MONTAGUE BURTON TROPHY - Harewood Hill History

Peter in action in an earlier Mìni when the Terror of Class One.
Funds were restored and another Cooper purchased
with which to ‘ have a go’ at Alan Staniforth who was
having it too easy in his class at this time. The car
was modified with help from Harry Ratcliffe and Peter
managed to beat Alan at Scarborough and Castle
Howard setting records which stood for some time.
The 1965 season was another good one although
Peter was nearly lost to the Centre when he went to
Belgium on a rather disappointing venture to work for
a well known international saloon car racer. On his
return he spent some time helping Frank Greenwood
to sort out his Lotus 23B and drove this car at Croft
in a race with rather disappointing results as he ‘came
together’ with another car. Honour was restored,
though, when he drove Frank's Cooper S at Scarborough
and lowered Harry Ratcliffe’s record by three seconds !
In May 1966 Peter and his wife Helen moved to
Windermere and he temporarily stopped competing
until 1967 when he built his present Mini from a nearly
new body shell and all other parts new. As is now
history, he was only beaten twice, once by a Mustang
and the other time by a twin cam Anglia. A t all
meetings attended, a new class record was set up and
he ran in the Top Ten runs at Harewood and Castle
Howard. This year has started the same winning way,
with success at Castle Howard and twice already at
Harewood and will no doubt continue the same way.
Peter and his friend Davie Sykes have moved to
Harrogate and opened a garage specialising in maintenance
and repair of both bread and butter and high
performance cars. W ith the sort of preparation that
causes a Mini to go up Harewood in well under fifty
seconds they should not be short of customers for
the same treatment. They advertise in this programme,
so don’t waste time — ring them (Adv’t).
Peter and Helen have three children, two boys and
one girl who all come along to watch Peter drive
in events and would have seen Mother also If the Sprite
she was to have driven at Harewood had not sheared
its flywheel. Peter sports a fiery beard and It used
to match his hairy driving which has now tempered
with the result that he is very, very fast but stays on
the road these days in contrast to some of his earlier
exploits ! Definitely very well worth watching closely
Is Peter Kaye and his Incredible little car. Indeed
we will be more than surprised If he is not there
fighting It out with the Racing and Sports/Racing cars
in the “ Top Ten” run off this afternoon.
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