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Age (optional) 51
Occupation Accounts Assistant
Email Address yve@rivers-fletcher.com
Type of Motorsport Hillclimbs & Sprints
First year of Competition 1997
Why did you start? I helped my husband build a
hillclimb special. It took 18 months and I thought
that as I had put a lot of effort into it I should
find out what competing was all about
Best Race / drive and why? Best drive was a
track day at Donington Park driving our Formula
Ford it was the first time I had driven on a
circuit and I loved it.
Worst Race / drive and why? At Prescott Speed
Hillclimb. I was having a really good run up the
hill when the welding in the diff broke with a
bang. I carefully coasted back down the hill and
told my husband Jeremy what had happened. He
decided that it was just the welding that had come
adrift took a run and did a really good time
himself.
Favourite Circuit / Venue Prescott Speed
Hillclimb
Types of cars competed / owned Triumph Special
and Formula Ford Royale RP33
Best car driven / owned The Triumph Special
because we built the car from scratch, raced it and
it has worked so well that we have won many awards
between us. Something that we never expected.
Funny Stories I get so nervous before a run that
it is very difficult to stop my left leg from
shaking. Luckily once I set off I don't even think
about it. Just as well as I would'nt be able to
change gear without the clutch pedal.
Current car Triumph Special, Royale Formula
Ford
News
Yve Rivers-Fletcher Improves (5/1/05)
The second round of the British Hillclimb
Championship took place at Prescott over the
weekend of April 30th and 1st May. Again the BWRDC
was well represented, the event having its highs
and lows for different members. For Tricia Davis,
the weekend was disappointing. The engine on the
car she shares with husband Terry suffered a major
failure (2 pistons and a big end) during testing,
so she was not able to compete. Undeterred she
swapped her race overalls for her marshals overalls
and spent the day supporting everyone else. For Yve
Rivers-Fletcher the day went really well and after
her first run she had a broad smile on her face
having bettered her handicap time by half a second.
In her second run she went even better, beating her
first run by 1.1 seconds. Afterwards Yve was
delighted with her performance having set personal
bests at every event she has entered so far.
Besides achieving a personal best she has also
decreased the margin between the performance of her
and husband Jeremy who shares the car. Normally at
Prescott, she expects the gap to be around three
seconds, she has narrowed this down to two. Jeremy
beware she is out to get you.
BWRDC at Loton Park (4/9-10/05)
The British Hillclimbing season got into full swing
at Loton Park on April 9th/10th, with the opening
rounds for the British and the Midlands
Championships. In total 11 women were competing at
the event seven of whom were members of the BWRDC,
namely; Yves Rivers-Fletcher. Yves Rivers-Fletcher
was delighted with her first run setting a new
personal best, her second looked to be even
quicker, maybe just a little too quick, when she
ran out of tarmac approaching the final turn.
However Yves deliberate error did preserve family
honours, as Jeremy, her husband, was beginning to
get concerned as to how he was going to achieve a
yet faster time to better hers.
Yve Rivers-Fletcher - 2nd in the Hillclimb
Shell Trophy
Yve has just spent her first season in a Royale
RP33M and achieved 4 1st in class's and won the
Paul Mathy Classic Handicap.
Races at Loton Park
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Previous Championships / Competitions Paul Matty
Sports Cars Classic Challenge
Previous Achievements Won the championship in
the Racing Car class in the Paul Matty Sports Cars
Classic Challenge in 1999 and 2004. Won an award
for the highest placed lady driver in The Midland
Hillclinb Championship in 2005. Second in the BWRDC
Speed and Hillclimb Championships in 2005.
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Other Plans for 2007 Am thinking about trying
circuit racing with Jeremy
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