Formula Libre racing

[driftwood]

Formula Libre racing was active in the 1970`s until 1989 when the RAC deemed it in appropriate and limited single seater races to 2.5 litre engines and banned the word Libre
Until then any single seater car could race 1600 2 litre 3 litre F5000 all in 1 race for fun no real glory and sometimes sports cars or fast saloon cars raced as well but again open and closed/wheels cars cannot run on track at the same time anymore
Libre was an ideal event to run old/obsolete F1 F2 F3 atlantic cars cars that these days can race in historic races for their specific formula

Today its hard to find Libre races only Lydden and Mondello running "open " events and the Irish having no engine size limitations

Last year the Formula Free races attracted a good grid of formula cars for its 1st season before it was dispensed with

The obsolete "modern" cars now have specific formula championships to run in like BARC renault club F3 and Monoposto are open to obsolete cars but restricted on engine rules meaning old F3 cars race with non original motors

It would be good to have Libre racing again to allow any size engne car to run
The closest we get is HSCC DBT races with 1600 cars upto F1/F5000 cars allowed to race in the same race

The Irish lads will come to Anglesy (in April?) to race and that may be the closest the mainlanders will get to a true Libre race

[Alan Raine]

The Peterborough Motor Club used to run a cracking Libre race at Silverstone. Everything from F1, F5000, Atlantics, Fords, Sports Cars and even the odd Saloon. The grid was generally full and very noisy



Someone here has a photo of Gerry Marshall leading at Brands in Baby Bertha!

[Peter Dunne]

Mondello Park 40th anniversary meeting 17/18 May. If any of you guys want to come over and play with the Irish Libres, you would be most welcome.

[stealth1]

Hi Driftwood, havnt heard from you in a while ... you were missed at the Irish Grand Prix last year!! Never mind, as Peter says, we've a big meeting on the long circuit to celebrate Mondello's 40th Anniversary on the 17/18 May, and anyone who fancies coming along will be very welcome.

The "Irish lads" are going to Anglesey on 5/6 July, and, again, anyone who'd like to run with us will b welcome

[driftwood]

Yes i recall seeing the foto of Baby Bertha at Brands in a libre race
as akid i can remember Libre races at Brands in the mid 70`s and Lydden
the races up north at Croft Knockhill Ingleston where often filled with F1 2 3 FA cars and the Irish had a good series going back then too
anyone have fotos to post here

I would love to come and race in ireland- i didnt come last year as i had just run my car for the 1st time ( rather uncomfortably) like a big girls blouse
I will look at coming this year-- need a cheap ferry crossing deal !!

thanks for Anglesy date i had just asked on irish libre thread for that date
can you host here all the Paddy Libre dates as Guiness is £3.50 a pint here so i need to fill up with the real stuff not the poncy London made stuff

[Graz]

Originally Posted by driftwood

YI would love to come and race in ireland- i didnt come last year as i had just run my car for the 1st time ( rather uncomfortably) like a big girls blouse
I will look at coming this year-- need a cheap ferry crossing deal !!

thanks for Anglesy date i had just asked on irish libre thread for that date
can you host here all the Paddy Libre dates as Guiness is £3.50 a pint here so i need to fill up with the real stuff not the poncy London made stuff

Keep an eye on this for all Irish Libre dates and news: http://www.formulalibreireland.com/

Please cpme over any of you UK guys.

Re the Guinness, there's a price to be paid for quality - I was charged 11 euro for 2 Guinness yesterday. Ouch!

Happy Paddy's!!

[Peter Dunne]

Originally Posted by driftwood

anyone have fotos to post here

Kevan, have a look at the oldies section on www.conconnolly.com. Con has 4 or 5 sections of nostalgia each containing 1000's of pics.

[jamesl]

Are there any planned libre races in the UK in 2009?

[Burnsie]

Formula Libre will be racing at Anglesey on the 4/5 July weekend, the event being run by the Leinster Motor Club. Not sure about any other events, but I'm sure that somebody will be along with more information...

[tristancliffe]

Just a small update to Kevan's original post - it is now possible to race both modern (up to 2001 I believe, pre-sequential 'boxes) and older F3 cars in Mono using the original engines, albeit not necessarily with the original restrictor size (which means a remap).

At the moment the pre '93 F3 engined cars compete in the Mono 2000 Classic class, whilst later pre '01 F3 engined cars race in the Mono Formula class (possibly with recent Formula Renaults, if ever any join us (and they'd be quite quick).

[driftwood]

i will rebuild my car with 24mm opel and swap the restrictors back n forth from 24-26mm to do f3 libre etc and jack car up n down from F3 rid eheight to the ridiculas and unecessary 40 mm ride height
all i need now is £5k for engine rebuild or buy another motor