Aurora AFX British F1 Championship Round
Oulton Park, 4 Apr 1980
| Results | Laps | Time/Speed | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Guy Edwards | Arrows A1 [4] - Cosworth DFV V8 #1 C. W. Clowes Racing |
65 | 59m 50.45s 107.80 mph |
| 2 | Emilio de Villota | Williams FW07 [3] - Cosworth DFV V8 #7 RAM Racing |
65 | 60m 18.37s |
| 3 | Ray Mallock | Surtees TS20+ [02] - Cosworth DFV V8 #16 Cliff Smith Racing |
64 | |
| 4 | Jim Crawford | (F2) 2-litre Chevron B45 [45-78-04] - Ford BDX Swindon #17 Plygrange Racing (see note 1) |
63 | |
| 5 | Brian Robinson | (F2) 2-litre Chevron B48 [48-79-08] - Hart 420R #19 A. G. Dean (Racing) |
62 | |
| 6 | Tony Dean | (F2) 2-litre Chevron B42 [42-78-17] - Hart 420R #18 A. G. Dean (Racing) |
62 | |
| 7 | Warren Booth | (F2) 2-litre Chevron B48 [48-79-01] - Hart 420R #29 Warren Booth |
61 | |
| NC | Bobby Howlings | (F2) 2-litre Chevron B42 [42-78-05] - Hart 420R #20 Bob Howlings Racing Cars |
57 | |
| R | Eliseo Salazar | Williams FW07 [1] - Cosworth DFV V8 #8 RAM Racing |
57 | fuel system |
| R | Kim Mather | (F2) 2-litre March 802 [22] - Hart 420R #11 Theodore Racing |
55 | ignition |
| R | Geoff Lees | Wolf [WR3-2] - Cosworth DFV V8 #4 Theodore Racing |
29 | differential and suspension breakage |
| R | Desiré Wilson | Wolf [WR4] - Cosworth DFV V8 #3 Theodore Racing |
17 | CV joint |
| R | Norman Dickson | Lotus 78 [1 JPS15] - Cosworth DFV V8 #10 Colin Bennett Racing |
11 | driveshaft |
All cars are 3-litre F1 unless noted.
| Qualifying | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Emilio de Villota | (F1) 3-litre Williams FW07 [3] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 0:53.67 | ||
| 2 | Guy Edwards | (F1) 3-litre Arrows A1 [4] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 0:53.97 | ||
| 3 | Desiré Wilson | (F1) 3-litre Wolf [WR4] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 0:54.17 | ||
| 4 | Eliseo Salazar | (F1) 3-litre Williams FW07 [1] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 0:54.55 | ||
| 5 | Geoff Lees | (F1) 3-litre Wolf [WR3-2] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 0:55.06 | ||
| 6 | Kim Mather | (F2) 2-litre March 802 [22] - Hart 420R | 0:55.19 | ||
| 7 | Jim Crawford | (F2) 2-litre Chevron B45 [45-78-04] - Ford BDX Swindon | 0:55.52 | ||
| 8 | Ray Mallock | (F1) 3-litre Surtees TS20+ [02] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 0:55.77 | ||
| 9 | Norman Dickson | (F1) 3-litre Lotus 78 [1 JPS15] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 0:55.85 | ||
| 10 | Brian Robinson | (F2) 2-litre Chevron B48 [48-79-08] - Hart 420R | 0:57.01 | ||
| 11 | Tony Dean | (F2) 2-litre Chevron B42 [42-78-17] - Hart 420R | 0:57.12 | ||
| 12 | Warren Booth | (F2) 2-litre Chevron B48 [48-79-01] - Hart 420R | 0:58.99 | ||
| 13 | Bobby Howlings | (F2) 2-litre Chevron B42 [42-78-05] - Hart 420R | 1:00.90 | ||
Notes on the cars:
- Chevron B45 [45-78-04] (Jim Crawford): New to Fred Opert Racing for North American Formula Atlantic as a second car. Used as a spare by Keke Rosberg and as his race car at Lime Rock. Also raced by Eje Elgh and by Arturo Merzario at Trois-Rivières. Raced by Rosberg at Macau in November 1978. Advertised by Opert from ATS Engineering, where he had moved to become team manager, in March 1979 as a lightweight B45 with 1979 rear suspension and F2 fuel tanks. Then sold to Mike Peers and entered in the revived British series for Jim Crawford in 1979, winning five races and finishing second in the championship. Fitted with a BDX engine for 1980 and run by Plygrange Racing for Crawford in the F2 class of the Aurora series. Stayed with Plygrange for 1981 when raced by Vin Malkie (Northwich, Cheshire) in libre racing. Reappeared in 1983 when raced by Duncan Gray in the British Formula Atlantic series. It was entered by Peers himself in libre in 1984. Then to Steve Raine for Sprints, co-driven by Robin Boucher, and then hired to Bob Fearnley's RK Racing for Tiff Needell to drive in a pair of races in India in early 1985. Then reportedly to Stuart Ridge for 1986. To John Lloyd then to Simon Hadfield (Shepshed, Leicestershire) but damaged in an accident at Mallory Park. Restored with original Excita condoms bodywork and sold in 1998 to Jeff Wright, a Scotsman then living in Canada. Still with Wright (Wilmington, NC) in 2014 and raced regularly in vintage racing. By 2019, the car had moved to Scotland and was owned by George Coghill (Halkirk, Highland) and was prepared by Steve Worrad (Whitchurch, Shropshire) for sprints.
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 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.
Individual sources for this event
Autosport 10 Apr 1980 pp23-24. Marcus Pye's report gave full practice times, chassis numbers (for all except Edwards' Arrows and the TS20+), all finishers and all retirements.