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Polydor Records Trophy

Brands Hatch, 7 Sep 1975

ResultsLapsTime/Speed
1 Larry Perkins Ralt RT1 [2] - Ford twin cam Novamotor
#44 Team Cowangie
25 19m 35.4s
2 Dick Parsons Modus M1 [006-F3] - Ford twin cam
#36
25 19m 40.2s
3 Danny Sullivan Modus M1 [014-F3] - Ford twin cam Neil Brown
#33 Team Modus
25 19m 43.0s
4 Alex Dias Ribeiro March 753 [10] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
#1 March Engineering
25 19m 47.0s
5 Gunnar Nilsson March 753 [U1] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
#2 March Engineering
25 19m 47.4s
6 Chris Barnett March 753 [1] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
#4
25 19m 48.8s
7 Donald MacLeod GRD 375 [098-F3] - Ford twin cam Holbay
#20 (see note 1)

8 Graham Hamilton March 753 [9] - Ford twin cam Neil Brown
#5 Macdonald Shand/Ecurie Ecosse

9 Terry Perkins Ralt RT1 [3] - Ford twin cam Novamotor
#45 Team Cowangie

R Rupert Keegan March 743 [19] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
#10 British Air Ferries Racing Team
24 inc 1' penalty for jump start; clutch
R Bob Arnott March 743 [22] - Ford twin cam Neil Brown
#12 (see note 2)
8 Fuel line
R Pierre Dieudonné March 753 [14] - BMW M10 Schrick
#7 Bang & Olufsen Team Michel Vaillant
(see note 3)
Spun
UNK Hervé Regout March 753 [15] - BMW M10 Schrick
#6 Bang & Olufsen Team Michel Vaillant
(see note 4)

UNK Richard Hawkins March 743 [24] - Ford twin cam Novamotor
#17 F.S.Ratcliffe Springs

UNK Ingo Hoffmann March 753 [16 or 18] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
#9 Creditum Investments Brazil

UNK Dyfed Roberts March 743 [2] - Ford twin cam Novamotor
#15

UNK Roger Hurst GRD 374 - Ford twin cam
#32

UNK Stephen South March 753 [3] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
#46 Rayrace International

UNK Tony Rouff Ehrlich ES5 - Ford twin cam Vegantune
#47 Dr J. Ehrlich

UNK Ken Silverstone March 743 ["35"] - Ford twin cam Neil Brown
#53

DNA TBA GRD 375 - Ford twin cam Holbay
#27 GRD Ltd
Did not arrive
DNA TBA Modus M1 - Ford twin cam
#34 Team Modus
Did not arrive
DNA Claude Crespin Safir RJ03 - Ford twin cam Holbay
#58 Safir Engineering
Did not arrive

All cars are 2-litre F3 unless noted.

Qualifying
1 Larry Perkins (F3) 2-litre Ralt RT1 [2] - Ford twin cam Novamotor 0.46.0
2 Bob Arnott (F3) 2-litre March 743 [22] - Ford twin cam Neil Brown 0.46.2
3 Dick Parsons (F3) 2-litre Modus M1 [006-F3] - Ford twin cam 0.46.4
4 Rupert Keegan (F3) 2-litre March 743 [19] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor 0.46.4
5 Danny Sullivan (F3) 2-litre Modus M1 [014-F3] - Ford twin cam Neil Brown 0.46.6
6 Gunnar Nilsson (F3) 2-litre March 753 [U1] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor 0.46.6
7 Chris Barnett (F3) 2-litre March 753 [1] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
8 Alex Dias Ribeiro (F3) 2-litre March 753 [10] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor

Notes on the cars:

  1. GRD 375 [098-F3] (Donald MacLeod): Raced by Ian Taylor and Donald MacLeod in 1975, then to Ian Rimmer for Formula 4 in 1977 and 1978. It was owned by Jim Ward, John Smith and Roger Hurst during the 1980s and 1990s before being rebuilt by Peter Denty Racing (Thetford, Norfolk) in 1995 and sold to Erwin Mundt (Germany) in 1997.
  2. March 743 [22] (Bob Arnott): New to Ippokampos Racing for Australian racer Buzz Buzaglo to use in British and European F3 in 1974. Used by Tom Pryce at the Monaco GP F3 support race. Sold to Bob Arnott for 1975 and retained for the first few weeks of the 1976 season. Sold to Colin Myles (Holmes Chapel, Cheshire) and fitted with a 1098cc Hart engine for hillclimbs from 1979 or earlier.
  3. March 753 [14] (Pierre Dieudonné): Originally a car belonging to the B&O team in 1975, when used by Pierre Dieudonné. Chassis number for this car and its sister, driven by Hervé Regout, observed by AF at Oulton Park 4 October 1975. Sold to Ken Silverstone for the 1976 season [Autosport 2 Sep 1976 p33 says his car is ‘ex Dieudonné.) To Wyatt Stanley in mid 1977 and retained by him for the 1978 season.
  4. March 753 [15] (Hervé Regout): Originally a car belonging to the B&O team in 1975, when used by Hervé Regout. Chassis number for this car and its sister, driven by Pierre Dieudonné, were observed by AF at Oulton Park 4 October 1975. Sold in 1976 to Phil Silverstone, and retained until early 1978 at least. At the beginning of 1978 Ian Flux joined Cloud Engineering, who ran Phil Silverstone, and in the absence of anything better he used this car, which Silverstone had replaced with a Ralt, for the first race of the Vandervell series. See Autosport 9 Mar 1978 p41.

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 British Formula 3 results have been compiled by Chris Townsend using the main British magazines Autosport and Motoring News but also the US magazine On Track which carried surprisingly good coverage of the British series.

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.