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Originally Posted by Peter Mallett
........... I view them in very much the same light as the Swallow Dorretti.
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Ah - but you would be able to get HTP papers on a Doretti as one raced at an International event at Silverstone in 1954 driven by Don Truman. He was up against the likes of Archie Scott-Brown in a Lister-Bristol, Peter Collins, Roy Salvadori and Carroll Shelby in Astons and Duncan Hamilton, Tony Rolt amd Ninian Sanderson in Jaguars. But he did finish and beat the Austin Healeys which was the purpose of the exercise, Scott-Brown won.
A Doretti also started the 1955 Sebring 12 hours but was black flagged after a few laps as it was formally a reserve - but had started anyway. It seems that the race organisation at Sebring was a little on the relaxed side back then.
