I had a feeling it was Ian Flux.

Flux again?



Sean Walker's Shrike.



Don't now this one but the helmet reminds me of Geoff Friswell.

Alastair Lyall?

Of course is it is. The GRAB livery gives a big clue!

Well its far more than I knew 30 mins ago

Kind regards

Phil

[QUOTE]Originally posted by alansart
[B]

Sean Walker's Shrike.



Always thought someone was inspired with the choice of sponsor on this car..........


Dear Sir Would you like a MFI sponsored car to win the "B&Q Sports 2000 Championship" ?

Kind regards

Phil

To add a curiosity to the James Funnell Moggie Minor debate, i pulled in for fuel at Houghton Garage on the way back from holiday last Friday, the self same Minor was pictured there on the wall in all its Donington GT glory. Mr Funnell is the proprietor of said garage.....

Have just uncovered a box of tansparencies, the existence of which I had forgotten about. And it covers a Formula E race at Oulton in 1990, and here is alansart's PRS taking a novel line into Lodge Corner. The second shot shows that Richard Sproston, who now commentates at the circuit, wasn't asleep as he takes avoiding action on the grass




I don't know for how many laps Roger (or is it Peter?) Eccleston diced for the lead with his nosecone adrift, but it was fairly typical of the brothers

Whoops. If I remember correctly, for some reason Richard Sproston was slow coming into Lodge. Mike Newton had to overtake him, but I was already half alongside Mike and ended up braking half on the grass. The red Hawke hit my nosecone but didn't do any damage. All a bit silly really

There is no doubt Roger Eccleston studied at the Vittorio Brambilla "School of Nosecones"......



Kind regards

Phil

The Morris Traveller i suggest Peter Defee ? classic saloon registrar at that time ?


Pete

Never had either a red shawl, or a pink hat, and perturbed to think that you Hale men could think I would! Wil Arif in the 1980 Delta maybe? Lip Up Fatty indeed...

The approaching corner - Village - is a right-hander...


...so does anyone have a clue what Dave Morris might be looking at?

No idea which car/type of Formula Ford it is????

(please help)

Regards,

Henk A. Hazelaar

Hmmm, possible thoughts may include, "I could have sworn this thing had rear bodywork when I started the race."

Neil

It's an Image FF3.

" That's strange, that looks remarkably like my road car being driven out of the paddock" ;)

Kind regards

Phil

On the other hand he could have just noticed in the mirror that he was wearing too much eye-liner!

And it's catching me up

Classic territory for the Eccleston brothers...


Tim Sugden leads in - I think - an RF87 (I'm rubbish at mid-1980s Van Diemens - far too recent). Rodge lies second in his Crosslé 25F and Peter is fourth, hassling a new Reynard. I think the sixth car in the group is a Getem, but I'll have to rely on Mallory Dan conjuring a programme for the sake of accurate ID.

Meanwhile, on the same afternoon...


The Slick 50 Road Saloon series in its full pomp and splendour.

Never realised that the Aintree Circuit Club were the original Boys from the Black Stuff!

Simon, the Reynard is an 87FF driven by Mallory meister Stuart Kestenbaum, no4 is an RF86 Van Diemen possibly Simon Wayne and i'm sure the car at the back is ex TVR tuscan/Sports 2000 pedaller Rod Gretton in a Laser.

Could be wrong though, as you say, Mallory Dan will doubtless be along later with chassis numbers etc

Following a request from Ian Smith for shots from Champion of Oulton, Mallory etc FF1600 races I have started to search my prints:

The first shot I uncovered was this early shot of Philip Margerison in his Van Diemen FR80.....



....who went on to finish runner up in the 1988 Champion of Oulton Series.

Aurora Phil in his present role would be impressed as Phil Margerison attempts to start a bonfire to burn Oulton's Autumn leaves...



...while here he illustrates his normal turn of speed to lead into Lodge



Kind regards

Phil

Was it actually possible to drive road cars out of the Aintree paddock on a busy day? Colin Simpson's Escort and Angus Young's Mini bask in the autumnal sunshine, October 1 1977.

Sorry chaps I can't help really, my devoted Mallory days ended in about '82, I was v picky about meetings ettended after that.

I will never forget Phil Margerison being totally in the wrong place at the wrong time, ie betwixt said Eccleston Bros at the top of Devils Elbow at Mallory. To be honest, there was only going to be two winners really ;)

The end result was a spectacular flip from top of the Elbow to the bottom for the unfortunate Margerison as he was the meat in a classic Eccleston pincer movement.....

It was Team Banger driving on a race circuit........

Chalk and Cheese really. Phil Margerison was a quiet lad who could be very quick indeed. He was run by his father who had a point of view on everything. Ok though. We helped them out with something over in Northern Ireland. I think it was only an egg for a leaking radiator. Next meeting Phil's dad turns up with a bottle of Whiskey to say thank you.

Phil was the first person I saw in cars to wear a windmill on his visor in the rain. Something he brought over from karting.

As for the Eccleston's, Roger certainly gained a reputation for being a bit of a headcase, but he always got away with it. I never had a problem as the nearest I ever got to him was in the bar afterwards

[QUOTE]Originally posted by alansart
[B]

Phil was the first person I saw in cars to wear a windmill on his visor in the rain. Something he brought over from karting.

Not a great shot but here is the windmill in action.........



....while I have also found a couple more shots of Phil's earlier mount.






TNF contributor fast toes can be seen in the background by the Shell advert

Kind regards

Phil

Here is a rare, Phil Margerison-free contribution from Mallory Park in 1980...


Five into one hairpin will go: from the left, Terry Nightingale (Fiesta), Tim Goss (Mini), Geunda Eadie (Fiesta), John Spiller (Avenger) and, I think, Jon Mowatt (Mini). The head to the very far right might well belong to Mr P Rainford.


Chris Hodgetts fends off Stirling Moss. In the background, John Tait's older Toyota Celica takes a wider line than the Spiller Avenger.


Here's one I didn't prepare earlier in the wind tunnel. If memory serves, Hodgetts had just punted Richard Lloyd's Audi 80 into the lake. The following headlight appears to be the Spiller Avenger maintaining its 100 per cent strike rate in this post. On the far side, Richard Longman is about to negotiate the hairpin in his 1.6 Fiesta, but nobody appears to be paying him much attention.

Some serious help required here - I don't remember taking any of these, but as I have just found them in the loft I suppose I must have done. I attended quite a few Snetterton clubbies during the 1980s and suspect this is a 750MC meeting. Are there any Monoposto/Formula 1300 experts out there..?


I think this is Chris Hague celebrating a 750F success, but am more than happy to be corrected.


The car to the right is clearly a March. I think the other one might be the Dolphin, which Bob Eccles raced in 1983. But I don't even know whether this is 1983... I kept progammes devotedly until 1982, when I began writing professionally and started giving most of my bric-à-brac to much-missed Oulton Park stopwatch king Rex Dillon.


Absolutely. No. Idea.


I suppose that might be Richard Gilmour in the leading Mallock, but the words "clutching", "at" and "straws" spring to mind...

I think car no3 behind Richard Gilmour is the WEV aka Worms Eye View. Paul Overton at the wheel possibly or Graham Gant?

I think the WEV was RH drive!

Behind Gilmour is the BATTEN ?


Pete

Great stuff Simon. I didn't attend that many Snett meetings at that time, so can't help with programmes, Silverstone was more 'my patch' in the early 80s.

However I'm fairly confident that the lorry in the far distance on the A11 in the second shot is probably a 'Norfolk Line' Scania, seemed to be one passing every two minutes in the 70s & 80s!

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Simon Arron
[B]Some serious help required here - I don't remember taking any of these, but as I have just found them in the loft I suppose I must have done. I attended quite a few Snetterton clubbies during the 1980s and suspect this is a 750MC meeting. Are there any Monoposto/Formula 1300 experts out there..?


I think this is Chris Hague celebrating a 750F success, but am more than happy to be corrected.

I think that could be Ernie Frost in his Hague? (Pictured below )






The car to the right is clearly a March. I think the other one might be the Dolphin, which Bob Eccles raced in 1983. But I don't even know whether this is 1983... I kept progammes devotedly until 1982, when I began writing professionally and started giving most of my bric-à-brac to much-missed Oulton Park stopwatch king Rex Dillon.

While I am 99% sure this is a shot from 1987 and the March therefore is the 793 of David Cox ( Again below )



Which would mean that the number 3 car above is the Raffo MK9B of John Bradshaw and the 20 car below is the March 773 of Jim Blockley




I'll get my coat !!

Kind regards

Phil

I'm more concerned about the Rover in the background, is it a late entry for the F4 race or somebody looking in vain for the Sunday market?

That Rover is actually a Triumph. It is possible that a local farmer planted some Dolomite seeds and the results were so encouraging that he decided to grow a VW Jetta, too...


In the meantime, I haven't a clue who any of the above might be but hope the estimable Mr Rainford will dust off his research anorak once again. I suspect 1987 could well be right for the year, too.

From Donington Park, July 1980...


Adrian Lowe hires Royale RP26 but fails to get full value for money after beaching it at Coppice.


When Mallory Dan has finished compiling his Skoda 130RS chronology, perhaps he could tackle Mk1 Ford Escorts... This is Roger Matthews.


Martin Colvill (AC Cobra) leads Roger Woodward (Lotus 23) and John Corfield (Diva GT).


Mike Pendlebury attempts to entertain the crowd in his Diva GT, but only four people appear to be looking the right way.

In 1987 the Manager of Mondello Park, Brian Tuite, organised a team of 15 drivers to challenge some of Britain's top FF1600 drivers in the first ever " Anglo- Irish " Challenge Race at Oulton Park.....



Vivian Daly ( Mondiale M86 ) took a sideways second place...



...while Paul Stewart made his Oulton debut to take a creditable seventh in his Van Diemen RF87

The Irish team proved victorious by the the fine margin of one point. While I am sure Mr Smith has some stories from the weekend. He is probably still suffering from the hangover ;)

Kind regards

Phil

Little-known fact: Tim Sugden took part in that race wearing a set of my overalls. We both turned up hoping to cadge a drive in something: he got one because he was Tim Sugden and I didn't because I was rubbish. He had car but no kit and I had kit but no car, so I lent it to him.

Great stuff Simon- you can definitely post some more of those....

Mind you, he could've done likewise - did you throw dices, or play tic-tac-toe?

Sorry, noughts and crosses...

Michael
Your English is so near perfect I hesitate to raise this, but for future reference: one die, two dice ;)

Absolute contextual correctness, Mr McK, but our language is a precocious beast...


Here's one dice in full flow at Mallory Park...


...and here's another. I'm glad I had to contend with only French, German and Latin at school.

To be fair to me, not only was this about the time that I set the FF2000 lap record at Aintree, starting on pole and leading from start to finish but at about that time I was 5th on a 28 car grid at Castle Combe with Martin Brundle in 8th! It was only for about 3 weeks that the Royale was any good as we'd bought it with a badly twisted and flexing chassis which when it was put right moved me well up the grid - sadly then like an idiot I hired the car out to a Silverston hotshot who boiled the engine and it was never the same again!

To be fair to Martin, wasn't he driving a Reynard SF80 - a car with all the speed and poise of a Morris Ital 1.3L?

Aye, noted - thanks!

Which one is Mallory Dan? Is he the one with the mullet?

I'm not surprised that you are sparing with your appearances on here, David, when all you get are insults from Mr Arron!

Ah, the joys of late 80's/early 90's Road Saloons...is that a Lada Riva on the far side by any chance....?

A trio of Formula Three shots:

First Tim Davies ( Ralt RT30) tackles Knickerbrook in its pre-chicane layout in 1986



While " Rat Pack " members Damon Hill.......



and Scott Stringfellow strut their stuff at the F3 GP Support Race at Silverstone in 1987



Kind regards

Phil