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500 km Mantorp Park "Mennen Race"

Mantorp Park, Sweden

Date: 3/6/1973
Track length: 4.018 m
Attendance: 5000
Entries accepted: unknown
Starters: 22
Finishers: 14 (9 classified)

Pole position: Glemser/Mass in 1.36,7
Fastest lap: Mass in 1.37,98

Distance: 500 km
Average speed: 137,35 kmh
Weather: sunny
Ruleset: Group 2/70
Car info: 1973 Cars

 

The long journey to Sweden and the full program for the works teams (Salzburgring, Nürburgring WSC, Mantorp Park and Le Mans) were responsible for a meagre entry list. BMW relied fully on its tuners, Ford sent just one works car. The 2-litre class had a highlight in the freshly homologated 16-valve Alfa Romeo Alfetta Berlina, a car which would have an extremely short career, which was supported by two old faithful GTAm’s. Alfa Romeo had a surprising 35 points in the manufacturers championship so far, the same number as BMW and Ford.

Fastest in practice was the Ford by a large margin, followed by the Schnitzer BMW (Brambilla/Wollek) and the Alpina version (Muir/Hezemans). The two-litre class was closer, the GS-2002 a little slower than the Escort of local hero Emanuelsson. The new Alfetta (a blue one, a red version stayed behind at Balocco) was faster than the GTAm, no question, but could not reach the times of the fastest Escort or BMW 2002.

22 cars took the start, and for the third time Brambilla took the lead, since Mass took it easy. But after one lap the Capri took over and kept the lead for the rest of the race. But Brodie blew his engine and Stommelen parked the Alfetta after one hour with fuel injection problems. He repaired it himself, only to suffer from clutch failure soon after - and even the GTAm of Facetti had blown its engine. Basche had trouble with his fuel pump.
Both BMW’s suffered too. The Alpina car had troubles with its brake fluid but could continue; the Schnitzer car first had overheated rear tires, then a valve rocker stopped working, reducing the car to a 5-cilinder version. It sounded a bit rough but kept the upper hand against Alpina, only to drop out 17 laps before the finish.

Even the Capri was troubled towards the end,Glemser coming in to locate strange noises. He was sent out again, creeping round the track but still winning by 2 laps. Brasta/Ljungfeldt in a private Capri came third, 2-litre victory was for Emanuelsson/Odelfors.

Division 1 and 2
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 1 Ford Köln
Ford Capri RS 2600 LW		 Dieter Glemser, D
Jochen Mass, D
 2983 V6 Div. 2 124 laps, 3:30.21,48 1 1.36,7 1.37,98  
2 2 3 Alpina
BMW 3.0 CSL		 Toine Hezemans, NL
Brian Muir, AUS
 3303 L6 Div. 2 122 laps 3 1.38,0    
3 3    
Ford Capri RS 2600		 Boo Johansson ("Boo Brasta"), S
Bo Ljungfeldt, S
 2940 V6 Div. 2 122 laps, 3 seconds behind Hezemans 4 1.39,8    
4 4 8 Vendita
Ford Capri RS 2600		 Bo Ridström, S
Jonny Green, S
 2940 V6 Div. 2 120 7 1.40,9    
5 1 29 Timex Racing Team
Ford Escort RS 1600		 Bo Emanuelsson, S
Bengt Odelfors, S
 1840 L4 Div. 1 119 5 1.40,4    
6 2 38 Team Broadspeed
Ford Escort RS 1600		 Jose de Uriarte, E
Hervé Le Guellec, F
 1996 L4 Div. 1 118 13 1.45,0    
7 3   Autodelta S.p.A.
Alfa Romeo 2000 GTAm		 Carlo Facetti, I
Björn Steenberg, S
 1985 L4 Div. 1 115 14 1.45,0    
8 4   Ford Danmark
Ford Escort RS 1600		 Erik Høyer, DK
Aage Buch-Larsen, DK
 1996 L4 Div. 1 114 15 1.45,0    
9 5   Topcon Racing Team
Alfa Romeo 1300 GTA Junior		 Claes Rothstein, S
Umberto Grano, I
 1290 L4 Div. 1 111 17 1.46,6    
NC (6) 37 Team Broadspeed
Ford Escort RS 1600		 Rafael Barrios, E
Emilio Zapico, E
 1996 L4 Div. 1 107 12 1.43,6    
NC (7) 23? GS tuning
BMW 2002		 Dieter Basche, D
Martino Finotto, I
 1990 L4 Div. 1 104 6 1.40,9    
NC (8)    
Opel Manta 19 SR		 Franz Heine, D
Gerrit de Vries, NL
 ca. 2000 L4 Div. 1 101 23 1.54,4    
NC (9)    
BMC Mini Cooper S		 Gösta Pettersson, S
Krister Eliasson, S
 1293 L4 Div. 1 101 22 1.53,0    
NC (10)    
BMW 2002		 Thord Hollström, S
Gunnar Hesselgren, S
 1990 L4 Div. 1   20 1.50,1    
DNF   4 Team Schnitzer Motul
BMW 3.0 CSL		 Vittorio Brambilla, I
Bob Wollek, F
 3303 L6 Div. 2 ca. 107 2 1.37,7   Valve
DNF      
BMW 2002		 Mons Billgren, S
Jan Ridell, S
 1990 L4 Div. 1   19 1.48,2   Driveshaft
DNF      
Ford Escort RS 1600		 Karl-Heinz Leibold, D
Siegfried Müller Sr, D
 1996 L4 Div. 1   21 1.50,6   Halfshaft
DNF     Timex Racing Team
Ford Escort RS 1600		 Lennart Hall, S
Conny Ljungfeldt, S
 1840 L4 Div. 1   24 no time   Gearbox
DNF   20 Autodelta S.p.A.
Alfa Romeo Alfetta Berlina		 Rolf Stommelen, D
Reine Wisell, S
 1990 L4 Div. 1   9 1.42,1   Clutch
DNF     Autodelta S.p.A.
Alfa Romeo 2000 GTAm		 Massimo Larini, I
Tommy Jagervall, S
 1999 L4 Div. 1   16 1.46,2   Engine
DNF   37 Norman Reeves Ltd.
Ford Escort RS 1600		 Dave Brodie, GB
Claude Bourgoignie, B
 1975 L4 Div. 1   8 1.41,4   Engine
DNF     Motor Nord
BMW 3.0 CSL		 Rune Tobiasson, S
Leif Hansen, S
 3303 L6 Div. 2   11 1.43,5   Oil cooler
DNS      
Ford Capri RS 2600		 Waltraud Odenthal, D
Hartmut Kautz, D
 ca. 2900 V6 Div. 2   10 1.43,2   Engine
DNS     STP
BMW 2002		 Björn Ribers, S
Carl Piper, S
 1990 L4 Div. 1   18 1.46,9   Conrod