Historic forum photographs - Page 14

OGLE · 28 Aug 2002, 09:07 (Ref:367216)

Great picture Klaus im impressed. Have you any more info at all??

Thanks Paul

Darren Galpin · 28 Aug 2002, 09:08 (Ref:367217)

Welcome Paul!

OGLE · 28 Aug 2002, 09:16 (Ref:367222)

Cheers Darren Ive never used this before so I am slow to it but its flushing out some realy interesting leads for me. Great stuff! Thanks mate.

TimD · 28 Aug 2002, 11:20 (Ref:367321)

Welcome to the forum, Paul.

This Fletcher is precisely the kind of thing I love to hear about. It's the brave one-offs which were so rarely covered by the contemporary press, yet were such an integral part of the racing scene until relatively recently.

TimD · 31 Aug 2002, 08:09 (Ref:369690)

Just bringing this one to the top for the new visitors!

Andrew Kitson · 19 Oct 2002, 12:09 (Ref:407898)

We haven't posted any photos of 'old favourites' lately.
So here is a new thread...
How about this old advert? The race car is a Vixen Imp engined Formula 4 from 1968. I think the track is Silverstone but not sure where, either Maggots or Chapel?

Andrew Kitson · 19 Oct 2002, 12:11 (Ref:407901)

Sideways Mini's!

Andrew Kitson · 19 Oct 2002, 12:13 (Ref:407902)

A multi wheeled Formula Ford!

Andrew Kitson · 19 Oct 2002, 12:25 (Ref:407906)

The 'old' Snett was 2.71 miles and had the fast Norwich Straight alongside the A11. A race car landing on the garage forecourt via the hedge at trackside persuaded the powers that be to shorten the circuit using the old runway through the centre, as it is today. The outright lap record set in 1973 was held by Brett Lunger in a Sid Taylor Racing F5000 Trojan T101 at 1m 18.4 secs, about 124 mph average.
Unfortunately no grandstands remain and the circuit access bridge has been moved. A shadow of its former self that used to host big International meetings in those days. Did anyone on the forum race there, marshal or spectate at the old circuit?

Andrew Kitson · 19 Oct 2002, 12:45 (Ref:407921)

Sportscars at Brands, 1968.

paulzinho · 19 Oct 2002, 17:50 (Ref:408077)

Thanks for that one Andrew, shame that a garage forecourt caused it to lose the straight, the esses must have been great fun!

JP · 19 Oct 2002, 19:21 (Ref:408138)

The Esses were interesting. I vaguely remember Chris Maries (later of TVR, GT etc fame) hitting the underside of the bridge in his Mini 7 (1973?) and walking (or crawling) away from the most mangled Mini imaginable. I also remember one Mini 7 old timer (possibly Graham Wenham or Graham Woskett, or maybe the "Mad Miser" Chris Tyrrell) telling me they used to stop off at the Hairpin on the way out and gather up all the loose change that had fallen out of the pockets of drivers who'd rolled there during the day!

TimD · 19 Oct 2002, 22:45 (Ref:408244)

Does anyone happen to know when and who it was that wound up on the garage forecourt?

Hmm - thinks: The garage is closed down now - an opportunity for some clever soul to reinstate the straight? It would mean losing the Sunday market, but that seems a price worth paying....

Andrew Kitson · 20 Oct 2002, 05:56 (Ref:408324)

Problem is I think the land now occupied by the market has been sold off. I can't remember who or what it was that went through the hedge.

Andrew Kitson · 20 Oct 2002, 06:02 (Ref:408326)

Another Mini story:
I remember sitting in the Esses stand as a young kid - must have been 1966 I guess, a Mini hit the bank at the second part of the Esses ( now named the Bombhole) and rolled over and over. Fuel was spilling everywhere from the filler cap. The driver emerged, threw his helmet down and kicked the car...hard! He then got onto the grass as the car was in the middle of the track and collapsed. Turns out he survived unscathed but broke his foot upon kicking the car!

Andrew Kitson · 20 Oct 2002, 09:05 (Ref:408396)

Calling Racing fxgt / Fred Scatley..are you out there? You guys normally have some great old pics from the 60s.
Here's another from 68. Gerry Marshall in the Blydenstein Viva GT chases George Whitehead's Anglia at Clearways.

Andrew Kitson · 20 Oct 2002, 09:13 (Ref:408400)

TimD, trying my best to keep this great thread at the top!
Here is fallen hero Roger Williamson in his red/yellow Anglia at Brands in 1968. For those who don't know, he lost his life at Zandvoort in the Dutch GP in 1973.

Andrew Kitson · 20 Oct 2002, 09:19 (Ref:408403)

A couple more at Brands. Identity unknown. Any ideas?

Andrew Kitson · 20 Oct 2002, 09:29 (Ref:408406)

A group of cars at Brands, 1967.

Andrew Kitson · 22 Oct 2002, 21:31 (Ref:410678)

Blimey, that's a mess! Don't think it was that one I saw, the car ended up half way down the short straight just before Coram!

Andrew Kitson · 22 Oct 2002, 21:45 (Ref:410687)

From the map above, you can see how close the A11 road was to the original circuit. The tarmac still exists at the old Sear corner, the new Sear from 1974 turns right 50 yards earlier.
However, as of last week the circuit is no longer visible from the road. Another section of the new dual carriageway is now in use set in a cutting just north of the old A11 which will now be redundant.

zefarelly · 23 Oct 2002, 11:44 (Ref:411124)

bl**dy hell . . . .how did he get out of that!

a hydraulic crusher wouldnt do much more than that!

and those where the days of 1/4" diameter roll bars and garden twine harnesses

it must have been the beard that saved him :-)

JP · 23 Oct 2002, 21:30 (Ref:411665)

Thanks Fred - that was the Chris Maries shunt I was referring to!

Flagman · 24 Oct 2002, 11:55 (Ref:412053)

Quote:

bl**dy hell . . . .how did he get out of that!

At Oulton Park - us marshals reckon the quickest way to get Chris out of a car is to drop a fiver on the ground....

zefarelly · 24 Oct 2002, 12:52 (Ref:412113)

a generous 'first to the bar' kind of bloke is he?

or related to Jack Charlton?

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