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Now it gets really confusing. There seem to be two F2/Atlantic cars in 1972 after Hawthorne’s accident!
I’d always thought that Murdoch’s 1972 Atlantic car was the same as used by Watson and Dave Morgan in F2 that season. But… There are two occasions [Imola 22.7.72 and Hockenheim 30.9.72] when the car would be simultaneously practising for F2 and racing in Atlantic as Murdoch appears at Oulton Park races on both those dates.
So what is this extra car?
At the start of the season Bert Hawthorne is entered in Atlantic races in a “Leda 2E”, though the car doesn’t appear. I don’t think this is the same as the “Leda-Tui AM29” in which Hawthorne is killed at Hockenheim in April.
It might however be the basis for the first replacement car driven by Watson in F2 at Crystal Palace and Hockenheim [June 11] with the plate given by F1R as “Leda Tui AM29-BH2”. At Rouen June 25 Watson appears with a car bearing a different plate [BH2-2]. Does this mean that Watson now has a new car, with the old one being handed over to Murdoch – and explaining why his car in 1973 is described as ex Watson F2?
Or, does Watson just have one car and Murdoch the original Leda 2E?
If so, in what way is Murdoch’s 1973 car ‘ex Watson’?
If this is the case, what happens to Watson’s BH2 [2] because that chassis number crops up again in 1976 on Elliott Forbes-Robinson’s McCall entered car.
Chris
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