Race Report: Albi, 17 September 1973

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Race Report: Albi, 17 September 1973

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This was a round of the French F3 Championship and was a supporting race for the European F2 Championship event.

Michel Leclere led the way from pole position in his Alpine-Renault with the two works BP Martinis of Jacques Lafitte and Jean-Pierre Paoli in close attendance with the Motul Martini of Christian Ethuin in fourth. Ethuin worked his way up to take the lead from Leclere but the Alpine driver fought back to take the lead again and when Ethuin had a moment and dropped away his victory was secure. Lafitte and Paoli took second and third places at the finish, Pierre-Francois Rousselot had been running with Lafitte but he too dropped back.

f3 HISTORY

RACES

Race Report: Albi, 17 September 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: Albi, 26 September 1971

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Race Report: Albi, 26 September 1971

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The Coupe de Vitesse was the penultimate round of the French F3 Championship, the race was dominated by Patrick Depailler who took pole position at 1:17.4 and then won the race and set the fastest lap.

f3 HISTORY

RACES

Race Report: Albi, 26 September 1971

Qualifying

Patrick Depailler

Alpine-Renault A360 1:17.4

Race

1 Patrick Depailler

Alpine-Renault A360 39:58.5 30

2 François Rabbione

Martini-Novamotor MW7 40:29.1 30

3 François Migault

Martini-Novamotor MW7 41:05.2 30

4 Joel Auvray

Martini-Ford MW7 41:05.3 30

5 Patrice Compain

Martini-Novamotor MW7 41:15.6 30

6 Lucien Guitteny

Martini-BRM MW7 41:16.1 30

7 Max Bonin

Brabham-Ford BT28 41:19.6 30

8 Jacques Coulon

Martini-Novamotor MW7 42:34.6 30

9 Manfred Möhr

Lotus-Novamotor 69 29

10 Philippe Albera

Martini-Novamotor MW7 29

Fastest lap

Patrick Depailler

Alpine-Renault A360 1:18.1 167.60