rouge 1
• Gadget Racing 1
• Gadget Racing 2

Additionally there are 3 'Mini Grand' entrants so far.