Pole position: Muir in 1.35,2
Fastest lap: Thomas and Gerry Birrell in 1.37,8
Distance: 25 laps
Average speed:
Weather:
Ruleset: Group 2/70
Car info: 1971 Cars
"Everybody has their off-days," said Frank Gardner as, after less than two laps of the 25-lap Morlands Trophy touring car race, his SCA Freight Chevrolet Camaro, which had convincingly won pole position for this eighth round of the RAC series, was retired with an electrical 'short' in the engine. Naturally Brian Muir went on to win at a canter in the Wiggins Teape/Malcolm Gartlan Camaro, the thundering blue beast leading home the remains of what had been the best Group 2 field seen in Britain this year. There were two good scraps for class wins, Graham Birrell just nipping past at Woodcote on the last lap to commandeer his category from Mike Crabtree's Willment RS (John Fitzpatrick had a bodywork and plug problem in the Broadspeed 'screamer') whilst Dave Matthews came out ahead of Vince Woodman in the Escort 1300 GT battle, after a light collision when the pair were battling past a backmarker. The George Bevan Imp walked the tiddler class in Bill McGovern's hands, the Imp being the only class lap record breaker, trimming off 0.4s. After the race, the winning Camaros were disqualified for using unhomologated parts in combination with the 5.7 litre engine. The mods not homologated for the 5.7 Camaro are simply rear disc brakes, a spoiler on the tail and the glass fibre bonnet, and although as the 5.7 motor is an option on the 5.0 Chevrolet, most entrants interpreted the regulations to permit these additions. It seemed they were wrong! |
Touring Cars class A-D
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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/DSQ? | 1 | 46 | Malcolm Gartlan Racing/Wiggings Teape Ltd. Chevrolet Camaro Z28 |
Brian Muir, AUS |
5736 | V8 | D | 25 laps, 41.17,6 | 2 | 1.35,2? | ||
2/DSQ? | 2 | 45 | Ovaltine Racing Chevrolet Camaro |
Martin Thomas, GB |
5736 | V8 | D | 25 laps, 41.17,6 | 4 | 1.37,6 | 1.37,8 | |
3 | 3 | 40 | Ford Motor Company Ford Capri RS 2600 |
Gerry Birrell, GB |
2940 | V6 | D | 25 laps, 41.22,4 | 6 | 1.38,4 | 1.37,8 | |
4 | 4 | 43 | Ford Mustang Boss 302 |
Martin Birrane, IRL |
ca. 5000 | V8 | D | 25 laps, 42.24,8 | 30 | |||
5 | 1 | 32 | Wylie's of Glasgow Ford Escort RS 1600 |
Graham Birrell, GB |
1601 | L4 | C | 25 laps, 42.25,8 | 8 | 1.41,0 | ||
6 | 2 | 33 | John Willment Racing Ford Escort RS 1600 |
Mike Crabtree, GB |
1605 | L4 | C | 25 laps, 42.26,1 | 10 | 1.41,4 | ||
7 | 3 | 34 | Team Broadspeed Castrol Ford Escort RS 1600 |
John Fitzpatrick, GB |
1700 | L4 | C | 25 | 5 | 1.37,8 | 1.38,7 | |
8 | 4 | 36 | Ford Escort RS 1600 |
John Bloomfield, GB |
1800 | L4 | C | 25 | 11 | 1.43,4 | ||
9 | 5 | 30 | Gerry Edmonds Racing Ford Escort ?RS 1600 |
Lawrie Hickman, GB |
1701 | L4 | C | 24 | 31 | |||
10 | 6 | 31 | Mobil Racing Ford Escort TC |
Zekia Redjep, CY |
1594 | L4 | C | 23 | 14 | |||
11 | 1 | 20 | Melton Racing with Broadspeed Ford Escort 1300 GT |
Dave Matthews, GB |
1298 | L4 | B | 23 laps, 41.55,7 | 13 | 1.46,7 | ||
12 | 2 | 19 | Woodhead Shock Absorbers Ford Escort 1300 GT |
Dave Garrett, GB |
1298 | L4 | B | 23 | 17 | |||
13 | 7 | 38 | Jolly Club Milano Alfa Romeo 2000 GTAm |
Martino Finotto, I |
1985 | L4 | C | 23 | 15 | |||
14 | 1 | 4 | George Bevan Hillman Imp |
Bill McGovern, GB |
998 | L4 | A | 23 laps, 43.03,7 | 19 | 1.50,8 | 1.49,8 | |
15 | 3 | 15 | BMC Mini Cooper S |
Jon Mowatt, GB |
1293 | L4 | B | 23 | 20 | |||
16 | 8 | 37 | Stirling Cooper Ford Escort RS 1600 |
Dave Brodie, GB |
1800 | L4 | C | 23 | 9 | 1.41,3 | ||
17 | 4 | 14 | BMC Mini Cooper S |
Peter Baldwin, GB |
1293 | L4 | B | 23 | 21 | |||
18 | 5 | 21 | Ford Escort 1300 GT |
Richard Ellice, GB |
1298 | L4 | B | 23 | 22 | |||
19 | 2 | 5 | Anthony Charnell Hillman Imp |
Melvyn Adams, GB |
998 | L4 | A | 22 | 26 | |||
20 | 6 | 18 | Ford Escort 1300 GT |
Jeremy Nightingale, GB |
1298 | L4 | B | 22 | 23 | |||
21 | 3 | 3 | Hillman Imp |
Trevor Willcocks, GB |
998 | L4 | A | 22 | 24 | |||
22 | 4 | 6 | C.A.M. Potters Bar Ltd Hillman Imp |
Adrian Webb, GB |
998 | L4 | A | 21 | 25 | |||
23 | 5 | 2 | BMC Mini Cooper |
Jeremy Bean, GB |
998 | L4 | A | 20 | 28 | |||
DNF | 16 | VMW Motors Ford Escort 1300 GT |
Vince Woodman, GB |
1298 | L4 | B | 13 | 16 | 1.46,9 | 1.46,9 | Collision with Matthews | |
DNF | 47 | Lipton Picko Troberg Racing Chevrolet Camaro Mk2 |
Picko Troberg, S |
7500 | V8 | D | 7 | 12 | 1.44,6 | Oil leak | ||
DNF | 44 | SCA Freight Ltd. Chevrolet Camaro Z28 |
Frank Gardner, AUS |
5736 | V8 | D | 2 | 1 | 1.35,1 | Burnt plug lead | ||
DNF | 41 | Lipton Picko Troberg Racing Chevrolet Camaro Z28 |
Bo Ljungfeldt, S |
4956 | V8 | D | 1 | 7 | 1.39,4 | Gear selection | ||
DNF | 42 | Castrol-Leechtune Engineering Ford Mustang Boss 302 |
Dennis Leech, GB |
ca. 5000 | V8 | D | 3 | 1.37,3 | Engine | |||
DNF | 10 | Austin Mini Cooper S |
Mo Mendham, GB |
1293 | L4 | B | 27 | Rocker arm | ||||
DNF | 11 | P. Dickson Austin Mini Cooper S |
Mac Ross, GB |
1293 | L4 | B | 29 | |||||
DNS | 17 | VMW Motors Ford Escort 1300 GT |
Ted Savory, GB |
1298 | L4 | B | 18 | Engine used by Woodman | ||||
DNS | 35 | Luton Motor Corporation Ford Escort RS 1600 |
Rod Mansfield, GB |
1800 | L4 | C | - | Engine |