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Originally Posted by Steve Wilkinson
At the VSCC Richard Seamen race meetings in the early '60s the last race was always an Allcomers Scratch race and it was in these races that the 250Fs, Cooper-Bristols etc were able to have a thrash.
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I think you are not quite correct. The Allcomers scratch race was one of the main races of the day along with the Seaman Vintage and Seaman Historic Trophy races and ran in the middle of the programme.
Post war cars weren't admitted until 1963 and then only pre 1954 and for that one year they ran in the Historic Seaman. It wasn't until 1965 or 1966 that the 2 1/2 litre formula cars were accepted.
The last race of the day was always a handicap and had the added spice of a few survivors from the Trophy races to liven the proceedings.
In those days "historic" racing was the VSCC. Then JCB came along and changed everything.