Pole position: Gardner in 0.52,2
Fastest lap: unknown
Distance: 20 laps
Average speed:
Weather: Rain
Ruleset: Group 2/70
Car info: 1973 Cars
Frank Gardner scored his customary RAC Championship Group 2 win at Ingliston on Sunday, but not without a strong challenge from the Japanese driver Masahiro Hasemi in his 1.3-litre Datsun Sunny Coupe! The narrow, tortuous 1.03-mile track was soaked with rain and in these difficult conditions Hasemi wove through a quartet of Escorts to close up on the thundering Chevy, which Gardner was driving as if on ice. Hasemi actually got alongside the Camaro at the Hairpin, but as he ran his front wheel along the corrugated kerb the steering arm failed, and that put paid to his effort. |
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Heat 1 - Touring Cars class A-D
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| Pos | Pos in class | # | Team / Entrant Car- Engine |
Drivers, Nationality | Engine vol. (cc) |
Engine Type |
Group | Distance, time |
Qualifying position | Qualifying time | Fastest lap | Reason out |
| 1 | 1 | 21 | VMW Motors - Team Esso Uniflo Ford Escort RS 1600 |
Andy Rouse, GB |
1975 | L4 | C | 10 laps, 10.16,0 | 2 | 0.53,4 | 1.00,2 | |
| 2 | 1 | 3 | SCA European Road Services Chevrolet Camaro Z28 |
Frank Gardner, AUS |
7000 | V8 | D | 10 laps, 10.16,3 | 1 | 0.52,2 | 0.59,8 | |
| 3 | 1 | 45 | VMW Motors - Team Esso Uniflo Ford Escort 1300 BDA |
Vince Woodman, GB |
1298 | L4 | B | 10 laps, 10.22,2 | 3 | 0.54,4 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Datsun UK Ltd Datsun Cherry 120A coupé |
Alec Poole, IRL |
1295 | L4 | B | 10 | 5 | 0.57,0 | |||
| 5 | 3 | BMC Mini Cooper S |
Mick Osborne, GB |
1293 | L4 | B | 10 | 7 | 0.58,6 | 1.00,2 | ||
| 6 | 1 | Sunbeam Imp |
Les Nash, GB |
998 | L4 | A | 10 | 6 | 0.58,0 | |||
| 7 | 2 | Ford Mustang Boss 429 |
Dennis Leech, GB |
7030 | V8 | D | 10 | 11 | ||||
| 8 | 2 | Swiftune Engineering Ltd BMC Mini Cooper |
Jim Burrows, GB |
998 | L4 | A | 9 | 0.59,4 | 1.02,6 | |||
| 3 | Sunbeam Imp |
Adrian Webb, GB |
998 | L4 | A | 10 | 0.60,2 | |||||
| 2 | Gerry Edmonds Racing Ford Escort RS 1600 |
Nick May, GB |
1975 | L4 | C | 9 | 4 | 0.54,8 | ||||
| Carlow BMC Mini Cooper S |
Gordon Dawkins, GB |
1293 | L4 | B | 8 | 0.59,2 | ||||||
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Heat 2 - Touring Cars class A-D
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| Pos | Pos in class | # | Team / Entrant Car- Engine |
Drivers, Nationality | Engine vol. (cc) |
Engine Type |
Group | Distance, time |
Qualifying position | Qualifying time | Fastest lap | Reason out |
| 1 | 1 | Ford Escort RS 1600 |
Jonathan Buncombe, GB |
1975 | L4 | C | 10 laps, 10.18,6 | 1 | 0.52,2 | 1.00,6 | ||
| 2 | 1 | The Barbarians Ford Escort 1300 BDA |
Peter Hanson, GB |
1298 | L4 | B | 10 | 3 | 0.54,4 | 1.00,0 | ||
| 3 | 2 | Datsun UK Ltd Datsun Sunny coupé GX |
Masahiro Hasemi, J |
1295 | L4 | B | 10 | 2 | 0.54,0 | |||
| 4 | 1 | Howes Motors AMC Javelin |
David Howes, GB |
6390 | V8 | D | 10 laps, 10.34,6 | 4 | 0.54,8 | 1.01,8 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Equipe Arden BMC Mini Cooper S |
Frank Gunn |
1293 | L4 | B | 7 | 0.58,8 | ||||
| 6 | 4 | BMC Mini Cooper S |
Jon Mowatt, GB |
1293 | L4 | B | 5 | 0.57,6 | ||||
| 7 | 1 | John Godfrey Sunbeam Imp |
Ivor Goodwin, GB |
998 | L4 | A | 8 | 0.59,2 | 1.02,8 | |||
| 8 | 2 | 71 | George Bevan Sunbeam Imp |
Bill McGovern, GB |
998 | L4 | A | 9 | no time | |||
| 9 | 3 | Sunbeam Imp |
Melvyn Adams, GB |
998 | L4 | A | 6 | 0.58,4 | ||||
| DNS? | 22 | Ford Escort 1300 BDA |
Gill Fortescue-Thomas, GB |
1298 | L4 | B | ||||||
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Final - Touring Cars class A-D
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| Pos | Pos in class | # | Team / Entrant Car- Engine |
Drivers, Nationality | Engine vol. (cc) |
Engine Type |
Group | Distance, time |
Qualifying position | Qualifying time | Fastest lap | Reason out |
| 1 | 1 | 3 | SCA European Road Services Chevrolet Camaro Z28 |
Frank Gardner, AUS |
7000 | V8 | D | 20 laps, 20.10,4 | ||||
| 2 | 1 | The Barbarians Ford Escort 1300 BDA |
Peter Hanson, GB |
1298 | L4 | B | 20 laps, 20.24,6 | |||||
| 3 | 1 | Ford Escort RS 1600 |
Jonathan Buncombe, GB |
1975 | L4 | C | 20 laps, 20.26,6 | |||||
| 4 | 2 | BMC Mini Cooper S |
Mick Osborne, GB |
1293 | L4 | B | 20 | |||||
| 5 | 3 | Equipe Arden BMC Mini Cooper S |
Frank Gunn |
1293 | L4 | B | 20 | |||||
| 6 | 1 | Sunbeam Imp |
Les Nash, GB |
998 | L4 | A | 20 laps, 20.57,0 | |||||
| 7? | 2 | Gerry Edmonds Racing Ford Escort RS 1600 |
Nick May, GB |
1975 | L4 | C | 20 | |||||
| 8? | 4 | Datsun UK Ltd Datsun Cherry 120A coupé |
Alec Poole, IRL |
1295 | L4 | B | 19 | |||||
| 2 | Ford Mustang Boss 429 |
Dennis Leech, GB |
7030 | V8 | D | |||||||
| 2 | Swiftune Engineering Ltd BMC Mini Cooper |
Jim Burrows, GB |
998 | L4 | A | |||||||
| 3 | John Godfrey Sunbeam Imp |
Ivor Goodwin, GB |
998 | L4 | A | |||||||
| 21 | VMW Motors - Team Esso Uniflo Ford Escort RS 1600 |
Andy Rouse, GB |
1975 | L4 | C | 15 | Propshaft | |||||
| DNF | Datsun UK Ltd Datsun Sunny coupé GX |
Masahiro Hasemi, J |
1295 | L4 | B | Steering | ||||||
| DNF | 45 | VMW Motors - Team Esso Uniflo Ford Escort 1300 BDA |
Vince Woodman, GB |
1298 | L4 | B | Accident | |||||
| DNF | Howes Motors AMC Javelin |
David Howes, GB |
6390 | V8 | D | Accident | ||||||
| DNS | 71 | George Bevan Sunbeam Imp |
Bill McGovern, GB |
998 | L4 | A | Engine | |||||