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International Trophy Meeting - International “Senior Service” Touring Car Race

Silverstone, Great-Britain

Date: 15/5/1965
Track length: 4.710 m
Attendance:
Entries accepted: 30 and 7 reserves
Starters: 30
Finishers:

Pole position: Pierpoint
Fastest lap: Pierpoint in 1.50,4

Distance: 12 laps
Average speed: 150,41 kmh
Weather: Dry
Ruleset: Group 2
Car info: 1965 Cars

 

Fastest in practice was current leader of the BRSCC touring car championship Roy Pierpoint in his bright red Mustang, with Sir Gawaine Baillie's similar car second and the works Lotus Cortinas of Mike Spence and Jack Sears next up.

As soon as the full field set off, it was obvious that this was going to be a tough contest. Saloon car drivers appear to do impossible manoeuvres all round the course, but each one gets away with it.

As to be expected, Pierpoint set the pace, with Baillie coming through to second place at the four lap mark ahead of the Lotus Cortinas of Sears and Spence. The battles in the 1000 cc and 1300 cc classes were tremendous: Warwick Banks and Mike Cambell-Cole disputed the smaller category splendidly, never being more than a door handle apart, while Tony Lanfranchi in the Alexander entry was battling out the 1300 cc class with John Fitzpatrick's Broadspeed Mini. Lanfranchi was really enjoying himself to be an all-round driver.
With the 12 hectic laps up, Pierpoint headed Baillie home by 5.8 seconds, with Sears some 15.4 seconds farther in arrears. Spence was next up, then Frank Gardner in the Willment lotus Cortina and Tom Fletcher in the well-driven Coundley-entered Lotus Cortina. The Mini battle looked like going to Fitzpatrick, but Lanfranchi went round on the outside at Woodcote at an alarming pace to pip him by a wheel. Banks, too, out-fumbled Campbell-Cole for leadership among the 1-litre category, in which John Anstead's little Fiat Abarth went very quickly to take third place.


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 42 Weybridge Engineering Co. Ltd
Ford Mustang
Roy Pierpoint, GB
4728 V8 D 12 laps, 22.33,0 1   1.50,4  
2 2 40 Gawaine Baillie
Ford Mustang
Gawaine Baillie, GB
4728 V8 D 12 laps, 22.38,8 2      
3 1 30 Team Lotus
Ford Lotus Cortina
Jack Sears, GB
1594 L4 C 12 laps, 22.54,2 4   1.53,2  
4 2 31 Team Lotus
Ford Lotus Cortina
Mike Spence, GB
1594 L4 C 12 laps, 23.01,6 3      
5 3 33 Race Proved by Willment
Ford Lotus Cortina
Frank Gardner, AUS
1594 L4 C 12 laps, 23.08,8        
6 4 36 John Coundley Racing Partnership
Ford Lotus Cortina
Tom Fletcher, GB
1594 L4 C 12 laps, 23.18,6 7      
7 5 32 Moto Baldet Racing Team
Ford Lotus Cortina
Andre Baldet, GB
1594 L4 C 12 laps, 23.34,2        
8 1 17 Alexander Engineering Co.
Morris Mini Cooper S
Tony Lanfranchi, GB
1293 L4 B 12 laps, 23.37,4        
9 2 22 Team Broadspeed
Austin Mini Cooper S
John Fitzpatrick, GB
1293 L4 B 12 laps, 23.37,4     1.56,0  
10 3 19  
Austin Mini Cooper S
John D. Lewis, GB
1293 L4 B 12 laps, 23.51,6        
11 4 45 R. Trustram
Ford Anglia Super
Mike Young, GB
1198 L4 B 12 laps, 23.51,8        
12 5 18 Team Broadspeed
Morris Mini Cooper S
John Handley, GB
1293 L4 B 12 laps, 23.52,0        
  1 1 Cooper Car Co.
Austin Mini Cooper S 970
Warwick Banks, GB
999 L4 A 11 laps, 22.41,8     2.01,8  
  2 3 Don Moore
Morris Mini Cooper S 970
Mike Campbell-Cole, GB
999 L4 A 11 laps, 22.42,0        
  3 2 Radbourne Motors
Fiat Abarth 1000 TC
John Anstead, GB
982 L4 A 11 laps, 23.00,4        
    4 Newtune Ltd
Austin Mini Cooper S 970
Gerry Marshall, GB
999 L4 A          
    5 Paul Doughty
Austin Mini Cooper S 970
Anita Taylor, GB
999 L4 A          
    7 Sutton of St Helens Autos
Morris Mini Cooper S 970
Phil de Banks, GB
999 L4 A          
    10 R. Trustram
Ford Anglia Super
Chris Craft, GB
1198 L4 B          
    12 Don Moore
Austin Mini Cooper S
Andrew Hedges, GB
1293 L4 B          
    14 Cooper Car Co.
Austin Mini Cooper S
Paddy Hopkirk, IRL
1293 L4 B          
    21 Grosvenor Racing
Morris Mini Cooper S
Tony Rutt, GB
1293 L4 B          
    34 Farnborough Racing Enterprises
Ford Lotus Cortina
John Nicholson, GB
1594 L4 C          
    46 Team Speedwell
Austin Mini Cooper S
John Cannadine, GB
1293 L4 B          
    47 Boormans Perfomance Equipment
Austin Mini Cooper S
Peter Pilsworth, GB
1293 L4 B          
    48 Beta Cars Ltd.
Morris Mini Cooper S
Richard Cluley, GB
1293 L4 B          
    49 Equipe Arden
Morris Mini Cooper S
Steve Neal, GB
1293 L4 B          
    50 H.W. Epps
Ford Lotus Cortina
Bill Vaughan
1594 L4 C          
DNF?   15 Cooper Car Co.
Morris Mini Cooper S
John Rhodes, GB
1293 L4 B          
DNF   20 Vitafoam Developments
Morris Mini Cooper S
Harry Ratcliffe, GB
1293 L4 B          
DNF   43  
Ford Galaxie
Jacquie Bond-Smith, GB
6997 V8 D