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26th Daily Express International Trophy Meeting

Silverstone, Northampton, Great-Britain

Date: 7/4/1974
Track length: 4.718 m
Attendance:
Entries accepted:
Starters: 33?
Finishers:

Pole position: Graham in 1.42,3
Fastest lap: Lloyd in 1.42,8 = 164,95 kmh

Distance: 17 laps
Average speed: 158,42 kmh
Weather: Dry
Ruleset: Group 1B
Car info: 1974 Cars

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Having extracted the engine from the car shunted at Brands and inserted it into the Tour of Britain winning Camaro, Richard Lloyd was fastest on Friday with a 1.43,7, almost three seconds better than anybody else. On Saturday, however, Stuart Graham's similar car bumped him off pole with 1.42,3 before a wobble out of Woodcote betrayed a broken half-shaft.
Lloyd kept the middle of the front row by improving to 1.42,9, but Peter Hanson got the Dealer Opel Team Commodore GSE going better than ever before to complete it in 1.47,1.

With a hint of creeping Lloyd was first off the line but Graham was rather slow off the mark and filed into Copse behind Woodman. When they came into sight again under the Daily Express bridge it was the two Camaros already well clear as expected, Lloyd leading Graham by a couple of lengths. Woodman was already nearly five seconds down with another long gap before Walkinshaw, Brindley, Blackburn, Hanson, Dron, Rouse, Lyon, Fletcher, Wayne and the rest filed past. On the second lap Graham challenged Lloyd approaching Woodcote but fell back in line for the corner. Hanson moved up to fifth to attack Walkinshaw while Rouse shot up to sixth place. Hanson relegated the leading Capri on lap three and swiftly drew away; from that moment the pattern for the major places was set.
Braking for Copse on lap five Graham slipped inside Lloyd to take the lead. Lloyd was back in front before Maggots, but by the end of the lap the black car of Graham was in command again with the white Camaro sitting a few feet from its boot and trying very hard to reverse the position. It was an impressive sight as the heavy machines drifted through Woodcote with their tails well out of line, weaving past the pits, although any prize for the most spectacular slides would have gone to Walkinshaw and Rouse, whose slip angles looked as though they might become obtuse at any moment.
But Lloyd was trying too hard. On the eighth lap he dropped back a second or so and then at Copse he lost it completely. After a quick spin he restarted still second, for Woodman was virtually half a minute behind, but he had given Graham a 15 second lead that he wasn't going to throw away. Way down the field Unett and Clark were enjoying a splendid ding-dong for 1600 honours, the dual engulfing Denis Thorne's Firenza by half way.
By lap 12 Graham's lead had grown to 20 seconds. In the last couple of laps he was seen to be slowing, but it was only a precautionary easing off to avoid unnecessary strain on tyres, brakes (which are a major problem for the Gp1 Camaro) or fuel. He had the race in his pocket and there were no holes in it, even though he took the flag less than seven seconds in front of Lloyd. Woodman was a very distant third, over half a minute adrift, and the Opel buttoned up its class very comfortably. Rouse and Dron made sure of their class, the fault with the overdrive having been discovered and rectified, but Hine failed to make it a Dolomite class one-two-three by just 0.2s to Lyons' Alfa.
Clark took the 1600 victory for Alfa Romeo by 0.6s from Unett, and Bell defeated Kirkby with Chittenden still sandwiched between them.

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 4 Team Castrol
Chevrolet Camaro Z28		 Stuart Graham, GB
 5736 V8 D 17 laps, 30.19,8 1 1.42,3    
2 2 1 A.J. Rivers Simoniz Racing
Chevrolet Camaro Z28		 Richard Lloyd, GB
 5736 V8 D 17 laps, 30.26 2 1.42,9 1.42,8  
3 3 5 VMW Motors
Chevrolet Camaro Z28		 Vince Woodman, GB
 5736 V8 D 17 laps, 30.50 4 1.47,6    
4 1 27 Dealer Opel Team
Opel Commodore GS/E		 Peter Hanson, GB
 2784 L6 C 17 laps, 31.10,0 3 1.47,1 1.48,0  
5 4 11  
Chevrolet Camaro Z28		 Malcolm Wayne, GB
 5736 V8 D 17 12      
6 5 3 Glazepta Products Ltd.
Chevrolet Camaro Z28		 Jon Fletcher, GB
 5736 V8 D 17 7      
7 2 28 Shellsport
Ford Capri 3000 GT		 Tom Walkinshaw, GB
 2993 V6 C 17 laps, 31.10,0 6 1.49,0    
8 1 48 Team Broadspeed Castrol
Triumph Dolomite Sprint		 Andy Rouse, GB
 1998 L4 B 17 laps, 31.42,0 9 1.50,1    
9 2 52 Team Broadspeed Castrol
Triumph Dolomite Sprint		 Tony Dron, GB
 1998 L4 B 17 10 1.50,2    
10 3 50 Clarks of Narborough
Alfa Romeo 2000 GTV		 John Lyon, GB
 1962 L4 B 17 11      
11 4 46 Bill Shaw Racing/Shellsport
Triumph Dolomite Sprint		 John Hine, GB
 1998 L4 B 17 laps, 0,2 sec behind Lyon 13      
12 3 25 Hermetite Products
Ford Capri 3000 GT		 Holman “Les” Blackburn, GB
 2993 V6 C 17 8      
13 4 33 Brindley Fabrics Ltd.
Ford Capri 3000 GT		 John Brindley, GB
 2993 V6 C 17 14      
14 5 47 Roller Chain Distributors Ltd
Triumph Dolomite Sprint		 John Handley, GB
 1998 L4 B 17        
15 5 30 Adlards of Brixton
Ford Capri 3000 GT		 Martin Birrane, IRL
 2993 V6 C 16        
16 6 51 Shellsport Arden
Triumph Dolomite Sprint		 Rob Mason, GB
 1998 L4 B 16       4th reserve
17 7 49  
Vauxhall Firenza Magnum 2300		 Tim Stock, GB
 2279 L4 B 16        
  1 67 Clarks of Narborough
Alfa Romeo 1600 GT Junior		 Stan Clark, GB
 1570 L4 A 16 laps, 30.59,8     1.53,6  
  2 61 Chrysler Dealer Team
Hillman Avenger 1600 GT		 Bernard Unett, GB
 1594 L4 A 16 laps, 31.00,0        
  3 62 Chrysler Dealer Team
Hillman Avenger 1600 GT		 Roger Bell, GB
 1594 L4 A 16        
  8 54  
BMW 2002 TII		 Mike Chittenden, GB
 1990 L4 B         1st reserve
  4 66 Team Castrol
Hillman Avenger 1600 GT		 Simon Kirkby, GB
 1594 L4 A         3rd reserve
    40 Team Castrol
Mazda Savanna RX-3		 Barrie Williams, GB
 2 x 491 R2 B   5 1.48,0   Puncture
    60 George Bevan
VW Passat TS		 Bill McGovern, GB
 1470 L4 A          
    41  
Vauxhall Firenza 2300		 Dennis Thorne, GB
 2279 L4 B          
DNF   56 Capel Continental Expresses Stock Cars Ltd
Vauxhall Firenza 2300		 Gerry Marshall, GB
 2279 L4 B 15       Fuel pump
DNF   2  
Chevrolet Camaro Z28		 Les Nash, GB
 5736 V8 D 1       Withdrawn
DNF   68 Halesfield Motors (Telford) Ltd.
Simca Rallye 2		 Jenny Birrell, GB
 1294 L4 A         Engine
DNF   43 Penthouse Racing
Mazda Savanna RX-3		 Wendy Markey, GB
 2 x 491 R2 B         Accident
DNF   20  
Ford Capri 3000 GT		 Ivan Dutton
 2993 V6 C         Oil loss
DNS   21 Van Der Steen
BMW 3.0 CSi		 Tony Lanfranchi, GB
 2985 L6 C         Blown engine