Dean & Hardman have shared sports cars before, but I don't think Dean & Sugden have.

F3000?

The Leeds United supporter and Peter Hardman are driving Ginettas at Le Mans this year, while Tim is there in a Ferrari F430. The connection is that Rainford will be there to take pictures of all three with his new camera.

Spoilsport

PAR

Let me guess - a Kodak Brownie?

No how dare you ................it is one of those" throw away" ones that someone left on a table at a recent wedding

PAR

Two rare shots there of Reynard 85FF's making an apex......

Easily the ugliest Reynard ever made.

And possibly the worst!

I think that I should get maximum points for the drivers and Le Mans. IMHO question answered in full.
How on earth would anyone on here - except PR and SA - be expected to know that Rainford will be there to take pictures of all three with his new camera.

Easily the ugliest Reynard ever made......And possibly the worst!

Indeed it was. Poor Jim Lee could not get that heep to go despite miles and miles of testing.
RF84 was another ugly duckling as was the 55FCrossle. Who ever heard of trying to put a radiator in the middle of a car? Who were they copying?

Stuart "Two Dogs" Dix has got one going quite well in Class D of Club Formula Ford North West.
There are a few shots of his white / fluorescent No.46 car at http://brsccnw.com/brscc250509ff1600.htm
Mind you, he has totally re-engineered it with a lot of Swift influence and his own ideas.

No doubt about it .......... it's a maximum haul of points for Mr Smith

PAR

Ford engines?

Oulton Park 3rd March 1974, cold......... as usual!

Oulton, Knicker Brook, 4th April 1974, still cold!

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Oulton Park 3rd March 1974, cold......... as usual!

Cold ............but look at the crowd for a clubbie in March


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I'm convinced that folks stopped coming when the wire fences went up.

Don't know what happened there Alan, they were really there because Phil saw them! I've pasted the links in again, let's hope they stay this time.

They are there in their full glory once again

PAR

11th May 1985 and the HSCC arrive at Oulton Park to find the daiseys and dandelions in full bloom.

Honda S800 stalwart Barry Fernaly illustrates the perfect line through Old Hall........



..... while Stephen Langton almost has the Old Hall " Tofosi " out of their picnic chairs



Alex Seldon highlights the fact that there in nothing understated about the Lola T300




PAR

Might be a silly question but is that Dad? I don't think so. in a b&w pic I'd say the looked more like Mike Newman's car than Old Nail plus I can't find trace of it - great period pics though.

Gregor, when I scanned these two I was not sure if they were Gerry, the "colours" look wrong. Of course I've passed a lot of water since I took the shots, so I've no way of telling- maybe someone with more remaining brain cells can put us right?
I've got more Marshall shots in the files but I'm suffering from scanner fatigue at the moment, watch this space.

A few memories from the days when Cadwell Park hosted a round of the British F3 Championship, 1977 in this case:

JB came along to support son Geoff's tilt at the championship

Alan Docking's large équipe

F3 star Stephen South waits in the assembly area

James King's works March

Derek Daly

The start

Ian Taylor - Unipart March-Dolomite

'Dodo' Regazzoni - March

South

Patrick Gaillard - Chevron

Ian Grob - Chevron

Works Chevron driver Eje Elgh

Ian Ashley in the singularly unsuccessful Lola

Stephen South congratulates winner James King

Excellent pics as always Alan.


Whatever happened to James King?

James King is now a very successful historic racer in the States and also in Europe. He has an ex-Dan Gurney Brabham BT7 which he always brings to Historic Monaco, while he races a March 761 in Historic F1.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lemoncat1/3571359198/
http://www.historicgrandprix.com/Drivers/James%20King.htm

I didn't realise that was the same one.

Where did his motor racing career go after F3?

Did his signwriter paint 'March' after a long pub lunch?

Selection appreciated by one who couldn't be there, BTW

Hey, that's me at the front, with Evan Stone changing ratios.
IIRC Marsh, specialistes en marquage, was James King's company.

Looks like the awful Lola T570 practiced well up didn't it. Wasn't Cadwell Ashley's local track, that may explain it? As I recall this was the only time that year that James K was anywhere near the front of that years F3 field.

Largely agree Dan - think he had problems learning the circuits, and getting used to the "rough and tumble" approach of British and European drivers who'd grown up on F.Ford. However, he took pole at Thruxton at the end of the season, and was taken out by Warwick...

As for his subsequent career: James told me last year that he paid a deposit to do the 78 series in the UK, then was given the 782 run once by Patrick Neve in lieu of his contract when March decided not to run a works F3 team. He only got to race the 782 once [at Nurburgring] then sold it to Bob Salisbury, who'd run it for him at the 'Ring.

He went back to racing Atlantics in US, never doing a full season and sometimes running only in SCCA. Late 82 he bought an ex Roberto Moreno Ralt RT4, which had just won Trois Rivieres and was the 83 prototype, won the SCCA finals at Road Atlanta with it, and ran more actively in the pro Atlantic series for about another five years.

Great pictures from a fantastic circuit. What a fabulous year that was for F3. So many potential winners in the field.
I also remember thinking that James King's win at Cadwell came out of the blue, as he was a mid-field runner for most of the season, rarely on the pace of South, Daley, Warwick, etc.

Edward

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The Leeds United supporter and Peter Hardman are driving Ginettas at Le Mans this year, while Tim is there in a Ferrari F430. The connection is that Rainford will be there to take pictures of all three with his new camera.
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Well here are the three cars but not always with the aformentioned drivers behind the wheel.......



The Leeds United supporter's ( quote ) Ginetta



Peter Hardman's Ginetta is the 23 car



Tim Sugden's F430

While for one day only on a "Four for the price of three offer" another Oulton regular......



Mike Newton's Lola Mazda

PAR

I thought I'd get this one going again.

Gregg Atkinson on the F3 grid at Silverstone, 1984. Brother Tim works on car.




Another view. Northern racer John Wadsworth behind posing mechanic. Me far left. (my wife's photos).




What bored race drivers do at the end of the meeting. Have a drag race between a Formula Ford and a 2.8i Capri

A fearsome machine, anyone remember this???

Doc Merfield? Later went to Terry Sanger & Brian Bolton?

Swot! It's too easy for you Andy!!! I remember the 1st time I saw Doc driving it (my dad had a Cortina at the time) I just could not comprehend what I was seeing, the wheels alone

Tim Blackburn photograph

What an monster car! Great photo Alan, the trouble is, it is such a lomg time ago, I cannot remember how Doc did at the races we saw him in. Am I way off track, or did Terry Drury have a V-8 Cortina too????

Prompted by Giraffe's reference on another thread to Stuart Baird racing an ex-Monte Carlo Rally Falcon in club saloons, here it is

Fantastic Alan!

Glad you like it, Tony.

A random selection of saloons from some time in 1972. Why is GDRM not at the front?


A motley crew of sports cars headed by Neil Corner with the JCB 512S

Excellent Alan. I think that saloon one is 1972, Gerry is in Thames TV livery, which he had that year, in 1970 he had the Viva GT. Think that's Ray Payne's Imp on the inside? Strawson's Falcon on the inside of Gerry?

Quite correct, Andrew. And it is Tony Strawson with the Falcon.
Here is one of the gentleman we were discussing earlier this week - Jeremy Lord with the Tech-Del Minilite Astra.

Is that a red Capri just coming into shot at the back? Who would that have been in 1972, Mick Hill is the only I recall at that time?

It could be 1972 or 1973 but looking through the results he won every race he did at Oulton in Old Nail in 72 & 73 so must just be a bad start - if so, then Dad probably blamed the starter for dropping his flag the wrong way or something similar!!
Great pics as ever Alan.

Would it be the Red Rovers Capri Dan? Trying to recall who drove it.

Whenever I rummage through the 1000s of negs/transparencies/prints that I have yet to post*, one G Marshall always seems to turn up - here leading Tony Strawson in August 1972 from the race pictured a few posts earlier.


Here is Mick Hill's Capri from the same meeting.


(* Don't worry, I won't inflict them on you all at once or you might never wake up)

Great photos as usual Alan, the colour in them is fantastic! You can inflict as many as you want on me, I'll be all eyes I have great memories of Gerry's Thames Television Firenza, I used to marshall inside at Druids, and Gerry would always come round blipping the throttle on full opposite whilst hugging the apex, brilliant

Alan, your period work particularily is absolutely priceless, and whilst your contemporary work is brilliant, your earlier stuff is what I always look out for. The sheer breadth of it is phenomenal, and it all touches a nerve personally with me. Not only does it take me on a wonderful journey down memory lane, your work is an important historical document, so please post as much as you are able to, for our current enjoyment and posterity. You are not quite a photographic genius, but you seem to have a nose to know WHAT to photograph, and that is genius in itself!

(PS These comments also apply to Steve W.)

By giraffe138

I've already posted this on another thread but this is when John Scott-Davies had the car. Scottie had previously owned another "Fraud" Cortina in blue and gold with a 4.7 litre engine that he and Harry O'Brien campaigned in 1968. Scottie was racing the car pictured here on the Railway Straight at Aintree Tuesday night practice in 1970. At the Spring meeting that year it was listed in the programme as also having a 4.7 litre powerplant, but by the Autumn meeting also at Aintree, it had grown to 7 litres.......

Yeah, keep posting them Alan (especially ones of Dad!!).
If the race was August 1972 then it was the 12th and you'll all be glad to know Dad definitely won!!