Dailysportscar Hall of Fame

[Phil Egginton]

Congratulations to Keith Ahlers for being voted into the Dailysportcar Hall of Fame (http://www.dailysportscar.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;). This quote from DSC:

DSC Hall of Fame

Following on from James Weaver’s award here in 2006 we mark another English gentleman who is moving away from contemporary sportscar racing.

This man’s team has been an ever present in the popular, but now time-expired, GT Cup class of the British GT Championship.

Not for him the Porsche option. If he was going to step up from a hugely successful campaign in historic racing there was only ever going to be one marque that would do the trick.

A lifelong Morgan devotee, he owns a large stable of Malvern’s finest and races several of them, in races ranging from short sprints through historic and contemporary championship races. He loves taking off the car’s silencers for a blast around Bahrain’s Grand Prix circuit and onto 24 hour races (in his beloved Aero 8) in both Britcar and (until recently) at the Nurburgring.

DSC readers know him best for the Maroon and Silver Aero 8 which he has campaigned since 2003, taking some memorable podium finishes, and wins, against the Porsche and Ferrari hordes, duelling with the team Tiger Marcos for the prize of hairiest V8.

When adversity struck the team, headed up by the baby faced Billy, moved heaven and earth to fix the car but this was a team not afraid to look sideways, a second GTC car was hired in when a terminal engine problem struck and the final round of the 2007 British GT Championship saw the rather unlikely addition of a long-serving (and highly successful) Morgan Plus 8 to the grid when the Aero’s V8 finally cried “enough”.

It was a fiting end to the story, and a final salute to the Championship from one of racing’s gentlemen

DSC welcomes Keith Ahlers into our as yet none too crowded hall of fame

[Leigh Sebba]

Congratulations Keith - and baby faced Billy !

[Tim Ayres]

Yes. Well done Keith!

Do you remember that day about 20 years ago, when you and Sue were admiring my Plus 8, which prompted you to go out and order your first one?

Best regards

Tim

[melvynrutter]

Keith, you old devil, very, very well done. Completely and utterly deserved. Delighted to have been of help in a tiny way for a few seasons now. Melvyn & Adam Rutter