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Vandervell British Formula 3 Championship Race

Thruxton, 26 Oct 1980

ResultsLapsTime/Speed
1 Stefan Johansson Ralt RT3/80 [198] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
#1 Project Four Racing (see note 1)
15 19m 07.11s
110.91 mph
2 Roberto Guerrero Argo JM6 [039-F3] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
Anglia Cars
15 19m 10.50s
3 Mike White March 803B [803-2] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
#11 Autowindscreens with Gerard Racing
15 19m 17.39s
4 Eddie Jordan Ralt RT3/80 [197] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
#7 Marlboro Team Ireland (see note 2)
15 19m 26.27s
5 Rob Wilson Ralt RT3/80 [191] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
15 19m 29.00s
6 Bengt Trägårdh March 803 [23] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
15 19m 32.02s
7 David Sears Argo JM6 [043-F3] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
#3 Rushen Green Racing
15 19m 33.83s
8 Daniele Albertin Ralt RT3/80 [183] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
#21 (see note 3)
15 19m 40.12s
9 Kenneth Acheson March 793 [13] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
RMC Group
15 19m 45.32s
10 Ian Shaw Pilbeam MP45 [1] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
15 20m 02.38s
11 Mike O'Brien March 803B [803-10] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
National Girobank
15 20m 09.48s
12 Thierry Tassin Argo JM6 [037-F3] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor
Anglia Cars
12
R Rick Whyman March 793 [18] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor

DNS Tony Norton March 773/783 [773-3] - Triumph Dolomite 4
PC Designs Ltd (see note 4)
Did not start

All cars are 2-litre F3 unless noted.

Qualifying
1 Stefan Johansson (F3) 2-litre Ralt RT3/80 [198] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor 1m 20.17s
2 Rob Wilson (F3) 2-litre Ralt RT3/80 [191] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor 1m 20.66s
3 Kenneth Acheson (F3) 2-litre March 793 [13] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor 1m 20.67s
4 Roberto Guerrero (F3) 2-litre Argo JM6 [039-F3] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor 1m 21.00s
5 Mike White (F3) 2-litre March 803B [803-2] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor 1m 21.22s
6 Eddie Jordan (F3) 2-litre Ralt RT3/80 [197] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor 1m 21.29s
7 Daniele Albertin (F3) 2-litre Ralt RT3/80 [183] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor 1m 21.58s
8 Thierry Tassin (F3) 2-litre Argo JM6 [037-F3] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor 1m 21.88s
9 David Sears (F3) 2-litre Argo JM6 [043-F3] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor 1m 22.87s
10 Bengt Trägårdh (F3) 2-litre March 803 [23] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor 1m 23.40s
11 Mike O'Brien (F3) 2-litre March 803B [803-10] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor 1m 23.94s
12 Ian Shaw (F3) 2-litre Pilbeam MP45 [1] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor 1m 25.00s
13 Rick Whyman (F3) 2-litre March 793 [18] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor 1m 27.05s
14 Tony Norton * (F3) 2-litre March 773/783 [773-3] - Triumph Dolomite 4 1m 36.72s
 
* Did not start

Notes on the cars:

  1. Ralt RT3/80 [198] (Stefan Johansson): Sold to Project Four for Stefan Johansson 15 Aug 1980. Used to win 1980 championship. Sold to West Surrey Racing for Jonathan Palmer, 1981. Won 1981 championship. Retained by WSR and used by Enrique Mansilla in early 1982, then leased to Osamu Nakako [Motoring News 15 Jul 1982 p15). For sale Autosport 14 Oct 1982 p68 '1981 champ winning car' to Gerry Amato Autosport 18 Nov 1982 p13 'ex Johansson, Palmer'.
  2. Ralt RT3/80 [197] (Eddie Jordan): Sold to Eddie Jordan 7 Aug 1980 and used by him in latter part of 1980 season. Sold to Terry Gray for 1981 season (Autosport 15 Jan 1981) but only lightly used. For sale Autosport 30 Apr 1981 p61. Sold to Dave Price for Fred Krab to run in Euro series, debut Zandvoort round. For sale by DPR 'new tub in Aug' Autosport 14 Jan 1982 p62. Sold to Phil Dowsett to run in 1982 UK series (Autosport 4 Mar 1982 p38; Motorig News 4 Mar 1982 p3 'ex DPR Krab/Tragardh'); sold late season to Leo Andersson (Autosport 28 Oct 1982 p15).
  3. Ralt RT3/80 [183] (Daniele Albertin): A works car finished July 1980 for Tommy Byrne to run at British GP support race. Sold to Tiga for Daniele Albertin to run. Used by James Weaver in 1981 and then sold to Mike O'Brien. To Tony Trevor for 1982 (Autosport 18 Feb 1982 p7; Motoring News 11 Mar 1982 p14 'ex O'Brien, Weaver') badly damaged at Thruxton in April and probably scrapped. Trevor only reappears at Silverstone 27 June in what Autosport (1 Jul 1982 p8) calls 'a replacement built up from a pile of bits, most bought from Dave Scott's team who had built up a new car during the close season'. These bits may, themselves, have come from the remains of RT3/192 which Scott may have destroyed in testing in 1980, plus surplus parts from RT3/250. We should presume that 183 ceases to exist after April 1980 unless observation of the plate can be found on Trevor's late 1982 car.
  4. March 773/783 [773-3] (Tony Norton): March build records show sold to Unipart, 23 December 1976. Only one 773 is consigned to Unipart in the build records. Assumed that Taylor as senior driver would take the new car, a fact borne out by occasional references in 1977 to Needell being in a 763, the team's original car.

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.

Individual sources for this event

Autosport 30 Oct 1980 pp19-20