The 2012 Race Season is fast approaching for advice from the experts come and talk to us at the Castle Combe Racing Club preview day - Alan Cooper will be on hand to advise you on how to get a competition licence and answer any questions you may have on ARDS, Test Days and circuit Track Days.

As a multiple Championship Winning Race Team Swift Cooper has the following cars for hire for the 2012 Race Season Swift SC10, SC92 and a Van Dieman RF89.  Details available from Alan on the day. 

For those drivers looking for cars to buy:
 Alan Slater's 2008 Class C championship winning car is available as a rolling chassis  for £5,500.

Ex-Ben Norton Class C Championship Winning Car is available as a rolling chassis for £5,000.

For more details telephone our Team on 01249 783000 or come and see Alan on Sunday 29th Jan at Castle Combe Circuit.

The 2011 Season was a great year for the Team overall.  Saturday 29th sees the Annual Dinner Dance and Presentation of Awards at the Village Swindon.   Rob Hall finished 1st overall in the Castle Combe FF1600 Championship with impressive driving all year.

Coventry based Nathan Ward finished 5th Overall and 2nd in class.  With Local Racer Luke Cooper finishing 7th overall and 4th in class. 
For enquiries on how to be part of the Winning Team contact Alan on 01249 783000 or email alan@swiftcoooper.com
 

The last round of the Forumula Ford 1600 Castle Combe Championship is being held on 1st October 2011.  Come and meet the Team in the paddock.  Just look for the Swift Cooper Truck.

Click here for the latest timetable http://www.castlecombecircuit.co.uk/events/display_event.asp?EventID=288

SWIFT TAKE THE TITLE AT COMBE!  Monday 29th August was a great day for the Team.  The penultimate round of the Castle Combe FF 1600 Championship saw the latest Swift 1600 car take its first title with 1 round still to go.  A dominating performance by Rob Hall led to a race win by over 6 seconds.  The winning laurels were dedicated to team mate, Pete O' Shea. 

Continual research and development of this latest car by the whole team has finally paid off.  Last years "Young Driver of the Year", 21 year old, Robert Hall has done the Team proud with this latest achievement.  Nathan Ward and Luke Cooper continue to impress with fine drives.  Team Mate Jim Hamilton was home from the far east and joined in the celebrations.

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Getting the latest generation Swift Formula Ford onto the step of the podium hasn’t been easy, with the car quick enough to join the front runners from the outset, but never quite able to find a winning edge… at least until the 2010 season final when two commanding drives by Robert Hall delivered both the new Swift’s first win in the championship, plus victory in the celebrated FF1600 carnival.

Hall’s spectacular day started with pole position, as he got his timing right on a damp but drying track and banged in a 1m20.239s lap, giving him the top spot by 0.3s over champions Marcus Allen, with David Vivian, Thomas Barrow and Nathan Ward next up.

The Lure of the Carnival attracted some big names too, Hall kept his lead at the start of the race, on now a fully-dry track, and that put him safely ahead of a ferocious accident on the run to quarry on lap two. Unsurprisingly, the massive crash led to a long safety car period and it would be the start of lap eight before racing resumed. Hall came home to his second win of the day.

This result earned him the “Young Driver of the Year award” for the second time in recognition of the fine work of both the driver and the Swift Team during the course of 2010.

Ben Norton only needed a few points from the August bank holiday event to secure the Castle Combe FF1600 title, but he still dived into the thick of the hardest-fought race of an epic 2009 season. In the end it was Marcus Allen who inched ahead of Felix Fisher and Steven Jensen to take the win, while fourth for Norton saw him crowned the champion.

It’s a dilemma faced by many drivers from the grass roots to Formula 1: with only a few points needed to clinch a title but a package fast enough to win, do you hang back and play safe, or race for the victory as usual?
Ben Norton wasn’t sure, and reckoned he would probably make his mind up “when the lights went out.” And when they did, it seemed the decision was ‘just get on with it’, as the Spectrum scorched off the line faster than the two Swifts on row one and went through Folley three-abreast with Allen – who held the lead – and Fisher, who slipped to third.

The battle was then paused due to an incident at the Esses, which saw Andrew Harris (Power Clean Van Diemen RF99) get    spun    by    Tom    Margetson (Glassimage/Wayne    Poole    Racing Reynard 89FF) after having to back off abruptly as Josh Barnett (Saab City Van Diemen RF88) came past.
The chain reaction wiped out not only Harris, but crucially Pre 90 points leader Julian Heap’s Reynard 89FF. It also left Wayne Poole creeping back to the pits with a damaged Van Diemen RF88, and sent his and Margetson’s team-mate Ashley Clifford tumbling down the order after another strong qualifying effort from the Mallorca-based long distance commuter.
Three laps later, the racing resumed – and it didn’t relent for a single second over the remaining eight laps as Allen, Norton and Fisher were soon joined by Steven Jensen in a spine-tingling four- way lead fight. A new set of tyres had revitalised Jensen’s Swift SC09 after a depressing row five qualifying run, and thanks to a fast start and swashbuckling restart – at which he avoided damage in an Esses traffic jam that cost Vivian and Andrew Jones (Coachstyle Ray GRS08) ground – he was now right with the leaders.
All four cars were tied together less than a second apart, but unlike so many tense yet static Combe FF1600 races in recent years, this time they were frantically passing and repassing each other. Fisher grabbed second from Norton into Quarry soon after the restart, then capitalised on Allen’s lurid exit to Camp to draft around the outside over Avon Rise and claim the lead at half-distance.
Allen didn’t let him get away, though, repassing within two laps. But then a three-abreast moment between Allen, Fisher and Jensen – who had just got around Norton – into Quarry on lap nine saw Fisher hit the front again... at least for one lap before Allen, whose discomfort was not slowing him in the slightest, snatched the lead back once more.

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Dragons’ Den
 
 
Remember Formula Ford driver Rob Hall appearing on Dragons’ Den in 2008, Rob offered a percentage of his future earnings to the Dragons in return for funding a season in Formula Ford.

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This weekend at the Rally Car Show at Castle Combe we will be showing the new aero developments for our 2010 car

Swift racing cars gave their development duratec formula ford car another outing at Brands Hatch Indy circuit last week.

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