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BARC Aintree 200

Aintree, Great-Britain

Date: 18/4/1959
Track length: 4.830 m
Attendance:
Entries accepted:
Starters: 19?
Finishers:

Pole position: Bueb in 2.27,8
Fastest lap: 2.20,8 = 123,43 kmh

Distance: 10 laps
Average speed: 120,68 kmh
Weather:
Ruleset: FIA Special Touring Cars Group 3
Car info:  

 

Practice in torrential Liverpool rain saw Bueb somehow unofficially break Sopwith’s lap record by 1 second-being 4 seconds quicker than “Salvo” and almost 9 seconds over Sir Gawaine.
Bueb lead from flag to flag hotly pursued by Salvadori, both Jags cornering on the limit, with smoke pouring from the tyres. Willment provided an amusing battle with Charles’ big Jag, the more nimble Dagenham machine eventually getting ahead.
(report compiled by David Fox)


Class A-D
Pos Pos in class # Team / Entrant
Car- Engine
Drivers, Nationality Engine
vol. (cc)
Engine
Type
Group Distance,
time
Qualifying position Qualifying time Fastest lap Reason out,
remarks
1 1 30 Equipe Endeavour
Jaguar 3.4 Litre
Ivor Bueb, GB
3442 L6 D 10 laps 1 2.27,8 2.20,8  
2 2 27 John Coombs Racing Organisation
Jaguar 3.4 Litre
Roy Salvadori, GB
3442 L6 D 10 2 2.31,8    
3 3    
Jaguar 3.4 Litre
Gawaine Baillie, GB
3442 L6 D   3      
4? 4?    
Jaguar 3.4 Litre
Dick Protheroe, GB
3442 L6 D          
  5?    
Jaguar Mark VII
Maurice Charles, GB
3442 L6 D          
  1    
Ford Zephyr
Jeff Uren, GB
2553 L6 C   4? 2.40,6 2.32,4  
  2    
Jaguar 2.4 Litre
Peter Blond, GB
2483 L6 C 19 sec behind Uren        
  3   Sammy Rees
Ford Zephyr
Malcolm Kingham, GB
2553 L6 C          
  1    
Riley 1.5
Les Leston, GB
1489 L4 B       2.42,0  
  2 18  
Wolseley 1500
H.R. Vincent, GB
1489 L4 B          
  3 19  
Sunbeam Rapier Series II
H. Brierley, GB
1494 L4 B          
  1    
Austin A40
George "Doc" Shepherd, GB
948 L4 A   7? 2.52,0 2.39,8  
  2    
Ford Prefect
John Young, GB
1172 L4 A          
  3    
Ford Anglia
John Willment, GB
997? L4 A   6 2.50,4    
      Team Speedwell
Austin A35
Len Adams, GB
948 L4 A     2.53,4    
    11 Rudd Racing
Renault Dauphine Gordini
Bob Jennings, GB
845 L4 A          
       
Saab GT 750
Ray North
748 L3 A     3.11,4    
      Team Speedwell
Austin A35
? John Sprinzel, GB
948 L4 A          
DNF      
Austin A35
Paddy Gaston, GB
948 L4 A     2.52,2