Old Cadwell Photos

DaveM · 8 Feb 2003, 22:55 (Ref:500956)

It's often been said that Cadwell Park in sleepy North lincolnshire is one of the most picturesque British circuits, and I would certainly agree with that. It was also a challenge to drivers with its mix of fast bends and slow corners, and 'altitude' changes. The full circuit was partly in open country and partly wound through wooded areas, with 'The Mountain' between the two.

Here, in September 68 Brian Robinson, Harry Ratcliffe and John Handley have just climbed the Mountain, shot along the short straight past the paddock and are entering Hall Bends towards Hairpin Corner.

DaveM · 8 Feb 2003, 23:05 (Ref:500969)

And at the same place, Bill Borrowman leads Les Nash. A slight fashion clash, as Borrowman's car was orange and Nash's was purple.

Edgar Jessop · 8 Feb 2003, 23:29 (Ref:501003)

Cadwell's still an amazing, challenging, terrifying [!] circuit and I didn't realise how much it's changed until I looked at those photos. Who needed a roll cage when you had nice strong trees like those to stop the accident!

DaveM · 9 Feb 2003, 00:07 (Ref:501039)

Absolutely Edgar. Here we are a little way further along, with Mike Beuttler passing the farmhouse and about to take Barn Corner. Note the white wicket fence which separates the cars from the porch! The cars in the background are comng out of Hairpin Corner.

DaveM · 9 Feb 2003, 00:11 (Ref:501045)

Barn Corner, where they swoop downhill towards the finish line. A ready supply of hay for bales in the barn.

DaveM · 9 Feb 2003, 00:18 (Ref:501053)

Not a good photo, taken from Barn looking towards the F3 grid powering awy from us towards Coppice corner, but it gives an idea of the height difference from Barn down to the start and finish lines.Park Straight is in the middle background, while below that in mid centre is Mansfield Corner on the return, which leads to The Mountain on our right, hidden by the big trees.

Lee Janotta · 9 Feb 2003, 04:34 (Ref:501168)

Such a wonderful little jewel of a circuit... May it last forever as such.

gfm · 9 Feb 2003, 11:07 (Ref:501293)

Bravo David. I see it was past midnight ...

gfm · 10 Feb 2003, 18:29 (Ref:502555)

David - here's your beloved Barn, taken rather wisely from behind a tree!
I think we won this one; this is 76 Super VW Cup round with our Votex Lola, engine by Mac Daghorn (ex Felday F3 man - still doing camshafts today).
Just noticed we're on three wheels.

Andrew Kitson · 10 Feb 2003, 18:40 (Ref:502565)

Great pictures guys.

Andrew Kitson · 15 Feb 2003, 15:03 (Ref:507625)

Nick Faure's 911 at the mountain in 1969.What is remarkable is the size of the crowd! Pity it is not like that these days.

klaus · 15 Feb 2003, 17:53 (Ref:507734)

More pictures,please. Has anybody some from the early 60ies.
GTs and sportscars.

JR Ewing · 17 Feb 2003, 09:09 (Ref:509290)

Doesn't look a lot different excpet for the kerbs and closer barriers of today.
Cadwell has always been a great track, is a great track and (hopefully) will always remain a great track.
I know it's miles from anywhere but more people should make the effort to get there - it's fabulous!

Hobson · 17 Feb 2003, 10:50 (Ref:509357)

Any chance of '70s or 80's pics of Cadwell?

BTW, if you like these photos and want to see cars like these in action, Cadwell will host the BARC Classic Package on Sept 7th.

I think MG's will be there too, so I'm going to see the Maestro's hammering round......

Lee Janotta · 19 Feb 2003, 03:46 (Ref:511233)

Quote:

Originally posted by gfm
David - here's your beloved Barn, taken rather wisely from behind a tree!
I think we won this one; this is 76 Super VW Cup round with our Votex Lola, engine by Mac Daghorn (ex Felday F3 man - still doing camshafts today).
Just noticed we're on three wheels.

*stares dreamily* Still the most beautiful little track on the planet.

gfm · 19 Feb 2003, 09:38 (Ref:511414)

To Lee - good to read your enthusiasm for Cadwell. But of course, you live in a city that had a super city circuit, don't you? In '86 doing a Pro-sports 2000 series, I think we visited Cleveland, racing passed a prison, hairpin, back up, two bridges across a river twice. Great circuit too.
(It was Cleveland wasn't it?)
To get a real flyer in qualifying, I'd worked out you needed to lean on one of the walls leading onto a long straigth. I mis-judged it wacked to wall sufficiently hard with the tail that the front end also kicked against it and deranged it self - I said Tiga's were tough - so only qualified 9th or so. The race was spoilt by a big pile up so we only got 6 or so free laps by which time I had worked up to the top five. But great circuit.
This must have been 86 and we were supporting IMSA big sports cars or CART, can't remember.
Friendly people over there.
Have you visited Cadwell?

Lee Janotta · 19 Feb 2003, 14:19 (Ref:511602)

Sorry, couldn't have been Cleveland, CART's always raced on the airport here, and IMSA's never showed.

'fraid I've never gotten any further outside the US than Toronto... But I'm still fairly young, so it's on my to-do list.

gfm · 19 Feb 2003, 16:06 (Ref:511668)

Lee, you're right. It wasn't Cleveland, it was Columbus, Ohio. Not so far from another brilliant circuit of yours, Mid Ohio.
My best ever Tee Shirt came from Mid Ohio. In one of the other support races, there was a pea-green Austin Healey Sprite and on it was the team name. Which I thought was a name of a night club or something. But it wasn't. It was just the guys having fun and they sold tee shirts in the same pea green.
The legend was 'Dr. John's Home for Wayward Girls.'

Lee Janotta · 20 Feb 2003, 03:55 (Ref:512154)

Oh, I wish I knew what team that came from!

You're really fond of Mid-Ohio? Hmm, I suppose it is a rather nice circuit... I always get _so_ frustrated at the back half of the circuit... So many long, slow corners... So little grip... And you raced on it before it was repaved, when you could barely get two cars side by side!

The Nelson Ledges circuit further north opened back up a few years ago. Still no indoor plumbing, but it's a much more open layout than Mid-Ohio... Great little club course, set in an empty field, with nothing but dandelions and tire bariers to stop you if you get one of the big sweepers wrong. Very quaint and old-fashioned.

Would be nice if they had some shelter for marshalls, though, and some flush toilets.

mickj · 21 Feb 2003, 08:03 (Ref:513174)

Lee without "indoor plumbing" at Nelson Ledges,how did they get to run "The Longest Day" 24 hr enduro's there?

Lee Janotta · 21 Feb 2003, 14:34 (Ref:513440)

By standing upwind of the latrines.

mickj · 22 Feb 2003, 03:59 (Ref:513902)

Lee
Thankyou for your answer. I knew after I posted I would get a nice answer.

Smokey 6 litre · 4 Mar 2003, 12:51 (Ref:524432)

i should have some,
i'll have a look in the loft.
is there a limit to how recent the pictures can be?

Andrew Kitson · 4 Mar 2003, 13:07 (Ref:524445)

Smokey, no course not! Please post what you have. Would be great to see them.

Andrew Kitson · 8 Mar 2003, 10:57 (Ref:528728)

Such a great circuit Cadwell - even today.
Even current IRL / CART stars have raced here. Here is Gil De Ferran in 1989 in the British FF Championship in his Fulmar Reynard.

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