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Kvällspostens Newsrace

Knutstorp, 31 Aug 1975

ResultsLapsTime/Speed
1 Conny Andersson March 753 [11] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
#17 Rotel Racing Team
24 25m 04.0s
2 Conny Ljungfeldt March 743 [21] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
#18 Rotel Racing Team
24 25m 04.7s
3 Anders Olofsson March 753 [12/19?] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
#2 Rotel Racing Team
24 25m 19.5s
4 Ulf Svensson Brabham BT41 [14S] - Ford twin cam Novamotor
#1
24 25m 32.9s
5 Henrik Spellerberg GRD 374 [373-043] - Ford twin cam Novamotor
#6 Texaco Racing
24 25m 39.9s
6 Claes Sigurdsson Brabham BT41 [32] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
#4 Dalsy Konfektion AB
24 25m 40.8s
7 Håkan Alriksson GRD 373 [049-F3] - Ford ohc Holbay
#12 Bilsom
24 25m 41.5s
8 Thorkild Thyrring GRD 375 - Ford twin cam Novamotor
#20 Team Thunderball
24 25m 56.2s
9 Erkki Salminen Brabham BT41 [21] - Ford twin cam Novamotor
#8 Vätterleden Racing
23
10 Thorbjörn Carlsson Brabham BT38C [18] - Ford twin cam Novamotor
#13 Valdes Grill Racing (see note 1)
23
11 Curt Norrman Brabham BT35 [34] - Ford twin cam Holbay
#10
23
R Ingvar Carlsson GRD 375 [102-F3] - Ford twin cam Holbay
#3 Hans Wängstre Racing
Battery
R Anders Hermansson Brabham BT41 [20] - Ford twin cam Holbay
#16
12
UNK Lars-Åke Olsson Merlyn Mk 22 [440/F3/73] - Ford twin cam Vegantune
#11 (see note 2)

UNK Jan Ridell GRD 372 [010-F3] - BMW M10 Billgren
#9 Autosport (see note 3)

DNA Jac Nellemann GRD 375 - Ford twin cam Novamotor
#5 Texaco Racing
Did not arrive
DNA John-Erik Johansson GRD 375 [373-047“K”] - Ford twin cam Holbay
#12 Hans Wängstre Racing
Did not arrive
DNA Christer Friberg Brabham BT41 [14] - Ford twin cam Novamotor
#14 (see note 4)
Did not arrive
DNA Branco Halik Brabham BT41 - Ford twin cam
#15
Did not arrive
DNA Jan Pedersen Royale RP11 - Ford twin cam
#21
Did not arrive

All cars are 2-litre F3 unless noted.

Qualifying
1 Conny Andersson (F3) 2-litre March 753 [11] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor 1m 01.7s
2 Conny Ljungfeldt (F3) 2-litre March 743 [21] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor 1m 02.0s
3 Anders Olofsson (F3) 2-litre March 753 [12/19?] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor 1m 02.3s
4 Thorkild Thyrring (F3) 2-litre GRD 375 - Ford twin cam Novamotor 1m 02.5s
5 Håkan Alriksson (F3) 2-litre GRD 373 [049-F3] - Ford ohc Holbay 1m 02.5s
6 Claes Sigurdsson (F3) 2-litre Brabham BT41 [32] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor 1m 02.8s
7 Ulf Svensson (F3) 2-litre Brabham BT41 [14S] - Ford twin cam Novamotor 1m 02.9s
8 Ingvar Carlsson (F3) 2-litre GRD 375 [102-F3] - Ford twin cam Holbay 1m 03.1s
9 Henrik Spellerberg (F3) 2-litre GRD 374 [373-043] - Ford twin cam Novamotor 1m 03.1s
10 Erkki Salminen (F3) 2-litre Brabham BT41 [21] - Ford twin cam Novamotor 1m 04.0s
11 Thorbjörn Carlsson (F3) 2-litre Brabham BT38C [18] - Ford twin cam Novamotor 1m 04.0s
12 Lars-Åke Olsson (F3) 2-litre Merlyn Mk 22 [440/F3/73] - Ford twin cam Vegantune 1m 04.6s
13 Jan Ridell (F3) 2-litre GRD 372 [010-F3] - BMW M10 Billgren 1m 04.7s
14 Curt Norrman (F3) 2-litre Brabham BT35 [34] - Ford twin cam Holbay 1m 05.8s
15 Anders Hermansson (F3) 2-litre Brabham BT41 [20] - Ford twin cam Holbay 1m 10.5s

Notes on the cars:

  1. Brabham BT38C [18] (Thorbjörn Carlsson): New to Allan McCully and raced as part of the Australian International Racing Organisation (AIRO) in British F3 and some European events in 1972. The car was owned by Larry Sevitt's Tiran Auto Centre, which ran the AIRO F3 operation in the UK. Badly damaged on its debut at Silverstone in April but presumably repaired and the car driven by McCully at Monaco in mid-May. Then raced by Bill McGovern at Brands Hatch two weeks later, and crashed again, after which AIRO split up and McCully flew back to New Zealand. Irishman Damien Magee took over the drive, now entered by Tiran Auto Centre, and finished second at Brands Hatch and third at Thruxton in August. Sevitt was planning to test Ian Taylor and Barrie Maskell in August, but Magee retained the drive until the end of October. The "ex-Magee" car was advertised with Novamotor engine from a Tunbridge Wells number in January 1973. This would presumably be the "ex Magee" BT38C of Leif Spalding in Swedish F3 in 1973. Then with Thorbjörn Carlsson in 1975 and 1976. Subsequent history unknown.
  2. Merlyn Mk 22 [440/F3/73] (Lars-Åke Olsson): New to Håkan Dahlqvist for British and European F3 in 1973, and described as a "Mk 22". Dahlqvist won the Swedish F3 title in this car. Retained by Dahlqvist for Swedish F3 in 1974, when it was also driven at one race by Matts Nygren. To Lars-Åke Olsson for Swedish F3 in 1975. To Thomas Gunnarsson for Swedish F3 in 1976. To Thorbjörn Bäck for Swedish F3 in 1977. Subsequent history unknown, but in about 1987 or 1988, Richard Parkin located the car in Sweden and brought it back to England. He sold it to Anthony Taylor about a year later, and Taylor restored it to Formula B specification, using it briefly in HSCC historic racing. Taylor's understanding was that it was Dahlqvist's Swedish F3 championship winning car. The car was later sold via Chris Alford about 1994 or 1995. Richard Taylor, Anthony's son, recalls that it might have gone to Canada.
  3. GRD 372 [010-F3] (Jan Ridell): Raced by Canadian David McConnell in the 1972 Tasman series, using 2-litre Hart BDA engines. McConnell had a new B72 on order, and his plan was to sell the prototype to Jacques Couture. When that fell through, 010 was converted to F3 and sold to Mo Harness. Harness had won the 1971 Formula Ford Johnsons Wax Euro Trophy but turned down the test drive that had been offered as a prize with Ken Tyrrell and an F2 March. After a brief relationship with GRD, he then used an old BT28 F3 car in the first half of 1972 before acquiring sponsorship from Revolution Wheels and returning to GRD mid-season. Harness raced the GRD in British Formula 3 using Leabro engines. He then sold it to Jac Nellemann for Swedish F3 in 1973. In 1974, the car went to Jan Ridell, who raced it in Swedish 3, now using 2-litre Vegantune engines. Retained by Ridell for 1975, when he used Billgren BMW engines. Retained again by Ridell for 1976. To Dick Berg for Swedish F3 in 1977 and 1978, again with the Billgren BMW engines. Next seen in 1980, when it was raced by Mats Karlsson, now using Vegantune twin cams. Retained by Karlsson for 1981.
  4. Brabham BT41 [14] (Christer Friberg): New to Ulf Svensson 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.

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