Hello!
I saw this Angola Thread and want to add some information.
- The year when the spectator bridge collapsed was 1974 and not 1972
A TV South African team made a film wich is part of an HAVOC video.
The race was named "6 hours of Nova Lisboa", a town later renamed as Huambo.
The winners, that year were Mabilio de Albuquerque and António Peixinho, two portuguese drivers who lived in Angola. The car was a Lola T292-BMW Schnitzer
- There`s a map of the "benguela" track. This track exists after 1972, it was a true circuit not a road track.
Before it exists, the Benguela races were named "Circuito da Praia Morena", in english "Brunette Beach circuit".
The last year of Benguela track races was 1974, ande the winners were Tony Birchenhough and Roger Heavens.
- to UDO K - in 1963 angola race, the second was Hermann Muller and not Herbert Muller
- to Hyeronimous
Vila do Conde was a portuguese northern track were had been races till 2003.
The "Fortaleza Circuit" is the name that had the Angola track in the early 60`s, because it was near a fortress.
António Barros was very good driver. He died in 2005. In 1958 he won the "Coupe du salon de Paris" in Formula junior and was portuguese champion in 1979 and 1980 driving a Porsche Carrera RSR 3.8 Group 5.
He drove lots of cars in his career like the Mercedes 300 SL, Formula Vee, Lotus 61M Formula Ford, Opel Commodore GS/E group 1 and others.
His son, with the same name is also a good portuguese driver actually.
to yorgos
The Alfa 33/2 arrived in Angola in 1969 or 70. It was the Vaccarella car in Targa Florio 1968.
The car raced in Angola till 1974 with a local driver named Santos Peras.
Now it`s restored and was featured in many magazines.
to Ry6
Andre Verwey, of Gemini transmissions South Africa, can talk about Angola races because he raced there in 1972 in the Luanda track. Then he sold his Lola T212 to the Autodel, the enterprise owner of the circuit.
lots of information about portuguese (including Angola) races in
http://sportscarportugal.com.sapo.pt (select "classicos"
(Excuse me please, but my english is not very good.)
zagan