Pole position: Sears in 1.48,8
Fastest lap: Sears in 1.49,6
Distance: 12 laps
Average speed: 151,92 kmh
Weather: Track almost dry at the start
Ruleset: Group 2
Car info: 1964 Cars
There is no doubt whatsoever that the revised Grand Prix circuit at Silverstone is even faster than ever. Practice for the touring cars was on the Thursday, and Jack Sears bundled the big Willment Galaxie round in 1:48.8, 3.2 seconds quicker than his 1963 record. That record was also cracked by Sir Gawaine Baillie (Galaxie) with 1:50.6, while Jim Clark and Peter Arundell (Lotus Cortinas) made the existing 1600 cc figure look rather silly, with times of 1:52.4 and 1:52.8 respectively. Then Clark went out in a reserve Lotus Cortina and returned 1:51.0. Quickest of the Mini drivers was John Fitzpatrick, who did 1:59.4 in the new 1293 cc Mini-Cooper S. Right away Sears bombed into the lead, followed by Gurney, the quite incredible Clark, Baillie and the equally incredible Arundell. To watch the green and cream cars keeping up with, and being dwarfed by, the giant Galaxies was proof enough that Chapman doesn't have to worry overmuch about speed differential. After one lap Chris Craft abandoned with a broken engine at Becketts. The race order was maintained as Sears, Gurney, Clark, Baillie, Arundell, Olthoff and Gardner. In the Mini division, Hopkirk was almost wheel to wheel with an interloper, in the shape of Mike Young's Anglia. On lap 4 Gardner took Olthoff but, next time round, drew "ohs!" from the grandstands, as he skidded coming out of Woodcote and finished up on the grass among the mud after being very narrowly missed by team-mate Olthoff. Smith coasted in with no oil pressure on his Jaguar, while Andre Baldet had to retire his Cortina with a flat tyre. Burrows (Mini-Cooper S) stopped at Stowe, and took off his crash-hat. The leaders assumed something of a procession, but this was not so in the "mini" section. Hopkirk, Young, Fitzpatrick and Slotemaker were having a monumental dice, the two first-named passing and re-passing at every opportunity. This battle held the crowd's interest, as well as the rather spectacular cornering of Clark and Arundell. In the last but one lap, Sears doubled the Minis, and while he and Gurney took the chequered flag, almost unnoticed, followed by Clark, Baillie and Arundell, everyone awaited the scrapping quartets. Up Abbey came Hopkirk, his car splattered with mud, practically side-by-side with Fitzpatrick; Young and Slotemaker tried everything to displace them, and as the pair seemed to try for a dead heat finish, the two drivers behind had to do some phenomenal avoiding action to prevent collisions. It was surely a miracle that they managed to stay on the road! Source: Autosport |
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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 | 50 | John Willment Automobiles Ford Galaxie |
Jack Sears, GB |
6997 | V8 | D | 12 laps, 22.16,4 | 1 | 1.48,8 | 1.49,6 | |
2 | 2 | 52 | Alan Brown Racing Ltd Ford Galaxie |
Dan Gurney, USA |
6997 | V8 | D | 12 laps, 22.42,4 | 2 | |||
3 | 1 | 21 | Team Lotus Ford Lotus Cortina |
Jim Clark, GB |
1594 | L4 | B | 12 laps, 22.44,6 | 4 | 1.51,0 | 1.52,2 | |
4 | 3 | 51 | Gawaine Baillie Ford Galaxie |
Gawaine Baillie, GB |
6997 | V8 | D | 12 laps, 22.59,4 | 3 | 1.50,6 | ||
5 | 2 | 22 | Team Lotus Ford Lotus Cortina |
Peter Arundell, GB |
1594 | L4 | B | 12 laps, 23.13,0 | 5 | 1.52,8 | ||
6 | 3 | 23 | John Willment Automobiles Ford Lotus Cortina |
Bob Olthoff, ZA |
1594 | L4 | B | 12 laps, 23.42,6 | ||||
7 | 4 | 29 | McKechnie Racing Ford Lotus Cortina |
Innes Ireland, GB |
1594 | L4 | B | 12 laps, 23.48,2 | ||||
1 | 43 | C.L. Preece Jaguar Mk II 3.8 |
Chris McLaren, GB |
3781 | L6 | C | 12 laps, 23.57,4 | |||||
2 | 42 | John Sparrow Jaguar Mk II 3.8 |
John Sparrow, GB |
3781 | L6 | C | 12 laps, 24.01,2 | |||||
1 | 8 | Cooper Car Co. Austin Mini Cooper S |
Paddy Hopkirk, IRL |
1293 | L4 | A | 11 laps, 22.20,4 | |||||
2 | 9 | Cooper Car Co. Morris Mini Cooper S |
John Fitzpatrick, GB |
1293 | L4 | A | 11 laps, 22.20,4 | 1.59,4 | ||||
3 | 12 | Downton Engineering Ltd. Austin Mini Cooper S |
Rob Slotemaker, NL |
1293 | L4 | A | 11 laps, 22.20,8 | |||||
4 | 7 | Superspeed Conversions Ltd. Ford Anglia Super |
Mike Young, GB |
1198 | L4 | A | 11 laps, 22.22,0 | |||||
3 | 41 | Keith Wilson (Racing) Ltd. Jaguar Mk II 3.8 |
Keith Wilson, GB |
3781 | L6 | C | 10 | |||||
24 | John Willment Automobiles Ford Lotus Cortina |
Frank Gardner, AUS |
1594 | L4 | B | 6 | ||||||
20 | M.B. Baring Alfa Romeo Giulia TI Super |
Mick Cave, GB |
1570 | L4 | B | |||||||
25 | Farnborough Racing Enterprises Ford Lotus Cortina |
Jon Derisley, GB |
1594 | L4 | B | |||||||
28 | Ford Lotus Cortina |
David Haynes, GB |
1594 | L4 | B | |||||||
2 | A.K.L. Fielding Austin Mini Cooper S |
Peter Sutcliffe, GB |
1071 | L4 | A | |||||||
3 | Team Broadspeed Morris Mini Cooper S |
John Handley, GB |
1071 | L4 | A | |||||||
4 | Team Broadspeed Morris Mini Cooper S |
Ralph Broad, GB |
1071 | L4 | A | |||||||
5 | Aurora Gear Racing Morris Mini Cooper S |
Trevor Taylor, GB |
1071 | L4 | A | |||||||
6 | Alexander Engineering Co. Morris Mini Cooper S |
Elizabeth Jones, GB |
1071 | L4 | A | |||||||
16 | Don Moore Morris Mini Cooper S |
Peter Clarke, GB |
1071 | L4 | A | |||||||
BMC Mini Cooper S |
Unknown |
1071 | L4 | A | ||||||||
BMC Mini Cooper S |
Unknown |
1071 | L4 | A | ||||||||
BMC Mini Cooper S |
Unknown |
1071 | L4 | A | ||||||||
DNF | 18 | Austin Mini Cooper S |
Graham Burrows, GB |
1293 | L4 | A | ||||||
DNF | 40 | Birmingham Motor Tyres Jaguar Mk II 3.8 |
Don Smith, GB |
3781 | L6 | C | Oil pressure | |||||
DNF | 30 | Ford Lotus Cortina |
Chris Craft, GB |
1594 | L4 | B | 1 | 7 | Engine | |||
DNF | 27 | Moto Baldet Racing Team Ford Lotus Cortina |
Andre Baldet, GB |
1594 | L4 | B | 1 | 7 | Puncture |