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[Giraffe]

Spare a thought for Bev who was re-admitted to Poole Hospital on Friday and is unwell at this time. Hopefully he will pull through again and achieve his ambition of racing next season, if he can find a kind benefactor to lend him a historic Formula Ford chassis for the year.

[alansart]

Sorry to hear that Tony.

 

Get well soon Bev and hopefully we'll get that fancy colour scheme on a car soon.

[Giraffe]

I have just taken a call from Michael Hedger giving be the sad news that Bev passed away this morning. RIP.

[alansart]

I have just taken a call from Michael Hedger giving be the sad news that Bev passed away this morning. RIP.

That's sad news Tony. RIP Bev.

Edited by alansart, 22 November 2013 - 20:16.

[Richard Jenkins]

Very sad news, although I feared this news was coming. His charity work should act as an equally fine legacy as his driving.

[Manfred Cubenoggin]

RIP, Bev. 

[GMiranda]

RIP Bev

[ChrisRiv]

What sad news, RIP Bev, I have many happy memories of chatting with him when I first started marshalling as a paddock marshal at the tender age of 14. to have a racing driver talk to you at that age was so very exciting....

[Giraffe]

We will say goodbye to Bev at Bournemouth Crematorium, next Friday 29th November at 10.30am.

Edited by Giraffe, 25 November 2013 - 13:00.

[charles r]

Very sad news. RIP Bev.

[Giraffe]

Bev Bond whose funeral took place on Friday, pictured during his very successful early days in karting.

 

 

http://www.bournemou...44179.Bev_Bond/

Edited by Giraffe, 01 December 2013 - 12:51.

[MCS]

Sad to be reading this news.  I have been thinking about Bev and remembering his exploits in the first Formula Three Ensign in 1971.  I can also recall what was possibly his last competitive drive in 1974 in Harry Stiller's Formula Atlantic March.

 

Thanks for posting Tony.

[Paul Taylor]

Can't quite work this out. Supposedly Bev Bond and Carlos Pace going off at Brands Hatch in 1970 but I can't locate any matching results.

 

[Tim Murray]

One of the cars off the circuit is not a Lotus 59 - I reckon it’s a Brabham BT28. That would seem to rule out either Bond or Pace, as they both raced Lotus 59s in 1970.

[Tim Murray]

I believe this is almost certainly it. Here’s how Mike Kettlewell in Autosport described the start of the F3 race at Brands Hatch on 3rd May 1970:

Pace jumped into the lead, with Matchett, Bond, McCully and Hawthorne giving chase, but at Clearways the Brazilian overdid it, spun and caused McCully to take avoiding action and spin also. The pair continued 13th and 14th at the very end of the field.

Carlos Pace was driving a Lotus 59 and Allan McCully a Brabham BT28, with Bert Hawthorne and Steve Matchett in Chevrons. Very serendipitously, the only photo of the event shows Pace leading McCully. Pace’s Lotus wears #48, while McCully’s Brabham has the lighter-coloured fins and rear wing as in Paul’s photo, and Allan’s crash helmet also matches.

I reckon the cars still on track in the photo are Steve Matchett (Chevron B15) leading Bev Bond (GLTL Lotus 59), Bert Hawthorne (Chevron B17) and a crossed-up Keith Jupp (Brabham BT28).

[Sterzo]

It may have been that meeting, if not then another one in period, when a friend of mine watched practice and went into the greasy spoon canteen that used to be set back behind the main grandstand. An 'old lady' (given our perspective at the time, someone over 40) asked how Bev did. She was his mum.

[Rupertlt1]

Brands Hatch, Sunday 3 May 1970, Lombank F3 Championship, 20 laps

1. B. Hawthorne (Chevron B17-Holbay) 17m 16.8s, 86.11 mph

2. S. Matchett (Chevron B15-Novamotor/Lucas)

3. C. Pace (Lotus 59-Holbay)

4. W. Fittipaldi (Lotus 59-Holbay)

5. A. McCully (Brabham BT28-Holbay)

6. T. Walkinshaw (Lotus 59-Holbay)

Fastest lap: Pace; B. Bond, (Lotus 59-Holbay); Hawthorne; McCully

50.0s 89.28 mph

 

Spinners in photograph were Pace and McCully

 

Source: Motoring News, 7 May 1970, Page 10

 

RGDS RLT  

Edited by Rupertlt1, 18 August 2019 - 02:54.

[Paul Taylor]

Great information, thank you. Photo is by Pete Austin, provided for the  1000cc F3 Historic Racing Association website.

[MCS]

1000cc F3 Historic Racing Association  -  what a terrific website!

[Weaverbird]

In 2017 my sister was having weekly chemo sessions at Poole Hospital.  A framed photo on the wall caught my eye (I was with Colin Vandervell when he was part of the Andy Sutcliffe, Bev Bond, Mike Walker era)

 

It was signed by Bev and dedicated to the wonderful nurses at the unit.  I believe he had died a few weeks before