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[Lucarally]

Hi,
j would like to know if someone could help me, to find the results of RAC rally 1956 and 1958.
All information is very interesting for me ( results - retired - ecc. )
Thanks in advance
Luca

[jarama]

Luca,

I have the top 6 for both years, plus a few DNF. If you're interested I'll post them here.


Carles.

[Lucarally]

Yes all information is interesting.
Thanks and Merry Christmas
Luca

[alessandro silva]

1958 11 to 15 March
[from Automobile Year 1958]
1. Harper-Deane Sunbeam-Talbot
2. Gouldbourn-Turner Standard
3. Gold-Cave Standard
4. P. Moss - A. Wisdom Morris
5. Wadham - Wadham Morris
6. Corbishley -Simister Standard
7. Brinkman - Spurgeon Jaguar
8. Clark-Johns Riley
9. Smith - Tymon Fiat
10. Lee - Sinclair Riley
11. Scott-Armstrong Ford
12. Yarranton - Taylor Morgan

Many photos and all class winners in Motor Sport April 1958

[jarama]

Luca,


'56 RAC Rally

Classification:
1, #123, NGO 651, Lyndon Sims / Rupert Jones / Tony Ambrose, Aston Martin DB2, 29.20 pts, 1st GT
2, #11, VUB 140, Ian & Pat Appleyard, Jaguar XK140 FHC, 50.00 pts
3, Dr. J.T. Spare / M. Meredith-Owens?, Morgan +4 TR, 54.80 pts
4, #149, JWH 753, W.D. "Bill" Bleakley / Ian Hall, Jaguar Mark I, 65.10 pts, 1st Touring
5, Peter G. Cooper / Holland, Standard Ten, 81.60 pts
6, #12, ROH 744, Joan & Douglas Johns, Austin A90 Westminster, 82.90 pts

Also classified:
?, A. Palfrey / A. Jervis, Austin A40, 419.10 pts, "Coupe des Dames"
?, #14, ROH 902, Gerry Burgess / Sam Croft-Pearson, Austin A90 Westminster
?, #16, LJB 371, Jock Sears / Ken Best / Peter Garnier, Austin A50
?, Mary Handley-Page / Jo Ashfield, Rover
?, #79, MJB 167, Pat Moss / Ann Wisdom, MGA 1500
?, J.D. O'Leary / A.M. Canty
?, RHP 575, Ronnie J. Adams, Jaguar XK140

Teams' Prize: Austin (Johns, Burgess & Sears)

Also starters:
- Paddy Hopkirk, Standard Ten
- Nancy Mitchell / Doreen Reece, MG Magnette
- #45, KJB 280, Ken Wharton / G. Shanley, Riley Pathfinder
- #63, 388 KRE, Frank P. Grounds, Jaguar Mark I
- LWK 343, Cecil Vard, Jaguar MkVII



Carles.

[D-Type]

?, #16, LJB 371, Jock Sears / Ken Best / Peter Garnier, Austin A50

Wouldn't that be Jack Sears?

[jarama]

Of course, it's been a typo...


Carles.

[Roger Clark]

Originally posted by jarama
Luca,


'56 RAC Rally

Classification:
1, #123, NGO 651, Lyndon Sims / Rupert Jones / Tony Ambrose, Aston Martin DB2, 29.20 pts, 1st GT

Did they really have three people in an Aston Martin? Autosport said that Sims was accompanied by J Ambrose, but I don't know whether this was Tony of that ilk.

[jarama]

Roger,

as long as I know there were three aboard, not during the classification tests, but on the main route.

About Ambrose, certainly was the same Tony, later famous codriver of Seigle-Morris, Aaltonen, Mäkinen, Lampinen & cia.


Carles.

[Roger Clark]

Originally posted by jarama
Roger,

as long as I know there were three aboard, not during the classification tests, but on the main route.

About Ambrose, certainly was the same Tony, later famous codriver of Seigle-Morris, Aaltonen, Mäkinen, Lampinen & cia.


Carles.

You're probably right. Autosport only mentioned Ambrose, but had a picture captioned "Sims and his Crew" which had three people. However, it raises two questions: how did they all fit into the Aston, and what did they all do?