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Many pictures on this page are courtesy of Robert Clayson; check out his website for much more!
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A
pretty useless car for this race; the Vauxhall Firenza of Andrew Thorpe
which was just over 2000 cc - and competing with CSL and Capri. The car
did not qualify.
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Bevan's Imp was there, of course. |
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Melvyn Adams would retire this Imp...
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... just like Nick May would.
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| An unusual car: the Datsun Sunny, which would race in Holland from 1974 onwards. |
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| At
first sight this looks like an Escort RS 1600; but it isn't; it is the
1300 BDA of Peter Hanson, one of the few 16-valve 1300 Escorts in
Britain, sometimes referred to as "RS 1300". The fruits of
homologation... |
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| An
entry not very popular with certain German press ("a running chicane"):
the Opel Manta of Heine and de Vries. As often, they soldiered on to
10th overall. And the car - it would have looked great with a little
attention to detail and a nice colour scheme... |
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Alfa Romeo turned up with the good old GTAm's, three of them.
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| Since
the British Broadspeed Capri was destroyed at the British GP meeting,
the Belgian sister car of Bourgoignie was brought in, its BP decals
replaced with Shell logos in a funny sort of way. No sign of Lindrick
Finance. Did I already mention it? Take a look at Robert Clayson's site: Robert Clayson Photographic |
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| The 1602 BMW of Tibor and Hegels. |
Gardner's mighty Chevrolet. |
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| Hezemans arriving in style. |
Brian Muir checking the bill of yet another repair to his Alpina BMW? |
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| The
Ford factory team, with three cars. On the right it would be Mass,
Fitzpatrick, Glemser and team director Kranefuss (with cap). Below two
basically identical cars - but what a beauties... |
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Apart from the works team, BMW always had their privateer squad. They would win this race, actually.
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The rear of one of the works cars.
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| Two works BMW's - just enjoy the sight. |
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| Two Alpina BMW's: on the left the private Cocher car, on the right the Ertl/Bell car which would win the race. |
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| This is the Müller/Ogrodowcyk coupé. |
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| The Leech Mustang. |
Nick May's Escort. |
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| On the way to the grid: Hanson... |
... and the Manta and an Alfa. |
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| The grid. |
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| And here we go! |
Rouse fighting with Muir and another Capri.
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| The Imp of McGovern finished 11th overall. |
This is Les Nash, 15th.
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| The Datsun finished ninth overall, the Escort following may be Barrios.
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The Broadspeed Capri was a little damaged in the race (it just wasn't a Broadspeed year!). |
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| The Capris had a difficult time in Silverstone. In the end, Mass was second... |
... but Glemser and Fitzpatrick (here) did not finish. |
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| Hezemans finished in fourth place in heat one, but then it was over. |
Star of the race was the orange Alpina BMW of Ertl and Bell, winning both heats. |
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A pit stop for Gardner's Camaro.
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A Capri-BMW battle.
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| Alpina sandwitched the Capri with a first and a third. |
A great race for them. |
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| The fourth and final Alpina CSL was the Ogrodowczyk/Müller car, which retired; here leading the Sanger Camaro, 13th.
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Heine/de Vries in a battle with "Paco".
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| The small division was won by de Uriarte and Le Guellec, a great 4th overall. |
A 1600 cc BMW here, driven by Tibor and Hegels. |
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| And Alfa Romeo? The GTAm's were unable to catch the modern competitors. |
Only Facetti was able to finish in the top-six. |
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Bourgoignie wouldn't been happy if he saw his car like this...
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