"Motor Sport" Trophy Race for Historic F1/F5000 Cars

Silverstone, 17 Sep 1994

All cars are 3-litre F1 unless noted.

Notes on the cars:

1. Trojan T101 [106] (John Narcisi): Built for 1974 season. Sold new to Bobby Bell (painted Alfa Romeo Beech dark maroon) in 1974. However, in Sep 1974, Bell advertised this car as "1974 Trojan T101 ... 6 club races from new". Advertised again May 1975. Later sold via Simon de Lautour (France) to Switzerland. Subsequently bought from Switzerland by John Narcisi (Bromley, Kent) and is presumably the Trojan that Narcisi raced in libre in 1988. He later used the car extensively in historic racing. At some point, Narcisi sold it to Jody Scheckter for his growing collection of racing cars. It has been restored in the livery of Scheckter's 1973 US championship-winning car, and is stored at Scheckter's Laverstoke Park Farm in Hampshire.
2. Surtees TS8B ["014"] (Mike Whatley): New to John Campbell for 1973, and after a couple of early-season libre races he only appeared at one F5000 race where he failed to start. Sold to Nick Overall (Midhurst, West Sussex) for libre racing in 1974 but crashed at Copse corner at Silverstone. Rebuilt and sold to Alan Shaw (Monmouth) for sprints and libre but rarely seen. Then to Jim West who ran it in sprints and hill climbs in 1976. To Ian Higgins (Boston, Lincolnshire) 1986 and then to Rick Hall of Hall & Fowler (Folkingham, Lincolnshire) 1989 and raced in HSCC events in 1990 and 1991. Sold to Mike Whatley (Holmfirth, West Yorkshire) about 1992 for historic racing. Mike still owned the car in July 2013 though it was then based in New Zealand where he had raced it for the previous four seasons. Sold in December 2016 to Jolyon Harrison (York).
3. Palliser WDH2 [AM71/26] (Nick Overall): Built for Jack Maurice (Newcastle, Northwood, Middlesex) and fitted with the 4.2-litre General Motors V8 engine and gearbox from the Marsh Special which Maurice had bought from Johnty Williamson but crashed at Harewood in June 1971. The Palliser-GM was raced by Maurice in British hillclimbs in 1971 and 1972. The GM engine, plus the remains of the Marsh Special, were sold to Mike Harrison in 1977 for an Elva, and by 1974 the Palliser chassis was displayed on the ceiling of Maurice's "Pit Stop" bar. It was later sold, as by 1981 it was being run in hillclimbs by Mark Cummings (Gateshead, Tyne and Wear). In early 1985, it was bought from Cummings by Brian Cocks (Norton, Wiltshire), fitted with a Chevy V8 engine and run as a F5000 car in the HSCC's Pre-70 Championship. In September 1987 it was acquired by Mike Pendlebury (Woodbridge, Suffolk) and restored by Peter Denty, and at this time it seems to have been fitted with a 5-litre Rover engine. According to Brian Speake's notes, it was raced by Mike Littlewood from 1989 to 1992, then by Chris Alford in 1993. It was acquired by Nick Overall in November 1994, and sold by him to Adrian Stoop (Germany) in February 1996. Stoop raced it until 2002, and it then sat in storage until bought by Uwe Zepter (Ampfing, Bavaria, Germany) in June 2017.

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.

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