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2015
Titan Reunion III
Thunderhill
Raceway
California Oct.
30th - Nov. 1st, 2015 |
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The
Titan Reunion III is now history. Held October 30-Nov.1, 2015 at
Thunderhill Raceway in California. The combined Winkelmann/Titan Reunion
(Challenge) was a huge success with about 30
Titans and 10 Winkelmann cars in attendance. Dignitaries from the
Titan side included Ken & David Bailey, Richard & Eleanor
Hawkins, Tenny Kwok, John & Martha Lou Gianelli, Tom Gloy, Greg
Lapinski, and Howden Ganley. On the Winkelmann side, Bob
Winkelmann and other Winkelmann dignitaries also attended.
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Ken and
David Bailey - Ken was a Titan works driver in 1972 partnered with
Derek Lawrence. David Bailey inherited the racing genes from
his father and has been a long time participant in FF1600 and is
currently a driver coach working throughout the UK and Europe.
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Richard and
Eleanor Hawkins - Richard was a UK FF1600 front runner racing a
Mk6 in 1972 before moving on to Formula Atlantic.
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Tenny Kwok -
Was a Cal-Club FF1600 front runner who started in a Mk6 before
moving on to a Crossle and finally was one of Dan Gurney's works
FF drivers.
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Alex Cross - Raced a Mk6
bought from Tenny Kwok, and then went on to be one of the founders
and president of Swift Racing Cars. |
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John and
Martha Lou Gianelli - Was a Cal-Club FF1600 front runner who raced
a Mk6 and Mk9. John later worked for Condor Racing and was
the first employ at Swift Race Cars.
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Tom Gloy -
Raced Winkelmanns and Titans before moving on to other classes of
motorsport including Trans-Am.
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Greg
Lapinski - Became involved in FF from the very beginning, working
for Winkelmann Racing and Pierre Phillips before starting his own
racing business.
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Howden
Ganley -
Worked for Bruce McLaren, raced one liter F3 with the
likes of Emerson Fittipaldi, Ronnie Peterson, and many others.
Went on to race for BRM and Frank Williams in Formula 1, and then
started TIGA Racing Cars with Tim Schenken.
Howden has
published a wonderful biographical book, The
Road To Monoco, about his life-long
racing pursuits and
accomplishments. A great read about "the good old days" of climbing the ladder to F1.
The
book can be purchased here. |
Great picture of
all the 25 Titans and 10 Winkelmann cars taken by the track
photographer, Historic Motor Prints. Here's
the link where you can view their photographs of the event,
including individual pics of cars on track, and order
prints as you might desire. Also,
Darren Yardley was kind enough to share some photos he took at the
Reunion. They are posted on the British
Sports Cars website (British car specialists for parts, restoration
services, and sales). You can see all his photos
here.
Below are a
A couple of "teasers" from that portfolio.
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John Ballantyne
finds the limits of adhesion in his Mk 4 |
Paul Richins'
Mk 6 |
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below to enlarge for better viewing.
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can then close.
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Titan VIPS from left to right Richard Hawkins, Tenny Kwok, Ken
Bailey, John Gianelli, David Bailey, Alex Cross.
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Andy giving a
welcome speech
to folks Friday
afternoon.
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Bob Alder, Howden, and Bob
Winkelmann.
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Bob Alder, chats with Howden
Ganley
and Bob Winkelmann.
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Bob Morrison's Mk 5 being
judged.
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Todd Strong and Alex Cross.
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Richard Hawkins sitting in Bob
Alder's Mk 6 Titan
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Wow. Two Titan Mk 3
cars, Andy's
and Chris Gruy's
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Sunday afternoon James
Antipas
practices his violin.
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Apparently Richard Hawkins likes
to sit in blue Titans. Here he is in Edward
VanTassel's fantastic Mk 6.
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David Todd's Mk 5
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Paul Richins belong to
this
Mk 6
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Joe Liebsack's Mk 5 |
Chris Schoap's Mk 6 |
Eleanor Hawkings sitting in Paul Richins' Mk 6 |
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John Ballantyne fielded his pretty Mk 4 |
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Chris Gruys and Gordon England owner and driver of the former Roy
Pike and Mike Campbell Mk3 with James in Andy's Mk 3a. |
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James in his Dad's Mk 3 |
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David & Ken Bailey with
Andy & James. Multi-generational racers. For a couple of
neat "Historical Generational" pics of these four dudes
(Circa 1972 and 2009) , click here
to go to the Historic Photo Gallery and scroll down to the "Ken
Bailey Collection" of photos.
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Mk 9 owned by Duke and Faye
Waldrop who came all the way from Winter Haven Florida!
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Alex cross chats with John
Gianelli.
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Bob Morrison's beautiful Mk 5
Titan
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The Sat. drivers' meeting in
the
luxurious Thunderhill facilities.
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Friday evening a group went
to the local Mexican restaurant for margaritas and meals. Starting at left. Colin
Ivey, Jay Ivey, Todd Strong, James Antipas, Andy, Locke, Howden
Ganley, Diane Alder, Mike Ries, Eleanor Hawkins, Richard Hawkins.
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Tennyson Kwok provided
this picture
of the parade lap to start
racing.
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Maybe the quintessential race
photo of the Titan/Winkelmann
Challenge weekend --- Forest Teran
driving Martin Lauber's Titan MK 6 vs. Jamie Stiehr's Winkelmann.
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A photo from Historic Motor
Prints
of racing which took place.
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Todd Strong in his always very competitive Mk 9. |
Andy Antipas in his works MK 3 leading the pack. |
More FF racing |
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Saturday evening banquet and awards
dinner hosted by CSRG at the Willows Veterans Memorial Hall.
The professional event photographers, Historic Motor Prints, have a lot
of nice pictures taken Saturday evening which
can be reviewed here.
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Andy, Locke and Tom Franges
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Creators of this event.
Remember,
this event was near
Halloween.
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Left to Right: Howden,, ??,
Carol
and Jamie Stiehr, &
Mike Ries.
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Andy's table includes James,
Todd, Sandee Strong, David Bailey, Ken Bailey, John Gianelli, and Martha
Lou Gianelli.
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Even the otherwise
distinguished
Howden Ganley got into the
Halloween mood. By the
way, Howden has
published a wonderful biographical book, The
Road To Monoco, about his life-long
racing pursuits and
accomplishments.
A great read about "the good old days" of climbing the ladder to F1.
The
book can be purchased here.
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Bob Winkelmann was one of
the
speakers.
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Andy, Bob Alder, & Todd
Strong.
This picture was taken
because they
were the only
three who had attended all three Titan Reunions. Interesting, there is a
picture of all three lads (15 years younger!)
taken at the 2000 GingerMan
Reunion. Click
here to compare and contrast.
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Howden Ganley (still in the
spirit
of things) and Richard
Hawkins chat.
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Ethan Shippert receives the
Derek Lawrence Award from Ken Bailey for the fastest Titan in the feature
race . Titan Motorsport provided a beautiful crystal bowl.
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Doug Trimble receives the Roy
Thomas Concours Award from Richard Hawkins for the best presented Titan at the Reunion.
Titan Motorsport also provided the beautiful crystal trophy.
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Doug Trimble showing off his Roy
Thomas Concours Award trophy and his award winning Titan Mk 6. |
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