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BP Super Visco Static Formula 3 Race

Knockhill, 3 Aug 1975

ResultsLapsTime/Speed
1 Patrick Neve Safir RJ03 - Ford twin cam Holbay
#26 Safir Engineering Ltd
30 26m 53.4s
86.28 mph
2 Danny Sullivan Modus M1 [014-F3] - Ford twin cam
#28 Team Modus
30 27m 00.2s
3 Gunnar Nilsson March 753 [U1] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
#43 March Engineering
30 27m 06.2s
4 Ingo Hoffmann March 753 [16 or 18] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
#48 Creditum Investments Brazil
30 27m 11.0s
5 Graham Hamilton March 753 [9] - Ford twin cam Neil Brown
#30 Macdonald Shand/Ecurie Ecosse
30 27m 17.8s
6 Pierre Dieudonné March 753 [14] - BMW M10 Schrick
#41 Bang & Olufsen Team Michel Vaillant
(see note 1)
30 27m 19.4s
7 Alex Dias Ribeiro March 753 [10] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
#44 March Engineering
30
8 Rupert Keegan March 743 [19] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
#31 British Air Ferries Racing Team
28
9 Peter Clark Modus M1 [001-F3] - Ford twin cam
#35 Wisharts Garage

10 Ken Silverstone March 743 ["35"] - Ford twin cam Neil Brown
#33 Ken Silverstone

R Andrew Jeffrey March 733 [7] - Ford twin cam
#47? John Blades

R Mike Tyrrell March 733 [21] - Ford twin cam Neil Brown
#34 Tony Roles Racing

R Richard Hawkins March 743 [24] - Ford twin cam Novamotor
#29 F.S.Ratcliffe Springs
0 Accident
R Eddie Cheever Modus M1 [023-F3] - Ford twin cam Neil Brown
#39 Eddie Cheever
0 Engine
R Hervé Regout March 753 [15] - BMW M10 Schrick
#40 Bang & Olufsen Team Michel Vaillant
(see note 2)
0 Accident
DNS Donald MacLeod GRD 375 [098-F3] - Ford twin cam
#45 Peter Denty (see note 3)
Did not start
  Fritz Stehlin Modus M1 [10/16-F3] - Ford twin cam
#27 Team Modus
On entry list
  Chris Barnett March 753 [1] - BMW M10 Heidegger
#32 Chris Barnett
On entry list
  Tim Brise Elden Mk15 [157/15001/73] - Ford twin cam
#36 Elden International Racing Ltd
On entry list
  Derek Lawrence Lotus 73 - Ford twin cam
#37 Dr Joseph Ehrlich
On entry list
  Tony Rouff Ehrlich ES5 - Ford twin cam Vegantune
#38 Dr Joseph Ehrlich
On entry list
  Bob Arnott March 743 [22] - Ford twin cam Neil Brown
#42 Swan Song Records (see note 4)
On entry list
  Dick Parsons Modus M1 [006-F3] - Ford twin cam
#46 Dick Parsons
On entry list
  Harry Gilbert March 733 [7] - Ford twin cam Neil Brown
#47 Johnny Blades
On entry list
  Stephen South Ray 75F3 [75.F3.01] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
#49 Rayrace International
On entry list

All cars are 2-litre F3 unless noted.

Qualifying
1 Eddie Cheever (F3) 2-litre Modus M1 [023-F3] - Ford twin cam Neil Brown 0.52.4
2 Patrick Neve (F3) 2-litre Safir RJ03 - Ford twin cam Holbay 0.52.6
3 Danny Sullivan (F3) 2-litre Modus M1 [014-F3] - Ford twin cam 0.52.8
4 Gunnar Nilsson (F3) 2-litre March 753 [U1] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
5 Ingo Hoffmann (F3) 2-litre March 753 [16 or 18] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor 0.53.0

Notes on the cars:

  1. March 753 [14] (Pierre Dieudonné): 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.
  2. March 753 [15] (Hervé Regout): 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.
  3. GRD 375 [098-F3] (Donald MacLeod): Raced by Ian Taylor and Donald MacLeod in 1975, then to Ian Rimmer for Formula 4 in 1977 and 1978. It was owned by Jim Ward, John Smith and Roger Hurst during the 1980s and 1990s before being rebuilt by Peter Denty Racing (Thetford, Norfolk) in 1995 and sold to Erwin Mundt (Germany) in 1997.
  4. 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.

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.

Individual sources for this event

Autosport, Motoring News