I am trying to patch together an entry list for this relay race. Any assistance much appreciated:
27 teams, 70 cars, eighty drivers. Handicap event.
Each team required to make a minimum of four pitstops and change the front wheels.
GVCC = Grand Valley Car Club. 1200 spectators.
"The race this year was again to a
different formula. In 1958 the cars
ran for four hours on the old 2.3 mile
Harewood course; in 1959 the time
was increased to six hours, this year
it was back to four hours and run on
the shortened 1.9 mile circuit."
#2A Volkswagen, dark green, Philip Murray; 2B Volkswagen, silver, Ernst Graf
#4B Microplas Mistral body, turquoise
#9 Austin Healey Sprite
#10B Morris Minor
#14A Porsche coupe red/white, Klaus Bartels; #14B Porsche, light blue, Hans Schink
"Ecurie Lotus" #15A Lotus Mk IX, red, John Headon; Lotus Mk IX, Bill Muir; the only scratch team
#17 MGA red;
#18 Canada Class cycle wing, red/grey
"Ecurie Ponrath" #20A Porsche Super 90, Silver, Ludwig Heimrath; 20B Porsche, red, Ben Pon; 1 credit lap
"Tee Team" #21D M.G. TD, Al Manestar; (and TC?)
"Ecurie Monspoco" #22B Elva Courier; white/green stripe; Austin 850, Don Baird
#23A MGA cream;
"Team Two Bits" #24 Austin 850, Ed Leavens, Jim Duncan, entrant: Jim Fergusson;
#26 Triumph TR, green/white stripes
RESULTS
1st overall: "Team Volvo" #12 Volvo PV-544 1,580 c.c., Jerry Polivka; Volvo PV-544 1,580 c.c., George Schon; 157 laps (145 actual laps plus 12 credit laps); 4.01.33 hours
2nd overall: "Emgee Assoc" #1 Fiat Abarth, Jack Hunt, Bill Thompson, Noel Harrison; 154 laps (121 actual laps plus 33 credit laps);
3rd overall: "The Stinkers" #6 Austin Healey Sprite, Reg Hillary, Peter Curtis, Walter Mackay; 153 laps
4th overall: "Team Two Bits" #24 Austin 850, Ed Leavens, Jim Duncan; 153 laps (120 actual laps plus 33 credit laps);
5th overall: "Spriteley Mites" #9 Austin Healey Sprite, Dick Shelton, Ken Mansell, Ed Russell, Bill Blum; 152 laps
6th overall: "Ecurie Emgee" #23 MGA Twin-Cam, Harry Haigh; Bill Hopkins, Kent Harris; 152 laps
7th overall: "Ecurie Chroedee" 151 laps
8th overall: "Ecurie Ponrath" #20 151 laps (150 actual laps plus 1credit lap)
9th overall: "Independants" 151 laps
10th overall: "Aeroway" 151 laps
19th overall: "Ecurie Saab" #19 Saab, Homer Trotter, William Cleminshaw; 142 laps (including 18 credit laps)
27th Overall: "Ecurie Madeit" #5 Climax Special, Don Whitehead; J.D. Lewis, MGA twin-cam; team retired.
STANDING BY CLASSES ON HANDICAP
Up to 850 cc - Touring:
1. Ecurie Saab, 124 laps;
2. Emgee Associates, 121 laps;
3. Ecurie Two Bits, 120 laps.
851 cc to 1600 cc - Touring:
1. Team Volvo, 145 laps;
2. Aeroway, 139 laps;
3. Scuderia Hysteria, 107 laps.
Up to 1000 cc - Sports:
1. Spritely Mites, 138 laps;
2. The Stinkers, 136 laps;
3. Ecurie Vitesse, 121 laps.
1001 cc to 1300 cc - Sports:
1. Ecurie Lotus, 147 laps
2. Tee Team, 127 laps.
1301 cc to 1600 cc - Sports:
1. Ecurie Ponrath, 150 laps;
2. Independants, 147 laps;
3. Ecurie Emgee, 145 laps.
1601 cc to 2000 cc - Sports:
1. All Sports, 140 laps;
2. Ecurie Three 140 laps;
3. Team Hamsco 130 laps.
2001 cc to 3000 cc Sports:
1. The Hundred Sixes, 143 laps;
2. Ecurie Chroedee, 139 laps;
3. Ecurie Internationale, 133 laps
Racing:
"Team Gemini" #27 Gemini Fjr, David Hennessey, Dave Verity, Mark Rees; 125 laps
"Oaktra One" Scavenger I; B.S. DKW II*; 124 laps
"Ecurie Grande" 104 laps
(* possibly Al Souter, BS Special-DKW)
"Scuderia Hysteria" #10 Morris Minor 1000, Bill Cleland; Minor A40, R.J. McCaw
"Independants" #11 MGA Twin-Cam, Ed Ferriss, Al Pease
"The Hundred Sixes" #25 Austin Healey, Milt Wright
"Ecurie Internationale" #17A MGA, Ted Lowry; #17B Chevrolet Corvette, Gerry Brownrout; #17C MGA Twin-Cam, Trevor Allen
END
RGDS RLT
Edited by Rupertlt1, 29 April 2016 - 14:38.
