David Morys recently sent me this old photo (left) of 4 HAC taken at Silverstone. The car was then owned by the Late Richard Budd and is now with his son, Charlie. James Thacker remenisces below about his past racing scraps with Richard:-
“Richard Budd came back to spectate at quite a few MG May Silverstone meetings and would always come and have a chat so i guess it was one of those events.. I think his last race in the 5 lap Midget /Sprite scratch race was at MG Silverstone in 1974 according to my records. Our cars were very similar in lap time and we had some great close races in 1973 and 4. I had the wider wheels/ tyres 7″ to his probably 5″ or maybe 51/2″] but he had a bit more bhp with the 1293 over my XSP 1071. Richard was much quicker than me in the wet in 1972 when it poured just after the start. on the first lap and Malcolm Beer won. . I remember Richard’s one outright win in the scratch Midget race in 1968 not long after he had bought the car and changed from racing his MGB. I recall that he had a cine camera; 8mm or 16mm with which Corrine or someone else took a film of this. Richard had gone well in practice and was probably on pole and I recall him modestly giving the camera to someone to use as he said he might with a bit of luck do quite well . I wonder where this footage is and if it could be put on YouTube?” [See MGCC May Results 1968 to 78]
