Oops! Double post!! How'd I do that?
VIII Masarykuv Okruh, Brno September 25th 1949
Grid 2_1_2 with pole on left:
Pos. // No. // Car. // Driver
1 10 Maserati 4CLT/48 B. Bira
2 5 Maserati Milano Giuseppe Farina
3 9 Maserati 4CLT/48 Emanuel de Graffenried
3 7 Maserati 4CLT Louis Chiron
5 3 Talbot-Lago T26C Philippe Etancelin
6 18 Simca Gordini Robert Manzon
7 12 Maserati 4CLT Reg Parnell
8 14 Ferrari 125 Peter Whitehead
9 17 Simca Gordini T15 Maurice Trintignant
10 18 Simca Gordini T15 Zdenìk Trejbal
11 4 Talbot-Lago T26C Louis Rosier
12 1 Talbot-Lago T26C Johnny Claes
13 2 Talbot-Lago T26C Pierre Levegh
14 6 Maserati A6GCS Piero Carini
15 41 Simca Gordini T15 Aldo Gordini
16 11 Maserati 4CLT David Murray
17 15 Ferrari 125 Franco Cortese
18 22 Tatra 602 Bruno Sojka
19 27 Frazer Nash ing. František Dobrý
20 25 Magda II-Fiat Jaroslav Vlèek
21 24 Cisitalia D46 AntonÃ*n Komár
22 23 Cisitalia D46 VladimÃ*r Formánek
23 8 Maserati 4CL Henri Louveau
Some sources say Dobry drove a BMW 328
Result:
1 Whitehead 20 laps 2h48m41.0s 78.72mph
2 Etancelin 20 laps 2h49m16.6s
3 Cortese 20 laps 2h53m30.4s
4 Levegh 19
5 Louveau 19
6 Claes 19
7 Carini 19
8 Rosier 19
9 Sojka 18
10 Vicek
11 Dobry
Retirements
Formanek
de Graffenried
Komar
Gordini
Pobi
Trintignant Crash
Treybal Valve
Manzon Big end
Chiron 12 laps Gearbox
Murray 11 laps Fuel feed
Bira 2 laps Crash
Parnell 1 lap Crash
Farina 1 lap Crash
Fastest lap: de Graffenried/Bira - 8m03.0s = 82.29mph
The T602 was, as the picture shows, a sports car, rather than an open-wheel racer - while looking this one up, I discovered the same picture in one of my reference books!
According to my information, it only ever raced in national events after the 1949 GP. As a 2-litre car, it was eligible for Formula 2 in 1949, but was not surprisingly outclassed by the state of the art F1 & F2 cars that attended the GP.
Information on the T607 has always been hard to come by. When their existence became known in the West there was press speculation that they had been built as F1 cars. This is patently wrong, since they were apparently built in 1950 (chassis no 1) and 1951 (chassis no 2). I say apparently, because there is some confusion about this: Bruno Sojka is recorded as having placed 607-1 second behind Hovorka's Maserati in the 1950 Czech GP, but I also have a photo which is said to be Adolf Vermirovsky in the same race!
Vermirovsky did use T607-2 to set some Czech speed records though.
Returning to the cars; when they were built, the ruling Formula 1 was 4.5 litres unblown/1.5 litres blown while the engine capacity of the T607 was 2545cc. It is obvious therefore that they were essentially testbeds which happened to be raced occasionally and used for record runs. My info is that they are in the Tatra Museum - can you confirm that?