Race Report: Sembach, 12 May 1974

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Race Report: Sembach, 12 May 1974

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A German F3 race held over 10 laps of this 5.61km airfield circuit.

f3 HISTORY

RACES

Race Report: Sembach, 12 May 1974

Race Heat 1

1 Vittorio Brambilla

Birel Alfa Romeo 20:09.40

2 Fabrizio Noe

Lotus-Ford 69 20:09.50

3 Luigi Fontanesi

Tecno-Ford 20:13.10

4 Carlo Franchi (Gimax)

De Sanctis-Alfa Romeo 20:23.40

Race Heat 2

1 Giovanni Lo Voi

Brabham-Ford BT28 15:05.00

2 Adelmo Fossati

Brabham BT28 15:05.00

3 Patrice Compain

Martini-Ford MW7 15:21.00

4 Manfred Möhr

Lotus-Ford 15:34.10

5 Marcello Gallo

Brabham BT28

Race Final

1 Vittorio Brambilla

Birel Alfa Romeo 30:44.30 144.318

2 Marcello Gallo

Brabham BT28 30:44.34

3 Fabrizio Noe

Lotus-Ford 69 30:45.10

4 Adelmo Fossati

Brabham BT28 30:55.40

5 Patrice Compain

Martini-Ford MW7 31:08.00

6 Carlo Franchi (Gimax)

De Sanctis-Alfa Romeo 31:11.50

7 Manfred Möhr

Lotus-Ford 31:59.60

8 Giovanni Lo Voi

Martini-Ford MW7 31:08.00

Race Report: Snetterton, 12 May 1974

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Race Report: Snetterton, 12 May 1974

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It was 12 cars for the latest round of the Forward Trust Championship and it was Alex Ribeiro who had racked up hundreds of miles of testing at Snetterton who took pole position.

As the cars lined up on the grid front row man Brian Henton was missing, his engine had cut out on the warm up lap and his starter then failed stranding his car out on the track. Ribeiro went into an immediate lead from the start chased by Buzz Buzaglo in second but by the end of the lap Pedro Passadore who had had his practice hampered by the loss of fifth gear had moved his GRD up to second. Buzaglo found himself back in third with Jose Chateaubriand in fourth ahead of Tony Rouff who had suffered carburettor problems in practice. These leading five were having quite a close battle until lap 4 when Passadore retired with tyre problems and Tony Rouff had made a great overtaking manoeuvre to take second.
Buzaglo found his car beginning to cut out and it finally stopped for good at Coram allowing Chateaubriand up to third. Next came the battling pair of Nick von Preussen and Indonesian Hany Wiano in the second Ippokampos March, Wiano was desperately trying to pass von Preussen and on the last lap he got it all wrong at Russell and hit the pit Armco slightly damaging the car. Luis Moraes (brother of Marcos) moved his Team Brasil GRD up to fifth ahead of Peter Dugdale’s March. Tony Rouff began making inroads into Ribeiro’s lead over the closing laps but there weren’t enough laps left and Ribeiro took his first win of the season.

f3 HISTORY

RACES

Race Report: Snetterton, 12 May 1974

Race Heat 1

1 Vittorio Brambilla

Birel Alfa Romeo 20:09.40

2 Fabrizio Noe

Lotus-Ford 69 20:09.50

3 Luigi Fontanesi

Tecno-Ford 20:13.10

4 Carlo Franchi (Gimax)

De Sanctis-Alfa Romeo 20:23.40

Race Heat 2

1 Giovanni Lo Voi

Brabham-Ford BT28 15:05.00

2 Adelmo Fossati

Brabham BT28 15:05.00

3 Patrice Compain

Martini-Ford MW7 15:21.00

4 Manfred Möhr

Lotus-Ford 15:34.10

5 Marcello Gallo

Brabham BT28

Race Final

1 Vittorio Brambilla

Birel Alfa Romeo 30:44.30 144.318

2 Marcello Gallo

Brabham BT28 30:44.34

3 Fabrizio Noe

Lotus-Ford 69 30:45.10

4 Adelmo Fossati

Brabham BT28 30:55.40

5 Patrice Compain

Martini-Ford MW7 31:08.00

6 Carlo Franchi (Gimax)

De Sanctis-Alfa Romeo 31:11.50

7 Manfred Möhr

Lotus-Ford 31:59.60

8 Giovanni Lo Voi

Martini-Ford MW7 31:08.00

Race Report: Neubiberg, 5 May 1974

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Race Report: Neubiberg, 5 May 1974

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The first round of the German F3 Polifac Trophy the “Flugplatzrennen Neubiberg” was held over 15 laps of this 5.75km airfield circuit.

f3 HISTORY

RACES

Race Report: Neubiberg, 5 May 1974

Race Heat 1

1 Vittorio Brambilla

Birel Alfa Romeo 20:09.40

2 Fabrizio Noe

Lotus-Ford 69 20:09.50

3 Luigi Fontanesi

Tecno-Ford 20:13.10

4 Carlo Franchi (Gimax)

De Sanctis-Alfa Romeo 20:23.40

Race Heat 2

1 Giovanni Lo Voi

Brabham-Ford BT28 15:05.00

2 Adelmo Fossati

Brabham BT28 15:05.00

3 Patrice Compain

Martini-Ford MW7 15:21.00

4 Manfred Möhr

Lotus-Ford 15:34.10

5 Marcello Gallo

Brabham BT28

Race Final

1 Vittorio Brambilla

Birel Alfa Romeo 30:44.30 144.318

2 Marcello Gallo

Brabham BT28 30:44.34

3 Fabrizio Noe

Lotus-Ford 69 30:45.10

4 Adelmo Fossati

Brabham BT28 30:55.40

5 Patrice Compain

Martini-Ford MW7 31:08.00

6 Carlo Franchi (Gimax)

De Sanctis-Alfa Romeo 31:11.50

7 Manfred Möhr

Lotus-Ford 31:59.60

8 Giovanni Lo Voi

Martini-Ford MW7 31:08.00

Race Report: Silverstone, 5 May 1974

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Race Report: Silverstone, 5 May 1974

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Once again the F3 cars found themselves in with the Monoposto cars for the latest round of the Forward Trust series despite the disparity in their respective performances.

On a dry track it was the familiar sight of the works March 743 of Brian Henton taking an immediate lead from the GRD 373 of Tony Rouff and the 374 version of Alex Dias Ribeiro, next up it was the second works March 743 of Jose Chateaubriand ahead of the similar car of Buzz Buzaglo with Derek Lawrence sixth in the Ehrlich. The front runners were all running fairly closely together until half distance when it began to rain and Buzaglo had a big spin at Woodcote, he had just passed Chateaubriand and the Brazilian had to take hasty avoidance to miss the gyrating Ippokampos March.
The rain then started to fall even harder with many cars, especially Monopostos, spinning all round the track. Henton slowed his pace to a crawl in the difficult conditions but still took the chequered flag several seconds ahead of Rouff, Ribeiro took third ahead of Chateaubriand. So wet was it that both Rouff and Chateaubriand celebrated completing the race by spinning across the finishing line. Of the other runners Hany Wiano, in the second Ippokampos March, spun into the pits Armco on the last lap, whilst Dick Parsons first race in the Smiths Crisps Ensign was curtailed by a spin at Copse.

f3 HISTORY

RACES

Race Report: Silverstone, 5 May 1974

Race Heat 1

1 Vittorio Brambilla

Birel Alfa Romeo 20:09.40

2 Fabrizio Noe

Lotus-Ford 69 20:09.50

3 Luigi Fontanesi

Tecno-Ford 20:13.10

4 Carlo Franchi (Gimax)

De Sanctis-Alfa Romeo 20:23.40

Race Heat 2

1 Giovanni Lo Voi

Brabham-Ford BT28 15:05.00

2 Adelmo Fossati

Brabham BT28 15:05.00

3 Patrice Compain

Martini-Ford MW7 15:21.00

4 Manfred Möhr

Lotus-Ford 15:34.10

5 Marcello Gallo

Brabham BT28

Race Final

1 Vittorio Brambilla

Birel Alfa Romeo 30:44.30 144.318

2 Marcello Gallo

Brabham BT28 30:44.34

3 Fabrizio Noe

Lotus-Ford 69 30:45.10

4 Adelmo Fossati

Brabham BT28 30:55.40

5 Patrice Compain

Martini-Ford MW7 31:08.00

6 Carlo Franchi (Gimax)

De Sanctis-Alfa Romeo 31:11.50

7 Manfred Möhr

Lotus-Ford 31:59.60

8 Giovanni Lo Voi

Martini-Ford MW7 31:08.00

Race Report: Mallory Park, 28 April 1974

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Race Report: Mallory Park, 28 April 1974

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With Brian Henton in Italy to try and boost March sales in that country it gave someone else a chance to win a Lombard North Central round. Another small increase in numbers this week with 12 cars making it to Mallory Park

It was raining heavily for the race and as the flag fell Tony Rouff jumped into the lead he would hold for the whole race, Derek Lawrence was similarly untroubled in second finding the 1600 cc Ehrlich ideally suited to the difficult conditions. Most of the other runners seemed to spend the race either spinning or suffering from water in the electrics but Jose Chateaubriand managed to avoid both problems to take fourth, Chateaubriand had spent most of the race fighting off Nicholas von Preussen but the latter fell away towards the end of the race only just holding off José Santo at the finish. The two GRDs of Pedro Passadore and Alex Ribeiro were amongst those to suffer from the aforementioned spins and electrical difficulties which negated their good grid positions. Any chance Bob Arnott had with the Modus M1 were ruined by a spin at Gerards that filled his radiators with grass.

f3 HISTORY

RACES

Race Report: Mallory Park, 28 April 1974

Race Heat 1

1 Vittorio Brambilla

Birel Alfa Romeo 20:09.40

2 Fabrizio Noe

Lotus-Ford 69 20:09.50

3 Luigi Fontanesi

Tecno-Ford 20:13.10

4 Carlo Franchi (Gimax)

De Sanctis-Alfa Romeo 20:23.40

Race Heat 2

1 Giovanni Lo Voi

Brabham-Ford BT28 15:05.00

2 Adelmo Fossati

Brabham BT28 15:05.00

3 Patrice Compain

Martini-Ford MW7 15:21.00

4 Manfred Möhr

Lotus-Ford 15:34.10

5 Marcello Gallo

Brabham BT28

Race Final

1 Vittorio Brambilla

Birel Alfa Romeo 30:44.30 144.318

2 Marcello Gallo

Brabham BT28 30:44.34

3 Fabrizio Noe

Lotus-Ford 69 30:45.10

4 Adelmo Fossati

Brabham BT28 30:55.40

5 Patrice Compain

Martini-Ford MW7 31:08.00

6 Carlo Franchi (Gimax)

De Sanctis-Alfa Romeo 31:11.50

7 Manfred Möhr

Lotus-Ford 31:59.60

8 Giovanni Lo Voi

Martini-Ford MW7 31:08.00

Race Report: Casale, 28 April 1974

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Race Report: Casale, 28 April 1974

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Once again details are limited for round three of the Italian F3 Championship, Brian Henton brought his car over from England and in very wet conditions he dominated the race until waterlogged electrics dropped him down the field. Larry Perkins also arrived with a new March but was involved in an accident in the early stages and didn’t finish.

f3 HISTORY

RACES

Race Report: Casale, 28 April 1974

Race Heat 1

1 Vittorio Brambilla

Birel Alfa Romeo 20:09.40

2 Fabrizio Noe

Lotus-Ford 69 20:09.50

3 Luigi Fontanesi

Tecno-Ford 20:13.10

4 Carlo Franchi (Gimax)

De Sanctis-Alfa Romeo 20:23.40

Race Heat 2

1 Giovanni Lo Voi

Brabham-Ford BT28 15:05.00

2 Adelmo Fossati

Brabham BT28 15:05.00

3 Patrice Compain

Martini-Ford MW7 15:21.00

4 Manfred Möhr

Lotus-Ford 15:34.10

5 Marcello Gallo

Brabham BT28

Race Final

1 Vittorio Brambilla

Birel Alfa Romeo 30:44.30 144.318

2 Marcello Gallo

Brabham BT28 30:44.34

3 Fabrizio Noe

Lotus-Ford 69 30:45.10

4 Adelmo Fossati

Brabham BT28 30:55.40

5 Patrice Compain

Martini-Ford MW7 31:08.00

6 Carlo Franchi (Gimax)

De Sanctis-Alfa Romeo 31:11.50

7 Manfred Möhr

Lotus-Ford 31:59.60

8 Giovanni Lo Voi

Martini-Ford MW7 31:08.00

Race Report: Oulton Park, 12 April 1974

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Race Report: Oulton Park, 12 April 1974

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It was back to eight cars for the latest Lombard North Central rounds despite the addition of the Ippokampos March 743 of Buzz Buzaglo and things weren’t improved when the third gear on Tony Rouff’s GRD failed just before the race as it had in practice. Previous regular runner Bob Arnott failed to make it with an engine shortage for his Modus M1. As in previous races the grid numbers were increased by the addition of other runners, this time it was the F Fords

Brian Henton went straight into the lead and proceeded to pull away to a nearly 23 second win, initially José Santo challenged Alex Ribeiro but he gradually fell away to finish third. Derek Lawrence drove a good race to take fourth despite the handicap of the 1600 cc engine fitted to his Ehrlich. Nicholas von Preussen was out on lap 1 when his March retired with a flat rear tyre and a blown head gasket.

f3 HISTORY

RACES

Race Report: Oulton Park, 12 April 1974

Race Heat 1

1 Vittorio Brambilla

Birel Alfa Romeo 20:09.40

2 Fabrizio Noe

Lotus-Ford 69 20:09.50

3 Luigi Fontanesi

Tecno-Ford 20:13.10

4 Carlo Franchi (Gimax)

De Sanctis-Alfa Romeo 20:23.40

Race Heat 2

1 Giovanni Lo Voi

Brabham-Ford BT28 15:05.00

2 Adelmo Fossati

Brabham BT28 15:05.00

3 Patrice Compain

Martini-Ford MW7 15:21.00

4 Manfred Möhr

Lotus-Ford 15:34.10

5 Marcello Gallo

Brabham BT28

Race Final

1 Vittorio Brambilla

Birel Alfa Romeo 30:44.30 144.318

2 Marcello Gallo

Brabham BT28 30:44.34

3 Fabrizio Noe

Lotus-Ford 69 30:45.10

4 Adelmo Fossati

Brabham BT28 30:55.40

5 Patrice Compain

Martini-Ford MW7 31:08.00

6 Carlo Franchi (Gimax)

De Sanctis-Alfa Romeo 31:11.50

7 Manfred Möhr

Lotus-Ford 31:59.60

8 Giovanni Lo Voi

Martini-Ford MW7 31:08.00

Race Report: Monza, 7 April 1974

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Race Report: Monza, 7 April 1974

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Very few details are available for round 2 of the Italian championship.

f3 HISTORY

RACES

Race Report: Monza, 7 April 1974

Race Heat 1

1 Vittorio Brambilla

Birel Alfa Romeo 20:09.40

2 Fabrizio Noe

Lotus-Ford 69 20:09.50

3 Luigi Fontanesi

Tecno-Ford 20:13.10

4 Carlo Franchi (Gimax)

De Sanctis-Alfa Romeo 20:23.40

Race Heat 2

1 Giovanni Lo Voi

Brabham-Ford BT28 15:05.00

2 Adelmo Fossati

Brabham BT28 15:05.00

3 Patrice Compain

Martini-Ford MW7 15:21.00

4 Manfred Möhr

Lotus-Ford 15:34.10

5 Marcello Gallo

Brabham BT28

Race Final

1 Vittorio Brambilla

Birel Alfa Romeo 30:44.30 144.318

2 Marcello Gallo

Brabham BT28 30:44.34

3 Fabrizio Noe

Lotus-Ford 69 30:45.10

4 Adelmo Fossati

Brabham BT28 30:55.40

5 Patrice Compain

Martini-Ford MW7 31:08.00

6 Carlo Franchi (Gimax)

De Sanctis-Alfa Romeo 31:11.50

7 Manfred Möhr

Lotus-Ford 31:59.60

8 Giovanni Lo Voi

Martini-Ford MW7 31:08.00

Race Report: Casale, 31 March 1974

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Race Report: Casale, 31 March 1974

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This was the first round of the Italian F3 Championship and was held over two heats and a final and the field was largely national runners with the exception of Sweden’s Conny Andersson and the Uruguayan Pedro Passadore. It is probable that many of the runners were still using 1600 cc engines.

Pedro Passadore won the first heat ahead of Alessandro Pessenti-Rossi, Passadore’s GRD was using the new Toyota Novamotor twin cam engine. Heat 2 went to Sandro Cinotti’s March, another user of the Toyota Novamotor, Luciano Pavesi took second in his Brabham. It was a Toyota 1-2 in the final with Passadore leading Cinotti home, Giorgio Francia’s March finished third.
Conny Andersson had an unhappy weekend retiring from both his heat and the final with gearbox problems.

f3 HISTORY

RACES

Race Report: Casale, 31 March 1974

Race Heat 1

1 Vittorio Brambilla

Birel Alfa Romeo 20:09.40

2 Fabrizio Noe

Lotus-Ford 69 20:09.50

3 Luigi Fontanesi

Tecno-Ford 20:13.10

4 Carlo Franchi (Gimax)

De Sanctis-Alfa Romeo 20:23.40

Race Heat 2

1 Giovanni Lo Voi

Brabham-Ford BT28 15:05.00

2 Adelmo Fossati

Brabham BT28 15:05.00

3 Patrice Compain

Martini-Ford MW7 15:21.00

4 Manfred Möhr

Lotus-Ford 15:34.10

5 Marcello Gallo

Brabham BT28

Race Final

1 Vittorio Brambilla

Birel Alfa Romeo 30:44.30 144.318

2 Marcello Gallo

Brabham BT28 30:44.34

3 Fabrizio Noe

Lotus-Ford 69 30:45.10

4 Adelmo Fossati

Brabham BT28 30:55.40

5 Patrice Compain

Martini-Ford MW7 31:08.00

6 Carlo Franchi (Gimax)

De Sanctis-Alfa Romeo 31:11.50

7 Manfred Möhr

Lotus-Ford 31:59.60

8 Giovanni Lo Voi

Martini-Ford MW7 31:08.00

Race Report: Thruxton, 24 March 1974

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Race Report: Thruxton, 24 March 1974

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On to round three of the Lombard North Central Championship and the number of competitors continued to inch up with 11 cars making it to Thruxton. Once again the F3 cars found themselves running with another class to make up the grid size, this time it was the Monopostos.

Brian Henton had set a pole time an amazing three seconds faster than anyone else but the race would not prove to be so straightforward with a slippery track caused by the cold, damp conditions. Henton took an immediate lead but found the GRD of Tony Rouff sitting on his tail for the opening laps, the works March was adopting some interesting lines as Henton appeared to be suffering from locking brakes. Lap 5 saw Rouff baulked by a slow backmarker which allowed Henton to open out a bit of a gap which was just as well as on lap 6 as Henton entered Club the brakes locked again and Superhen slide straight on behind the chicane. Rouff now found himself with a ten second lead but it only took Henton two laps to catch Rouff and demote him back to second with a passing manoeuvre at Club. Henton held his lead with out further drama to win by 2.2 seconds.

Behind the battling duo at the front Ribeiro had made a great start from row 5 to slot into third ahead of the Ehrlich of Derek Lawrence who was running wet tyres, unfortunately for Ribeiro the judges decided his start was a little too quick and penalised him 10 seconds. Lawrence soon began to fall away as his tyres proved to be the wrong choice for the conditions. José Espirito Santo moved up to fourth, his March sporting a 2-litre engine this week, and on lap 6 he passed Ribeiro at Club. Ribeiro fell back towards the duel for fifth between the works March of Jose Chateaubriand and the works Modus of Bob Arnott. Chateaubriand and Arnott continually swopped places until lap 8 when the March opened up a small gap but Ribeiro was just too far ahead to be caught. Ribeiro finished fourth on the road with Chateaubriand 0.2 seconds behind but the jump start penalty dropped Ribeiro back to sixth. Marco Moraes and Barrie Maskell had been disputing seventh but Moraes spun the works GRD 374 into the banking at Church and for the third successive race Maskell’s engine let him down and he had to retire.

f3 HISTORY

RACES

Race Report: Thruxton, 24 March 1974

Race Heat 1

1 Vittorio Brambilla

Birel Alfa Romeo 20:09.40

2 Fabrizio Noe

Lotus-Ford 69 20:09.50

3 Luigi Fontanesi

Tecno-Ford 20:13.10

4 Carlo Franchi (Gimax)

De Sanctis-Alfa Romeo 20:23.40

Race Heat 2

1 Giovanni Lo Voi

Brabham-Ford BT28 15:05.00

2 Adelmo Fossati

Brabham BT28 15:05.00

3 Patrice Compain

Martini-Ford MW7 15:21.00

4 Manfred Möhr

Lotus-Ford 15:34.10

5 Marcello Gallo

Brabham BT28

Race Final

1 Vittorio Brambilla

Birel Alfa Romeo 30:44.30 144.318

2 Marcello Gallo

Brabham BT28 30:44.34

3 Fabrizio Noe

Lotus-Ford 69 30:45.10

4 Adelmo Fossati

Brabham BT28 30:55.40

5 Patrice Compain

Martini-Ford MW7 31:08.00

6 Carlo Franchi (Gimax)

De Sanctis-Alfa Romeo 31:11.50

7 Manfred Möhr

Lotus-Ford 31:59.60

8 Giovanni Lo Voi

Martini-Ford MW7 31:08.00