Pole position: Clark in 1.54,6
Fastest lap: Brabham, Muir and Baillie in 1.54,2
Distance: 15 laps
Average speed: 135,71 kmh
Weather: Dry
Ruleset: Group 5
Car info: 1966 Cars
Jim Clark put his car on pole position with a very sideways 1.54,6 Jack Brabham was next on the list in the Alan Brown Mustang 0.2 seconds slower, Peter Arundell completing the front row with a time of 1.55,8 in the second works Lotus Cortina. Brian Muir was very impressive in the big Willment Galaxie, and managed a 1.56,2. But the real show stopper was Chris Craft who motored with such purpose in the Superspeed 1200 Anglia: not only was he fastest in his class but also fifth quickest overall, with team-mate Mike Young not far behind. Mike Salmon practised the dark blue Mustang on the wrong axle ratio but still managed sixth place on the grid. In the 1000 cc class John Fitzpatrick and Peter Procter in the beautifully prepared Broadspeed Anglias were several seconds quicker than the Fraser Imps. Fuel starvation caused the supercharged Ford Falcons of Roy Pierpoint and Sir Gawaine Baillie much trouble and neither put in representative times for the cars obviously have great potential. Jack Brabham made the best start in the fuel-injected Alan Brown Mustang pursued hard by Jim Clark in the works Lotus Cortina and Mike Salmon in a Cobra engined Mustang. On the second lap, much to Clark's disgust, Salmon rushed by and Brian Muir moved up in the 7-litre Galaxie to contest the issue as well. Meanwhile, Brabham had pulled out a useful couple of seconds by virtue of being uninvolved by the scrap behind him. At one third distance, Muir slipped the Galaxie inside Salmon at Russell to claim second place, having already passed Clark two laps previously. The next lap and Clark had passed Salmon, the latter having slowed appreciably due to failing brakes. From there on the first three positions remained unchanged until the finish. On the first lap, Roy Pierpoint had really charged through the field in his supercharged Falcon, but it had blown a head gasket, forcing his retirement. Sir Gawaine Baillie in a second Falcon came up steadily through the field to equal the new lap record set by Brabham and Muir of 1.54,2 and took fourth place overall. In the 1300 cc class Chris Craft was having a ball and was even holding seventh place overall finally finishing sixth after Salmon had been black flagged for a loose exhaust system. Craft put a new lap record under his belt with a time of 1.56,6. His team mate Mike Young was forced out after losing his oil when holding an unchallenged second place. The fastest 1300 Mini-Coopers were way behind, John Rhodes leading Tony Lanfranchi and Harry Ratcliffe across the line. Most of the race, John Fitzpatrick, in his Broadspeed 1000 cc Anglia, had diced with 1300 Minis but Ralph Broad slowed him down lest he got involved in any melee. Fitzpatrick also set a new lap record with a time of 2.01,2. His team mate Peter Procter was slowed by a continual misfire originally thought to be plugs but later traced to a blocked carburettor jet. The Imps had an unhappy race, Nick Brittan blowing his engine and Bill McGovern suffering lack of oil pressure, the placed Rootes machine being Ray Calcutt's in third place in the small class behind Paul Webb's Anglia. |
Class A-D
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Pos | Pos in class | # | Team / Entrant Car- Engine |
Drivers, Nationality | Engine vol. (cc) |
Engine Type |
Group | Distance, time |
Qualifying position | Qualifying time | Fastest lap | Reason out, remarks |
1 | 1 | Alan Brown Ford Mustang |
Jack Brabham, AUS |
4728 | V8 | D | 15 laps, 28.55,4 | 2 | 1.54,8 | 1.54,2 | ||
2 | 2 | 101 | Race Proved by Willment Ford Galaxie |
Brian Muir, AUS |
6997 | V8 | D | 15 laps, 28.58,8 | 4 | 1.56,2 | 1.54,4 | |
3 | 1 | 112 | Team Lotus Ford Lotus Cortina |
Jim Clark, GB |
1594 | L4 | C | 15 laps, 29.00,0 | 1 | 1.54,6 | 1.54,2 | |
4 | 3 | Gawaine Baillie Ford Falcon Sprint |
Gawaine Baillie, GB |
4728 s/c | V8 | D | 15 laps, 29.19,0 | 1.54,2 | ||||
5 | 2 | Team Lotus Ford Lotus Cortina |
Peter Arundell, GB |
1594 | L4 | C | 15 laps, 29.26,0 | 3 | 1.55,8 | |||
6 | 1 | Superspeed Conversions Ltd. Ford Anglia Super |
Chris Craft, GB |
1298 | L4 | B | 15 laps, 29.44,6 | 5 | 1.56,6 | |||
7 | 3 | Race Proved by Willment Ford Lotus Cortina |
Tony Dean, GB |
1594 | L4 | C | 15 laps, 30.13,6 | |||||
2 | Cooper Car Co. Austin Mini Cooper S |
John Rhodes, GB |
1293 | L4 | B | 15 laps, 30.44,0 | ||||||
3 | Alexander Engineering Co. Morris Mini Cooper S |
Tony Lanfranchi, GB |
1293 | L4 | B | 15 laps, 30.44,8 | ||||||
1 | Team Broadspeed Ford Anglia |
John Fitzpatrick, GB |
997 | L4 | A | 15 laps, 30.46,0 | 2.01,2 | |||||
2 | Ford Anglia |
Paul Webb, GB |
997 | L4 | A | 14 | ||||||
3 | Alan Fraser Racing Team Hillman Imp |
Ray Calcutt, GB |
998 | L4 | A | 14 | ||||||
4 | Vitafoam Developments Morris Mini Cooper S |
Harry Ratcliffe, GB |
1293 | L4 | B | |||||||
Team Broadspeed Ford Anglia |
Peter Procter, GB |
997 | L4 | A | ||||||||
DNF? | Paul Emery Hillman Imp |
Bill McGovern, GB |
998 | L4 | A | 14 | Oil pressure | |||||
DNF | Viscount Downe Ford Mustang |
Mike Salmon, GB |
4728 | V8 | D | 6 | Blackflagged: exhaust | |||||
DNF | Ford Falcon Sprint |
Roy Pierpoint, GB |
4728 s/c | V8 | D | Head gasket | ||||||
DNF | Alan Fraser Racing Team Hillman Imp |
Nick Brittan, GB |
998 | L4 | A | Engine | ||||||
DNF | Superspeed Conversions Ltd. Ford Anglia Super |
Mike Young, GB |
1298 | L4 | B | Oil leak |