Chevron B42

[david.seaton]

Hi,
I am seeing Doug tonight - as it was his last event, he will doubtless be able to recall exactly when it was - he will have kept his last Competition licence as a momento !!

[Dan Rear]

David/Steve, thats a great photo of a beautiful car. And drifty, surely AFX was an 'International' series, certainly in its best year, 1979, it was quite serious with good teams/drivers/money.

[david.seaton]

Steve
We reckon the Harewood event was June 1991 - hopefully you can find something. As an aside, the return of the Turbo Pilbeam is well underway and should be out mid season.
Dan Rear - Thanks for your compliment, but the car was actually fairly rough at that stage as I had only had it a few months - eg note the hideous lump on the rollbar to cover the top of my 6' 2" height. Hopefully Steve will find a later photo, it really was far nicer later on - although some did not go with my colour choice !!

[Steve Wilkinson]

Originally Posted by david.seaton

Steve
We reckon the Harewood event was June 1991 - hopefully you can find something. As an aside, the return of the Turbo Pilbeam is well underway and should be out mid season.

Sorry David, I only went to the 29th September meeting at Harewood as that was the only British Hillclimb Championship round there that year.

I will try to "dig out" a better shot of the B42!

Best of luck with the Pilbeam.

[Steve Wilkinson]

Thought we should have a period photo so .....


Beppe Gabbiani in the Chevron-Ferrari at Thruxton Easter Monday

[driftwood]

just in time for not only easter but Thruxtons 40th aniversary meeting Hurrah !!

Steve Do you have many F2 race photos?

[Steve Wilkinson]

Originally Posted by driftwood

Steve Do you have many F2 race photos?

Does the Pope kiss tarmac?

[driftwood]

can u be a darling and make me some "race car porn" onto a cd and post to me I have saved up my beer allowance !!

[Steve Wilkinson]

Originally Posted by driftwood

can u be a darling and make me some "race car porn" onto a cd and post to me I have saved up my beer allowance !!

Listen Drifty, calling me "darling" and asking for "porn" is not going to work!

I work on a more mercenary level!

[driftwood]

your starting to remind me of the well known tory MP alan b`stad

[Steve Wilkinson]

Originally Posted by driftwood

your starting to remind me of the well known tory MP alan b`stad

My hero!

[Dan Rear]

Originally Posted by driftwood

just in time for not only easter but Thruxtons 40th aniversary meeting Hurrah !!

Steve Do you have many F2 race photos?

Drifty, Steve has many many F2 pics from the late 70s, he's always theatening to post 'em, esp the B48 ones! I've given up asking him tho' !!

[Dan Rear]

By the way, where did the Beppe car go after 78, chassis -03 OTOH?

[Steve Wilkinson]

Originally Posted by Dan Rear

Drifty, Steve has many many F2 pics from the late 70s, he's always theatening to post 'em, esp the B48 ones! I've given up asking him tho' !!

At last!

I can now get on with scanning them in! Just spotted a nice one of Warren Booth at Thruxton in his B48!

[driftwood]

your such a tease to him Steve
can u post a B48 bomber instead!

[Dan Rear]

Do you mean a B47 Drifty, or a B58 maybe, I don't think there was a B48 bomber...

[driftwood]

MMmmm Im lovin it!

[Chris Townsend]

There was a B48 bomber but only two were ever built...
http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/fac...et.asp?id=2661
So Chevron's version was marginally more successful

[Steve Wilkinson]

Originally Posted by Chris Townsend

There was a B48 bomber but only two were ever built...
http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/fac...et.asp?id=2661
So Chevron's version was marginally more successful

Glad you said marginally!

[allenbrown]

Originally Posted by driftwood

update on above Grange its a B42 car
Robinson had 4 cars believe 1 was cut down middle and widened to be the thundersports car
i thought this went to Jim McGaughy Jim stevenson to be there FES bmw powered Thundersports car

Not sure which B42 this would be but here's an overview of the Grange 85T:

First raced in Thundersports by Brian Robinson and Jeff Wilson (Grange Performance Cars) at Thruxton (round 3) 6 May 1985. Same pairing at R4, R5, R6, R7 and R8. Then for Jeff Wilson and Jim McGaughay (FES Racing) at Birmingham 25 Aug 1986 and Oulton Park 21 Sep 1986. Same pairing in 1987 at Oulton Park 17 Apr 1987 and at every round of the 1987 series. Hart engine specified in 1985 and 1986; BMW in 1987.

There is an Alan Cox picture of the car here.

[allenbrown]

Originally Posted by Steve Wilkinson

Chassis 17 was acquired by Russ Ward in the late 80s. He installed a Rover V8 and restored the car to the original Briggs racing blue. In 2005 the car was acquired by Peter Cox who still owns the car which still has the V8 installed.

So I guess that means the Grange 85T must have built from Chassis 19.

[driftwood]

will hear soon exactly what b42# it was
I wonder if Jim McG rented the car or bought it? the Bimmer was his from the Lancia toleman tg280#13 car he had sold by then

[Steve Wilkinson]

Originally Posted by Chris Townsend

Anyway, here is the Chevron B42 summary to spark further debate:

Chassis 1: 1977: Works: Patrese (Japanese GP) 1978: Steve Millen (NZ) retained 1979; 1980 Bob Donaldson
Chassis 2: Works ICI: Riccardo Patrese/Derek Daly; 1979 perhaps to John Stokes (Described in 1980 ad as ex Daly); 1981 Patsy McGarrity
Chassis 3: Trivatello: Beppe Gabbiani
Chassis 4: Harald Ertl->Willi Siller (unraced) 1979: Willi Siller
Chassis 5: John David Briggs; 1979: Brian Robinson; 1980: Bob Howlings; 1981: Bob Howlings [though AS gives as 01 at Silverstone F2]; 1982: Stuart MacPherson [FL]
Chassis 6: Opert: Boy Hayje
Chassis 7: Everest: Elio de Angelis; unknown to 1981, then Bill Lord [Scotland]
Chassis 8: Works ICI: Derek Daly/Nigel Mansell; 1979: perhaps to Gary Gibson (FAt) (described in press as ex Daly) retained to 1981
Chassis 9: Works ICI: Jochen Mass/Patrick Tambay/Arturo Merzario/Giancarlo Martini/Jean-Pierre Jaussaud/Harald Ertl [Hockenheim]/My Aunt Edna; 1979: Germaine Garon/Herv é Regout
Chassis 10: Briggs: Don Briedenbach [F1R attribution but maybe the Cinotti car]
Chassis 11: Chevron didn’t usually build an 11 [but might be Cinotti’s car if 10 really does go to Briggs]
Chassis 12: Opert: Eje Elgh
Chassis 14: Trivatello: Giacomo Agostini; 1979 Ken Brill
Chassis 15: Opert: Keijo Rosberg; 1979: Phil Bennett then to Dave Rackham (FAt); 1980: David Mercer (FAt) retained 1981 then at some point to Antonia Loysen [FL]
Chassis 16: Briggs: John David Briggs; 1979: Warren Booth; 1980: Jim Evans
Chassis 17: Briggs; 1979 Brian Robinson retained to 1981
Chassis 18: Jack Kallay: Geoff Lees
Chassis 19: Briggs; 1979: Tony Dean/Brian Robinson; 1980: Brian Robinson
Said to be 21 built so these problem cars could be accommodated there:

Tomy Racing: Masahiro Hasemi [late season car, retained 1979]
Sandro Cinotti [debuts mid season after using a B40. May be the B40 updated; may be 10; 11 or a later number]

1979
Wayne Wainwright [British Atlantic]
John Stokes (Described in 1980 ad as ex Daly)
1980
Kiyoshi Misaki [appears Suzuka F.Pac with Toyota engine
Dave McMillan [appears Suzuka FPac with Nissan engine DNS]

Chassis Number 16 has recently been purchased by Jon Waggitt. Jon will be rebuilding the car some time next year and once he has secured a suitable engine will be out racing it in the Derek Bell and Hist Euro F2 series.

[driftwood]

great i can now go take the michael out of him

[Dan Rear]

Originally Posted by Steve Wilkinson

At last!

I can now get on with scanning them in! Just spotted a nice one of Warren Booth at Thruxton in his B48!

Steve, did you ever do this scanning? I can't recall ever seeing many of your late 70s F2 pics.

On Topic, I see there are a few F2 Chevrons entered for the DBT at Silverstone. Any histories?