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#1 David Beard

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Posted 06 August 2007 - 20:37

I have kept almost all the programmes from the motor racing events I have attended.
I can't be the only one...

How about scanning a few pages and posting them here? I especially like ones that have been marked up by the owner to show non starters and results, but the one I post here for starters is unmarked. It's a support race for the Martini Trophy at Silverstone in 1962.

Anyone know of M.J Beard, No. 59, entered in a Lotus 17?

#2 Doug Nye

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Posted 06 August 2007 - 21:11

Oh what fun!

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#3 David Birchall

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Posted 06 August 2007 - 21:53

David, I don't know about the M.J. Beard entry but I was sitting in the ex Bluebelle Gibbs Lola yesterday!

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Posted 06 August 2007 - 22:08

Rather like David, my father and I still have most if not all the programmes from meetings we've been to (from the mid sixties when we started going together, although he has a few earlier ones too) - often filled in with line-up changes, grids and results and sometimes comments on the weather (except where the pulped-and-dried and wrinkled state of the papaer makes such notes unnecessary!).

This one, though, is not filled in (I wasn't there - is that cheating in the context of this thread?), but it seems a most appropriate one for me to post...

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#5 Frank S

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Posted 06 August 2007 - 22:15

#6 D-Type

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Posted 06 August 2007 - 22:27

That's an interesting selection of "Foreign" flags: France, Ireland!, UK and Germany - but not Italy.

And note the driver of car no 2!

#7 RS2000

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Posted 06 August 2007 - 22:41

1966 RAC Rally.
J.Clark and G.Hill (the latter technically a second driver!) in the "publicity" entries before the formal seeding (not that the formal seeding was all that good in those days).

#8 Paul Rochdale

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Posted 06 August 2007 - 23:39

"That's an interesting selection of "Foreign" flags: France, Ireland!, UK and Germany - but not Italy"

....but not Germany either which would be black, red and yellow. This is an old variation of the Belgian flag (1830), red, yellow, black but now a vertical tricolor. I know, I should get out more.

#9 RA Historian

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Posted 07 August 2007 - 00:22

How delightful looking at these! What names! What memories! :up:

#10 Martin Roessler

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Posted 07 August 2007 - 08:16

GPD 64

rather sad :cry:

#11 Martin Roessler

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Posted 07 August 2007 - 08:18

GPD 65

some lap times

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#12 Martin Roessler

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Posted 07 August 2007 - 08:19

GPD 66

#13 cosworth bdg

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Posted 07 August 2007 - 09:09

This is really a very interesting thread... :up:

#14 David Beard

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Posted 07 August 2007 - 12:03

Originally posted by David Birchall
I was sitting in the ex Bluebelle Gibbs Lola yesterday!

Bluebelle featured in lots of the Silverstone clubbies I went to at that time. I'm puzzled though, by the way the name is hyphenated in the programme I posted, suggesting that Bluebelle was part of her surname :confused:

I had always assumed it was her christian name....

#15 Allan Lupton

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Posted 07 August 2007 - 12:35

Originally posted by David Beard

Bluebelle featured in lots of the Silverstone clubbies I went to at that time. I'm puzzled though, by the way the name is hyphenated in the programme I posted, suggesting that Bluebelle was part of her surname I had always assumed it was her christian name....

I agree: she was Mrs. Len Gibbs IIRC

#16 Gary Davies

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Posted 07 August 2007 - 12:41

A sombre day at Thruxton. :cry:

#17 RS2000

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Posted 07 August 2007 - 15:28

(Autographed by Cale Yarborough, then a few weeks away from a third consecutive Winston Cup Grand National title)

#18 David Birchall

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Posted 07 August 2007 - 15:28

Originally posted by David Beard

Bluebelle featured in lots of the Silverstone clubbies I went to at that time. I'm puzzled though, by the way the name is hyphenated in the programme I posted, suggesting that Bluebelle was part of her surname I had always assumed it was her christian name....

Although not relevant to this thread, the ex Bluebelle Gibbs Lola won three out of three races over the weekend at the Historic Weekend at Mission, just east of Vancouver. Owner Steve Clark lives in Seattle. His main opposition was another Lola and a Lotus Seventeen-I will post photos - on another thread - asap.

#19 RS2000

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Posted 07 August 2007 - 15:48

Big crowds despite clashing with the Daytona 500 that was on the same date 50 miles down the road.

#20 Macca

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Posted 07 August 2007 - 16:45

From the bike world, the 1981 Transatlantic Trophy:

Shot with HP psc1400 at 2007-08-07

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#21 Rob Semmeling

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Posted 07 August 2007 - 17:54

#22 h4887

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Posted 07 August 2007 - 19:23

Does everyone know of this site?

http://www.progcover...or/contrib.html

#23 Mark A

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Posted 07 August 2007 - 21:08

1986 RAC Rally, Last ever WRC event for Group B.

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How's this for a route compared to what we get now.

Edited to add the entry list.

#24 Alan Cox

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Posted 07 August 2007 - 21:12

I acquired a number of Aintree programmes from the collection of a gentleman who religiously completed all the data, including lap charts. How I wish, now, that I had been as thorough with my own.

This is from the 1962 Aintree 200.
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How many of you realised that, in her first race, Divina Galica had to overcome the challenges mounted by such illustrious speed merchants as Bernard Manning* and round-the-world yachtsman Chay Blyth? Oulton Park 1974
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*For non-British readers, he was a stand-up comedian and club owner who could never be accused of being 'politically correct'. Some might even have accused him of being offensive. Shuffled off this mortal coil July 2007.

#25 RS2000

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Posted 07 August 2007 - 21:17

Originally posted by Mark A
1986 RAC Rally, Last ever WRC event for Group B.
How's this for a route compared to what we get now.

Problem was that this route was the first with no real night driving - the beginning of the "9 to 5" rallying we have today - and the direct result of wingeing by certain drivers in 1985 (of which Rohrl and Salonen were the worst culprits - Rohrl in particular never let his co-driver drive road sections).

It was the 1985 RAC that was the last "real" RAC and 1971 was the last with the original format that included a leg of 3 days and 2 nights with no sleep.

#26 Mark A

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Posted 07 August 2007 - 21:22

This one is a bit newer but an event sadly gone since 1990.

Entry list was on a separate piece of paper but makes interesting reading.

(positions were written by me listening to the tannoy so may be wrong and some are missing.

#27 sterling49

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Posted 07 August 2007 - 21:36

Originally posted by RS2000
1966 RAC Rally.
J.Clark and G.Hill (the latter technically a second driver!) in the "publicity" entries before the formal seeding (not that the formal seeding was all that good in those days).

Great to see this entry list.....this was held while I was at school! Relevent because car 46, co driven by Peter Warren, who lived in the next road to me,and whose house I passed daily as I walked to school. It was great to see the different cars he had parked on his drive, including once, a Ralph Broad 1300 G.T. Escort, I really coveted that car! I saw it at the week-end though at The ROC!

Sterling

#28 RS2000

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Posted 07 August 2007 - 21:36

The Gulf London Rally was the "Summer RAC" from 1965 to 1968. The final edition was four days and three nights long with no night halt, only one 3 hour halt in the middle and a few 1 hour "meal halts". The 1965 edition was won by Roger Clark in his private Cortina GT reg no. 2ANR and was probably the win that established him as the top UK forest driver.
The Trana Volvo PV544 (No1 on first page of 1965 entry list below) was involved in a road accident that killed the co-driver. Question: was this the car later owned by Patrick Head and mentioned elsewhere on this forum?
The 1968 edition saw a very serious road accident involving a service crew (driver almost certainly fell asleep) and it had to end. Even then, ordinary summer road traffic was impossible for an International Rally to cover England/Wales/Scotland.

#29 RS2000

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Posted 07 August 2007 - 21:45

Originally posted by sterling49

Great to see this entry list.....this was held while I was at school!
Sterling

Although in the opposite direction from school, I had the advantage that I was cycling distance from the Heathrow start.
It was seeing the works Saab on the 65 Gulf London list above in a Gulf petrol station whilst actually cycling home from school that was the one single incident that caused an entire life to be wasted by (I mean devoted to...) rallying!

#30 RS2000

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Posted 07 August 2007 - 22:03

Originally posted by Mark A
1986 RAC Rally, Last ever WRC event for Group B.

Fully understand and recognise the real point being made - but for absolute historical accuracy it was GpB over 2000cc (all the "supercars") that was banned at the end of 86. Up to 2000 and up to 1300 GpB were phased out over a longer timescale.

#31 Mark A

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Posted 07 August 2007 - 22:03

To keep the Rallying theme going a touch longer.

1981 Scottish Rally, back in the days when they got some of the best drivers in the WRC taking part.

The entry list

#32 sterling49

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Posted 07 August 2007 - 22:24

Originally posted by Mark A
To keep the Rallying theme going a touch longer.

1981 Scottish Rally, back in the days when they got some of the best drivers in the WRC taking part.

The entry list

Henri's Sunbeam looks great, almost on the lock stops, foot hard down......saw him in that stance loads of times in the forests, what super days!!!!!

Sterling

#33 sterling49

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Posted 07 August 2007 - 22:28

Originally posted by RS2000

Although in the opposite direction from school, I had the advantage that I was cycling distance from the Heathrow start.
It was seeing the works Saab on the 65 Gulf London list above in a Gulf petrol station whilst actually cycling home from school that was the one single incident that caused an entire life to be wasted by (I mean devoted to...) rallying!

Living just the four miles from Brands rather had the same effect on me, when I was not there, I could hear the cars (indoors as well!) and when dad was driving, he emulated Jim Clark, shame it was not a Lotus Cortina that he had, it was green though!

Sterling

#34 Andrew Kitson

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Posted 08 August 2007 - 06:35

A fantastic thread. Especially post 16 and that terrific Thruxton F2 entry!
I noticed Chris Meek no.20 entered by William 'Bill' Jones.
Bill's son Gavin is top engineer with Paul Jackson's iSport GP2 team and as a
young lad was the gofer on Chris' F2 car. Gav lives near to me in Attleborough
where the team are based.

#35 David Beard

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Posted 08 August 2007 - 06:52

I'd love to see a page showing the entry for the Indianapolis 500, 1963... :wave:

#36 Dennis Currington

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Posted 08 August 2007 - 07:21

Originally posted by David Beard
[B]I have kept almost all the programmes from the motor racing events I have attended.
I can't be the only one...

How about scanning a few pages and posting them here? I especially like ones that have been marked up by the owner to show non starters and results, but the one I post here for starters is unmarked. It's a support race for the Martini Trophy at Silverstone in 1962.

I too saved all of them, as well as 1000s of magzines which I recently had to dispose of.

A couple years back I decided to scan all the covers and put them on my website. I attend most of these races and have photos in my albums. Still looking for some of the negatives to scan. My intent is to scan the inside of the programs and link the photos to the albums.....someday.

#37 GeoffE

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Posted 08 August 2007 - 08:20

Originally posted by Alan Cox

GALICA Divina (Skier)
ROGERS Ted (Comedian)?
MEADE Richard (Equestrian)
DUCKHAM David (Rugby)
LERWILL Alan (Long Jumper, his sport, not his attire)
HATHORN Gina (Skier)
TRUEMAN (not Fred, surely)
BLYTH Chay (Yachtsman)
PASCOE Della (Athlete)
COULMAN Who? David?
MANNING Bernard (Comedian)
PORTER Hugh (Cyclist)?
PASCOE Alan (Hurdler, husband of Della)
LONSBROUGH Anita (Swimmer)

#38 2F-001

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Posted 08 August 2007 - 10:11

The 'Porter' may well be cyclist (Pursuit specialist) since he and Anita Lonsbrough were/are partners - an impressively accomplished sporting couple, both with MBEs, I think.

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Oh, hang on- they are all detailed underneath the grid diagram!
I should have looked at the picture as well as the post!

'Coulman' is (apparently) a Rugby player and "Sheila van Damm - ex-Rally star" is listed too.

#39 GeoffE

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Posted 08 August 2007 - 10:59

Originally posted by 2F-001
Oh, hang on- they are all detailed underneath the grid diagram!
I should have looked at the picture as well as the post!

Doh!

I did think of Budge Rogers (honest!). And Brian Trueman as well.

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Posted 08 August 2007 - 16:20

Mike Coulman used to live in Stafford. He played prop for England at Rugby Union then switched codes becoming a Rugby League, Great Britain forward. Met him not long ago with old mates.

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Posted 08 August 2007 - 16:59

1970 Golden State 100 USAC "Big Car" (Champ Car) Race at the Old State Fairgrounds, Sacramento, CA

Entry List:

#42 David Beard

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Posted 08 August 2007 - 18:38

For bike minded TNFers…
31st International Hutchinson 100
Silverstone 6th April 1963

#43 sterling49

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Posted 08 August 2007 - 18:50

Brilliant list, what an entry, Mike the Bike,John Hartle, Derek Minter, Joe Dunphy, and mostly British bikes, except for the Gileras ans Hailwood's M.V..........sure jerks the memory, it could have been Good Friday at Brands!

Sterling

#44 Terry O'Neil

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Posted 08 August 2007 - 19:52

Not so much a contribution, more a request.
Does anyone have a copy of the programme for the race held at Luke AFB on 3rd May 1953?
I am in desperate need of the entry list and cover.
Can anyone help please?
Terry O'Neil

#45 RS2000

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Posted 08 August 2007 - 22:51

Martinsville promoter Clay Earles could be relied on for an "original" programme cover. This one featured Darrell and Stevie Waltrip and friend. Winner was Richard Petty, who collapsed against his car in Victory Lane - the middle of the track at Martinsville - and had to be given oxygen.

#46 Graham Clayton

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Posted 09 August 2007 - 10:23

Fellow NF members,

A page from a 1960 Windsor RSL Speedway program showing the stock-car line-up.
How much money would the '34 Hupmobile, '38 & '39 Packard and '37 & '38 La Salle be worth today?

#47 Frank de Jong

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Posted 09 August 2007 - 17:47

While we're at the subject of Zolder ;)

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#48 Frank de Jong

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Posted 09 August 2007 - 17:48

And, of course, some touring cars:

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Posted 09 August 2007 - 22:34

One of my favourites. In memorial to the great Jimbo one year after his death

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#50 Paul Medici

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Posted 10 August 2007 - 03:59

June 11th 1949

First Ferrari race appearance in the US. George Rand drove the 166 Spyder Corsa.
Appears that just about anyone associated with American road racing was on the streets
of Bridgehampton that day.

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