Plastic Padding Formula 3 Trophy
Thruxton, 11 Nov 1978
| Results | Laps | Time/Speed | |||||||
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| 1 | Derek Warwick | Ralt RT1/77 [86] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #1 Warwick Trailers |
18 | 23m 00.0s |
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| 2 | Brett Riley | March 783 [11] - Triumph Dolomite Swindon 4 #41 Unipart Racing Team |
18 | 23m 28.3s |
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| 3 | John Bright | March 773 [13] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #51 Twinsocks by McRitchie of Edinburgh (see note 1) |
18 | 23m 32.3s |
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| 4 | Bryce Wilson | Ralt RT1/78 - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #29 Cuthbertson's Foods |
18 | 23m 33.2s |
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| 5 | Rob Wilson | Ralt RT1/78 [98] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #31 ICL/Royal Grafton China |
18 | 23m 33.8s |
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| 6 | Derek Lawrence | Chevron B38 [38.77.10] - Chevrolet Vega #28 |
18 | 23m 35.2s |
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| 7 | Eddie Jordan | Ralt RT1/76 [16] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #4 Marlboro Team Tiga |
18 | 23m 36.0s |
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| 8 | Richard Morgan | March 773 [U1] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #33 Neasrader Film Production (see note 2) |
18 | 23m 37.9s |
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| 9 | Wyatt Stanley | March 753 [14] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #46 Security Trust (see note 3) |
18 | 23m 58.3s |
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| 10 | Ian Taylor | Ralt RT1/78 - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #39 Racing Team Holland |
16 | ||||||
| R | Huub Rothengatter | Chevron B38 [38.77.19] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #19 Docking Racing (see note 4) |
13 | Driveshaft | |||||
| R | Steve Malins | Chevron B43 [43.78.20] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #22 (see note 5) |
12 | ||||||
| R | Ian Flux | March 773 [U2] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #14 Cloud Engineering (see note 6) |
1 | Radiator hose | |||||
| R | Tiff Needell | March 783 [12] - Triumph Dolomite Swindon 4 #40 Unipart Racing Team |
0 | Collision with Bryce Wilson | |||||
| R | Rob Moores | Chevron B38 [38.77.07] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #27 |
0 | Collision with Taylor | |||||
| DNA | John Stokes | Chevron B38 [38.77.25] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #23 (see note 7) |
Did not arrive | ||||||
| DNA | Philippe Colonna | Chevron B38 [38.77.24] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #32 Docking Racing (see note 8) |
Did not arrive | ||||||
| DNA | TBA | Ralt RT1/76 [22] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #3 Paul Bernasconi |
Did not arrive | ||||||
| DNA | TBA | Chevron B43 - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #42 Chevron Racing Team |
Did not arrive | ||||||
| DNA | TBA | March 773 [10] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #43 Roy Kennedy Racing (see note 9) |
Did not arrive | ||||||
| DNA | Paul Morton | Hawke DL14 - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #55 |
Did not arrive | ||||||
| DNA | TBA | Ralt RT1 - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #2 |
Did not arrive | ||||||
All cars are 2-litre F3 unless noted.
| Qualifying | |||||
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| 1 | Derek Warwick | (F3) 2-litre Ralt RT1/77 [86] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor | 1.21.5 | ||
| 2 | Tiff Needell | (F3) 2-litre March 783 [12] - Triumph Dolomite Swindon 4 | 1.21.8 | ||
| 3 | John Bright | (F3) 2-litre March 773 [13] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor | 1.22.1 | ||
| 4 | Brett Riley | (F3) 2-litre March 783 [11] - Triumph Dolomite Swindon 4 | 1.22.2 | ||
| 5 | Huub Rothengatter | (F3) 2-litre Chevron B38 [38.77.19] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor | 1.22.4 | ||
| 6 | Bryce Wilson | (F3) 2-litre Ralt RT1/78 - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor | 1.22.7 | ||
| 7 | Ian Taylor | (F3) 2-litre Ralt RT1/78 - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor | 1.22.8 | ||
| 8 | Richard Morgan | (F3) 2-litre March 773 [U1] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor | 1.22.9 | ||
| 9 | Eddie Jordan | (F3) 2-litre Ralt RT1/76 [16] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor | 1.23.4 | ||
| 10 | Rob Wilson | (F3) 2-litre Ralt RT1/78 [98] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor | 1.23.5 | ||
| 11 | Ian Flux | (F3) 2-litre March 773 [U2] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor | 1.23.6 | ||
| 12 | Derek Lawrence | (F3) 2-litre Chevron B38 [38.77.10] - Chevrolet Vega | 1.24.4 | ||
| 13 | Rob Moores | (F3) 2-litre Chevron B38 [38.77.07] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor | 1.24.7 | ||
| 14 | Steve Malins | (F3) 2-litre Chevron B43 [43.78.20] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor | 1.24.8 | ||
| 15 | Wyatt Stanley | (F3) 2-litre March 753 [14] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor | 1.27.4 | ||
Notes on the cars:
- March 773 [13] (John Bright): Shown in March records as a works car finished February 1977, on tub AM773-28 for Ayron Cornelson Filho. Also used by David Kennedy in 1977. Sold to John Bright in March 1978 to cover for his damaged Wheatcroft. Damaged badly by Bright and rebuilt on new tub in August. Retained by Bright in 1979 until wrecked at Snetterton.
- March 773 [U1] (Richard Morgan): March works records show this as Mario Ferraris' works car for 1977 built on tub AM773-14 and rebuilt after Ferraris' Monaco accident on tub AM773-65. Sold in March 1978 to Neasrader Film Production for Richard Morgan according to the works records. Motoring News 30 Mar 1978 p11 says that Morgan's car is ex King, but we know from reports and the works records that King's main car was 773-U2. However, that car was damaged in the 1977 season and it is possible that King used 773-U1 after its rebuild as Ferraris' damaged wrist took longer to recover than the car did. Sold to John Bright in 1979 to replace his wrecked 773-13 and its identity eventually perhaps blurred with that car in a rebuild after a heavy accident.
- March 753 [14] (Wyatt Stanley): 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.
- Chevron B38 [38.77.19] (Huub Rothengatter): New to Alan Docking Racing for Ian Grob to race in British F3 in 1977, entered by KVG Racing. Retained by the Docking team for 1978, and probably the car driven by Huub Rothengatter in the last few months of the season. Unknown after 1979 until it reappeared with Jim Yardley in 1984. Later with David Proctor in 1987.
- Chevron B43 [43.78.20] (Steve Malins): New to Steve Malins to race in the British F3 series, replacing a Chevron B38 that was wreitten off in a testying accident at Donington in early May. He was sponsored by Malins (Mamod) Ltd. The car was rented from Malins by Bernard Devaney for two races. Malins retained the car for 1979, but was very rarely seen.
- March 773 [U2] (Ian Flux): March works records show this as James King's works car for 1977 built on a lightweight tub AM773-41 with parts from 763-U2. This would be the "ex-King" car sold to Ian Flux early in 1978, and raced by him in the 1978 British F3 series.
- Chevron B38 [38.77.25] (John Stokes): New to John Stokes (Birmingham) and raced in British F3 in 1977, sponsored by Bogarts of Birmingham. Retained for 1978 and rented by Philippe Colonna for the Zolder F3 in Zolder after Colonna had wrecked his ex-Stephen South March at Zeltweg. Then raced again by Stokes until the end of August.
- Chevron B38 [38.77.24] (Philippe Colonna): New to Alan Docking Racing for Philippe Colonna to race in British F3 in 1977. Retained by the Docking team for 1978, and raced by Philip Bullman and by Colonna in British F3. Unknown in 1979 but purchased by Eddie Heasell in early 1980 for British F3 and libre. Retained for libre in 1981.
- March 773 [10] (TBA): According to March records delivered in March 1977 to AFMP Euroracing, and subsequently given to Brett Riley in lieu of his contractual payments when the Euroracing set-up was dissolved. (This does not mean the car was Riley’s early season car in 1977; he used at least two before the team collapsed, neither of which were necessarily this car.) Run by David Price for Riley in the second half of 1977 and used to win the European round at Donington. Chassis number given in Autosport advert late in 1977 by Price. Sold to Roy Kennedy [Motoring News 2 Mar 1978 p15] although Autosport 9 Mar 1978 p41 says the car is ‘ex James King’. (King used a works car - 773-U2 - for most of 1977 but it is possible he had a race in this car early in the season, however his principal car went in 1978 to Ian Flux.) Run by Kennedy for Saed Ali Hodzic until Hodzic was injured in practice at the International Trophy support race; then became a rental car but did very few races. For sale by Kennedy in early 1979, Autosport 22 Feb 1979 p57, but retained and rented to Serge Saulnier for the 1979 race at Monaco.
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.