Pole position: Gardner in 1.34,1
Fastest lap: Muir in 1.35,0
Distance: 20 laps
Average speed:
Weather: Snow - after lap 2
Ruleset: Group 2/70
Car info: 1973 Cars
Brian Muir earned a fine victory in the Group 2 race that preceded the F1 event, taking the lead as late as the 17th of the 20 laps when Frank Gardner made a mistake under pressure at Becketts and spun his big Camaro after totalling dominating the first half of the race. It was a win in the grand manner as Muir lashed the tail of his Gartlan BMW CSL all over the road in the chase during a snowstorm that left the circuit very slippery. Andy Rouse took the 2-litre class with ease after Dave Brodie had spun his similar Escort early in the race. Vince Woodman's Escort had no opposition to a runaway conquest of the 1300 class, cutting 1.8s off the lap record for good measure when the track dried put. Les Nash also set a new lap record in his ex-McGovern Imp, despite which he failed to beat Bill McGovern by the tiniest margin. |
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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 | 6 | Dealer Team BMW BMW 3.0 CSL |
Brian Muir, AUS |
3303 | L6 | D | 20 laps, 34.03,4 | 3 | 1.35,7 | 1.35,0 | |
| 2 | 1 | 21 | VMW Motors - Team Esso Uniflo Ford Escort RS 1600 |
Andy Rouse, GB |
1950 | L4 | C | 20 laps, 34.51,0 | 4 | 1.36,8 | 1.37,4 | |
| 3 | 2 | 3 | SCA European Road Services Chevrolet Camaro Z28 |
Frank Gardner, AUS |
7000 | V8 | D | 20 laps, 35.08.6 | 1 | 1.34,1 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Norman Reeves Ltd. Ford Escort RS 1600 |
Dave Brodie, GB |
1980 | L4 | C | 20 | 6 | 1.39,2 | |||
| 5 | 3 | Altyres (Luton) Chevrolet Camaro Z28 |
Martin Thomas, GB |
5736 | V8 | D | 20 | 5 | ||||
| 6 | 3 | Gerry Edmonds Racing Ford Escort RS 1600 |
Lawrie Hickman, GB |
1950 | L4 | C | 20 | 8 | 1.40,3 | |||
| 7 | 1 | 45 | VMW Motors - Team Esso Uniflo Ford Escort 1300 BDA |
Vince Woodman, GB |
1298 | L4 | B | 19 laps, 34.30,6 | 9 | 1.44,3 | 1.43,4 | |
| 8 | 2 | The Barbarians Ford Escort 1300 BDA |
Peter Hanson, GB |
1298 | L4 | B | 19 | 10 | 1.44,5 | |||
| 9 | 3 | BMC Mini Cooper S |
Chris Montague, GB |
1293 | L4 | B | 18 | 12 | 1.51,2 | |||
| 10 | 4 | Ford Escort 1300 ?BDA |
Tony Dickinson, GB |
1298 | L4 | B | 18 | 11 | 1.49,1 | |||
| 11 | 5 | Ford Escort 1300 GT |
Oli Thatcher, GB |
1298 | L4 | B | 18 | |||||
| CL | 6 | BMC Mini Cooper S |
Paul Burt, GB |
1293 | L4 | B | 14 | 1.51,8 | ||||
| CL | 1 | 71 | George Bevan Sunbeam Imp |
Bill McGovern, GB |
998 | L4 | A | 18 laps, 35.02,2 | 15 | 1.51,5 | ||
| CL | 2 | Commercial Credit Sunbeam Imp |
Les Nash, GB |
998 | L4 | A | 16 | 1.52,5 | 1.49,6 | |||
| CL | 3 | John Godfrey Sunbeam Imp |
Ivor Goodwin, GB |
998 | L4 | A | ||||||
| CL | 4 | Stapleton Motors Racing Promotions Sunbeam Imp |
Adrian Webb, GB |
998 | L4 | A | ||||||
| CL | 5 | Sunbeam Imp |
Melvyn Adams, GB |
998 | L4 | A | ||||||
| DNF | Ford Escort RS 1600 |
Jonathan Buncombe, GB |
1850 | L4 | C | 4 | 7 | 1.40,1 | Differential | |||
| DNF | 7 | Lindrick Finance Racing with Broadspeed Ford Capri RS 2600 LW |
Dave Matthews, GB |
2999 | V6 | D | 9 | 2 | 1.35,5 | Fuel supply | ||
| DNF | BMC Mini Cooper S |
Jon Mowatt, GB |
1293 | L4 | B | 12 | 17 | 1.51,3 | Gearbox | |||