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[QUOTE=Brian A;3411701Again to quote Ortenburger:
"Shortly after Le Mans, David Buxton acquired the car (under the Team Elite banner) and gave it to Bill Allen for a minor club event at Rufforth Airfield in Yorkshire. Allen recalled that the race bagan in light rain and because the acceleration was so good he had managed to put the car in first place by the first corner. When he turned the steering wheel for the right-hander, the car did not respond at all and understeered straight off the circuit. He pulled in after a few slow laps and pronounced the car unfit to race. Back at Buxton's, the FPF was removed and sold and the car placed on stands in the back of the worksho[/QUOTE] Just to be really pedantic the first (and second) corners after the start at Rufforth were both left handers. However, there was then a fairly long straight squirt up to a double apex right hander hairpin, thankfully with acres of tarmac runoff on the outside of the corner. I can imagine the car would have gone way off the circuit if the handling was as bad as descibed. As a matter of (off topic) interest I have in front of me a DVD of racing at Rufforth between 1969 and 1976 produced by a resident of Rufforth village from period videos taken by George Duncan and others who were racing at that time. It's 32 minutes long so probably too long to post on here but I will copy it for anybody who may be interested. |
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