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British Sprint Championship Round

Duxford, 13 Sep 1970

ResultsTime 
1 Patsy Burt 4.4-litre McLaren M3A [2] - Oldsmobile Traco V8
(see note 1)
69.5s
2 Tony Harrison (G7) 7-litre McLaren M12C/M6B [M12C 60-11] - Chevrolet V8
73.2s
3 Len Bridge (sports racing) 3-litre Deep Sanderson 303 - Martin V8
73.9s
4 Peter Dodds (sports racing) 3-litre Deep Sanderson 303 - Martin V8
74.7s
5 Wridgeway Horton (unknown) 3.8-litre Jaguar 6
76.3s
6 Pat Ryan (unknown) 1.1-litre Aldon Viper A - BMC s/c
78
7 Maurice Gates (unknown) 0.8-litre Honda S800
83.6s
Qualifying
Qualifying information not available

Notes on the cars:

  1. McLaren M3A [2] (Patsy Burt): Built for Patsy Burt (Surrey) and used in hillclimb and sprint events from 1966 to 1970. As well as dozens of Ladies Awards, Burt won the Brighton Speed Trials outright in this car in 1968 and also used it to take a number of national quarter-mile and half-mile speed records at Elvington airfield, Yorkshire, in 1967 and 1968. She also competed in European events in the M3A, notably at St Ursanne-Les Rangiers, Sierre-Montana-Crans and Faucille in 1966. In 1970, she competed in the new RAC British Sprint Championship and won the title, the first woman to win a British national motor sporting title. She retired after 1970 and the McLaren was also retired and sent on loan to the Donington Museum where it remained for many decades. After Burt's death in 2001, the car was sold by Ron Smith, Burt's manager, mechanic and later husband, via H&H Auctions in November 2008. Sold to Julia de Baldanza (Cheltenham, Gloucestershire) and raced by her at Goodwood in July 2010.

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.

The British Sprint Championship results were originally provided by Paul Parker and Steve Wilkinson and are based on material drawn from Motoring News, Autosport and Speedscene magazines plus results sheets and programmes provided by former competitors and by the organising clubs.

The identification of individual cars is based on the Formula 1, Formula 2, Formula 5000 and Formula Atlantic research work presented elsewhere on the site.

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.