THE Vintage SEC ran its annual Corborough Meeting on May

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1190 and if chi, is more a high,peed driving-test than a speed-trial it mattered little in the warm sunshine. It .was a pleasantly lazy, well-run occasion. with plenty of …lookers, whose cars. for instance, ranged from a. little vintage flat-twin Wolseley IWO-SCatCr 10 a .smart Brinsh Salmson saloon. The sun and the meeting with friends made reportage spasmodic. But I noted that Ron Footitt not only made fastest-time-of-the-day but set a new Yintage-car course-record s 038.6 sec. on his wain) run M the Cognac-Special GNAC. The only possible challenger w. Guy Smith in his 31/2-litre Alvis-powered Frazer Nash but he clocked 39.8 sec., which settled the over 1,500 c.c. racing-car class, in which third place Went to David Llewellyn in the 8.3-litre Bentley, in 41.0 sec. Tony Brooke carefully warmed up his famous Vauxhall Villiers but it cut out just behire reaching the hnishing-line tin its first appearance and departed behind its Range Rover tow-car before it could be run again, with undiagnosed trouble — Oen so, Brooke’s time was In’the 11/2.-litre racing-car class Mark _lowland broke his own class record in the blown Frazer Nash single-seater with the “Terror” asSociations. and the Edwardians had a class all to themselves. This was well supported, almost soot pre-war VSCC Meetings. John Walker had driven RI the 000000 000 the 12.8-litre 1908 GP Panhard-Levassor Ass we described in the April MOTOR SPORT. It was making its first modern competition appearance and looked very “Dieppe-72. years-ago” as it ran along the back curie. As it was slowing down on its second run the ois front tyre lob the rim and tried to tangle with the Steering. But John held the big car with skill. persuading it safely onto the gra,. with no drama. Neve’s 3.3-litre 1914 TT Humber seemed off-form, Roger Collings’ 9.2-litre 1903 Sixty. Mercedes made splendid Gattling-gon noiseSfrom its two long exhaust stubs but age was against it, inspite of intrepid driving. the 12-litre 1908 GP Itala driven by Williamson gave fine inipression of the true brute-force big Edwardian racer. but it was left to Arnold-Forster to go the quickest, in his racing 5-litre 1912 Type 16 Bugatti, in 45.7 sec.. 0.4 scc. slower than his own class course-record. The Isola was second, with 47.1 sec.. the Panhard third, in 47.8 sec.. Neves liumber clocking 48.2 sec. and Collings’ veteran Merced,. 49.6 sec. —