OldRacingCars.com

Grand Prix de la Ville de St-Pol

Croix-en-Ternois, 28 Oct 1973

ResultsLapsTime/Speed
1 Jacques Laffite Martini MK12 [005?] - Ford twin cam Holbay R73
#23 BP Racing
50 47m 12.6s
2 Jean-Pierre Paoli Martini MK12 [007?] - Ford twin cam Holbay R73
#24 BP Racing
50 47m 17.9s
3 Alain Serpaggi Alpine A364 [3648] - Renault R16 Dudot
#17 Societé des Automobiles Alpine
50 47m 19.3s
4 Tony Brise March 733 [21] - Ford twin cam Holbay R73
#5 Team Kent Messenger Racing
50 47m 21.0s
5 Jean Ragnotti March 733 [24] - Ford twin cam Holbay R73
#8 Ecurie Antar Filipinetti
50 47m 25.4s
6 Michel Leclère Alpine A364 [3649] - Renault R16 Dudot
#16 Societé des Automobiles Alpine
50 47m 29.9s
7 Bernard Béguin Martini MK12 [002] - Ford twin cam Holbay R73
#1 Ecurie Volant Shell
50 48m 07.3s
8 Bernard Chevanne Martini MK12 [006] - Ford twin cam Holbay
#19 Shell France
50 48m 32.4s
9 Max Bonnin March 733 - Ford twin cam Novamotor
#14 Bonnin Seca (see note 1)
50 48m 48.8s
10 Patrick Boutin Martini MK9 - Ford twin cam Novamotor
#7
50 48m 56.0s
11 Alain Cudini Martini MK12 [001] - Ford twin cam Holbay
#4 Ecurie ELF
48
12 Christian Ethuin Martini MK12 [004] - Ford twin cam Vegantune
#2 Motul La Defense Mondiale
47
13 Pierre-François Rousselot March 733 [22] - Ford twin cam Holbay R73
#18 Ecurie ELF
44
NC Philippe Albera March 733 [23] - Ford twin cam Holbay
#9 Ecurie Antar Filipinetti
38
NC Roger Hurst March 713M [6] - Ford twin cam
#22 (see note 2)
21
NC Lucien Guitteny Alpine A364 [3640] - Renault R16 Dudot
#12 Ecurie Volant Shell
16
NC Max Jean ("Jean Max") Martini MK12 [003] - Ford twin cam Vegantune
#3 Motul La Defense Mondiale
10
DNA Günter Kölmel Lotus 69 [71/69.9.F3] - BMW M10 Schnitzer
#20 Haj Haj Racing (see note 3)
Did not arrive
DNA Roelof Wunderink Ensign LNF3/71 [71.2] - Ford twin cam Vegantune
#15
Did not arrive
DNA Randy Lewis Brabham BT41 [16] - Ford twin cam Novamotor
#21 Wrangler Racing (see note 4)
Did not arrive
DNA Ole Vejlund Ensign LNF3/72 - Ford twin cam Vegantune
#6 STP Danmark
Did not arrive
DNA Derek Kavanagh GRD 373 - Ford twin cam
#10
Did not arrive
DNA Damien Magee Brabham BT41 - Ford twin cam Novamotor
#11 A.W. Brown Racing
Did not arrive

All cars are 1.6-litre F3 unless noted.

Heat 1 Laps Time Speed
1Christian Ethuin250.23.38.1
2Jacques Laffite250.23.39.2
3Alain Serpaggi250.23.39.6
4Jean-Pierre Paoli250.23.42.3
5Tony Brise250.23.43.3
6Michel Leclère250.23.51.5
7Jean Ragnotti250.23.52.4
8Max Bonnin250.24.20.9
9Bernard Chevanne250.24.22.7
10Bernard Béguin250.24.26.9
11Patrick Boutin250.24.27.8
12Alain Cudini23
13Roger Hurst21
Pierre-François Rousselot19retired
Philippe Albera13retired
Lucien Guitteny6retired
Max Jean ("Jean Max")10retired
Heat 2 Laps Time Speed
1Jacques Laffite250.23.33.4
2Jean-Pierre Paoli250.23.35.6
3Jean Ragnotti250.23.37.7
4Tony Brise250.23.37.7
5Michel Leclère250.23.38.4
6Alain Serpaggi250.23.39.7
7Bernard Béguin250.23.40.4
8Pierre-François Rousselot250.23.48.2
9Philippe Albera250.23.53.6
10Alain Cudini250.23.55.7
11Bernard Chevanne250.24.09.7
12Patrick Boutin250.24.28.2
13Max Bonnin250.24.28.9
14Christian Ethuin22
Lucien Guitteny10retired
Max Jean ("Jean Max")Did not start
Roger HurstDid not start
Qualifying
Qualifying information not available

Notes on the cars:

  1. March 733 (Max Bonnin): New to Max Bonnin at some point during the 1973 Formula 3 season. Sold during 1974 to Luis Maria de Almenara Juandò (Barcelona, Spain), who raced it at Magione in September 1974. Then rebuilt as a March 732 for Formula 2 in 1975, using an ex-Alpine Hart BDA engine. De Almenara raced the car at five races in Formula 2 in 1975, but failed to qualify for four of them. He also ran it at the Carrera en Cuesta a la Rabassada hillclimb in Spain in October 1975, finishing second. A photograph of the car at Rabassada shows it wearing works-style 742 bodywork with side radiators, and the rollhoop casing cut down as happened to the 752s early in the 1975 season. Subsequent history unknown.
  2. March 713M [6] (Roger Hurst): New to John Bisignano (Denver, CO) and raced in British F3 in 1971 with support from Liggett & Myers L&M tobacco brand. Sold in October 1971 to Roger Hurst (Folkestone, Kent) of Lenham Hurst and raced in F3 in 1972 and 1973. By 1973 the car was being described on occasion as a 723, a 733, a March Falconer, and even as a Lenham LM1. Last raced by Hurst in November 1973. In March 1974, the car was advertised by Low Cost Racing who mentioned that it had Falconer bodywork and was fitted with a Holbay R70 engine for Formula 4. Its history over the next five years is unknown, but in 1979 and 1980, Tony Harris and Colin Brook raced 713M-6 in F4. Subsequent history unknown. A car with this identity was advertised in Italy in 2012.
  3. Lotus 69 [71/69.9.F3] (Günter Kölmel): New to Freddy Kottulinsky and raced extensively in European F3 in 1971, using Schnitzer BMW engines and entered by Haj-Haj Racing Team. Raced by Günter Kölmel (Achern-Ohnsbach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany) in European F3 in 1972 and 1973, again with BMW engines and entered by Haj-Haj Racing Team. Kölmel raced the car again in F3 in 1974, now using 2-litre BMW engines. Subsequent history unknown.
  4. Brabham BT41 [16] (Randy Lewis): New to Randy Lewis in 1973.

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.