BP Super Visco Static Formula 3 Race
Oulton Park, 10 Jul 1976
Results | Laps | Time/Speed | |||||||
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1 | Bruno Giacomelli | March 763 [U1] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #17 March Racing |
20 | 20m 04.0s |
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2 | Rupert Keegan | March 743 [19] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #10 British Air Ferries Racing Team |
20 | 20m 13.8s |
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3 | Brett Riley | Modus M1 [040-F3] - Ford twin cam Neil Brown #20 |
20 | 20m 17.2s |
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4 | Tiff Needell | Safir RJ03 [01] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #22 Safir Engineering |
20 | 20m 20.6s |
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5 | Geoff Lees | Chevron B34 [34-76-24] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #15 Rob Roy Racing with DJ Bond (see note 1) |
20 | 20m 23.6s |
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6 | Mike Young | Modus M1 [045-F3] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #24 Anglian Gilt Producers |
20 | 20m 28.2s |
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7 | Aryon Cornelsen Filho | March 763 [U2] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #16 March Racing |
20 | 20m 30.8s |
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8 | Barrie Maskell | Dastle Mk12 - Ford twin cam Holt #28 Jeff Sharpe |
20 | 20m 54.2s |
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9 | Paulo Gomes | Modus M1 [044-F3] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #23 Team Modus |
20 | 20m 55.0s |
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10 | Dyfed Roberts | March 743 [2] - Ford twin cam Novamotor #29 |
20 | 20m 58.4s |
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11 | Bruce Coate-Bond | March 753 [16 or 18] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #27 Waves (Car Displays) Ltd |
19 | ||||||
12 | Ken Silverstone | March 753 [14] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #4 (see note 2) |
19 | ||||||
R | Stephen South | March 763 [13] - BMW M10 #7 Dortmunder Union Bier/Bogarts of Birmingham (see note 3) |
10 | Puncture; accident | |||||
R | John Stokes | March 753 [3] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #6 Dortmunder Union Bier/Bogarts of Birmingham |
10 | Engine | |||||
R | Ian Flux | Ralt RT1/76 [16] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #11 Ockley |
5 | Accident, broke oil line | |||||
UNK | Phil Silverstone | March 753 [15] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #3 (see note 4) |
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UNK | Tony Dron | March 763 [9] - Triumph Dolomite Holbay 4 #9 Unipart Racing Team (see note 5) |
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UNK | Paul Bernasconi | Ralt RT1/76 [22] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #12 |
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UNK | Mike Wrigley | March 743 [U10] - Ford twin cam Holt #19 |
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DNA | Richard Hawkins | Ehrlich ES5/6 - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #1 Dr. Joseph Ehrlich |
Did not arrive | ||||||
DNA | TBA | March 743 ["35"] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #2 Dr. Joseph Ehrlich |
Did not arrive | ||||||
DNA | Giordano Regazzoni | March 753 [U22] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #5 Ausonia Docking (see note 6) |
Did not arrive | ||||||
DNA | Lamberto Leoni | March 763 [15] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #8 Scuderia Everest [Giancarlo Minardi] |
Did not arrive | ||||||
DNA | Gary Clare | March 753 - Ford twin cam #14 |
Did not arrive | ||||||
DNA | John Lain | Modus M1 [023-F3] - Ford ohc Holbay #18 Imado Watch Company |
Did not arrive | ||||||
DNA | Geoff Brabham | Ralt RT1/76 [29] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #21 Brabham Racing Organisation (see note 7) |
Did not arrive | ||||||
DNA | Willi Siller | Modus M1 - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #25 Team Modus |
Did not arrive | ||||||
DNA | Dick Parsons | Anson AN3 - Triumph Dolomite 4 #26 Anson Racing |
Did not arrive |
All cars are 2-litre F3 unless noted.
Qualifying | |||||
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1 | Rupert Keegan | (F3) 2-litre March 743 [19] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor | 0.59.4 | ||
2 | Ian Flux | (F3) 2-litre Ralt RT1/76 [16] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor | 0.59.6 | ||
3 | Bruno Giacomelli | (F3) 2-litre March 763 [U1] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor | 0.59.6 | ||
4 | Mike Young | (F3) 2-litre Modus M1 [045-F3] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor | 0.59.6 | ||
5 | Brett Riley | (F3) 2-litre Modus M1 [040-F3] - Ford twin cam Neil Brown | 0.59.8 | ||
6 | Stephen South | (F3) 2-litre March 763 [13] - BMW M10 | 0.59.8 | ||
7 | Tiff Needell | (F3) 2-litre Safir RJ03 [01] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor | 1.00.0 | ||
8 | Paulo Gomes | (F3) 2-litre Modus M1 [044-F3] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor | 1.00.0 | ||
9 | Geoff Lees | (F3) 2-litre Chevron B34 [34-76-24] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor | 1.00.2 |
Notes on the cars:
- Chevron B34 [34-76-24] (Geoff Lees): New to Geoff Lees to drive in the British F3 series, entered by Rob Roy Racing with D.J. Bond, but running with works assistance. A former triple champion in Formula Ford, Lees had a series of very good results in the Chevron, running immediately behind the championship battle between Bruno Giacomelli and Rupert Keegan. He took his first win at Silverstone in September, leading every lap. He followed that with two second places, and then won the season finale at Thruxton at the end of October after Keegan collided with Giacomelli at the start. The car was then used as a test car for prospective Chevron customers. At some point in this process, the car was rebuilt on a new monocoque and effectively divides, with the original tub used by factory fabricator John Lewis to build one car, and the retubbed car going to KWS for Jean-Louis Schlesser.
- March 753 [14] (Ken Silverstone): 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.
- March 763 [13] (Stephen South): March build records show sold to John Stokes, 19 May 1976. Run by Stokes for Stephen South from mid 1976, until wrecked in an accident with Derek Daly in the 1977 British GP support race and scrapped. Some parts used in the construction of 773-T1, South's replacement car.
- March 753 [15] (Phil Silverstone): 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.
- March 763 [9] (Tony Dron): Shown in March records as sold to Tony Dron 12.1.76. This was the solitary Unipart car in 1976. Although Unipart ran two cars in 1977, they only bought one new car, converting the older car for Needell, the junior driver in the team. Some results credit Needell's car as being a 763.
- March 753 [U22] (Giordano Regazzoni): According to the March build records constructed in 1975 from discarded parts of works cars 753-U1 and 763-U1 for Giordano ‘Dodo’ Regazzoni. Probably used by the works drivers Nilsson and Ribeiro at Cadwell Park and the British GP support race in July 1975, with this car built as temporary replacement for Nilsson’s 753-U1 rolled at the Monza Lotteria in late June. Retained by Regazzoni into 1978. Motoring News 16 Mar 1978 p7 comments that Regazzoni is still using last year’s car.
- Ralt RT1/76 [29] (Geoff Brabham): Ralt records show as sold to Geoff Brabham in 1976, probably being delivered in early June. Used by him until the end of 1978 then sold to Ken Thorogood's Hub of the Universe Racing for Osamu Hatagawa to use in British races.
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.