Two Awards For Geoff Stilwell
Geoff Stilwell, Owner/Driver of the record-holding 7707 Land Speed Racecar announced two awards garnered at the recent Grand National Roadster Show. “It has been a tough couple of years for land speed racing,” said Geoff, CEO and MD of Beech Underwriting Agencies Ltd which is based in Maidstone. “We were only able to attend one event last year at El Mirage which is up in the desert north east of Los Angeles where we successfully made licensing and check out passes.
It was therefore great fun to be able to travel to the USA and get the car out and be a part of the award winning “Mick’s Paint” (www.mickspaint.com) display at this year’s Grand National Roadster Show celebrating its 72nd year at the Pomona Fairplex in Los Angeles, California.
As Geoff said, “Showing is not like racing, there is no clear winner, nevertheless, we managed to get first place in the Unlimited class and received the award for overall winner of “Outstanding Engineering” out of over 600 cars”. The latter accolade is a huge testament to the crew at Mick’s who built and maintain the car including engine builder John Beck, Donny Cummins, Paul Bowman, Steve Davies, Mickey Larson, Pauly Rivera, Robin ‘Silky’ Silk, Tony Thacker and team leader Mick Jenkins.
7707 is also supported by our UK crew Nick Davies, Rob Loaring and Scott Barnes of I.C.E. Automotive based near Silverstone, Ron Hope’s Rat Trap Racing and CARS Recon Inc., and Mick’s Paint the builder/painter of the car.
The teams current plans are to attend the following races:-
May 14-15 event at El Mirage
August 6th – 12th at Bonneville Speedweek in Utah
November 12th-14th at El Mirage
About 7707:
Based on a highly modified 1927 Ford Roadster, 7707 …
IDRHoF Ceremony To Be Live Streamed
British Drag Racing Hall of Fame member and International Drag Racing Hall of Fame board member “Big Daddy” Don Garlits has announced that this year’s IDRHoF induction ceremony will, for the first time, be streamed live on the IDRHoF Facebook page and on NHRA’s streaming Service nhra.tv on 10th March 2022 at 22.30GMT. This years ceremony marks the induction of BDRHoF founder Stuart Bradbury.
In a preview of the event on Joe Castello’s WFO Radio podcast, Don said on Wednesday: “Stu contributed so much to drag racing in England and internationally, he was a wonderful guy, I’m so glad the selectors picked him this year, unfortunately he passed away in July 2020 and his wife Bev and daughter Genna will be coming over and accepting his award.” Joe said that as well as founding the BDRHoF Stu was chief starter at Santa Pod Raceway from 1968 to the late 80s, and that there will be an (alleged) proclamation read from the British Government. Stu and Don are two of the five people who are members of both the BDRHoF and IDRHoF. To see the whole of Don’s assessment of all the 2022 IDRHoF inductees go to the WFO Youtube Channel …