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The Molyslip Trophy

Brands Hatch Circuit, Kent, Great-Britain

Date: 6/8/1962
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Pole position: Salvadori in 1.57,6
Fastest lap: Parkes in 2.04,2 = 123,61 kmh

Distance: 30 laps
Average speed: 119,28 kmh
Weather: Heavy rain
Ruleset: Group 2
Car info:  

 

The Molyslip Trophy race for saloon cars followed in torrential rain with a whole collection of 3.8 Jaguars leading away from the start. Graham Hill leading Parkes, Salvadori and Jack Sears. Nicky Byrne lost his 220 SE in the first lap melee down Paddock Hill and collected Christabel Carlisle, who then proceeded to motor very swiftly on the soaking track to try and catch the rest of her class rivals.

Parkes took the lead from Hill on lap five and proceeded to motor away into a safe lead. Peter Pilsworth’s Sunbeam subsided into the ditch at Paddock on lap two and remained there and John Aley spun at South Bank bend on the following lap while Byrne called into his pit for some attention to bodywork. On lap nine Graham Hill's foot slipped off the brake pedal as he was braking for a bend and before he could get it back on again the Jaguar had bent itself badly against the bank, giving Hill a bruised knee. Just one day after his character-building German GP (in practice, he had a big accident running over a TV camera, dropped from de Beaufort’s Porsche - but on Sunday a fine victory followed) he might have been a little tired, perhaps.

On the same lap Kelsey in the Chevy II, who had dropped back as the rain increased, retired, saying that he had the wrong tyres fitted. Peter Dodd retired his Jaguar from sixth place with braking troubles and Roy Salvadori lost his third place to Sir Gawaine Baillie, coming round with a disintegrating exhaust system.
Christabel Carlisle had been motoring very quickly in the teeming rain, moving up from twentieth place on lap two to eighth on lap 11 within striking distance of Bill Blydenstein in the works Cooper-Mini which was second in the class behind John Love’s similar car. Aware of the threat Blydenstein pulled out all the stops to stay ahead of Miss Carlisle and in doing so repeatedly made the fastest time in the class. In the 2-litre class Bill Aston in his quick Vauxhall VX 4/90 harried Peter Jopp’s Sunbeam Rapier for much of the race and held off Peter Harper's works car right to the end, Roy Salvadori closed up on Baillie again and passed into third place behind Parkes and Sears on the penultima lap while Baillie spun at Clearways in his efforts to get past Salvadori again.
(Motorsport 1962)

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   Equipe Endeavour
Jaguar Mk II 3.8		 Michael Parkes, GB
 3781 L6 D 30 laps 3   2.04,2  
2 2   Equipe Endeavour
Jaguar Mk II 3.8		 Jack Sears, GB
 3781 L6 D 30 4      
3 3   John Coombs
Jaguar Mk II 3.8		 Roy Salvadori, GB
 3781 L6 D 30 1 1.57,6    
4 4    
Jaguar Mk II 3.8		 Gawaine Baillie, GB
 3781 L6 D 30        
5 5   Peter Berry (Racing) Ltd.
Jaguar Mk II 3.8		 David Hobbs, GB
 3781 L6 D          
6 1   Cooper Car Co.
Austin Mini Cooper		 John Love, RSR
 997 L4 A          
7 2   Cooper Car Co.
Austin Mini Cooper		 Bill Blydenstein, GB
 997 L4 A       2.14,4  
8 3   Don Moore
Morris Mini Cooper		 Christabel Carlisle, GB
 997 L4 A   (1) 2.04,8    
  1   Ford Motor Company
Ford Zodiac Mk 3		 David Haynes, GB
 2555 L6 C       2.19,6  
  2    
Vauxhall Velox		 John Sutton, GB
 2651 L6 C          
  1   Alan Fraser
Sunbeam Rapier Series IIIA		 Peter Jopp, GB
 1592 L4 B          
  2   Tourist Trophy Garage
Vauxhall VX 4/90		 Bill Aston, GB
 1508 L4 B          
  3   Sunbeam Talbot Ltd
Sunbeam Rapier Series IIIA		 Peter Harper, GB
 1592 L4 B       2.18,4  
  4?   Westover Racing
Riley 1.5		 Edward Lewis, GB
 1489 L4 B          
      Equipe Rouge
Mercedes 220 SEb		 Nicky Byrne, GB
 2195 L6 C          
       
BMC Mini Cooper		 John Aley, GB
 997 L4 A          
DNF     John Coombs
Jaguar Mk II 3.8		 Graham Hill, GB
 3781 L6 D 9 2     Accident
DNF     Alan Fraser
Sunbeam Rapier Series IIIA		 Peter Pilsworth, GB
 1592 L4 B 1       Accident
DNF     Alexander Engineering Co.
Chevrolet Chevy II		 Charles Kelsey
 5359 V8 D 9       Handling (tyre choice)
DNF     Bracknell Motors
Jaguar Mk II 3.8		 Peter Dodd, GB
 3781 L6 D         Brakes