60's Saloons Again!

[mickj]

DaveM Nice pic of 'Yogi' Muir in the Wiggens Teape Camaro leading Gardner.

[DaveM]

Originally posted by Andrew Kitson
Dave- the rear view at Brands is infact leaving bottom bend onto bottom straight.

Thanks for putting me right Andrew. I did wonder if it was bottom straight, but got caught out by how unstraight it was!

[gfm]

Andrew - this is just about the saddest post you'll read, but I won a Sports Racing car race on the Brands Hatch 'Mini' circuit in 67! Lotus 17 Climax - and a lap record.
The circuit was made, I'm sure you'll recall, so that the Clearways Oval could run stock cars racing on the same day.

I just love Dave's shots of Gardner's Boss Mustang, Lotus Cortinas and Escorts. We had some great racing back then.

[Andrew Kitson]

John - they also ran stock cars at Snetterton too. The 'oval' ran anti clockwise with the startline on a straight
formed by an old runway that ran between Coram and the Esses. Once they got to the circuit proper at Coram, they turned left (where the inner marshals post is now), around Coram and up the straight to the bombhole in the wrong direction, then turning left after the bombhole ( before the old vehicle bridge) back to the start. Even had its own ready built grandstand but that has now gone as run-off was required at the bombhole.

[gfm]

I didn't know about Snetterton doing stock cars.

[verglas]

Dave M that certainly is Terry Sanger who is still regularly seen at Castle Combe in his capacilty of driver standards person in race control. He looks very similar today btw!!

[klaus]

here is Terry Sanger, driving his Fastback Marcos at 1000km race at Nürburgring in 1965.

[gfm]

He never got in that Klaus, did he? No wonder the car is at a funny angle !! A quick driver change I bet was out of the question.

[glyn parham]

Good footage of Terry having an "off" in his ex Brian Muir Camaro at Thuxton in 1973 on the Frank Gardner Racecraft video. Frank comments on the reason for the spin by assuming that Terry probably got his beard caught in the steering wheel.

[Andrew Kitson]

Welcome to the forum Glyn! That is one video I have not got but have been meaning to for ages. Thanks for the reminder.

[Peter Mallett]

Welcome Glyn.

[glyn parham]

Andrew. Glad to be on board. The video is well worth the effort to purchase, if only as a reminder of just how hairy those 70's Group 2 cars really were.
You posted a photo of a Team Broadspeed Escort on another thread recently, and dated it as 1968. However, I think the photo is of the 1969 or 1970 version as the car has fully flared wheel arches which were not seen on the 1968 car. Perhaps the shot was taken at the British GP support race in 1970 as it is one of the few races I can recall when the cars were numbered from 1 to nn rather than being grouped into the 100's, or 200's etc.

[glyn parham]

Thanks Peter. Yes I do remember Spa Francorchamps, I watched the 24 hour race from 1984 to 1992 inclusive, so I only saw the new circuit in action ut have driven the rest of the track, very interesting!