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British Grand Prix Support Race - The Lombank Trophy

Brands Hatch International Circuit, Kent, Great-Britain

Date: 18/7/1970
Track length:
Attendance:
Entries accepted:
Starters: 32
Finishers: 26 classified

Pole position: Gardner in 1.43,3
Fastest lap: Gardner in 1.43,0

Distance: 20 laps
Average speed:
Weather:
Ruleset: Group 2/70
Car info: 1970 Cars

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Not only was the 20-lap Lombank Trophy Race an exciting ninth round of the British Saloon Car Championship, it was the end of the championship trail for the George Bevan entered Bill McGovern Sunbeam Imp. Despite a flat tyre and broken clutch the Pentastar product managed to finish and collect a final point tally of 70 versus Frank Gardner's 66 and Brian Muir's 62 points. On a record smashing spree, three class and the outright lap times were established, one by a margin of seconds.
Gardner and Dennis Leech in Ford Boss Mustang 302s set the pace until Leech retired from the lead with a blown gasket and Gardner was left with third gear, leaving Muir's Camaro Z28 to win; however, Gardner smashed the outright and class record by two seconds with a lap in 1.43,0 (92.62 mph).
Laurie 'hard luck' Hickman took a thoroughly deserved win in the 1301-2000 cc class in the BRM engined Escort TC and finished third overall. John Fitzpatrick took the works 1300 GT to a record breaking class victory and fourth outright placing. Mike Freeman won the tiddler's class after McGovern's 998 Sunbeam Imp had broken the class record and before the championship leading Imp suffered a flat rear tyre, eventually to finish second in class, being without a clutch from the start line.


Touring Cars 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 2 Malcolm Gartlan Racing/Wiggings Teape Ltd.
Chevrolet Camaro Z28
Brian Muir, AUS
4956 V8 D 20 laps, 35.51,9 3 1.44,7    
2 2 3 Motor Racing Research
Ford Mustang Boss 302
Frank Gardner, AUS
4955 V8 D 20 laps, 36.19,4 1 1.43,3 1.43,0  
3 1 20 Gerry Edmonds Racing
Ford Escort TC
Lawrie Hickman, GB
1594 L4 C 20 laps, 36.21,9 6 1.47,6    
4 1 38 Team Broadspeed
Ford Escort 1300 GT
John Fitzpatrick, GB
1298 L4 B 20 laps, 36.22,5 8 1.48,2 1.47,3  
5 2 15 Duncan Hamilton Racing
Ford Escort TC
John Hine, GB
1594 L4 C 20 laps, 36.23,9 10      
6 3 6 Pierre de Plessis
Chevrolet Camaro Z28
David Prophet, GB
4956 V8 D 20 laps, 36.24,7 12      
7 3 12 Team Diamond
Ford Escort TC
Rod Mansfield, GB
1594 L4 C 20 laps, 36.52,8 11      
8 4 16 Cars and Car Conversions/WRA Engineering
Ford Escort TC
George Whitehead, GB
1594 L4 C 20 laps, 36.55,4 13      
9 5 14 Team Diamond
Ford Escort TC
Dave Garrett, GB
1594 L4 C 20 laps, 37.03,5 15      
10 6 19  
Ford Escort TC
John Bloomfield, GB
1594 L4 C 20 laps, 37.08,3 14      
11 7 10 Team Broadspeed
Ford Escort TC
Chris Craft, GB
1594 L4 C 20 laps, 37.21,0 4 1.46,6 1.46,3  
12 2 36 Equipe Arden
Morris Mini Cooper S
Gordon Spice, GB
1293 L4 B 20 laps, 37.33,6 18      
13 8 22 Shaw & Kilburn Ltd.
Vauxhall Viva GT
Gerry Marshall, GB
1994 L4 C 19 17     Differential, accident
14 4 5 Ovaltine-S.R.G. Racing
Ford Mustang
Martin Thomas, GB
4800 V8 D 19 22      
15 9 21  
BMW 2002 TI
Jonathan Buncombe, GB
1990 L4 C 19 20      
16 3 35 Peter Vickers
Austin Mini Cooper S
Ian Bax, GB
1293 L4 B 19 24      
17 4 33  
Morris Mini Cooper S
Jon Mowatt, GB
1293 L4 B 19 26      
18 5 37 D.J. Bond Racing
BMC Mini Cooper S
Terry Harmer, GB
1293 L4 B 19 25      
19 1 43 Andrew Mylius Graphics
Hillman Imp
Mike Freeman, GB
998 L4 A 19 30?      
20 6 34 Chris Montague Carburetter Co.
Morris Mini Cooper S
Chris Montague, GB
1293 L4 B 19 27      
21 7 50 Oake Woods Bacon
Austin Mini Cooper S
Peter Vann, GB
1293 L4 B 19 28      
22 8 32 Richard Groves
Austin Mini Cooper S
Barrie Williams, GB
1293 L4 B 19 31?      
DSQ   17 Willy Kay
Ford Escort TC
Willy Kay, GB
1594 L4 C 18 7 1.48,1   Disqualified: push start
23 2 46 George Bevan
Hillman Imp
Bill McGovern, GB
998 L4 A 18 21 1.51,3 1.52,5  
24 9 30  
Austin Mini Cooper S
David Buckett, GB
1293 L4 B 18 29      
25 3 40  
Austin Mini Cooper
Jeremy Bean, GB
998 L4 A 17 35      
26 10 51  
Morris Mini Cooper S
Mike Drinkwater, GB
1293 L4 B 17 36      
DNF   42  
Hillman Imp
Melvyn Adams, GB
998 L4 A 15 32     Drive shaft
DNF   1 Bill Shaw Racing
Chevrolet Camaro Z28
Roy Pierpoint, GB
4956 V8 D 14 9 1.48,2   Engine
DSQ   53 VIP Petroleum
Ford Escort TC
Derek Ridler, GB
1594 L4 C 10 37     Disqualified: push start
DNF   4  
Ford Mustang Boss 302
Dennis Leech, GB
4955 V8 D 7 2 1.43,6   Head gasket
DNF   44 Jeremy Nightingale
Hillman Imp
James Hunt, GB
998 L4 A 2 32     Drive shaft
DNF   11 John Willment Racing
Ford Escort TC
Mike Crabtree, GB
1594 L4 C   5 1.47,6   Drive shaft
DNS   39 Melton Racing
Ford Escort 1300 GT
Dave Matthews, GB
1298 L4 B   19     Engine on warm-up lap
DNS   45 Jean Mop Boutiques
Hillman Imp
Reg Hargrave, GB
998 L4 A   33      
DNS   31  
Austin Mini Cooper S
Bob Fox, GB
1293 L4 B   23      
DNS   55  
Vauxhall Viva GT
Mike Davies, GB
1975 L4 C   34     Accident
DNS   18  
Ford Escort TC
Zekia Redjep, CY
1594 L4 C   16     Accident in Friday practice