I hazard a guess that's later in the season. The EFDA badge has been added to his overalls and car.

I was at Zolder for the Euro FF2000 round that year and the Senna myth was already in full swing. I think it was just after the Snetterton race where he'd lost the rear brakes but still won. Everybody knew this guy was special and the feeling was that he was going to be hard to beat. Ironically the car broke down early on and Senna didn't finish.

Thanks

Probably close to the spot where I helped Mark Blundell over the tyres after he crashed his FF2000 Reynard ..........only to find out he was not in the best of moods


PAR

Wandering if this one belongs in the lady drivers thread ? Does any one know who the driver might have been, photo was taken late in the season at Brands not entirely sure of the year but the photo was in the same batch as a photo of Mike Smith in his prod saloon Mobil Sierra RS Cosworth.

Relevant answers maybe used and credited in a forthcoming blog, thanking you in anticipation of your responses.

Probably 1987 if Mike was in the Mobil Cosworth
Roger Lund

Possibly Barrie Williams.

Definetly does not belong on the Lady Driver thread then Thanks Alan :-)

In 1987 the no 23 Fiesta was driven by Norman Grimshaw. No 22 was driven by Angela Grimshaw. Both entered by Goodliff Racing. (from a mid-season Brands Hatch programme).

I have no idea whether that picture tallies with this info, though.

Edited to add - the Autosport review os the '87 season has a picture of the 23 car at a driver-change - the door is open and the body on the side is clearly visible. Front plate says "Norman". At an Oulton 2-driver round Grimshaw shared with Barrie Williams.

You are definitely slipping Alan.
Surely this was an ideal opportunity to post your similarly arty paint job on the trusty PRS

There was a reply to my infamous paint job on here somewhere which I'm sure showed good old Whizzo in said Fiesta at the Mallory hairpin, hence my earlier post.

The trusty old PRS may still be rebuilt and I'm really tempted to do the cutaway idea again but I don't think somehow I'll go the stockings and suspenders route

I have a photo of Whizzo in a Fiesta with a driver figure painted on the door, but I'm sure it was wearing race overalls, not the lingerie option. He may, of course, have driven other cars during the season.

Mallory Park. 11th May 1986. BRSCC

"Three wheels on my Midget, and I ain't rolling along..."

"After you, Claude. No, after you, Cecil." Andrew Raybould has a dispute with Tim Sugden (edit) over the correct line at the hairpin. Is Mallory Dan leaning on the fence?

Mike Jordan (Lola T644E) and Paul Morton (Royale RP33M). The nose of Roger Ecclestone's Reynard is just inching into shot - Take cover!

The slightly eerie presence of the Shrike P15 Sports 2000 car. Nigel Corry cuts inside Mark Dunham

Shrike maestro - and any other car for that matter - Ian Flux

Reg Woodcock - Triumph TR3A

A location denied to today's photographers, more's the pity, especially when BRSCC Formula Libre comes out to play...

Tony Trimmer (Lola T330)

Alo Lawler (McLaren M30)

John Brindley (March 721)

Mark Rogers (Arrows A1B) What would organisers give to have a field like that entered for a club championship these days?

Great stuff Alan. What a pity H & S dictates that some of this and other similar positions are now a camera free zone

That "marshal" in shot one should have opened the gate to let the wheel through.

The loose wheel looks awfully close to that telephone on a post.

Take it Paul Morton has overtaken 23 cars on the run down to the hairpin

PAR

Mallory Park. 11th May 1986. BRSCC
Great photos, Alan. You don't have any of my F5000 March at that meeting, do you?

Sorry, Tim. For some inexplicable reason I don't seem to have. Can't imagine why as it was a super-looking car and, indeed, featured on the cover of the programme, did it not? Sadly, I wasn't at the earlier Mallory meeting where I think you won. Phil Rainford may possibly be able to help as I'm sure he was there, too.

Think I may have posted this before....




Here is the programme:



PAR

I bet we thought 50p for a Programme was expensive in 1986.

It was £5 at last weekends Oulton Park British GT/F3 shindig

Based on the retail price index, 50p in 1986 is still only worth £1.14, or £1.56 based on average earnings.

The green Reynard tripping over Andrew Raybould is, i'm pretty sure, being piloted by Tim Sugden in this shot. The car was originally driven by Richard Dean for Jim Lee Racing.

Thanks for that, Wayne. I'm sure you are correct.

If this was a race shot, the other [identical] car would have been back home. by then

[quote name='Phil Rainford' date='Apr 14 2012, 17:44' post='5658004']
Think I may have posted this before....

Phil, yes you have posted that oversteering pic before! But I like to remember the noise of the GA on full song so always good to see the pics! And it may not be too long before it's making that glorious noise again.....

Recently mentioned on the Mallory Park testing thread, Bolton's Rob Moores, MD of Halbro Sportswear, only the second owner of the ex-Daly Chevron B38 snapped in 1990 at Oulton Park. He still has the car and has entered it for next month's Monaco Historics F3 race.

The rear wing looks a bit strange in the 2nd photo.

Evidence of a tangle, I think.

Does anyone remember the rather charming young lady who was a more-or-less permanent fixture operating the count-down boards on the Mallory grid at BRSCC meetings in the late '80s?

To be honest I don't but it looks like Tony Trimmer was going to be a happy man

It's not Heather McAlpine nee Baillie is it?

Why is the pic not centred on the Lola T330, Alan...

1987 BTCC Oulton Park 17th April

I don't think today's marshals would take kindly to the position adopted by either myself or the other guy back in those carefree days. Mark Hales - Terry Drury Racing Escort Turbo

Graham Goode - Sierra Cosworth - 2nd place


Tim Harvey's winning Rover

Does the BTCC mind being called club racing?

In those days perhaps it was. Our local Formula Ford Championship was on the same bill.

Happy days

Quite probably, David. However, 'Personal Photos from the Track' tends to encompass major international categories so I have posted them here before, as I reckon they are quite a few rungs below F1/F2/World Sports Cars etc. in the motor racing pecking order.

Gosh an SDI beating an RS Cosworth Sierra how many times did that happen ?

The young lady pictured above is Sharon Mitton, no doubt she spiced up many a qualifying session at BRSCC meetings as i'm presuming everyone wanted to qualify on the front row.

Thanks, Wayne. The name rings a bell now you mention it. Was her father a track official at BRSCC meetings?

6th August 1983. Oulton Park

Spot the deliberate mistake. John Llewellyn's attempt at a new line into Old Hall fails miserably

Mike O'Brien's Aquila leads the Sports 2000 contingent into Old Hall from David Sutherland (Royale) and Ian Taylor (Tiga)

David Leslie - Magnum 833

Martin Brundle - Ralt RT3 - before he was mounted by Ayrton Senna

Calvin Fish holds off Davy Jones to win

Allan Rollinson in an old Lola well up in S2000 there, Alan.

And Richard Morgan in no 9 Royale

Ah the Scandinavian octuple-flick technique. Best tried on gravel until you are familiar with it.

Wasn't Morgan in a Chevron B60 usually that year Alan. Was this a one-off in a Dutton car?

Quite a few times in the early part of the 1987 season- Andy Rouse wasn't running a full season because of his WTCC commitments, so the only regular full-specification Cosworths were Graham Goode and Pete Hall. Both Tim Harvey (3 wins) and Dennis Leech (1 win) beat the Sierras in the early rounds of the championship.

Once the Sierras were uprated to RS500 specification mid-year (plus the arrival of Frank Sytner's BMW M3) it was pretty much game over for the older cars, other than an unexpected win for Mike Newman's BMW 635CSi in the late-season Oulton 1 hour/2-driver race, achieved through a combination of the Sierras having problems and an inspired tyre choice by Mike, who IIRC started on slicks for a race on a wet, but drying track.

The eventual win tally: Rouse (Sierra) 3; Harvey (Rover) 3; and Dennis Leech (Rover), Win Percy (guesting in the Rouse Sierra at the British GP meeting), Mike O'Brien (Holden), Frank Sytner (M3), Mike Newman (635CSi) and Pete Hall (Sierra) all 1 each.

They're great pics by Alan- brings back memories of proper rwd touring cars (well apart from the Escort Turbo!) and oversteer...

Thanks for that concise round-up of the 1987 season, Kevan. I am pleased that the photos are striking a chord with you. I think I have some pics from the 2-driver round at Oulton in August. I will sort out a few to post.

Meanwhile, back to 1979, an ace FF2000 driver/constructor who has recently returned to his roots with the 750 Motor Club, Adrian Reynard



One G D R Marshall at Lodge

Thanks for the summary of what I had forgotten was a very open season Kevan

I think her father was/is Roy Mitton who was listed on the officials page of BRSCC meetings.

Being chased by Peter Morgan in the Lola T580, I think. Very good in FF, but didn't have enough money to really make it work in FF2000.

Thanks, Chris.
One from 1981 - who can fill in the details?


Andrea de Crasheris 1979 F3

Chico Serra Donington 1979

Peter Hall in the Bell & Colvill T492?