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Shellsport Formula 3 Race

Silverstone, 11 Apr 1976

ResultsLapsTime/Speed
1 Bruno Giacomelli March 763 [U1] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
#2 March Cars Ltd
20 30m 39.49s
2 Mike Young Modus M1 [045-F3] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
#17 Anglian Gilt Producers
20 30m 45.22s
3 Rupert Keegan March 743 [19] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
#11 British Air Ferries Racing Team
20 30m 45.54s
4 Ulf Svensson Ralt RT1/76 [12] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
#30
20 31m 00.08s
5 Richard Hawkins March 743 ["35"] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
#38 Dr Joseph Ehrlich
20 31m 00.26s
6 Bob Arnott March 743 [22] - Ford twin cam Neil Brown
#32 (see note 1)
20 31m 16.45s
7 Barrie Maskell Dastle Mk10C - Ford twin cam Holt
#40 Jeff Sharpe
20 31m 18.45s
8 John Lain Modus M1 [023-F3] - Ford twin cam Holbay
#19 Imado Watch Co. Ltd
20 31m 36.01s
9 Doug Bassett GRD 374 [090-F3?] - Ford twin cam
#21 (see note 2)
20 31m 37.50s
10 Aryon Cornelsen Filho March 763 [U2] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
#3 March Cars Ltd
20 32m 06.01s
11 Phil Silverstone March 753 [15] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
#9 (see note 3)
19
R Conny Andersson March 753 [11] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
#15
Puncture
R Stephen South March 753 [3] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
#6
Handling
R Willi Siller Modus M1 - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
#18 Team Modus Ltd
Engine
R Chris Barnett March 753 [1] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
#5
Head gasket
R Mike Tyrrell Ehrlich ES2 - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
#39 Dr Joseph Ehrlich
Gearbox
R Ian Flux Ralt RT1/76 [16] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
#31 Ockley Team Racing

UNK Steve Pettitt March 753 [733-15] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
#4 Joe Simons Racing

UNK Ken Silverstone March 753 [14] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
#10 (see note 4)

UNK Mike Wrigley March 743 [U10] - Ford twin cam Novamotor
#12

DNS Tony Dron March 763 [9] - Triumph Dolomite Holbay 4
#1 (see note 5)
Did not start
(Engine)
DNA Dyfed Roberts March 743 [2] - Ford twin cam Novamotor
#14
Did not arrive
DNA Brett Riley Modus M1 - Triumph Dolomite 4
#16
Did not arrive
DNA Geoff Lees Chevron B34 - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
#26 Rob Roy Racing with D.J. Bond
Did not arrive
DNA Ian Ashley Chevron B34 - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
#27
Did not arrive
DNA Fritz Stehlin Ralt RT1/76 - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
#28 No Drugs Racing
Did not arrive
DNA Dick Parsons Ralt RT1/76 - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
#29 No Drugs Racing
Did not arrive
DNA Walter Schöch Ralt RT1/76 [21] - BMW M10
#33 Jim Russell Racing Drivers School
Did not arrive
DNA Claude Cuicci Supernova SF3 - Triumph Dolomite Neil Brown 4
#34 Ian Williams
Did not arrive
DNA Hervé Regout Safir RJ03 [01] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
#36 Safir Engineering
Did not arrive
DNA Tiff Needell Anson F3 - Triumph Dolomite Neil Brown 4
#42
Did not arrive
DNA Tommy 'Slim' Borgudd Viking TH1A - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
#44 Rotel Racing Team
Did not arrive
DNA Eje Elgh Viking TH1A - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
#45 Rotel Racing Team
Did not arrive
DNA Conny Ljungfeldt Viking TH1A - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
#46 Rotel Racing Team
Did not arrive
DNA Jac Nellemann Van Diemen 376 - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
#48 Texaco Racing with GRD
Did not arrive
DNA Henrik Spellerberg Van Diemen 376 - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
#49 Texaco Racing with GRD
Did not arrive
DNA Jean-Louis Schlesser Van Diemen 376 - Ford twin cam Holbay
#50 Van Diemen International Race Hire
Did not arrive

All cars are 2-litre F3 unless noted.

Qualifying
1 Bruno Giacomelli (F3) 2-litre March 763 [U1] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor 1.30.46
2 Conny Andersson (F3) 2-litre March 753 [11] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor 1.30.64
3 Rupert Keegan (F3) 2-litre March 743 [19] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor 1.30.84
4 Mike Young (F3) 2-litre Modus M1 [045-F3] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor 1.30.99
5 Stephen South (F3) 2-litre March 753 [3] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
6 Willi Siller (F3) 2-litre Modus M1 - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor 1.31.64
7 Ulf Svensson (F3) 2-litre Ralt RT1/76 [12] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor 1.31.69
8 Richard Hawkins (F3) 2-litre March 743 ["35"] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor 1.32.08
9 Chris Barnett (F3) 2-litre March 753 [1] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
10 Barrie Maskell (F3) 2-litre Dastle Mk10C - Ford twin cam Holt
11 Mike Tyrrell (F3) 2-litre Ehrlich ES2 - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
12 John Lain (F3) 2-litre Modus M1 [023-F3] - Ford twin cam Holbay
13 Steve Pettitt (F3) 2-litre March 753 [733-15] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor 1.33.06
14 Doug Bassett (F3) 2-litre GRD 374 [090-F3?] - Ford twin cam
16 Aryon Cornelsen Filho (F3) 2-litre March 763 [U2] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
17 Ken Silverstone (F3) 2-litre March 753 [14] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
18 Bob Arnott (F3) 2-litre March 743 [22] - Ford twin cam Neil Brown
19 Ian Flux (F3) 2-litre Ralt RT1/76 [16] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
20 Mike Wrigley (F3) 2-litre March 743 [U10] - Ford twin cam Novamotor
22 Phil Silverstone (F3) 2-litre March 753 [15] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor

Notes on the cars:

  1. March 743 [22] (Bob Arnott): New to Ippokampos Racing for Australian racer Buzz Buzaglo to use in British and European F3 in 1974. Used by Tom Pryce at the Monaco GP F3 support race. Sold to Bob Arnott for 1975 and retained for the first few weeks of the 1976 season. Sold to Colin Myles (Holmes Chapel, Cheshire) and fitted with a 1098cc Hart engine for hillclimbs from 1979 or earlier.
  2. GRD 374 [090-F3?] (Doug Bassett): New to Team Brasil for Marcos Moraes to race in British F3 in 1974. Also raced by his elder brother Luis Correira Moraes after Marcos Moraes was injured while testing. The car was identified as 089-F3 during 1974. Sold for 1975 to Doug Bassett and continued in British F3, but identified now as 090-F3. Bassett reappeared briefly at the start of 1976 in this car. Subsequent history unknown.
  3. March 753 [15] (Phil Silverstone): Originally a car belonging to the B&O team in 1975, when used by Hervé Regout. Chassis number for this car and its sister, driven by Pierre Dieudonné, were observed by AF at Oulton Park 4 October 1975. Sold in 1976 to Phil Silverstone, and retained until early 1978 at least. At the beginning of 1978 Ian Flux joined Cloud Engineering, who ran Phil Silverstone, and in the absence of anything better he used this car, which Silverstone had replaced with a Ralt, for the first race of the Vandervell series. See Autosport 9 Mar 1978 p41.
  4. March 753 [14] (Ken Silverstone): Originally a car belonging to the B&O team in 1975, when used by Pierre Dieudonné. Chassis number for this car and its sister, driven by Hervé Regout, observed by AF at Oulton Park 4 October 1975. Sold to Ken Silverstone for the 1976 season [Autosport 2 Sep 1976 p33 says his car is ‘ex Dieudonné.) To Wyatt Stanley in mid 1977 and retained by him for the 1978 season.
  5. March 763 [9] (Tony Dron): Shown in March records as sold to Tony Dron 12.1.76. This was the solitary Unipart car in 1976. Although Unipart ran two cars in 1977, they only bought one new car, converting the older car for Needell, the junior driver in the team. Some results credit Needell's car as being a 763.

Sources

Note that the identification of individual cars in these results is based on the material presented elsewhere in this site and may in some cases contradict the organisers' published results.

These British Formula 3 results have been compiled by Chris Townsend using the main British magazines Autosport and Motoring News but also the US magazine On Track which carried surprisingly good coverage of the British series.

All comments, clarifications, corrections and additions are most welcome. Please email Allen (allen@oldracingcars.com) if you can help in any way with our research.