Race Report: Oulton Park, 28 May 1973

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Race Report: Oulton Park, 28 May 1973

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Despite practice for Monaco being only three days away a good field arrived at Oulton Park to contest the latest round of the prestigious John Player Championship.

Practice for Heat 1 saw Brian Henton grab pole position in his GRD from the March of Ian Taylor, both drivers setting the same time, Taylor’s March was running properly now that the misfire that had dogged him at Zandvoort had been cured. Completing the front row was Russell Wood who had to have a new monocoque for his March following his Zandvoort accident with Conny Andersson. Row 2 saw Damien Magee, suffering rear wing problems with his Brabham, leading surprise package John Sheldon and his Royale. Australian Richard Knight should have headed row 3 but he damaged a corner on his GRD with an off at Druids that couldn’t be repaired in time for the race. Further down the grid the experienced Barrie Maskell was debuting the new MRE Mk2 and Roelof Wunderink was in the rebuilt ex-Steve Thompson/Ken Sedgley Ensign F371.

Neil Ginn’s year old GRD was really flying and took fastest time to lead the other Heat 2 runners, he was chased by Alan Jones who equalled the pole time from the first heat and Mo Harness who was another 0.4 seconds back. Row two comprised of the GRD of Tony Brise and the March of Masami Kuwashima, next up row three man Conny Anderson found his March much improved after carrying out simple modifications to his rear dampers. Further back experienced F3 man Bernard Vermilio was out in a new Merlyn Mk21 whilst Antiguan Jimmy Fuller had the ex-Chris O’Brien Brabham BT38 and hillclimber Spencer Elton was running his ex-Jeremy Gambs Ensign F372. Brazilian pseudonym “Teleco” shunted his March-Novamotor 733 at Old Hall and was rendered a non-starter.

It rained heavily just before the Heat 1 runners lined up on the grid and everyone fitted wets, pole man Henton enjoyed a spin at Old Hall on one of his warm up laps! When the flag fell it was Ian Taylor who led away from the similar March 733 of Russell Wood, Taylor was head and shoulders faster than the rest of the field and he romped away at the front to win by 13 seconds. Wood took the runner up spot by 4.6 seconds from Damien Magee who had to fight off the attentions of John Sheldon who got ahead briefly on lap 5 along Top Straight. For the next couple of laps Sheldon continued to harry Magee until a moment at Lodge dropped him too far back to challenge again. Maskell just qualified for the final despite retiring after 5 laps with a broken throttle cable and Musetti was also out with a broken clutch.

There was chaos at the beginning of the second heat, the track was drying out but everyone except Friedrich opted for wets. On the grid Brise and Anderson tried to switch to slicks but were prevented by the marshalls after both had changed a pair on each of their respective cars! The team mechanics were physically prevented from tightening wheel nuts and it was decided to hang out the “Start Delayed” board, Alan Jones decided he would go for slicks and switched off his engine but everybody was prevented from making any changes. At the end of the race Andersson was reprimanded by the officials for running both wets and slicks, an odd decision since it appeared to be their fault.
When the cars eventually got under way it was Kuwashima who took an immediate lead by driving round the outside of Neil Ginn at Old Hall, Jones and Harness were next up with Friedrich in fifth and looking to pass those ahead. Vermilio was soon out, he crashed his new Merlyn at Cascades on lap 2 when lying sixth and Wilds dropped down to tenth when he spun at Island. Friedrich was really flying on his slicks whilst those around were finding their cars very twitchy on their wets as the track dried more and more. It only took until lap 4 for Friedrich to carve his way past those ahead of him and take the lead which he immediately extended at several seconds a lap to win by 24 seconds. Kuwashima held on to take second from Andersson who found his March with slicks on the front and wets on the rear better than an all wet setup. Fourth was Ginn from Brise who was less happy with his GRD on wet fronts and slick rears, Wilds did well to recover to sixth after his earlier spin, he was helped by his rare Firestone intermediates. Other than Vermilio the other retirements were Richard Robarts whose engine overheated and lost power due to the start delay and Andy MacGregor who suffered a puncture on lap 2.

Friedrich and Taylor required push starts for the final but Taylor was able to restart on the button so escaped penalty unlike the unfortunate Brazilian. Friedrich was in pole position due to his faster heat time and he led away at the flag from Taylor, Andersson (a great start), Magee, Kuwashima, Wood and Brise. There were problems further down the grid and Harness, Tyrrell, Henton, von Preussen and Maskell all made contact with each other and had to retire with varying amounts of damage to their cars but luckily not to themselves. John Littler spun his Ensign and retired although there was no apparent damage to the car, also in trouble was Damien Magee with gearbox problems and he was soon forced to retire his Brabham from the leading group.
Back at the front Friedrich was coming under increasing pressure from Taylor with Andersson keeping a watching brief in third, Kuwashima and Brise were next not too far behind the three leaders. Mike Wilds running sixth from Wood, Ginn, Sheldon and a rapidly closing Alan Jones.
Taylor took the lead at Deer Leap on lap 3 but Friedrich immediately fought back and resumed first spot at Old Hall but Taylor wasn’t giving up and two laps later it was Taylor in front again. Friedrich continued to attack the Baty March and it was the Brazilian ahead on lap 6 with Andersson demoting Taylor to third. Brise briefly passed Kuwashima for fourth but was back down to fifth on lap 8 and the GRD driver was beginning to come under attack from Wood, Ginn and Jones who had dropped the Ensign of Wilds.
Conny Andersson wasn’t content with second and on lap 11 the Swede took the lead at Knickerbrook from Friedrich who promptly lost another place to Taylor. There was now an eight car train fighting for the lead but Kuwashima soon left them at Knickerbrook when he spun his March out of fourth and into retirement. This effectively broke the group up with the three leading Marches gaining a breather over Wood, Ginn and Jones. Friedrich now began to fall away at the front so it was all down to the experienced Andersson against the relative newcomer Taylor.
Starting the last lap it was Andersson in front and by dint of making sure his March was in the right place at every point on the track (and a bit of judicious weaving) he held on to win by 0.6 seconds from a disappointed Taylor. Friedrich took third on the road but his push start penalty dropped him to seventh, this promoted Brise and Jones to third and fourth, the two GRD men had a fraught battle with a fair amount of contact and they shared the same race time although Brise was given the verdict for third. Ginn forced Wood wide at Druids on the last lap and was able to pass the March and take fifth at the flag.

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RACES

Race Report: Oulton Park, 28 May 1973

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: Zandvoort, 20 May 1973

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Race Report: Zandvoort, 20 May 1973

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There were two practice sessions held on the Saturday for this round of the John Player Championship and the track was very dusty due to the modifications to the circuit that were still being completed as the teams arrived. The condition of the circuit meant that most runners did very few laps in the morning session which was unfortunate as it began to rain as the cars came out in the afternoon so all the best times, with one exception, came from the morning session.

Masami Kuwashima continued his recent run of form to set the fastest practice time with his March and annex pole position by 0.8 seconds from Alan Jones in his GRD, Tony Brise completed the front row with his GRD. Row two saw Mo Harness heading Russell Wood, Harness needed an engine change after an airbox nut was ingested by the motor. Most people felt that Wunderink benefited from home advantage from the timekeepers as he headed row 3, next up were Gunnar Nordström and Mike Wilds. Ian Taylor found himself back on row 9, his March suffering from a serious misfire that restricted his lappery, an incorrectly wired fuel pump was the culprit.

It was bright and sunny for the race and as the flag fell it was Alan Jones who got the jump on the rest of the field and led into Tarzan. The Australian pulled out several lengths over second placed man Masami during the first lap and as the cars crossed the line to begin lap 2 it was Jones ahead of Kuwashima, Harness, Wilds (a great start from row three), Brise (missed 2nd gear off the line), Andersson, Dötsch, Wood, Magee, Wunderink and Bülow. First lap retirements were Huub Vermuelen’s Royale that never left the dummy grid, Randy Lewis whose Brabham BT41 suffered from sand in its throttles and the Maco of Ernst Maring. Jac Nelleman had to make a quick pit stop after loosing the nosecone on his GRD.
Brise moved ahead of Harness on lap 3 and a couple of laps later he demoted Wilds a place when he overtook the Ensign behind the pits. Jones now lead Kuwashima by a couple of seconds with Brise closing up on the Japanese March, Wilds and Harness were continually swopping fourth place until Wilds had to retire on lap 14 due to sand clogging his gear linkage. There was a hairy dice going on for what was now fifth place between Andersson, Wood, Magee and Dötsch, until the German had a big off on lap 11. Taylor and Gerber were next but Taylor had to retire on lap 9 when his rear wing began to detach itself from his March.

Half distance, lap 12, and the order was Jones, a closing Kuwashima, Brise who was suffering fluctuating fuel pressure, Harness, a soon to retire Wilds, Andersson, Wood, Magee, Gerber, Nordström, Deutsch, Svensson and Catlow. Wood ran wide at Tarzan on this lap and made contact with the following Magee who spun loosing a place to Gerber and finding that his Brabham now had a bent steering arm. Kuwashima caught up with Jones on lap 14 as the leader came across some less than attentive back markers but as soon as he was clear of the lapped runners the GRD was able to pull clear of the March again.
On lap 17 Andersson tried diving up the inside of Harness at Tarzan braking very late, too late in fact as he hit Harness and the following Wood hit Andersson hard putting both cars out on the spot. The leading positions remained static over the closing laps although Kuwashima nearly caught Jones when the leading GRD was baulked by a lapped Magee but Jones pulled away again to win by two seconds from Kuwashima, Brise and Harness.

f3 HISTORY

RACES

Race Report: Zandvoort, 20 May 1973

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: Brands Hatch, 20 May 1973

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Race Report: Brands Hatch, 20 May 1973

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With most of the leading exponents in Zandvoort for the John Player Championship event this round of the Forward Trust Championship gave some of the lesser lights a chance to shine.

Despite a huge spin at Kidney it was Brian Henton’s GRD that took the pole from the similar cars of Richard Robarts and Neil Ginn. Mike Tyrrell wasn’t happy as he felt he had gone faster than the 49.8 the timekeepers had credited him with, sitting next to him was F3 newcomer, Australian F Ford champion, Richard Knight. Val Musetti who was towards the back of the grid decided to fit different fourth and fifth gears for the race and up at the front Henton decided to fit a new third.

As the flag fell Robarts made the best start followed by Henton but Friedrich moved up to second through Paddock, Henton dropped to third with Ginn in fourth. Henton tried hard for the next two laps to get ahead of Friedrich again but on lap 4 he tried too hard and spun out at Paddock. This meant that Robarts was now leading from Friedrich, Ginn and Tony Rouff with Henton recovering fast. By lap 6 Friedrich was reeling in Robarts and Henton had moved back to fourth, two more laps and the gap from first to second was down to under half a second but the intervention of back markers opened the gap again. Friedrich caught up to Robarts again on lap 12 and he tried for the lead along the top straight but Robarts had the edge and Friedrich was slower out of Clearways so the Brazilian could never quite get ahead and Robarts crossed the line 0.2 seconds to the good.
Henton had another spin at Paddock on lap 12 as Matt Spitzley moved up to fourth at the expense of Rouff and these two held their places to the flag finishing some way behind Neil Ginn. Of the other runners Mike Tyrrell finished an oversteering seventh and Henton pitted to disconnect his rear anti-roll bar in an attempt to improve his handling. Musetti’s gear ratio changing strategy proved to be a major mistake when the new gears refused to engage and the Royale had to do most of the race in second or third.

f3 HISTORY

RACES

Race Report: Brands Hatch, 20 May 1973

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: La Chatre, 20 May 1973

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Race Report: La Chatre, 20 May 1973

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A very odd sounding French national championship round, the leading grid positions were as below. The race was won by Jean-Pierre Paoli but he was subsequently disqualified for a leaking airbox handing the win to Larry Perkins. The rest of the finishers are listed below, judging by the huge gaps there must have been some very bad reliability problems.

f3 HISTORY

RACES

Race Report: La Chatre, 20 May 1973

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, 13 May 1973

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Race Report: Snetterton, 13 May 1973

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Japanese driver Masami Kuwashima showed that switching to a March had been a good idea by annexing pole position for this round of the Lombard North Central Championship, he was joined on the front row by Alan Jones and Ian Taylor. Russell Wood found himself back on the eighth row, his March was handling badly following a midweek practice shunt. Damien Magee was a non-starter his Brabham BT41 undergoing a weight saving programme as it was some 40 lbs over the minimum weight limit.

Although practice had been held in the dry it was raining very hard come the race and conditions were very tricky. Alan Jones made a very quick getaway, too quick the stewards adjudged and he received a one minute penalty, the Australian led briefly until he was swiftly demoted down the field.

By the hairpin on lap 1 it was Masami Kuwashima from Ian Taylor, Leonel Friedrich and Jose Santo in his March 733 fourth. Taylor moved into the lead on lap 2 with Tony Brise having moved up to third ahead of Freidrich, Neil Ginn and Mike Wilds. Taylor’s lead lasted a lap as Brise moved to the front and the GRD man quickly pulled out a three second lead that he would hold to the finish. Kuwashima was out on lap 3 when his March left the track and Taylor joined him in retirement on lap 16 when water in the electrics gave his March a terminal misfire.
Thus at the finish it was Brise from a steady Freidrich, Wilds who was driving with one eye on the following week’s John Player round, Neil Ginn took a good fourth ahead of Russell Wood. Alan Jones finished seventh on the road before the addition of his jump start penalty, he had driven most of the race with a flat front tyre!

f3 HISTORY

RACES

Race Report: Snetterton, 13 May 1973

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: Pau, 6 May 1973

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Race Report: Pau, 6 May 1973

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This was a round of the French F3 championship and consisted of national drivers with a few UK based interlopers, it supported the European F2 Championship round. Jacques Lafitte dominated the proceedings in his Martini winning from pole position by some 42 seconds. Larry Perkins had his GRD running in the top six but retired before the finish.

f3 HISTORY

RACES

Race Report: Pau, 6 May 1973

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, 6 May 1973

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Race Report: Mallory Park, 6 May 1973

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It was Tony Brise that came out on top after practice for the latest round of the Forward Trust Championship, still running his hybrid GRD he shared the front row with Mike Wilds and Alan Jones. The Australian had a difficult practice, having taken over Jeremy Gambs entry and his bodywork Jones lost the GRD under braking for the Esses, a dented tub and new suspension needed were the outcome.

It was slightly damp for the race but everybody started on slicks and Mike Wilds led into Gerards ahead of Tony Brise, Damien Magee and Ian Taylor. As the leaders entered the hairpin for the first time Magee made contact with Brise spinning the GRD and delaying himself. To further confuse things as the rest of the runners exited the corner Mo Harness tipped the luckless Brian Henton off the track and into the barrier.

All of these dramas gave Wilds a big lead at the end of the first lap with Magee in second from Taylor, Harness, Jones and Russell Wood who was recovering from a poor practice that had left him on the sixth row. Ian Taylor quickly overhauled the Brabham of Magee and he immediately set out to reduce the gap to Wilds’ Ensign. Lap 7 saw Taylor through to the lead and although Wilds never gave up the chase the Baty March of Taylor took the win by 0.8 seconds. The seventh lap also saw Wood forced to retire his March with a broken damper, the Chequered Flag car had been fifth right behind Harness at the time, this moved the battling Leonel Friedrich and Masami Kuwashima up a place. The Japanese driver was having his first outing in his new March 733 and was still getting used to it, Freidrich who had started well back after practice gradually pulled away from Kuwashima to take fifth at the finish.
Sadly however much of the race was ruined by the antics of Tony Brise, he was fourteenth after his first lap incident with Magee with his nose cone flapping in the breeze. He dropped a couple of more place on the second lap and then started to move up again until he met John Sheldon’s Royale at the Esses. Brise made a poorly judged effort to pass Sheldon causing both cars to spin, Brise briefly pitted and then rejoined. He then cruised around looking for Magee he appeared to deliberately baulk the Brabham at least twice causing Magee to loose places to his pursuers on both occasions. There were harsh words between the drivers after the race and the stewards fined Brise £20 which was generally viewed as very lenient in view of how potentially dangerous his antics could have been. Magee also received a £10 fine for his first lap manoeuvre, the Irishman was less than pleased as he and most other observers felt it was a racing incident.

f3 HISTORY

RACES

Race Report: Mallory Park, 6 May 1973

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: Sembach, 6 May 1973

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Race Report: Sembach, 6 May 1973

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Run over ten laps of the 5.61km Sembach airfield circuit the runners consisted of German nationals with victory going to the experienced Willi Deutsch.

f3 HISTORY

RACES

Race Report: Sembach, 6 May 1973

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: Imola, 1 May 1973

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Race Report: Imola, 1 May 1973

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This was a round of the Italian national championship and was supporting the Interserie round.

Details are few, there were two heats on the Saturday with the final on Sunday, Victory in both his heat and the final went to Carlo Giorgio in his new March-Novamotor 733 which he bought to replace his Ensign. Pessenti-Rossi lead briefly but dropped back to finish second, Francisci did well to finish fifth after starting on row nine.

f3 HISTORY

RACES

Race Report: Imola, 1 May 1973

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