Aurora AFX British F1 Championship Round
Snetterton, 23 Sep 1979
| Results | Laps | Time/Speed | |||||||
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| 1 | Rupert Keegan | Arrows A1 [2] - Cosworth DFV V8 #16 Charles Clowes Racing |
55 | 55m 07.07s 114.77 mph |
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| 2 | Ricardo Zunino | Arrows A1 [4] - Cosworth DFV V8 #17 Charles Clowes Racing |
55 | 55m 08.81s |
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| 3 | David Kennedy | Wolf [WR6] - Cosworth DFV V8 #11 Theodore Racing |
55 | 55m 31.88s |
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| 4 | David Purley | Shadow DN9 [3B] - Cosworth DFV V8 #27 Lec Refrigeration Racing |
55 | 55m 38.90s |
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| 5 | Bernard de Dryver | Fittipaldi F5A [2] - Cosworth DFV V8 #5 RAM Racing |
55 | 55m 54.59s |
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| 6 | Desiré Wilson | Tyrrell 008 [3] - Cosworth DFV V8 #1 Melchester Racing |
55 | 55m 56.97s |
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| 7 | Giacomo Agostini | Williams FW06 [001] - Cosworth DFV V8 #9 Team Agostini |
55 | 56m 02.16s |
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| 8 | Emilio de Villota | Lotus 78 [1 JPS15] - Cosworth DFV V8 #3 Madom F1 Team |
54 | ||||||
| 9 | Brian Robinson | (F2) 2-litre Chevron B42 [42-78-05] - Hart 420R #19 A. G. Dean (Racing) |
49 | ||||||
| R | Derek Warwick | (F2) 2-litre March 792 [11] - Hart 420R #77 Theodore Racing (see note 1) |
41 | Battery | |||||
| R | Robin Smith | Surtees TS19 [04] - Cosworth DFV V8 #33 Smith & Jones (see note 2) |
36 | Accident | |||||
| R | Guy Edwards | Fittipaldi F5A [3] - Cosworth DFV V8 #4 RAM Racing |
35 | Engine | |||||
| R | Gordon Smiley | Surtees TS20+ [02] - Cosworth DFV V8 #22 John Surtees Garages |
28 | Engine | |||||
| R | Hervé Regout | (F2) 2-litre Chevron B42 [42-78-09] - Hart 420R #25 RAM Racing |
20 | Engine | |||||
| R | Neil Bettridge | Arrows A1 [3] - Cosworth DFV V8 #2 Melchester Racing |
13 | Brakes | |||||
| R | Marco Micangeli | Williams FW06 [002] - Cosworth DFV V8 #10 Team Agostini |
7 | CV joint | |||||
| R | Kim Mather | Chevron B41 [41-79-01] - Cosworth DFV V8 #6 Graham Eden Racing |
0 | CV joint | |||||
| T/S | Guy Edwards | Fittipaldi F5A [4] - Cosworth DFV V8 |
(Spare - not used in practice) | ||||||
All cars are 3-litre F1 unless noted.
| Qualifying | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rupert Keegan | (F1) 3-litre Arrows A1 [2] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 0:56.28 | ||
| 2 | Ricardo Zunino | (F1) 3-litre Arrows A1 [4] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 0:56.64 | ||
| 3 | Emilio de Villota | (F1) 3-litre Lotus 78 [1 JPS15] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 0:56.85 | ||
| 4 | Guy Edwards | (F1) 3-litre Fittipaldi F5A [3] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 0:56.97 | ||
| 5 | David Kennedy | (F1) 3-litre Wolf [WR6] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 0:57.11 | ||
| 6 | Bernard de Dryver | (F1) 3-litre Fittipaldi F5A [2] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 0:57.64 | ||
| 7 | Gordon Smiley | (F1) 3-litre Surtees TS20+ [02] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 0:57.79 | ||
| 8 | Derek Warwick | (F2) 2-litre March 792 [11] - Hart 420R | 0:57.92 | ||
| 9 | Desiré Wilson | (F1) 3-litre Tyrrell 008 [3] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 0:58.10 | ||
| 10 | Giacomo Agostini | (F1) 3-litre Williams FW06 [001] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 0:58.51 | ||
| 11 | David Purley | (F1) 3-litre Shadow DN9 [3B] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 0:59.01 | ||
| 12 | Marco Micangeli | (F1) 3-litre Williams FW06 [002] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 0:59.59 | ||
| 14 | Kim Mather | (F1) 3-litre Chevron B41 [41-79-01] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 1:00.37 | ||
| 14 | Hervé Regout | (F2) 2-litre Chevron B42 [42-78-09] - Hart 420R | 0:59.63 | ||
| 15 | Neil Bettridge | (F1) 3-litre Arrows A1 [3] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 1:01.90 | ||
| 16 | Robin Smith | (F1) 3-litre Surtees TS19 [04] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 1:01.90 | ||
| 18 | Brian Robinson | (F2) 2-litre Chevron B42 [42-78-05] - Hart 420R | 1:02.16 | ||
Notes on the cars:
- March 792 [11] (Derek Warwick): New to Theodore Racing for Derek Warwick to drive in F2 in 1979, using Hart engines. Either this or 792/30 was converted to Formula Pacific specification for Rupert Keegan to drive at Macau but crashed during the race.
- Surtees TS19 [04] (Robin Smith): Alan Jones received a new car, Surtees TS19/04, in time for the 1976 Austrian GP, and raced this for the rest of the season. It was raced by Vittorio Brambilla in the South American races at the start of 1977, before being sold to Olympus Cameras for Divina Galica to race in Shellsport Group 8. It was acquired by Alo Lawler in 1978, but was quickly sold to John Cooper, then to Robin Smith. Smith updated it to "TS20S" specification in 1980, and added sports car bodywork for a couple of Can-Am events in 1981. It was sold to Ken Moore and then Rod Tolhurst, both of whom ran it in HSCC F1 in 1983 for Willie Green and John Narcisi. Its next seven owners did not race it, but it returned to competition in TGP in 1999, then raced regularly until 2012. It returned for Monaco in 2016.
Sources
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' original results.
These results were compiled primarily from the race reports in Autosport during the season, with some additional information from the results section of Autocourse, and some details compiled by Jeremy Jackson from a variety of sources, including Autosport, Motoring News and the Formula One Register books. All the chassis identities were taken from research elsewhere on this site.
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.