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I'm pretty sure Geoff Rushbrook's outfit caught fire in 1984 - it was definitely up on the Mountain.

All drivers over 96mph (before this afternoon's race):

1. Nick Crowe 600 Honda 2007 2m33.341s 99.778mph
2. Simon Neary 600 Honda 2011 2m34.836s 98.814
3. Ian Bell 600 Yamaha 2011 2m34.837s 98.814
4. Klaus Klaffenbock600 Honda 2011 2m34.923s 98.759
5. Dave Molyneux 600 Honda 2002 2m35.60s 98.329 ...

Tim's lap of 97.084mph is the 7th fastest lap ever at the Southern - not too shabby for a newcomer!

If anyone wants to know their position, just drop me a PM - cheers

Looking at the F2 class alone, 121 crews have now broken the 100mph barrier since it was first achieved in 1990, the same 4 crews as mentioned above being the newest.

1st Nick Crowe/Daniel Sayle 116.667
25th Bill Currie/Robert Biggs 108.858
50th Rob Cameron/Paul Randall 106.300
75th Andy King/Kenny ...

Kenny Howles continues to lead the way with the highest amount of racing laps in excess of 100mph, recording no less than 92 between 1985 and 2011. Dave Molyneux moved up to second overall this year, now having a total of 85. The top ten reads as follows:

Kenny Howles (1985-2011) = 92
Dave Molyneux ...

Some 157 crews have now lapped the Mountain Course in excess of 100mph since Dick Greasley/Mick Skeels first achieved the feat in 1977. Four new crews achieved the mark this year, these being David Atkinson/Phil Knapton, Pete Alton/Keith Brotherton, Nigel Mayers/Douglas Chandler and Darryl Rayner ...

jester - I understand what the rules state, the point I've been trying to make (from my first post) is that there's no consistency in the awarding of the trophy. The names I've listed as winners were as pubished/awarded by the official organisers whether it be 1990, 1995 or 2008!

Still got a few blanks to fill in but the Peter Chapman Trophy winners between 1974 and 1989 were:

1974 Rolf Steinhausen/Karl Scheurer
1975
1976 Mac Hobson/Mick Burns
1977 Mac Hobson/Stu Collins
1978 Rolf Steinhausen/Wolfgang Kalauch
1979 Rolf Steinhausen/Kenny Arthur
1980 Jock Taylor/Benga ...

I'll have to dig out my old results book to be 100% sure but in the 1970s, certainly from 1974 onwards, the Peter Chapman Trophy was awarded to whoever set the fastest lap of the over 500cc race, and the fastest lap of the second race (when there weren't split capacity races) - the Wal Handley ...

The info I've got is just what was in the results books that used to be produced - the back few pages always had a full breakdown of who'd won what.

It should be quite a straightforward process really now there's separate trophies for the driver (Peter Chapman Trophy) and passenger (Dave Wells ...

Since 1990, I've got the winners as follows:

1990 Richard Crossley/Karl Ellison
1991 ???
1992 Gavin Porteous/Jeff Spencer
1993 Graham Hayne/Mark Beaumont
1994 Mick Boddice jnr/Chris Hollis
1995 Ian Bell/Craig Hallam
1996 Allan Schofield/Andrew Thornton
1997 ???
1998 Gary Bryan/Ivan Murray
1999 ...

You're classed as a newcomer if you haven't qualified or raced before - Dave had qualified in 2009 so shouldn't have been eligible this time around. However....Carl Fenwick and Keir Pedley practiced and qualified with a lap of 98.786mph in 2010 before Keir fell out the chair at May Hill, yet Carl ...

Just checking, who got the sidecar newcomers trophy? I thought it was David Atkinson/Phil Knapton but the results show Mark and Lee Saunders.

34 crews lapped at more than 100mph this year, 6 of whom who achieved the mark for the first time – Carl Fenwick, Nicholas Dukes, Frank Lelias, Andy King, Miles Bennett and Michael Grabmuller. Out of those 34 crews, 17 set new personal best laps.

153 crews have now lapped the Mountain Course at ...