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[Paul Taylor]

Just another bunch of British racing accidents to identify...

 

 

#1 - 1962 Oulton Park Gold Cup - Peter Galliford, Mini Cooper (cooper997)

 

 

 

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#2 - Another from Oulton. Not Jacky Ickx in 1967

 

 

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#3 - Mini crashes at what looks like Druids, Brands Hatch

 

 

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#4 - Mini No. 201 on the Brands Grand Prix loop

 

 

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#5 - Two Elans collide at Paddock Bend

 

 

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#6 - Ford Anglia at Oulton Park

 

 

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#7 - Overturned F3, circuit not clear. Could be Brands, Oulton or maybe Mallory Park. If you turn the photo upside down, you see the name ends in -ables.

 

 

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#8 - 1967 F3 Mallory Park - Roger Woodward, Brabham and Dave Morgan, Brabham (pete53)

 

 

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#9 - Another F3. Looks potentially serious. Can you recognise it from this angle?

 

 

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#10 - Presumably an Alta and a Connaught A had a coming together leaving the grid, but where?

 

 

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#11 - 1955 Goodwood Easter Meeting - Dick Cobden, ERA R10B (Jhdrussell)

 

 

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#12 - 1935 County Down Trophy - Walter Furey, MG Magnette ND (Vitesse2)

 

 

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#13 - DeDion Bouton crashes in the Gordon Bennet trials, c. 1903.

 

 

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#14 - Overturned Morgan 3 wheeler

 

 

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#15 - Rather damaged car at Prescott

 

 

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#16 - 1973-ish? Is it the Ford Escort Mexico championship?

 

 

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#17 - A lot of people will have seen this. It is the infamous Ford Fiesta roll at Paddock Bend in 1978? I remember seeing the driver's name once a long time ago, but it's been lost again. Any ideas?

 

 

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#18 - 1988 British Rallycross GP - Anders Norstedt, Saab (Myhinpaa)

 

 

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Thanks!

Edited by Paul Taylor, 03 October 2020 - 03:41.

[john aston]

#7 also looks like the Hall Bends at Cadwell? 

[cooper997]

Photo #1 is the September 1, 1962 Oulton Park Gold Cup meeting.

 

76 should be Peter Galliford Mini Cooper. It lived on in the form of an Ogle SX1000. Passing by is most likely Jimmy or Trevor.

 

 

Stephen

[Collombin]

On #7, the wording you can see is probably "motor racing stables", a racing driver training school, rather than a driver's name ending in "ables". If so, good luck working out who the driver is!

[Paul Taylor]

I guess #12 must be Bobby Baird in the MG Magnette NE, 1935 Ulster Tourist Trophy: https://www.racingsp...09-07-7619.html

[Doug Nye]

Some of these shots were published contemporarily in 'Autosport'.  No 6 surely is on the Brands Hatch Rallycross course, not at Oulton Park?

 

DCN

[Vitesse2]

I guess #12 must be Bobby Baird in the MG Magnette NE, 1935 Ulster Tourist Trophy: https://www.racingsp...09-07-7619.html

Not the TT. The car is running without wings/mudguards.

 

Getty has your picture, plus another, showing the car being manhandled off the sandbags.

 

https://www.gettyima...-photo/92326328

 

https://www.gettyima...-photo/99646280

 

From the Irish Times' report of the County Down Trophy, June 24th 1935, it appears it's Walter Furey.

 

"HW Furey, 1287cc MG Magnette, slid into the sandbags on the front at Bangor and damaged his steering ..."

 

According to a post on the Triple M Register Forum, Furey's car was an ND with an NE engine.

 

https://www.triple-m...archTerms=Furey

[Glengavel]

#11 was the subject of the caption competition in (I think) Classic and Sports Cars. The winning caption was "Tricky things to pass, those birdcage Maseratis..."

[pete53]

8. Yes, Autosport reports on this incident and it is Mallory Park at the Esses and it would be May 1967 and it is Roger Woodward no.120 in a Brabham, and Dave Morgan also in a Brabham - no injuries. I think this photo appeared in Motoring News.

 

11. Possibly Peter Whitehead ERA Goodwood 1951 - his race no. was 26 on that day.

Edited by pete53, 27 September 2020 - 11:03.

[MCS]

Number 2 is Mallory Park, not Oulton Park.  The crashed car is being towed backwards through Lake Esses to the paddock via the short circuit loop it would seem.

[glyn parham]

Number 18 is probably Ola Stromberg at one of the Rallycross Grand Prix, c1986?

[glyn parham]

Number 6 looks very much like Brands Hatch but is it one of the meetings which had two events at the same time, ie, Hot Rods on the Clearways loop (run anti-clockwise) and the other event turning right halfway down Kidney to get back to the start finish line.

[Myhinpaa]

Number 18 is probably Ola Stromberg at one of the Rallycross Grand Prix, c1986?

 

More like Anders Nordstedt in 1987 or 88? https://www.saabplan...ders-nordstedt/

[Eric Dunsdon]

It was actually Graham Whitehead who was No. 26 in an ERA at Easter 1951 Goodwood.

 

In any case, photo 11 shows Dick Cobden in ERA R10B at the 1955 Easter meeting at Goodwood.

Wasnt Dick Cobden driving the ex-Peter Whitehead Ferrari at Goodwood?.

[pete53]

Number 6 looks very much like Brands Hatch but is it one of the meetings which had two events at the same time, ie, Hot Rods on the Clearways loop (run anti-clockwise) and the other event turning right halfway down Kidney to get back to the start finish line.

Brands did run a handful of meetings using an ultra short layout ( .64 miles) - around 1967 - that encompassed Paddock Hill, Druids, Bottom Bend and then a sharp right turn into a link road that met up again with the end of the top straight and Paddock Hill. It didn't prove very popular. In the photo the cars will turn right at the top of the stretch of track they are on. 

[Paul Taylor]

Thanks a lot for the contributions so far!

 

I believe #18 is Anders Norstedt at the 1988 Rallycross GP too: https://youtu.be/rJpdxK9ks1Q?t=620

 

#11 should be Cobden at Goodwood as stated. I found that ID in the filename.