A Race for Historic Grand Prix Cars
Donington Park, 1 Aug 1982
| Results | Laps | Time/Speed | |||||||
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| 1 | John Brindley | Tyrrell 008 [3] - Cosworth DFV V8 #3 Atlantic Computer Leasing |
10 | 12m 05.0s 97.19 mph |
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| 2 | Roger Friend | Lotus 78 [1 JPS15] - Cosworth DFV V8 #5 |
10 | 12m 26.7s |
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| 3 | Mike Littlewood | McLaren M19C [2] - Cosworth DFV V8 Kenneth Moore |
10 | 12m 28.0s |
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| 4 | David Williams | BRM P207 [02] - P202 V12 |
10 | 12m 30.6s |
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| R | John Foulston | McLaren M19A [1] - Cosworth DFV V8 #2 Atlantic Computer Leasing |
5 | engine | |||||
| DNS | John Narcisi | (1.5 F1) 1.5-litre Brabham BT6 [FJ-5-63] - Ford #1 John Narcisi (see note 1) |
Did not start (retired from earlier Pre-65 race) |
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| DNA | John Jordan | BRM P201 [05] - P142 V12 |
Did not arrive | ||||||
| DNA | TBA | (1.5 F1) 1.5-litre Lotus 24 [944] - BRM P56 V8 #4 Atlantic Computer Leasing |
Did not arrive | ||||||
All cars are 3-litre F1 unless noted.
| Qualifying | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mike Littlewood | (F1) 3-litre McLaren M19C [2] - Cosworth DFV V8 | |||
| 2 | John Foulston | (F1) 3-litre McLaren M19A [1] - Cosworth DFV V8 | |||
| 3 | David Williams | (F1) 3-litre BRM P207 [02] - BRM P202 V12 | |||
| 4 | Roger Friend | (F1) 3-litre Lotus 78 [1 JPS15] - Cosworth DFV V8 | |||
| 5 | John Brindley | (F1) 3-litre Tyrrell 008 [3] - Cosworth DFV V8 | |||
Notes on the cars:
- Brabham BT6 [FJ-5-63] (John Narcisi): David Prophet (West Bromwich) in Formula Junior 1963. Also appeared at Karlskoga in August and in South Africa in December in F1 specification with a 1500cc Ford engine. To Graham Eden (Coventry, Warwickshire) for Formula 3 in 1964. Eden first raced the car at Snetterton in mid-March 1964 but at Mallory Park two weeks later he crashed the car heavily in practice. When asked in 2013, Eden recalled that the car was "virtually brand new" and that it was "written off" in what he described as "the worst crash I ever had". He was in hospital for several days and did not race seriously again for two years. Duncan Rabagliati has a note that the car went back David Prophet but if it did go back to Prophet, it is likely that it needed to be completely rebuilt. History then unclear until April 1966 when raced by Peter Blankstone in hillclimbs. Raced again early 1967 before Blankstone acquired a Brabham BT18. Subsequent history unknown but believed to be the 1500cc Brabham "BT3/18" driven by Mrs Terry Dunn in sprints and hillclimbs from 1968 to 1974. A car with this chassis number later run in historic racing by John Narcisi (Bromley, Kent) in the 1980s. That car later to Barrie Gillies and wrecked at Phoenix Park in September 1997. Repaired and later owned by David Brown (Ashford, Kent) until sold to Graham Adelman (Free Union, VA) in 2013.
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.
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 5 Aug 1982 pp27,29,57 and entry list from programme. David Williams car was described in the report as "the 1977/8 BRM P201 which he has used in the National F1 series". That should be a P207 but it was curious that John Jordan was also entered in a P207. It is assumed that the descriptions had been transcribed and Jordan had entered his P201. Only five cars appeared on the entry list and were given the numbers 1 to 5 although the cars quite possibly raced with different numbers. Narcisi was listed as No 1, Foulston's McLaren at 2, Brindley's Tyrrell at 3, the Foulston Lotus 24 at 4 and Moore's McLaren for Littlewood at 5. A photograph in Autosport shows that Friend's Lotus 78 ran as No 5 in the race.