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[Terrymito]

I was recently looking through some old Thruxton race meeting programmes from the early seventies and came upon a Formula Libre race where one of the entries was a Vebra Mk1 driven by Clive Bracey. Can anybody enlighten me as to what the Vebra was and does anyone have any photos of the car? Also was Clive Bracey related to the late Ian Bracey of IBEC fame?

[Thundersports]

Did it have black and white stripes?

[Odseybod]

Or a pair of flashing orange balls?

[Rupertlt1]

Mk 2 won the Brighton Speed Trials in 1987 and 1988. Chevrolet powered.

 

See: http://www.oldracing...m/mclaren/m10b/

 

 

Vebra sprint car 
(1974-1990) Clive Bracey (Banstead) built up a McLaren M10B chassis to use as the basis of his 5.0-litre Vebra-Chevrolet for British Sprint Championship 1974 (9th at R1 Yeovilton; 6th at South Cerney 28 April 1974; 22 pts in final table). Crashed at Gurston Down 5 Oct 1975 "doing the car no good at all". Later at Wroughton 1 Aug 1976 and 31 Jul 1977, at Weston 7 Oct 1978 (7600cc Vebra Mk 1) and at most Colerne sprints from 1978 to 1988. By 1987, Bracey's car was described as a Vebra MK II. When the Pilbeams and F2s started to take over sprinting, Bracey focused on the straight line events and the car had evolved to an 8-litre engine running on methanol by the time Clive finally retired it in 1990. The LG600 gearbox went to Nigel Hume, the engine to Malta and the chassis went to a man in the Midlands. Nothing more has been heard of the chassis but it is likely to have become a M10B for historic racing.

 

RGDS RLT

Edited by Rupertlt1, 06 June 2016 - 23:13.

[MCS]

Good post, Rupertlt1.

 

Please pardon my usual ignorance, but could somebody tell me where the South Cerney course was located?

 

Thanks

Mark

[Tim Murray]

It used the perimeter track of the old South Cerney airfield, which is north of South Cerney village immediately adjacent to the junction between the A417 and A419, a couple of miles south-east of Cirencester. Bit of a rough old place.