Race Report: Anderstorp, 8 June 1975

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Race Report: Anderstorp, 8 June 1975

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As a support race for the Swedish GP and the latest round of the BP Super Visco Static Championship an excellent field arrived at Anderstorp with most of the top UK runners mixing with the best of the Scandinavian teams. There were also a number of some of the faster Italian cars making the long journey North. There were a few notable absentees, the two Ralts of the Perkins brothers and Ian Taylor’s works GRD as well as Monaco F3 winner Renzo Zorzi. There were some unkind suggestions that the stricter Swedish scrutineers might not be completely happy with the latter’s GRD-Lancia had it arrived.

Practice was dominated by the Marches with Alex Ribeiro fastest ahead of Conny Andersson and Gaudenzio Mantova. Gunnar Nilsson managed to badly damage the rear suspension on his March following a journey over the kerbs, luckily the F1 team were able to supply the necessary spares to repair the car for the race. Non-starters included the B&O March of Pierre Dieudonné after the Belgian seriously damaged his chassis with an off into the catch fencing during practice. Also out was Patrick Neve who burnt the clutch on the Safir when trying to negotiate the spectators as he drove to the marshalling area.

Conny Andersson made a good getaway and entering the first corner he took the outside line and took the lead ahead of Alex Ribeiro who had tried to dive up the inside. Mantova initially took third but Nilsson, who wasn’t totally happy with his rebuilt car, demoted him to third during the first lap. Mantova lost some more places with a spin and then retired, there was obviously something amiss with his March 753.
Nilsson passed team mate Ribeiro on lap 2 and the three leaders Andersson, Nilsson and Ribeiro began to pull away at a second a lap from their pursuers lead by Conny Lungfeldt in Conny Andersson’s old March 743. Danny Sullivan, who might have expected to give the leaders a run for their money, had to pit to have some stones removed from the cockpit that were jamming his clutch pedal. Ribeiro suddenly disappeared from third on lap 9, his driving had been getting more and more untidy as the Brazilian battled with a slow puncture and he eventually lost control of the car and spun. Ribeiro made it back to the pits and had a new tyre fitted, he resumed a couple of laps down behind Nilsson and in front of Ljungfeldt on the road. Nilsson closed the small gap to Andersson on lap 11 when the Swede who had been trying to escape Nilsson’s attentions hit the chicane fortunately without damaging his car.
The lapped Ribeiro had now caught up with Nilsson and immediately began to attack him, with two laps to go he pulled alongside Nilsson on the main straight and promptly left his braking too late. The Brazilian March hit the side of the Swedish version and vaulted over its front wheels, Nilsson was out on the spot whilst Ribeiro continued only to spin shortly afterwards and retire as his rear wing was hanging askew. Nilsson was justifiably furious saying afterwards “There’s no excuse for doing something as stupid as Ribeiro did, even when you’re both on the same lap, and when you’re in the same team….”.
Ribeiro’s excuse was that he had been after the 500 Crowns prize for the fastest lap, no one else seemed convinced that this explained his actions.
Conny Ljungfeldt took advantage of Nilsson’s misfortune to take second and make it a Rotel March 1-2, Clas Sigurdson took third in his elderly Brabham BT41 with Gunnar Nordström’s Warsteiner Modus fourth. Stephen South, whose engine hasn’t been rebuilt all season, had been running fifth but he lost a place to Luciano Pavesi’s Brabham BT41 on the last lap, Pavesi had driven up from the back of the grid following a troubled practice. Bob Arnott came home in tenth hampered by a down on power engine and Graham Hamilton retired with his rear wing at a funny angle following a big spin.

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RACES

Race Report: Anderstorp, 8 June 1975

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: Anderstorp, 18 June 1972

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Race Report: Anderstorp, 18 June 1972

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This round of the Shell Super Oil Championship was held as part of the Ronnie-Gala meeting with Peterson himself demonstrating his F1 March 721X to the crowds. The race was held over two 12 lap heats with the result being decided on aggregate times.

Mike Walker claimed pole position in the works Ensign F372, he knew the track having raced a F5000 car here, next up were Jochen Mass in the works STP March 723 and Peter Hull in his Brabham BT38 both of whom had taken advantage of some pre-race testing. Dave Walker had done over 100 laps testing to set up the JPS lotus 73s and Bernard Vermilio appeared to benefit as he equalled Hull’s time in fourth place. Newcomer Gunnar Nordström was fifth in his Brabham BT35 from Colin Vandervell’s Ensign F372 whilst Roger Williamson found himself back on row three due to a stripped third gear.

The grid lined up for heat one in a 2-2-2 formation and it was Mike Walker who made the best start with Hull moving up to second as Mass bogged down slightly in the STP March, the German then took Hull at the second corner only to loose the place again on the main straight. Williamson and Vandervell were making good progress and when Hull went off at he end of the main straight with brake problems on lap 2 they both moved onto the tail of the leading Ensign.
Vandervell took over the lead on laps seven and eight but then Williamson moved into the lead for the final four laps, Walker and Vandervell battled over second place with Walker succeeding in getting ahead for the important last two laps. Mass had dropped to fourth on lap 8 but an excursion onto the grass on lap 11 saw him remove the nosecone from his March, he resumed to finish eleventh. Vermilio had been having a steady run in fifth but a broken ignition lead saw him retire on lap 10, Hull, still dealing with his brake problems, moved up to and finished fifth behind Conny Andersson (Brabham BT38). Tony Trimmer struggled home in eighth, very unhappy with his Lotus 73. Retirements included Ulf Svensson (Brabham BT38) and Erikki Salminen (Brabham BT28) after a shunt.

It was Williamson again in front for heat two followed by Walker, Vandervell, Andersson, Jonsson and Hull, Vandervell and Walker were constantly swopping position in their fight for second whilst Hull moved his Brabham up to fourth. Trimmer was going a little better in this heat and lap 5 saw him move the Lotus up to sixth at the expense of Andersson whilst Jonsson’s good run came to an end when he retired on lap 7 when he went off at the end of the main straight. Meanwhile at the front Williamson continued on his relaxed way to an easy win, behind him the battle for second was resolved when Walker spun off on lap 10 leaving Vandervell with the position from Trimmer and Hull. Hull passed Trimmer on the last lap and as Trimmer tried to regain the place Andersson joined in the fun putting two wheels on the grass in his attempts to get third, but at the line it was Hull from Trimmer and Andersson. Mass had a mixed race, he had to pit at the end of lap 1 to have a loose wheel tightened on his March, he then set fastest lap before spinning out of the race.

The aggregate result left Williamson the clear winner from Vandervell and Walker, this meant that Williamson now had a 14 point lead in the Shell Championship from Vandervell with Walker a further six points down.

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Race Report: Anderstorp, 18 June 1972

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: Anderstorp, 9 May 1971

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Race Report: Anderstorp, 9 May 1971

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Round two of the Swedish Championship, the Svenska Mästerskapen saw Sten Gunnarsson take a narrow 0.1 second victory over Torsten Palm. The race was very much dominated by the Brabham BT28.

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Race Report: Anderstorp, 9 May 1971

Qualifying

1 Sten Gunnarsson

Brabham-Ford BT28 20:25.2

2 Torsten Palm

Brabham-Ford BT28 20:25.3

3 Rolf Gröndahl

Brabham-Ford BT28 20:43.0

4 Egert Haglund

Tecno-Ford 69 20:43.4

5 Ingvar Pettersson

Brabham-Ford BT28 20:44.2

6 Jörgen Jonsson

Brabham-Ford BT28 20:44.3

7 Conny Andersson

Brabham-Ford BT28 20:44.6

8 Jean Johansson

Tecno-Ford 69 20:44.8

9 Ulf Svensson

Brabham-Ford BT35

Fastest Lap

Torsten Palm

Brabham-Ford BT28 1:41.3