He campaigned his E-type in the AMOC Intermarque series for years didn't he Alan? IIRC it was usually in a beige & brown livery.

I remember the car from my marshaling days but didn't realise he was the driver. I was much more into single seaters then, although the AMOC meetings were always a "must marshal at event"

I don't recall Will Pringle in an F3 Alan, E-Type yes, FF2000 Royale RP30 yes, but F3, no - unless he only ran it at OP of course!

It could be my memory. I also did the advertising for Aintree Racing Drivers' School when Malcolm Barfoot and John Hammersley ran it at 3 Sisters. When they brought the Forte Corse F1 car, they also picked up an F3 car. I'm sure Malcolm said it came from Will Pringle.

Diz may know.

Somewhere I have a picture of Will at Brands, he'd been off but then got clobbered by Bertrand Fabi at Paddock whilst being lapped.

I'll see if I can dig it out.

A couple of shots of the much discussed Mr Hamilton..............







Kind regards

Phil

Fabi/Pringle at Brands. Donnelly was also in trouble.

Not the best quality pics I'm afraid.

Martin won that race sans nosecone. He hit a backmarker at Kidney. Still got it on video from BBC Grandstand!

They also televised the Formula E race. Yours truly had problems in practice and promptly fell off at Druids on the first lap

I seem to recall that their F3s were a pair from Japan on a BOGOF offer.

That wouldn't surprise me

I've got that video somewhere too. I seem to recall the nice BBC commentator chappie kept referring to the aforementioned Malcolm Barfoot as Michael Barfoot.

September 20/21 1986. Oulton Park Thundersports meeting.

The much-missed David Leslie, sharing the Burke-Ratcliffe Lola T530 on this occasion with Mike Wilds

Such a huge motor car that I was hard-pushed to get it all in shot

Regular pilot, Mike Wilds, and another great guy, no longer with us, Will Hoy



The Jeff Wilson/Jimmy McGaughay Grange 85T, while one of John Foulston's mechanics appears to have set the Lola up for a rapid run in reverse...


Bob Juggins confers with Mike Blanchet in their Lola T598C. From the supporting Monroe saloon race, a study in concentration as Gerry Marshall presses on up Deer Leap in the Teroson Escort RS Turbo

A mixed bag from the 1986 season



Mike Smith from a Mallory Park Uniroyal Production Saloon race



John Foulston powers through Cascades in his McLaren M19A



Could only really be Colin Blower........



.........while Ernie Frost dominated the Dellorto Reliant 750 race early in the year at Oulton Park, describing the win as a "Sunday afternoon drive"

Kind regards

Phil

A couple of shots of Walsall’s finest Phil Andrews

Firstly from a Star of Mallory encounter........



.....secondly from a Champion of Oulton race.




Fast forward 20+ years and the man himself instructing at Ferrari Track Day at Goodwood last week



( Picture Copyright Simon Ford )

I apologise for the ugly bloke on the right

Kind regards

Phil

I think I posted this in the "paddock" thread several moons ago, but it is topical in the current context. Note how "ugly bloke on the right", here modelling an Elf Team Tyrrell jacket, also had the ability to pop up on Aintree snaps of Stuart Lawson's Hawke DL17 more than 30 years ago...


Here is a rare, Rainford-free shot. David Moore's Modsports Corvette, a couple of Mk1 Capris, a Cortina Mk3 and other odds and sods lurk in a spectacularly overcast Aintree paddock on September 10 1977.

An unusual positioned race number on the bonnett of the Corvette.

Were there 2 Phil Rainfords, SA?? Shurely shome mistake... that can't be the same chap.

Is that the same Dave Moore who used to race E types from the Mayfield Garage in Aigburth, south Liverpool?

I don't recall him ever having a Corvette but then my memory isn't perfect..................

Was it a one off drive, I wonder?

I know one of his sons occasionally looks on these pages and perhaps he could clarify?


Andrew

Indeed, Andrew, the more usual Corvette driver in this neck of the woods was Harry Phillips.

I well recall the Phillips Corvette, but here is a documentary clue pertaining to the day in question...


Reliability appears to have been in short supply in Class D. Mayfield Garage of Aigburth had a full-page advertisement on page 7 of the same programme, incidentally.

I note that Bernard Hunter won the FF1600 race in his Van Diemen RF77. Richard Peacock was second in the Dinorben Royale RP21 and Martin Wood took a giant-killing third in his Sounds Exciting with Castle Holidays Lotus 61M...

Here we go again. Another coincidence on this thread has tempted me to post. Recently took my ARDS test and who should be beside me while doing the driving side.............. Stuart Lawson. Still handy behind the wheel and another oldie from Scotland that might be tempted back on track. I really should stop "lurking" on the Atlas but there are too many interesting tales on here.

looking at the aintree sheet, I saw Plastic Pearson race the XK at the july 73 meet, it was part of a 3 week motor racing tour of the uk and europe IIRC someone rolled a mk1 cortina in front of me , I should have slides of the day , will go check.

A beautifully typed piece of "documentary clue" if you ask me, not that anybody would be likely to ask me.

Jon B. Fletcher's Elan must be a contender for the 'winningest' Lotus ever I'd have thought.

John 'Plastic' Pearson's lap record equalling consistency must be applauded too!

Fletch & Plastic + last corner + last lap = side by side at 45 degrees to the straight ahead and finishing line.
Both aimed straight at the chap with the chequered flag. Chap with chequered flag was pooping himself - I know, because I was he.
I've forgotten the date, but it was in the 70s'. Both drivers had massive smiles on their faces, they thought it was hilarious.
I haven't come across Plastic for many a year, but I bump into Fletch occasionally at places like the Gold Cup, or the BRDC Suite. He takes great delight in introducing me to whoever is nearby as "This is the young fella who used to b ollock me at Aintree"

The "Endrust Weathershield Group" backed car I presume, which looked much faster than it actually went...

At the Northern TNF meeting this week the 1986 Formula 3 season was a topic of conversation...

Here are a couple of shots from the Oulton Park round:



The Lynx Motorsport RT30/85 of Paul Stott......



....and the Stretton Motorsport Magnum 853 of Mark Goddard

Kind regards

Phil

Mark is still much involved with F3. He's lived in the Phillippines for years, one of the leading lights
behind the Asian F3 series.
www.teamgoddard.com

21 looks like Russell Spence.

Mark Goddard, I felt was a very underated driver. Very quick when given the right machinery!

Isn't #21 Giles Butterfield?

Russell had exported his unique brand of sophistication to the FIA F3000 Championship by 1986.

Oh ****, I think your right.

I seem to remember Spence had a similar colour scheme in earlier days :\

Indeed it is......




.... who according to his CV was 4th in the World Karting Championship in 1984 and was indeed the winner of the British Formula 3 Class B the following year

Kind regards

Phil

Could it have been the same sponsor..Warmastyle?

Cheers

Phil

Yes I think so (not wanting to dig a bigger hole for myself)

Speaking of digging holes, wasn't Warmastyle the Spence family business?

Not really my area, but Stelrad rings a bell as a sponsor in those times
Roger Lund

Not quite. The family runs Spence Construction - which Russell was managing, last time I spoke to him - while Warmastyle manufactures and flogs radiators.

Stelrad was on Johnny Herbert's F3 car in '87.

Here is the proof...........



Kind regards

Phil

Gerry in a Lola T160




John Foulston McLaren M8?





Unknown Lotus 47



Pete

Wouldn't be Roger, or Bill, Friend in the Lotus 47 would it? And as for Paul Stott, I seem to recall him being nicknamed "Bonker". Why would that be I wonder...

Another on track picture;-

A few Formula Ford pics from 1986. The first Formula "E" ones are for Ian Smith:


Formula "E" and Aintree stalwart, Malcolm Barfoot, and Richard Peacock leading the super-fast Douglas Lague (or was it more his super-fast car?)


Paul Hogarth, Crossle, and his pit-helper - surely worth half a second a lap??


David Storey and Bob Berridge, Champion of Mallory (this particular race ended in tears)

..and Berridge leading Scott Stringfellow, Deers Leap.

I think Doug Lague enters the Festival every year, still with the RF78

Bob Berridge was outstanding in the old Lotus 69. I had forgotten he ran a Reynard for a while. He rang me many years ago to ask if I could paint a flat hat on his helmet - a Geordie to the end

A few pics of the Mallory traffic jam.

There appears to be a Pacer chassis on one of the above shots, originally they were very quick in the hands of Howard Groos but iirc they seemed to attract the scrutineers attention for some reason?...............

There was one on eBay for sale last week, chassis, wheels and bodywork [the original yellow and black by the looks of it] plus a box of uprights and other gubbins for an opening bid of £1250.

It didn't sell.

I seem to remember Martin Ochiltree of Coventry Stadium fame racing one too?

Can't see a Pacer.

I think the scrutineers were concerned about Nitrox Oxide in the fire extinguisher!!!

The middle car, [partly obscured] in the top image looks like a Pacer to me but i've been wrong many times before.....

A nitrous kit eh? Whatever next!

Thanks Pete, nice shot; Druids 1982? It is a Lola T222 (HU7, ex Bob Nagel car) and IIRC the engine he used was out of Baby Bertha!!

Yes Gregor that is about the time i took the photo , its one of the rare occasions i had seen a T222 , thanks for correcting me as i no longer have the programe .You can see the dreaded catch fencing of the era.

But as usual Gerry would have been very quick in it , i also remember him in the Marsh Plant Lola T70 MK3B , you just have to imagine Gerry in the car in period would have been magic.


The lotus 47 i think was Ken Eades/Eady ? possibly.


Pete

I think they only built 7 or 8 of the T222. If my records are right it was either 16/17th July on the GP circuit (2nd in class, 4th overall) or 26th September on the Indy circuit (1st overall) and I have the programme for this at home so I will check and see if the Lotus 47 driver details are in the latter event.

Preparer Richard Asquith with beard, "racer" and friend Brian "Slim" Atthews with glasses.



The T70 was fantastic and Rich Harman (drivers71) posted a fantastic picture from Silverstone from 1981 in one of the other personal photo threads. Slightly OT; he did compete in a period World Sportscar, a Brabahm BT8 in the 1000kms at Spa in 1970 with the battle of the 917s of Siffert/Redman and Rodriguez/Kinnuen but retired after 3 or 4 laps, not sure if he or Keith Grant started the race.