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[dgs]

A full race record for Peter Collins is shown in both Mon Ami Mate & Peter Collins -All about the boy, books. However neither show the following race which is shown on the excellent Racing Sports Car website.

 

1955 AMOC Silverstone-Handicap Relay - David Brown Cup.

 

Limited details show Peter Collins entered in an Aston Martin DB3S car.

 

No of laps 21. circuit length ?, was it the club circuit ?

 

No race number, or race result, it justs state started - result unknown.

 

It also states that in the two other drivers, Roy Salvadori & Reg Parnell were also entered in Aston Martin cars, team cars ?

 

Has anyone more details on Peter Collins entry to this race, and or circuit length?

 

 

[pete53]

A full race record for Peter Collins is shown in both Mon Ami Mate & Peter Collins -All about the boy, books. However neither show the following race which is shown on the excellent Racing Sports Car website.

 

1955 AMOC Silverstone-Handicap Relay - David Brown Cup.

 

Limited details show Peter Collins entered in an Aston Martin DB3S car.

 

No of laps 21. circuit length ?, was it the club circuit ?

 

No race number, or race result, it justs state started - result unknown.

 

It also states that in the two other drivers, Roy Salvadori & Reg Parnell were also entered in Aston Martin cars, team cars ?

 

Has anyone more details on Peter Collins entry to this race, and or circuit length?

The race was over 21 laps. And yes, it was the club circuit that was used. There is no mention of Peter Collins featuring in the results ( top 3 anyway) nor in the Autosport race report ( July 29th). AMOC did enter 6 teams ( 3 cars/drivers per team). Parnell, Salvadori were in one of the teams but again weren't in the top three. But, it was, as you indicated, a handicap event.

 

1st. VSCC team ( C.Sears; P.Nunn, M.Parkes - Frazer Nashes) ; 2nd. 750MC ( J.Richards; N.Hicks; M.McDowel - Lotuses); 3rd. MGCC - SE Center ( T.Dargue; T.Haigh; S.Cobban - MGs)

 

Neither was Collins mentioned as featuring in any of the other races, whereas Salvadori and Parnell are.

[Sharman]

One would have thought that a team of DB3S's would have been off scratch or near to it and handicapped out of it, hence no appearance in the results. But is there a programme anywhere?

Talking about programmes this bloody machine I am using wants me to write programs GRRRRR

[Eric Dunsdon]

That was the very first Club Silverstone that I attended. Cycled up from High Barnet on a very hot, sunny day. Salvo' and Parnell drove the DB3's, but no Peter Collins. Maybe he was mentioned in a pre-meeting preview, which is perhaps why I would have cycled all that way. Peter was driving for BRM that year and something of a hero. There is a lot of footage of that meeting on one of those 'Gentlemans Motor Racing Diary' DVD's.

[pete53]

That was the very first Club Silverstone that I attended. Cycled up from High Barnet on a very hot, sunny day. Salvo' and Parnell drove the DB3's, but no Peter Collins. Maybe he was mentioned in a pre-meeting preview, which is perhaps why I would have cycled all that way. Peter was driving for BRM that year and something of a hero. There is a lot of footage of that meeting on one of those 'Gentlemans Motor Racing Diary' DVD's.

The Autosport headline was .. "SUN-TOPS AND SHIRTSLEEVES"

[Sharman]

That was the very first Club Silverstone that I attended. Cycled up from High Barnet on a very hot, sunny day. Salvo' and Parnell drove the DB3's, but no Peter Collins. Maybe he was mentioned in a pre-meeting preview, which is perhaps why I would have cycled all that way. Peter was driving for BRM that year and something of a hero. There is a lot of footage of that meeting on one of those 'Gentlemans Motor Racing Diary' DVD's.

And the following year you were counting time at Catterick?

[Eric Dunsdon]

And the following year you were counting time at Catterick?

Luckily thanks to my employment, I managed to steer clear of that place until May 1960 and so managed many more excellent Silverstone Clubbies before becoming one of the reluctant ones!. I did manage to see some motor cycle racing at Catterick which was typically grim!. 'Certa Cito'. 

[Roger Clark]

Chris Nixon's book on the DB3S says that the factory sent Reg Parnell with 63 EMU.  Also present were Salvadori with YMY 307 (this was his own car, though the works did borrow it back on occasion), Jocelyn Stevens (HNR 1), Dennis Barthel (DB3, XMY 80) and Angela Brown (DB3, NXY 23).  No mention of Peter Collins.