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Oulton Park

Oulton Park, Cheshire, Great-Britain

Date: 16/4/1976
Track length: 2.662 m
Attendance:
Entries accepted:
Starters:
Finishers:

Pole position:
Fastest lap: Rouse, Spice, Muir & Vandervell in 1.12,6 (B-D); Unett in 1.20,0 (A)

Distance: 15 laps (B-D); 13 laps (A)
Average speed: 130,26 kmh (B-D), 116,55 kmh (A)
Weather:
Ruleset: Group 1B
Car info: 1976 Cars

 

Friday's programme opened with a round of the Keith Prowse British Touring Car Championship, which was won by Tom Walkinshaw's Hermetite Capri, but not without a considerable fight. Vince Woodman was a non-starter after his Capri blew its engine up the night before practice on the test bed and Richard Lloyd's Opel only managed a lap before overheating again, but there were still five cars covered by a kangaroo skin up at the head of the race.
Gordon Spice made a terrific start from the third row of the grid with his Wisharts Capri to hound Walkinshaw into the first lap and Andy Rouse's Dolomite and the Capris of Colin Vandervell and Brian Muir were soon tagged right behind.
Gradually Walkinshaw and Spice moved clear of the other three, but although the first two didn't change places to the finish the second trio scrapped away for third place right to the end. Eventually Muir just beat Vandervell and Rouse over the line before pulling off, boiling. Barrie Williams took over the second Samurai Toyota Celica but couldn't stay with Win Percy, who scored his habitual win in the 1600 cc class.

The smallest Keith Prowse class was run in with the two smaller Radio 1 classes, but in contrast to the other two saloon races the end product was decidedly dull. Bernard Unett's Avenger GT dominated the race to win the 1300 cc Touring Car class while John Brindley's Mazda led the production saloons home by miles. Peter Hilliard's Alfa Junior got the best of a dice with Malcolm Wayne's Alfasud to claim third place.

Touring Cars class B-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   Team Castrol
Ford Capri II 3.0		 Tom Walkinshaw, GB
 2993 V6 D 15 laps, 18.23,4        
2 2   Wisharts Garages
Ford Capri II 3.0		 Gordon Spice, GB
 2993 V6 D 15     1.12,6  
3 3   Norman Reeves Ltd.
Ford Capri II 3.0		 Brian Muir, AUS
 2993 V6 D 15     1.12,6  
4 4   Triplex
Ford Capri II 3.0		 Colin Vandervell, GB
 2993 V6 D 15     1.12,6  
  1   British Leyland
Triumph Dolomite Sprint		 Andy Rouse, GB
 1998 L4 C 15 laps, 18.28,0     1.12,6  
  2   Dealer Team Vauxhall
Vauxhall Firenza Magnum 2300		 Gerry Marshall, GB
 2279 L4 C 15        
  3   British Leyland
Triumph Dolomite Sprint		 Steve Thompson, GB
 1998 L4 C 15        
  1   Samuri Racing with Toyota GB
Toyota Celica GT		 Win Percy, GB
 1588 L4 B 15 laps, 19.11,0     1.15,0  
  2   Samuri Racing with Toyota GB
Toyota Celica GT		 Barrie Williams, GB
 1588 L4 B 15        
DNF     Ottershaw Motors
Opel Commodore GS/E		 Richard Lloyd, GB
 2784 L6 D 1       Overheating
DNS     Esso Uniflo
Ford Capri II 3.0		 Vince Woodman, GB
 2993 V6 D         Blown engine

Touring Cars class A
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   Mopar
Hillman Avenger 1300		 Bernard Unett, GB
 1295 L4 A 13 laps, 20.33,2     1.20,0  
2 1    
Mazda Savanna RX-3		 John Brindley, GB
 2 x 491 R2 Production          
3 2    
Alfa Romeo 1300 GT Junior		 Peter Hilliard, GB
 1290 L4 A          
4 3    
Alfa Romeo Alfasud Ti		 Malcolm Wayne, GB
 1186 B4 A