Heats
1965 Silverstone Int 
1964 Crystal Palace  Go 1966 Crystal Palace 
1965 Brands Hatch Guards 
Back to index page

The Norbury trophy / The Anerley Trophy

Crystal Palace, London, Great-Britain

Date: 7/6/1965
Track length: 2.237 m
Attendance:
Entries accepted: 15 (A), 14 + 4 reserve (B)
Starters: 9 (A), 15 (B)
Finishers: 8 (A)

Pole position: Gardner (A), Lanfranchi (B)
Fastest lap: Pierpoint in 1.04,2 (A), Rhodes in 1.06,2 (B)

Distance: 15 laps
Average speed: 123,48 kmh (A); 119,53 kmh (B)
Weather: Dry
Ruleset: Group 2
Car info: 1965 Cars

 

Pierpoint made a copy book start to lead from the works Cortinas of Jimmy Clark and Jack Sears and the Willment Cortina of Frank Gardner. The first lap had been enlivened by Alan Hutcheson spinning the 7-litre Galaxie to the consternation of those behind who had to look hard to find a space to slip through - somehow they all managed! Pierpoint maintained his lead over Clark, while Jack Sears was kept busy by Gardner who was performing acrobatics in the red Willment Cortina. Further back Sir Gawaine Baillie was battling Jack Brabham - both were in Mustangs but Jacks' didn't seem quite as quick.

The up to 1300 cc saloon car race started and finished like a stock-car event. The winner was John Rhodes in the works 1300 Mini Cooper, who put on a splendid show. His race was made considerably easier when John Handley and Tony Lanfranchi collided on the first lap, the former continuing at reduced pace until bent bodywork burst a tyre, while Lanfranchi brought the Alexander car in immediately to retire, fuming!

Warwick Banks in the works 970S also had a contretemps, collecting John Cannadine in the Speedwell 1300 S on his second lap when the latter tried to pass on the inside at North Tower, the scene of the Handley/Lanfranchi melee. John Terry had the misfortune to lock a wheel at South Tower and hit the bank. After all these little excitements John Lewis held second place in his 1300 Mini-Cooper with Chris Craft third in the 1200 Anglia, and this was how they finished. John Fitzpatrick won the 1000 cc section for Broadspeed, somehow avoiding the pile-ups. Gerry Marshall had a race-long dice with Mike Campbell-Cole, whom he succeeded in pushing off at the last lap by using him as a brake at South Tower. Up to this time these two had been neck and neck, first one leading then the other, but this last manoeuvre proved a little too much even for Campbell-Cole.

Source: Autosport


Race A: Class C-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 1 103 Weybridge Engineering Co. Ltd
Ford Mustang
Roy Pierpoint, GB
4728 V8 D 15 laps, 16.18,2 3   1.04,2  
2 1 110 Team Lotus
Ford Lotus Cortina
Jim Clark, GB
1594 L4 C 15 laps, 16.20,4 2   1.04,2 (?)  
3 2 111 Team Lotus
Ford Lotus Cortina
Jack Sears, GB
1594 L4 C   4      
4 3 112 Race Proved by Willment
Ford Lotus Cortina
Frank Gardner, AUS
1594 L4 C   1      
5 2 104 Gawaine Baillie
Ford Mustang
Gawaine Baillie, GB
4728 V8 D   6      
6 3 105 Alan Brown Racing Ltd
Ford Mustang
Jack Brabham, AUS
4728 V8 D   11      
7 4 118  
Ford Lotus Cortina
Bill Shaw, GB
1594 L4 C   7      
8 5 113 Moto Baldet Racing Team
Ford Lotus Cortina
Andre Baldet, GB
1594 L4 C   9      
DNF   101 R.A. Buchanan-Michaelson
Ford Galaxie
Alan Hutcheson, GB
6997 V8 D   5      
DNS   114 Farnborough Racing Enterprises
Ford Lotus Cortina
John Nicholson, GB
1594 L4 C   10      
DNS   119 John Coundley Racing Partnership
Ford Lotus Cortina
Tom Fletcher, GB
1594 L4 C   8      

Race B: Class A-B
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 1 121 Cooper Car Co.
Morris Mini Cooper S
John Rhodes, GB
1293 L4 B 15 laps, 16.50,6 3   1.06,2  
2 2 127  
Austin Mini Cooper S
John D. Lewis, GB
1293 L4 B 15 7      
3 3 131 R. Trustram
Ford Anglia Super
Chris Craft, GB
1198 L4 B 15 4      
4 1 143 Team Broadspeed
Austin Mini Cooper S 970
John Fitzpatrick, GB
999 L4 A 15 laps, 17.22,4 10   1.08,2  
5 2 144 Newtune Ltd
Austin Mini Cooper S 970
Gerry Marshall, GB
999 L4 A   13      
6 3 141 Radbourne Motors
Fiat Abarth 1000 TC
John Anstead, GB
982 L4 A   12      
7 4 147 Don Moore
Morris Mini Cooper S
Ted Savory, GB
1293 L4 B   15      
8 5 145  
Austin Mini Cooper S 970
Charles Stancomb, GB
999 L4 A   16      
9 4 123 Cripspeed
Morris Mini Cooper S
Ken Costello, GB
1293 L4 B   8      
DNF   125 Team Broadspeed
Austin Mini Cooper S
John Terry, GB
1293 L4 B   6     Accident
DNF   122 Alexander Engineering Co.
Morris Mini Cooper S
Tony Lanfranchi, GB
1293 L4 B   1     Accident
DNF   124 Team Broadspeed
Morris Mini Cooper S
John Handley, GB
1293 L4 B   2     Accident damage
DNF   129 Team Speedwell
Austin Mini Cooper S
John Cannadine, GB
1293 L4 B 1 11     Accident
DNF   142 Cooper Car Co.
Austin Mini Cooper S 970
Warwick Banks, GB
999 L4 A 1 9     Accident
DNF   146 Don Moore
Austin Mini Cooper S 970
Mike Campbell-Cole, GB
999 L4 A 14 14     Accident
DNS   126 Don Moore
Austin Mini Cooper S
Andrew Hedges, GB
1293 L4 B   5