Aurora AFX British F1 Championship Round
Snetterton, 10 Aug 1980
| Results | Laps | Time/Speed | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Guy Edwards | Arrows A1 [2] - Cosworth DFV V8 #1 C. W. Clowes Racing |
55 | 54m 34.81s 115.90 mph |
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| 2 | Eliseo Salazar | Williams FW07B [6] - Cosworth DFV V8 #8 RAM Racing |
54 | out of fuel on last lap | |||||
| 3 | Emilio de Villota | Williams FW07 [3] - Cosworth DFV V8 #7 RAM Racing |
54 | ||||||
| 4 | Jim Crawford | (F2) 2-litre Chevron B45 [45-78-04] - Ford BDX Swindon #77 Plygrange Racing (see note 1) |
53 | ||||||
| 5 | Leon Walger | Arrows A1 [3] - Cosworth DFV V8 #2 C. W. Clowes Racing |
53 | ||||||
| 6 | Val Musetti | Fittipaldi F5A [2] - Cosworth DFV V8 #15 Colin Bennett Racing |
52 | ||||||
| 7 | Kim Mather | (F2) 2-litre March 802 [22] - Hart 420R #11 Theodore Racing |
52 | ||||||
| 8 | Brian Robinson | (F2) 2-litre Chevron B48 [48-79-08] - Hart 420R #19 Grange Performance Cars |
51 | ||||||
| 9 | Warren Booth | (F2) 2-litre Chevron B48 [48-79-01] - Hart 420R #29 Warren Booth |
51 | ||||||
| 10 | Roy Baker | (F2) 2-litre Chevron B48 [48-79-05] - Hart 420R #24 Roy Baker |
47 | ||||||
| R | Kevin Cogan | Wolf [WR3-2] - Cosworth DFV V8 #4 Theodore Racing |
46 | blown engine | |||||
| R | Tony Trimmer | BRM P207 [02] - P202 V12 #30 John Jordan |
39 | fuel pick-up fault | |||||
| R | Giacomo Agostini | Williams FW06 [001] - Cosworth DFV V8 #9 Team Agostini |
22 | broken throttle linkage | |||||
| DNS | Terry Fisher | (F2) 2-litre Chevron B42 [42-78-14] - Ford BDG #35 Terry Fisher |
Did not start (blown engine) |
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All cars are 3-litre F1 unless noted.
| Qualifying | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eliseo Salazar | (F1) 3-litre Williams FW07B [6] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 0:58.27 | ||
| 2 | Guy Edwards | (F1) 3-litre Arrows A1 [2] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 0:58.48 | ||
| 3 | Kevin Cogan | (F1) 3-litre Wolf [WR3-2] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 0:58.66 | ||
| 4 | Giacomo Agostini | (F1) 3-litre Williams FW06 [001] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 0:59.76 | ||
| 5 | Val Musetti | (F1) 3-litre Fittipaldi F5A [2] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 1:00.33 | ||
| 6 | Kim Mather | (F2) 2-litre March 802 [22] - Hart 420R | 1:00.53 | ||
| 7 | Leon Walger | (F1) 3-litre Arrows A1 [3] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 1:00.59 | ||
| 8 | Jim Crawford | (F2) 2-litre Chevron B45 [45-78-04] - Ford BDX Swindon | 1:00.99 | ||
| 9 | Warren Booth | (F2) 2-litre Chevron B48 [48-79-01] - Hart 420R | 1:02.51 | ||
| 10 | Brian Robinson | (F2) 2-litre Chevron B48 [48-79-08] - Hart 420R | 1:02.89 | ||
| 11 | Terry Fisher * | (F2) 2-litre Chevron B42 [42-78-14] - Ford BDG | 1:06.14 | ||
| 12 | Roy Baker | (F2) 2-litre Chevron B48 [48-79-05] - Hart 420R | 1:06.47 | ||
| 13 | Emilio de Villota | (F1) 3-litre Williams FW07 [3] - Cosworth DFV V8 | 1:10.81 | ||
| 14 | Tony Trimmer | (F1) 3-litre BRM P207 [02] - BRM P202 V12 | no time | ||
| * Did not start | |||||
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 14 Aug 1980 pp28-29. Jeremy Shaw's report gave full practice times, chassis numbers (for all except Terry Fisher's "ex-Agostini/Brill" Chevron "B40"), all finishers and all retirements. Shaw gave the article a very different tone, emphasising the "poor entry".