Sunbeam Electric FF Race

Thruxton, 30 Jul 1972

All cars are 1.6-litre FF unless noted.

Notes on the cars:

1. Brabham BT28 [BT21-39] (Geoff Todd): New to Jörgen Ellekaer and raced in Scandinavian and German F3 in 1967 and 1968. Entered by Jörgen Ellekaer Racing for Tonny Hansen in Swedish F3 in 1969. Hansen continued to race it until 1971, by which time it had been converted to Formula Ford. Raced in Formula Ford in 1972 by Geoff Todd, then to Len Marchant in 1973, and raced by him in Formula Ford in 1974 and 1975. Marchant was a fibreglass specialist, and his company Marchant & Cox was still producing racing car bodies in 2022. The BT21 was also raced while Marchant owned it by Bob Curl, who designed the Gropa bodywork to convert Chevron B8s to Spyder form as well as the Nomad sports cars with Mark Konig and bodywork for a number of Formula Ford designs. Marchant was later seen with the car in the Formula Ford class at the Brighton Speed Trials in 1978 and raced it at Lydden for many years. He retained the car for many years and in July 2007 reported he was converting it back to F3 specification. He still owned it in 2020.

Sources

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