Race Report: Brands Hatch, 20 June 1971

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Race Report: Brands Hatch, 20 June 1971

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A reasonable field made it to this Lombank Championship round and at the end of practice a rather surprised Roger Williamson (March-Holbay 713M) found himself on pole position. Surprised because Roger spun the March off at Clearways fortunately with only minor damage to the radius rods so the car was soon made as good as new for the race. Alan Jones (Brabham-Holbay BT28) and Barrie Maskell (Chevron-Holbay) were the other front row occupants.

 

Williamson led from the start and built up a small lead over Jones, Vandervell and Maskell but as the Chevron dropped back a little the two Brabham drivers were able to close up again to the leading March. On lap 10 Jones took the lead but on the next lap Williamson retook the Brabham to get in front again with Vandervell looking for an opportunity to get past both cars in third. Jones took the lead again on lap 14 and held it until the last lap, lap 20, when Williamson managed to nip through and take the victory by 0.2 seconds. Vandervell took third a further 0.4 seconds down with Maskell fourth although McCully’s Lotus nearly snatched the place on the line. David Purley managed to go off removing his nosecone, continuing down the field and Bob Evans had the Puma in the top six early on until a knock up the rear set his fire-extinguisher off.

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Race Report: Brands Hatch, 20 June 1971

Fastest Lap

Colin Vandervell

Brabham-Rowland BT35 50.2 88.92

Alan Jones

Brabham-Vegantune BT28 50.2 88.92

Race

1 Roger Williamson

March-Holbay 713M 17:04.4 20 87.15

2 Alan Jones

Brabham-Vegantune BT28 17:04.6 20

3 Colin Vandervell

Brabham-Rowland BT35 17:05.0 20

4 Barrie Maskell

Chevron-Holbay B18 17:14.0 20

5 Alan McCully

Lotus-Vegantune 69 17:15.0 20

6 Brian McGuire

Brabham-Vegantune BT28 17:21.4 20

Race Report: Salzburgring, 20 June 1971

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Race Report: Salzburgring, 20 June 1971

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The Bavariarennen was a minor F3 race held at Salzburgring, there were only two finishers and possibly only 4 starters.

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Race Report: Salzburgring, 20 June 1971

Race

1 Gerd Koppenhauser

Brabham-Ford BT28 34:44.8 12

2 Peter Schäbitz

McNamara-Ford Mk3B 34:45.1 12

Klaus-Jürgen Rappensberger

McNamara-Ford Mk3B DNF

Heinz-Jürgen Rüller

March-Ford 703 DNF

Race Report: Clermont-Ferrand, 20 June 1971

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Race Report: Clermont-Ferrand, 20 June 1971

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The works Alpines finished 1-2 at Clermont Ferrand leading the other runners from start to finish. José Dolhem held third place after the Tecno-Novamotor of Christian Ethuin retired with a water leak until the Martini-BRM driver found himself in a battle with Migault’s Martini-Novamotor. At the chequered flag Migault got the verdict by one second from Dolhem, fifth went to Rousselot, whilst sixth went to Claude Bourgoignie despite a collision with Lacarrau’s Martini-Renault. Jean-Louis Lafosse was lucky to escape any injury following a high speed off in his Brabham-Holbay BT35. British based drivers who made the trip to France were out of luck, Andy Sutcliffe failing to qualify his Lotus 69 and American John Bisignano crashed his March 713M in qualifying fracturing his elbow.

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Race Report: Clermont-Ferrand, 20 June 1971

Qualifying

Patrick Depailler

Alpine-Renault A360 3:27.1

Fastest Lap

Jean-Pierre Jabouille

Alpine-Renault A360 3:26.8

Race

1 Patrick Depailler

Alpine-Renault A360 34:44.8 10

2 Jean-Pierre Jabouille

Alpine-Renault A360 34:45.1 10

3 François Migault

Martini-Novamotor MW7 35:36.2 10

4 José Dolhem

Martini-BRM MW7 35:37.2 10

5 Pierre-François Rousselot

Brabham-Holbay BT35 35:44.4 10

6 Claude Bourgoignie

Lotus-Holbay 69 35:52.1 10

7 François Rabbione

Martini-Novamotor MW7 35:53.0 10

8 Patrice Compain

Martini-Novamotor MW7 36:31.0 10

9 François Lacarrau

Martini-Renault MW7 37:04.0 10

10 Gérard Gourdon

Tecno-Renault 37:57.0 10

Race Report: Crystal Palace, 18 June 1971

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Race Report: Crystal Palace, 18 June 1971

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There was a good entry for this non-championship race that was unusually held on a Friday evening but sadly heavy rain all day long rather damped the proceedings and several drivers went home after practice in order to save their cars for Sunday’s Lombard Championship round at Brands Hatch.

 

The non-starters after practice were the Brabham’s of Randy Lewis, Brian McGuire, Alan Jones, Sonny Eade, Ronald Rossi and Sandy Shepard, also missing was Alan McCully’s Lotus and Norman Moffet’s Crosslé. Fastest in practice was James Hunt in his new March Holbay 713M and for the race he chose an interesting combination of Dunlops on the rear and Firestones on the front of his car. However odd Hunt’s tyre choice may have seemed it obviously worked as he left the rest of the field behind, trailing along in his spray. It was the fight for second that had all the action with Roger Williamson having a great battle with the Puma-BRM of Bob Evans, the Puma benefiting from a BRM with bigger valves and a new camshaft and metering unit. Fourth place went to an untroubled Andy Sutcliffe and his Lotus 69 with Ronald Rossi still nursing a bandaged arm from his Silverstone shunt fifth in his regular Brabham.

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Race Report: Crystal Palace, 18 June 1971

Qualifying

1 James Hunt

March-Holbay 713M

2 Roger Williamson

March-Holbay 713M

3 Bob Evans

Puma-BRM

Fastest Lap

Bob Evans

Puma-BRM

Race

1 James Hunt

March-Holbay 713M 13:18.0 10 62.71

2 Roger Williamson

March-Holbay 713M 10

3 Bob Evans

Puma-BRM 10

4 Andy Sutcliffe

Lotus-Holbay 69 10

5 Jose Ferreira

Brabham-Holbay BT28 10

6 Barrie Maskell

Chevron-Holbay B18 10

7 Cavan Riley

March-Holbay 713M 9

8 Chris O'Brien

Brabham-Holbay BT35 9

Race Report: Thruxton, 13 June 1971

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Race Report: Thruxton, 13 June 1971

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An unusual face was in pole position for this Forward Trust round with Dave Morgan standing in for Dave Walker in the GLTL Lotus 69 and he took an immediate lead from pole position at the start from the AIRO cars of Alan McCully and Alan Jones. Other front row starter Roger Williamson was in immediate trouble when his throttle cable broke and he lost four laps in the pits. Also suffering was Randy Lewis who had a huge spin at Hanger on lap one when he lost control of his Brabham BT35 when in sixth place. Fourth place was an on form Jody Scheckter (EMC) leading David Purley’s Brabham BT28, Scheckter wasn’t content with fourth and he overtook Jones going into Club on the second lap and he did the same thing to McCully on the third lap.

Within two laps the EMC was on the tail of Morgan’s leading Lotus but Scheckter had to be careful when found the two cars of Jones and McCully had followed when he had passed them. David Purley found himself in difficulties at Village on the fourth lap when he spun off and removed his nosecone, he made it back to the track but continued a long way down.
On lap 5 Jones went ahead of Scheckter but the EMC soon regained the place but the battling between the two cars allowed Morgan to eke his lead out to five seconds. Scheckter had a slight moment at Club allowing McCully to overtake the EMC and the Lotus driver was able to draw away when Scheckter got involved with the several laps behind Williamson. Alan Jones squeezed past Scheckter at Brooklands on the last lap and as Jody tried to outbrake the Brabham into Club, the EMC locked its brakes and spun off into the barriers.
At the end of the 10 laps Morgan took the victory form Alan McCully and Brian McGuire who started from the back row with a ten second penalty.

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Race Report: Thruxton, 13 June 1971

Race

1 David Morgan

Lotus-Novamotor 69 14:11.4 10 99.62

2 Alan McCully

Lotus-Vegantune 69 14:17.6 10

3 Brian McGuire

Brabham-Vegantune BT28 14:26.2 10

4 Derek Lawrence

Palliser-BRM WDF3 14:33.2 10

5 Alan Joy

Brabham-Rowland BT28 14:34.2 10

6 Chris O'Brien

Brabham-Holbay BT35 14:34.6 10

Fastest Lap

Jody Scheckter

EMC 1:24.0 100.97

Alan McCully

Lotus-Vegantune 69 1:24.0 100.97

Race Report: Imola, 10 June 1971

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Race Report: Imola, 10 June 1971

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It was another win in the Shell Italian F3 championship for Vittorio Brambilla in a race that featured several runners more usually seen in the British F3 rounds. Brambilla’s Birel with its Wainer tuned Alfa Romeo engine won by 3 seconds from the Tecno of Monaco runner up Giancarlo Naddeo. A tight run for third place was taken by Freddy Kottulinsky from Pierre-François Rousselot, Wolfgang Bülow and John Bisignano, all four drivers separated by two seconds. Rousselot’s effort was especially noteworthy as he spun early in the race and lost nearly a lap but fought his way back up to the leaders, setting fastest lap on the way.

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Race Report: Imola, 10 June 1971

Qualifying

1 Vittorio Brambilla

Birel-Alfa Romeo 1:52.24

Race

1 Vittorio Brambilla

Birel-Alfa Romeo 45:50.3 24

2 Giancarlo Naddeo

Tecno-Novamotor TF69 45:53.1 24

3 Freddy Kottulinsky

Lotus-Novamotor 69 45:53.2 24

4 Pierre-François Rousselot

Brabham-Holbay BT35 45:53.7 24

5 Wolfgang Bülow

March-Holbay 713S 45:55.0 24

6 John Bisignano

March-Holbay 713M 45:55.3 24

7 Giuseppe Bianchi

Lotus-Ford 69 45:58.3 24

8 Sandro Cinotti

de Sanctis-Alfa Romeo 45:58.5 24

9 Adelmo Fossati

Brabham-Novamotor BT28 46:08.3 24

10 Alessandro Pesenti-Rossi

Brabham-Novamotor BT28 46:18.5 24

11 Girolamo Bertoni

Brabham-Ford BT28 46:46.8 24

12 Giorgio Pianta

Chevron-Alfa Romeo B17 46:51.1 24

13 Carlo Scarambone

Chevron-Ford B17 46:51.2 24

14 Giuseppe 'Pino' Babbini

Tecno-Ford 47:16.9 24

15 Giuseppe Piazzi

Chevron-Alfa Romeo B17 47:18.2 24

16 Andrea Zucchi

Brabham-Ford 47:48.4 24

17 Giovanni Lo Voi

Brabham-Ford BT28 23

18 Max Bonnin

Brabham-Novamotor BT28 22

Race Report: La Châtre, 6 June 1971

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Race Report: La Châtre, 6 June 1971

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This the X Grand Prix de La Châtre, was the seventh round of the French F3 championship and was held as a two heats and a final format at the small circuit of La Châtre, all three races were over 40 laps. The two heats were won by Renault powered cars, one by Jacques Coulon in his Martini MW7, the other by Patrick Depailler’s works Alpine A360. In the final Depailler beat Coulon by 2 seconds with the second works Alpine of Jabouille taking the third spot.

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Race Report: La Châtre, 6 June 1971

Race Heat 1

1 Jacques Coulon

Martini-Renault MW7 40

2 Jean-Pierre Jabouille

Alpine-Renault A360

3 François Rabbione

Martini-Novamotor MW7

4 François Lacarrau

Martini-Renault MW7

5 Joël Auvray

Martini-Novamotor MW7

6 Max Bonnin

Brabham-Novamotor BT28

Race heat 2

1 Patrick Depailler

Alpine-Renault A360 40

2 Jean-Louis Lafosse

Brabham-Holbay BT35

3 Christian Ethuin

Tecno-Renault 71

4 Patrice Compain

Martini-Novamotor MW7

5 François Migault

Martini-Novamotor MW7

6 Marcel Morel

Tecno-Renault 71

Race Final

1 Patrick Depailler

Alpine-Renault A360 25:42.1 40

2 Jacques Coulon

Martini-Renault MW7 25:44.5 40

3 Jean-Pierre Jabouille

Alpine-Renault A360 25:45.2 40

4 François Lacarrau

Martini-Renault MW7 25:45.4 40

5 Jean-Louis Lafosse

Brabham-Holbay BT35 26:01.3 40

6 François Migault

Martini-Novamotor MW7 26:01.5 40

7 François Rabbione

Martini-Novamotor MW7 26:02.2 40

8 Christian Ethuin

Tecno-Renault 71 26:02.4 40

9 Joël Auvray

Martini-Novamotor MW7 39

10 Patrice Compain

Martini-Novamotor MW7 38

Race Report: Silverstone, 5 June 1971

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Race Report: Silverstone, 5 June 1971

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A healthy entry of 31 cars arrived at Silverstone for this Shell Super Oil/Motor Sport encounter, the numbers being bolstered by the addition of several French and Swedish runners.

Practice was split into two sessions on the Friday morning although the first session was somewhat disrupted by several cars being late onto the track due to scrutineering delays. Whether or not a driver got a good time was dependent on being able to find a decent tow so for much of qualification there was the sight of large bunches of cars touring round waiting for someone else to take the lead.

As usual by the end of practice it was Dave Walker on pole in the GLTL 69 although he lost an engine in the process, a bitsa would have to be made up overnight from two engines awaiting rebuilds.

The other front row sitters were Rossi, von Opel and Palm who was delighted with his new Brabham. Next up was Vandervell’s Brabham which was handling more to the drivers liking although the new titanium Rowland engine was not living up to expectations. Next to the Brabham were Maskell’s Chevron, proving very quick in a straight line, and McGuire’s BT28. The Aussie was pleased with his first serious F3 run but his car needed a clutch change as did the other two AIRO cars of Jones and McCully.
Thompson and Purley led a misfiring Williamson who also had handling problems whilst next up was F3 new face Jody Scheckter who was looking very impressive in the EMC which was a development of the previous year’s car as driven by Ray Allen. Randy Lewis led the two clutch troubled cars of Jones and McCully with Svensson ahead of Lamplough whose BRM engine was again causing him problems. Also not happy with their engines were McInerney and Goss, both of whom felt their Holbay’s weren’t performing as they should. Lawrence was another with BRM woes and Qvarnstrom wasn’t pleased with his Sportscars of Sweden engine which apparently had its air restrictor pointing in a direction other than forwards.
Radmyr was next up ahead of Lagier and Longman who was suffering from blocked fuel injectors. The final runners were Deutsch, O’Brien, Sedgley (who went home after practice for reasons unknown) and a disgusted Bev Bond whose engine had blown up after 5 laps.

It was almost inevitable that this would be a Silverstone slipstreaming special and at the end of the first lap the field came round as one multi-wheeled bunch. Palm led from Walker, Purley, Vandervell, Maskell, McGuire, von Opel, Shepard, Williamson, Thompson and Jones. Rossi had lost his front row advantage when his car jumped out of gear and Bond was already starting to cut through the backmarkers with his Ensign now running properly with a freshly installed Holbay. Positions continued to change all round the circuit lap after lap but it was clear that the man on the move was Bond who was already up to twelfth by lap 3 and was catching up with McCully, Jones and Thompson. Vandervell took the lead for a few laps but then his Rowland went off song and he quickly fell back through the field. By lap 5 Bond was an amazing second behind Maskell and on lap 7 he took the lead but no one could make a break and the first 21 cars were all in one group, the order depending on where you were standing on the circuit.
There was a second group of backmarkers behind the top 21 of Deutsch, Radmyr, Lagier, O’Brien and Goss. Lawrence was a lap down after a pit stop to look at a damaged throttle cable whilst Anderson had retired with no fuel pressure and Longman was out with a terminal misfire. The field had begun to split into three groups, in the first group were Thompson, Maskell, Bond, Walker, Jones, McCully and Palm. The next group was headed by Lewis, Scheckter, Williamson (who had terrible oversteer), Shepard, Lewis, von Opel and Rossi. Rossi then spun at Stowe taking Lewis and von Opel with him.
The leading group lost Alan Jones when his engine blew a head gasket and at the head of the squabbling bunch Palm and Bond were trying to get away at the front but then two laps from the end there were yellow flags at Copse where Lewis had taken Skeaping off badly damaging the Chevron although the driver was unhurt. McCully was now in the lead but the rest hadn’t given up and Bond, Walker, Maskell and Palm drafted past on the last lap, Walker and Bond made contact but both kept going and at the line it was the Lotus by a hairsbreadth from the Ensign with Maskell, Palm, McCully and Thompson a blink of an eye behind. First to sixth were covered by exactly 1 second, yet another Silverstone thriller for the record books.

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Race Report: Silverstone, 5 June 1971

Qualifying

1 Dave Walker

Lotus-Novamotor 69 1:38.0

2 Ronald Rossi

Brabham-Holbay BT28 1:38.4

3 Rikki von Opel

Lotus-Holbay 69 1:38.6

4 Torsten Palm

Brabham-Holbay BT35 1:38.8

5 Colin Vandervell

Brabham-Rowland BT35 1:38.8

6 Barrie Maskell

Chevron-Holbay B18 1:38.8

7 Brian McGuire

Brabham-Vegantune BT28 1:39.0

8 Sandy Shepard

Brabham-Holbay BT28 1:39.0

9 Chris Skeaping

Chevron-Rowland B17 1:39.0

10 Steve Thompson

Ensign-Holbay LN1 1:39.2

11 David Purley

Brabham-Holbay BT28 1:39.4

12 Roger Williamson

March-Holbay 713M 1:39.4

13 Pierre-François

Rousselot Brabham-Holbay BT35 1:39.4

14 Jody Scheckter

EMC 1:39.6

14 Jody Scheckter

EMC 1:39.6

15 Randy Lewis

Brabham-Holbay BT35 1:39.6

16 Alan Jones

Brabham-Vegantune BT28 1:40.0

17 Allan McCully

Lotus-Vegantune 69 1:40.0

18 Ulf Svensson

Brabham-Holbay BT35 1:40.4

19 Peter Lamplough

Palliser-BRM WFD3 1:40.6

20 Brendan McInerney

Brabham-Holbay BT35 1:40.6

21 Tim Goss

March-Holbay 713M 1:40.8

22 Derek Lawrence

Palliser-BRM WFD3 1:40.8

23 Jonas Qvarnstrom

Brabham-Sportscars BT35 1:41.0

24 Bengt Radmyr

Lotus-Holbay 59/69 1:42.2

25 Bernard Lagier

Brabham-Holbay BT35 1:42.2

26 Richard Longman

Lotus-Novamotor 69 1:42.2

27 Willi Deutsch

March-Holbay 713S 1:42.2

28 Chris O'Brien

Brabham-Holbay BT35 ?

29 Ken Sedgley

Chevron-Holbay B17 1:43.4

30 Bev Bond

Ensign-Holbay LN1 1:50.0

Race

1 Dave Walker

Lotus-Novamotor 69 1:38.0

2 Bev Bond

Ensign-Holbay LN1 1:50.0

3 Barrie Maskell

Chevron-Holbay B18 1:38.8

4 Torsten Palm

Brabham-Holbay BT35 1:38.8

5 Allan McCully

Lotus-Vegantune 69 1:40.0

6 Ronald Rossi

Brabham-Holbay BT28 1:38.4

7 Rikki von Opel

Lotus-Holbay 69 1:38.6

8 Colin Vandervell

Brabham-Rowland BT35 1:38.8

9 Brian McGuire

Brabham-Vegantune BT28 1:39.0

10 Sandy Shepard

Brabham-Holbay BT28 1:39.0

11 Chris Skeaping

Chevron-Rowland B17 1:39.0

12 Steve Thompson

Ensign-Holbay LN1 1:39.2

13 David Purley

Brabham-Holbay BT28 1:39.4

14 Roger Williamson

March-Holbay 713M 1:39.4

15 Pierre-François

Rousselot Brabham-Holbay BT35 1:39.4

16 Jody Scheckter

EMC 1:39.6

17 Jody Scheckter

EMC 1:39.6

18 Ulf Svensson

Brabham-Holbay BT35 1:40.4

19 Peter Lamplough

Palliser-BRM WFD3 1:40.6

20 Brendan McInerney

Brabham-Holbay BT35 1:40.6

21 Tim Goss

March-Holbay 713M 1:40.8

22 Derek Lawrence

Palliser-BRM WFD3 1:40.8

23 Bengt Radmyr

Lotus-Holbay 59/69 24

24 Peter Lamplough

Palliser-BRM WFD3 24

25 Derek Lawrence

Palliser-BRM WFD3 24