Is there any interest in old UK stuff?
I was flicking through my massive pile of mainly club, race programmes (ranging from Pre-war Donington to recent Hampton Downs) and came across a pic of Brett Riley and another of Graham McRae. There may well be entry/driver details of cars now in NZ as well as drivers.
Without restricting things to an NZ connection, are others willing to either contribute snippets, pics etc or are just interested, or do we just leave it to overseas based message boards and keep this board Kiwi?
Over to you.
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Formula Junior - Mallory Park
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The Junior entry from May 22nd 1961 Mallory Park. The problem is that is it is quite a messy process scanning and uploading to this web site, as the image size restrictions mean a lot of fluffing around with the original image.
*Are you reading this Steve? Auto resizing would be a great help.
RogerH may well be interested in the first 3 entries, but note also Major Arthur Mallock racing his U2. Is the Emeryson by any chance the one that Tony Ollisoff (ex Nigel Russell) now owns? Probably not, as the listed one in the programme presumably had a Ford engine.
The reserve "Chris Summers", in later years, was a regular in the Cooper Chevrolet, which ran in the Formula Libre race, traditionally the last race on the programme. Thinking back, that was almost the forerunner of F5000.
Also entered in the meeting is Tony Lanfranchi, erroneously typed in as an Alva, Dick Crosfield in an MGA and the famous "Tatty Turner", a crowd favourite during the early sixties plus our own family favourite, David Hobbs in the Elite.
It was only when I was doing some research on another specific Lotus Elite that I realised that the maximum grid on the 1.35 mile circuit was only 14 cars!
In later years when I was able to get myself there without using a bus or when Dad had the firm's van, I would park myself on the hairpin exit, just about all afternoon (paddock in the morning), the cars coming round quickly enough not to be a problem, as you saw them entering and leaving the hairpin. No catch fencing of course and you could almost lean over and touch the cars as they came past.
How I wish I had a modern long lensed SLR camera, instead of Dad's old Leica, with not even a rangefinder, as my photo collection would have been so much better. That is progress.