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Hepolite-Glacier Trophy - Oulton Park Gold Cup

Oulton Park, Cheshire, Great-Britain

Date: 22/8/1971
Track length: 4.443 m
Attendance:
Entries accepted:
Starters:
Finishers:

Pole position: Muir in 1.43,6
Fastest lap: Fitzpatrick in 1.43,4

Distance: 20 laps
Average speed:
Weather:
Ruleset: Group 2/70
Car info: 1971 Cars

 

Now fitted with a five-litre motor following the recent rumpus which resulted in his exclusion from the British GP supporting race, Brian Muir continued his winning streak with the Wiggins Teape/Gartlan Camaro in the RAC saloon car round which rounded off the day's racing at Oulton Park. But although the results record another outright victory, John Fitzpatrick in the Broadspeed/Castrol Escort RS made him work pretty hard for his spoils, even getting alongside the Camaro on a couple of occasions despite a high speed misfire for much of the race. Third overall was Frank Gardner's SCA Freight Camaro which suffered slight gear selection bothers while fourth and fifth were the Boss Mustangs of Martin Birrane and Dennis Leech. Class wins went to Muir, Fitzpatrick, Dave Matthews and Bill McGovern's Imp. Muir and Fitzpatrick established new class records.


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 46 Malcolm Gartlan Racing/Wiggings Teape Ltd.
Chevrolet Camaro Z28
Brian Muir, AUS
4956 V8 D 20 laps, 34.56,2 1 1.43,6    
2 1   Team Broadspeed Castrol
Ford Escort RS 1600
John Fitzpatrick, GB
1800 L4 C 20 laps, 34.57,2 2 1.43,8 1.43,4  
3 2   SCA Freight Ltd.
Chevrolet Camaro Z28
Frank Gardner, AUS
4956 V8 D 20 laps, 35.37,2 3 1.45,2 1.43,6  
4 3    
Ford Mustang Boss 302
Martin Birrane, IRL
ca. 5000 V8 D 20 laps, 36.06,6 5 1.46,8    
5 4    
Ford Mustang Boss 302
Dennis Leech, GB
ca. 5000 V8 D 20 6 1.48,6    
6 2   John Willment Racing
Ford Escort RS 1600
Mike Crabtree, GB
1986 L4 C 20 4 1.45,8   Petrol leak at the start
7 3   Gerry Edmonds Racing
Ford Escort RS 1600
Lawrie Hickman, GB
1701 L4 C 20 laps, 36.43,6 7 1.48,8    
8 1   Melton Racing with Broadspeed
Ford Escort 1300 GT
Dave Matthews, GB
1298 L4 B 19 laps, 36.19,6 8 1.52,0 1.53,2  
9 2   VMW Motors
Ford Escort 1300 GT
Vince Woodman, GB
1298 L4 B 19 laps, 36.43,6 9 1.53,6    
10 1   George Bevan
Hillman Imp
Bill McGovern, GB
998 L4 A 18 laps, 36.21,8 10 1.54,6 1.55,4  
11 3    
Morris Mini Cooper S
Jon Mowatt, GB
1293 L4 B 18 laps, 36.32,4 13 1.58,4    
12 4    
Austin Mini Cooper S
Mo Mendham, GB
1293 L4 B 18 14 1.58,4    
13 5    
Morris Mini Cooper S
Peter Baldwin, GB
1293 L4 B 18 15 1.58,4    
14 2    
Hillman Imp
Melvyn Adams, GB
998 L4 A 18 laps, 36.49,8        
15 3   C.A.M. Potters Bar Ltd
Hillman Imp
Adrian Webb, GB
998 L4 A 18 laps, 36.54,8        
16 4    
Ford Escort TC
Ken Coffey, GB
1594 L4 C 17        
17 4    
Austin Mini Cooper
Jeremy Bean, GB
998 L4 A 17        
18 5    
Hillman Imp
Terry Watts, GB
998 L4 A 17        
19 6    
BMC Mini Cooper S
David Buckett, GB
1293 L4 B 16        
20 7    
BMC Mini Cooper S
Mike Drinkwater, GB
1293 L4 B 16        
DNS      
Ford Escort 1300 GT
John Littler, GB
1298 L4 B   12 1.57,0    
DNS      
Ford Escort TC
Brian Peacock, GB
1594 L4 C   11 1.56,0