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Bryan
Yup, 12 March 75Bs built, plus one prototype, plus at least one tub and new plate grafted onto an older car, and possible one 'special'.
The 12 'proper' cars all went to North America
3 go to Shierson for Syd Demovsky/Richard Melville/Jim Batchelor/Tom Pumpelly/Vince Muzzin and Brambilla at Trois Rivieres [this may have been a new car out of series]
1 goes to Interscope for John Woodner
1 goes to Tim Cooper
1 goes to Don Briedenbach
1 goes to who ever runs Price Cobb
2 go to who ever runs Chip Mead, and the spare is sometimes raced by Cliff Hansen
1 goes to Craig Hill [and if anyone from the Canadian Group is reading this perhaps they could help us with Craig's cars]
1 [chassis 10] goes to Bertil Roos, and he races it in UK before shipping it back to Canada
1 goes to Ecurie Canada for Villeneuve
The above is based on analysing the appearances at all the Canadian races, which, given Shierson's engine contract, allows you to identify who he entered at a particular race even when you're not told who enters a particular driver.
The only car that seems to disappear in the course of the series is Demovsky's, so I'm guessing he threw it at a wall somewhere.
Eric Kerman and Tom Crowther appear at the SCCA finals at the end of the year with 75Bs which I guess are secondhand.
The prototype:
Autosport track tests a 75B at the end of 74 - together with a 753 and 752 - so one exists. Derek Cook then appears with a 75B at Boxing Day Brands Hatch race, 1974. This should [if March followed a logical numbering on prototypes] be 75B-U1
However, 75B-U1 is allegedly the number given to Mallock's rebuild of the ex Coulon 742. Autosport records this as the chassis number when this car appears at the F2 race at Thruxton in 75. Possibly there were two U1s, or else Cook had returned his prototype [he bought a B29 at some point in 1975] and March turned it round to Mallock!
Cook's cars are a bit of a nightmare. His B29 went to Jeremy Rossiter in short order and he bought an old B27, which was, or was not, depending on who you believe, the same B27 he'd raced in 1974!
He's the father of Paula Cook [I think] who raced F3 a few years back.
Chris
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