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[SJ Lambert]

[Lola5000]

I like the way "Super Mac" is running an open face helmet in the early years of the MR5.

[SJ Lambert]

Ray Simpson captures Super Mac’s open face helmet during the 1971 AGP at The Farm

[E1pix]

Fan-bloody-tastic, James!!!!

[ellrosso]

John McCormack Elfin MR5 leading Garrie Cooper in the wide nose Elfin 600 T/C Bessant Hump Symmons Plains Gold Star round March 1971. Terrible day but great to see the F5000's for the first time - sound going down the back straight was amazing....

[E1pix]

I think not, but did this car ever run in the States?

I know Schuppan ran an Elfin here in Can-Am II, wasn't that originally a 5000 car or a dedicated Can-Am chassis?

Thanks.

[Ray Bell]

Not a bad effort for John in his first F5000 race at the Farm...

1:27.6 put him alongside John Surtees on the grid, albeit on the fifth row. At least he was five places ahead of Don O'Sullivan who's shown following him through Creek at John enters the Esses.

The wet run at Symmons saw a lot of them in trouble and John was among them, spins and wet electrics John avoided, but he had to stop to get fresh goggles and the 1.6-litre Elfin of Tony Stewart joined a small band of smaller-category cars which have over the years won Gold Star events. John was second and Warwick Brown in the M4A third ahead of Garrie.

[Ray Bell]

Originally posted by E1pix
.....did this car ever run in the States?

I know Schuppan ran an Elfin here in Can-Am II, wasn't that originally a 5000 car or a dedicated Can-Am chassis?

Schuppan's car was based on the later MR8 Elfin F5000.

I think the only other Australian chassis to run in F5000s in the US was the Matich. Of course there were some small-bore Elfins got over there, James has the 300 and the Mono which were returned while Sharon Beale has a Mallala 1600cc sports car.




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Edited by Ray Bell, 26 December 2017 - 05:59.

[E1pix]

Thanks, Ray.

So the MR8 did run over here?

I'm pretty tight with Shairon's husband David, if I'm right they've sold off all their cars.

[Ray Bell]

That's a shame, E1...

David had a couple of nice cars, cars that gave him a chance to experience real performance, and Shairon loved her Mallala.

And I think now, as I reflect on those times, Vern did run the MR8 there in both forms.

[E1pix]

I have a vague recollection of the MR8 being here, only a tenuous memory that it may have run in the California F5000 races.

[TerryS]

Images of Elfin MR5

https://www.google.c...iw=1920&bih=988

[SJ Lambert]

Here’s one in Max Stewart colours doing the Phillip Island thing a couple of years ago (Max Pearson at the wheel).

Edited by SJ Lambert, 13 September 2018 - 12:41.

[TerryS]

Interesting article here on Max Stewart's Elfin MR5:

https://primotipo.co...lfin-mr5-repco/

I was always a great fan of Max. As article says he had incredible determination.

By coincidence there is an oval literally just around the corner from us in Orange named "Max Stewart Park" in his honour.

Max was the local Toyota dealer in Orange, his home town, for many years.

[ellrosso]

I was a fan of Max too Terry - he was a hard charger and a real talent.

[fredeuce]

Not a great pic but this is Stan Keen in his MR5 taken October 1972 at AIR.

 

[ellrosso]

Another shot of Stan at the Symmons Gold Star round 1972 - forgot I had this one...

[TerryS]

There were four Elfin MR5's built
 
Here is some history on their ownership, up to mid 2000's.

http://tentenths.com...?t=41560&page=2

[Lee Nicolle]

The Stan Keen car was in Mike Adams [ a dentist if memory serves me] hands early 80s and still then had a Ford. It spent some time at Elfin in that period I guess getting the ground effects as per the ten tenths thread. I feel Elfin may have maintained it as well.

my memories are it looked a good deal more modern with a smaller  more modern rear wing and from memory also had an airbox as well. I think it spent some time with Stan as well maybe for engine maintenance or being dynoed. I can remember the truck out the back.

 Having lived in the area for 40 years it is amazing what you notice just going about business,, eg Motor Traders were next door to Elfin and I was there most days picking up parts. And Keith Poole was the otherside of Elfin, with McGormack a couple of streets away and Stan was a km north.And a bit later k&a were at Mitchell Pk about 5 min away.

At one stage in the surrounding 5km  area there was probably 20 racecars and or repairers/ owners and constructors. Now? Sascar at Somerton  an myself in Edwardstown. Keens workshop has recently become a 4WD repairer though I think Stan still owns the prmises. Elfin is a crash shop, K&A have moved well north, Macs workshop I feel is signs and that is about it.