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Mallory Park

Mallory Park, Leicester, Great-Britain

Date: 9/3/1975
Track length: 2.173 m
Attendance:
Entries accepted:
Starters: 11? (C-D);
Finishers: 9 (C-D);

Pole position: Lloyd in 1.02,8 (C-D); Rouse in 1.02,8 (A-B)
Fastest lap: Graham in 0.59,4 (C-D); Hine and Williams in 1.01,0 (A-B)

Distance: 25 laps
Average speed: 127,30 kmh (C-D); 126,10 kmh (A-B)
Weather:
Ruleset: Group 1B
Car info: 1975 Cars

 

Class C-D
Lloyd exercised brilliant throttle control and restraint, taking a clean start and letting the big Chevy out-torque smaller rivals. The Simoniz polish has certainly spread over for PR-man Lloyd. Richard showed all his old Spitfire wet weather form in staying on, and ahead, while pressed by Graham. The two Camaros just sped away from the field, a white-red-greeny black freight train of unchallenged rule.
Initially Fall had slotted into second place into Gerrads, but as Graham swept by onto the straight, he was left to resist the advances of Spice, Blackburn, Woodman, Lanfranchi, Macmillan Racing's John Olding (5.7 Camaro), Rolt, Malcolm West's Camaro and Malcolm Wayne's Camaro.
Fall's good start was wasted when the oil and water craved each other's company as the head gasket failed: he finally retired on lap 10 after dropping away from the leaders on the fourth lap.
Spice then had to cope with Blackburn until the seventh tour, when the Hermetite Capri had a moment and fell temporarily behind Woodman's Camaro. Blackburn was attacking again by lap 15 - but Spice held him off for third overall and first in class even though the Capri II was misfiring with a damaged camshaft in the ex-Adlards V6 from lap 4 onward.
Well spread out, and just urging their often water-logged machinery to valuable finishing points were the remaining heavy metal brigade, with Woodman fifth, Lanfranchi sixth, Olding seventh, West eighth and Wayne completing the finishers: Rolt spun the ex-works Capri off after 13 laps while eighth. Not a great race, but one that'll be remembered for another courageous Lloyd-Graham duel.

Class A-B
Another wet one-marque 1-2, the second saloon thrash featured some good dices and a few disappointed faces with car faults left over from '74. Pole position and a clear race winner came from the Team Piranha Broadspeed Triumph Dolomite Sprint of Andy Rouse. After an uncharacteristic bout of engine unreliability the Avengers ceded the smallest class to the Samurai Toyota Celica of Win Percy.


Touring Cars class C-D
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   Think Automotive/Simoniz Racing
Chevrolet Camaro Z28		 Richard Lloyd, GB
 7443 V8 D 25 laps, 25.36,0 1 1.02,8    
2 2   Fabergé Racing
Chevrolet Camaro Z28		 Stuart Graham, GB
 5736 V8 D 25 laps, 25.36,8 2 1.02,8 0.59,4  
3 1   Wisharts Garages
Ford Capri II 3.0 GT		 Gordon Spice, GB
 2993 V6 C 24 laps, 25.42,2 4      
4 2   Hermetite Products
Ford Capri 3000		 Holman “Les” Blackburn, GB
 2993 V6 C 24 5 1.03,8    
5 3   VMW Motors - Team Esso Uniflo
Chevrolet Camaro Z28		 Vince Woodman, GB
 5736 V8 D 24 7      
6 4   National Organs
Chrysler Hemicuda		 Tony Lanfranchi, GB
 6900 V8 D 24 6      
7 5   MacMillan Racing
Chevrolet Camaro Z28		 John Olding, GB
 5736 V8 D          
8 6    
Chevrolet Camaro Z28		 Malcolm West, GB
 5736 V8 D          
9 7    
Chevrolet Camaro Z28		 Malcolm Wayne, GB
 5736 V8 D          
DNF     Dealer Opel Team
Opel Commodore GS/E		 Tony Fall, GB
 2784 L6 C 10 3     Head gasket
DNF      
Ford Capri 3000		 Stuart Rolt, GB
 2993 V6 C         Spin

Touring Cars class A-B
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   Triumph Team Piranha
Triumph Dolomite Sprint		 Andy Rouse, GB
 1998 L4 B 25 laps, 25.50,6 1 1.02,8    
2 2   Triumph Team Piranha
Triumph Dolomite Sprint		 Roger Bell, GB
 1998 L4 B 25 laps, 25.52,6 2 1.03,4    
3 3   Team Castrol
Mazda Savanna RX-3		 Barrie Williams, GB
 2 x 491 R2 B 25 laps, 25.53,6 4 1.04,0 1.01,0  
4 4   Shellsport
Triumph Dolomite Sprint		 John Hine, GB
 1998 L4 B 25 laps, 26.03,4 3 1.03,4 1.01,0  
5 5   London Sportscar Centre
Ford Escort RS 2000		 Tom Walkinshaw, GB
 1993 L4 B 25 laps, 26.30,4 5 1.04,6    
6 1   Samurai Racing with Toyota GB
Toyota Celica GT		 Win Percy, GB
 1588 L4 A 25 laps, 26.31,8     1.02,6  
  2   Halesfield Motors (Telford) Ltd.
Hillman Avenger 1600 GT		 Jenny Birrell, GB
 1594 L4 A 24 7 1.06,0    
  3   Penthouse Racing
Alfa Romeo 1600 GT Junior		 Tony Dron, GB
 1570 L4 A 23        
  4   Halesfield Motors (Telford) Ltd.
Hillman Avenger 1600 GT		 Bernard Unett, GB
 1594 L4 A 22 6 1.05,0    
      Penthouse Racing
Alfa Romeo 1600 GT Junior		 Stan Clark, GB
 1570 L4 A          
      Tensile Structures
Renault R 17 TS		 Martin Thomas, GB
 1565 L4 A          
DNF     V.W. Derrington
Hillman Avenger 1600 GT		 David Vizard, GB
 1594 L4 A   8 1.07,8    
DNS     Arian Automotive Developments
Mazda Savanna RX-3		 Brian Muir, AUS
 2 x 491 R2 B