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Snetterton 500 km

Snetterton, Great Britain

Date: 15/8/1965
Track length: 4.358 m
Attendance: unknown
Entries accepted: unknown
Starters: 36
Finishers: 20

Pole position: No timing in official practice (!); grid ordered by engine capacity
Fastest lap: unknown

Distance: 500 km
Average speed: 126,93 kmh
Weather:
Ruleset: Group 2/63
Car info: 1965 Cars

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The new Alfa had shown its pace in practice at Karlskoga and now three Jolly Club GTAs were entered here. Whitmore needed a win to clinch the division 2 championship, but the Alfas were faster than the Cortinas in practice but the quickest of them, De Adamich, wouldn’t start since he rolled his car in practice.
Bussinello's Alfa led the race, followed by Whitmore and Procter. The Cortina of Whitmore closed to 2 seconds to Bussinello, but then had a puncture and had to pit, and since Bussinello had a fuel stop it was Procter who led now. The Alfa pitwork was slow, so he dropped back behind Whitmore who opened a lead, passing Procter as well. Proctor soon pitted with battery trouble and then the leading Cortina developed a slipping clutch. Whitmore slowed as much as he dared, and was relieved of the Italian when the latter was blackflagged for having no rear lights; he still finished second, ahead of the BMWs of Hahne and Glemser. The rear lights were necessary, since the race started at 18:00 and ended a little before 22:00, a full hour in the dark.
Thus Whitmore took his title, while division 1 was won by Anstead and Pike after Swart had an accident in practice with a very slow Volvo. 13th overall was the division 3 winner, the Galaxie of Bond-Smith.


Division 1, 2 and 3
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 1/1 41 Alan Mann Racing
Ford Lotus Cortina
John Whitmore, GB
1594 L4 Div. 2/1600 115 laps, 3:57.04,6        
2 2/2 43 Jolly Club
Alfa Romeo 1600 GTA
Roberto Bussinello, I
1570 L4 Div. 2/1600 115 laps, 3:57.59,0       Two pits stops for failing rear lights
3 3/1 55 BMW AG
BMW 1800 TI
Hubert Hahne, D
1773 L4 Div. 2/2000 113        
4 4/2 56 BMW AG
BMW 1800 TI
Dieter Glemser, D
1773 L4 Div. 2/2000 113        
5 5/3 45 Jolly Club
Alfa Romeo 1600 GTA
Riccardo di Bona, I
1570 L4 Div. 2/1600 112        
6 6/4 40 Alan Mann Racing
Ford Lotus Cortina
Peter Procter, GB
1594 L4 Div. 2/1600 110        
7 1/1 23 Radbourne Motors
Fiat Abarth 1000 TC
John Anstead, GB
Roy Pike, USA
982 L4 Div. 1/1000 107        
8 2/2 22 Team Broadspeed
Austin Mini Cooper S 970
John Terry, GB
John Handley, GB
999 L4 Div. 1/1000 107        
9 7/1 35 Newtune Garage
Austin Mini Cooper S
David Wansborough, GB
Gerry Marshall, GB
1293 L4 Div. 2/1300 106        
10 8/3 53 Erich Bitter
BMW 1800 TI
Hans-Peter Koepchen, D
Erich Bitter, D
1773 L4 Div. 2/2000 106        
11 3/1 4  
Saab 96 Sport
Gösta Karlsson, S
Sigvard Johansson, S
841 L3 Div. 1/850 104        
12 9/4 50 HF Squadra Corse
Lancia Flavia Sport Zagato
Peter Sutcliffe, GB
1800 B4 Div. 2/2000 103 2     Valve rocker gear
13 1 60  
Ford Galaxie
Jacquie Bond-Smith, GB
6997 V8 Div. 3 102 1      
14 10/2 33 Janspeed Engineering Ltd.
Morris Mini Cooper S
Geoff Mabbs, GB
Andrew Hedges, GB
1293 L4 Div. 2/1300 102       Spin
15? 4/2 6  
DKW F11 Junior
Wolf-Dieter Mantzel, D
Hannelore Werner, D
796 L3 Div. 1/850 101        
16? 5/3 27 Cripspeed
Morris Mini Cooper S 970
Ken Costello, GB
Roger Payne, GB
999 L4 Div. 1/1000 102?        
17 6/4 21 Team Taurus
Morris Mini Cooper S 970
Philip Wicks, GB
William Kelly, GB
999 L4 Div. 1/1000 101        
18 7/3 10  
Steyr-Puch 650 TR
Gerard van Lennep, NL
660 B2 Div. 1/850 94        
19 8/4 11 Morton & Hughes Racing
Austin Mini Seven
Paul Hughes, GB
Mike Garton, GB
848 L4 Div. 1/850 88        
20 11/3 34 Goodwin Engineering Racing Division
Ford Anglia Super
Laurie Goodwin, GB
Vic Elford, GB
1198 L4 Div. 2/1300 47       Driveshaft - repaired on track!
    3 Andrew Mylius Graphics
Saab 96 Sport
Andrew Mylius, GB
841 L3 Div. 1/850          
    31 Racing Team VDS
Austin Mini Cooper S
Serge Trosch, B
Lionel Wallman, B
1293 L4 Div. 2/1300          
    20 Ecurie Les Corsaires
Morris Mini Cooper S 970
Herrmann Windler, CH
999 L4 Div. 1/1000          
    2 Radbourne Motors
DKW F11 Junior
Charles Gunther, GB
796 L3 Div. 1/850          
DNF   30 Alexander Engineering Co.
Morris Mini Cooper S
Tony Lanfranchi, GB
1293 L4 Div. 2/1300         Differential
DNF   51 HF Squadra Corse
Lancia Flavia Sport Zagato
Claudio Maglioli, I
1800 B4 Div. 2/2000   4     Valve gear
DNF   44 Jolly Club
Alfa Romeo 1600 GTA
Sandro Arcioni, I
Carlo Scarambone, I
1570 L4 Div. 2         Brakes
DNF   25 Babea Racing Team
Austin Mini Cooper S 970
Jan-Erik Andreason, S
999 L4 Div. 1/1000 2?       Head gasket
DNF   5  
Saab 96 Sport
Björn Rothstein, S
841 L3 Div. 1/850         Driveshaft
DNF   52 Ecurie Monza
Volvo 122 S
M. Ancieux, B
1778 L4 Div. 2/2000   3     Blackflagged (too slow)
DNF   1  
Panhard 24 CT
Jacques Bigrat ("Bagrit"), F
Pierre Lelong, F
848 B2 Div. 1/850          
DNF      
BMW 700 S
? Julien Lamisse, F
? Yvan Pillonell, F
697 B2 Div. 1/850          
DNF   7  
DKW F11 Junior
Hugh Mayes, GB
796 L3 Div. 1/850         Exhaust
DNF   24  
Fiat Abarth 1000 TC
Ed Swart, NL
982 L4 Div. 1/1000         Driveshaft
DNS   42 Jolly Club
Alfa Romeo 1600 GTA
Andrea de Adamich, I
Piero Corbellini, I
1570 L4 Div. 2         Accident in practice
DNS   46 Nippon Racing
Isuzu Bellet 1500
Neil Dangerfield, GB
1470 L4 Div. 2         Withdrawn