BP British Formula 3 Championship Race
Mallory Park, 15 Oct 1978
| Results | Laps | Time/Speed | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rob Wilson | Ralt RT1/78 [98] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #31 International Computers Limited - Royal Grafton China |
30 | 25m 37.2s 94.85 mph |
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| 2 | Derek Warwick | Ralt RT1/77 [86] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #1 Warwick Trailers |
30 | 26m 18.7s |
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| 3 | Thorkild Thyrring | Ralt RT1/78 [123] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #47 Marlboro |
29 | ||||||
| 4 | Huub Rothengatter | Chevron B38 [38.77.19] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #19 Docking Racing (see note 1) |
29 | ||||||
| 5 | Chico Serra | March 783 [14] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #13 Sadia Racing with Project Four (see note 2) |
29 | ||||||
| 6 | Peré (Pedro) Noguès | March 783 [10] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #50 Rushen Green Racing (see note 3) |
29 | ||||||
| 7 | Osamu Hatagawa | March 783 [21] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #37 March Racing Ltd (see note 4) |
29 | ||||||
| 8 | John Bright | March 773 [13] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #51 Twinsocks by McRitchie of Edinburgh (see note 5) |
29 | ||||||
| 9 | Wyatt Stanley | March 753 [14] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #46 Security Trust (see note 6) |
25 | ||||||
| R | Andrea de Cesaris | Ralt RT1/76 [16] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #4 Marlboro Team Tiga |
16 | Throttle cable | |||||
| R | Barry Green | Chevron B43 [43.78.07A] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #30 Valvoline Fred Opert Racing |
11 | ||||||
| R | John Lewis | Chevron B38 - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #52 |
3 | Accident | |||||
| R | Fernando Jorge | Ralt RT1/78 [112] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #17 |
0 | Accident | |||||
| DNA | Teo Fabi | March 783 [16?] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #36 Astra Racing Team |
Did not arrive | ||||||
| DNA | Jacques Coulon | Martini MK21 [01] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #2 |
Did not arrive | ||||||
| DNA | John Stokes | Chevron B38 [38.77.25] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #23 (see note 7) |
Did not arrive | ||||||
| DNA | Ian Flux | Ralt RT1 - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #14 Cloud Engineering |
Did not arrive | ||||||
| DNA | Derek Lawrence | Chevron B38 [38.77.10] - Chevrolet Vega #28 |
Did not arrive | ||||||
| DNA | Ken Silverstone | Ralt RT1/78 [139] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #18 On the Spot Tyre and Exhaust Centres |
Did not arrive | ||||||
| DNA | Philip Bullman | Chevron B38 [38.77.24] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #32 Docking Racing (see note 8) |
Did not arrive | ||||||
| DNA | Phil Silverstone | Ralt RT1/77 [54] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #16 Cloud Engineering |
Did not arrive | ||||||
| DNA | Paul Morton | Hawke DL14 - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor #55 |
Did not arrive | ||||||
All cars are 2-litre F3 unless noted.
| Qualifying | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Derek Warwick | (F3) 2-litre Ralt RT1/77 [86] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor | 0.48.9 | ||
| 2 | Thorkild Thyrring | (F3) 2-litre Ralt RT1/78 [123] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor | 0.49.7 | ||
| 3 | Barry Green | (F3) 2-litre Chevron B43 [43.78.07A] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor | 0.49.8 | ||
| 4 | Andrea de Cesaris | (F3) 2-litre Ralt RT1/76 [16] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor | 0.50.0 | ||
| 5 | Chico Serra | (F3) 2-litre March 783 [14] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor | 0.50.1 | ||
| 6 | Fernando Jorge | (F3) 2-litre Ralt RT1/78 [112] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor | 0.50.2 | ||
| 7 | John Bright | (F3) 2-litre March 773 [13] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor | 0.50.2 | ||
| 8 | Rob Wilson | (F3) 2-litre Ralt RT1/78 [98] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor | 0.50.2 | ||
| 9 | Huub Rothengatter | (F3) 2-litre Chevron B38 [38.77.19] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor | 0.51.0 | ||
| 10 | Osamu Hatagawa | (F3) 2-litre March 783 [21] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor | 0.51.0 | ||
| 11 | Peré (Pedro) Noguès | (F3) 2-litre March 783 [10] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor | 0.52.0 | ||
| 12 | John Lewis | (F3) 2-litre Chevron B38 - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor | 0.52.2 | ||
| 13 | Wyatt Stanley | (F3) 2-litre March 753 [14] - Toyota 2T-G Novamotor | 0.52.7 | ||
Notes on the cars:
- Chevron B38 [38.77.19] (Huub Rothengatter): New to Alan Docking Racing for Ian Grob to race in British F3 in 1977, entered by KVG Racing. Retained by the Docking team for 1978, and probably the car driven by Huub Rothengatter in the last few months of the season. Unknown after 1979 until it reappeared with Jim Yardley in 1984. Later with David Proctor in 1987.
- March 783 [14] (Chico Serra): Shown in March records for 1978 as delivered to Rushen Green Racing 14 April 1978, colour red, with tub 78M71. This is presumably the car used by Serra at Donington 30 April 1978, where Motoring News describes it as a new and unsorted chassis being readied for Monaco, and at Silverstone the following day where the Autosport report also describes it as new and used the day before at Donington. Sold to Fermin Velez for 1979, run by Brian Lewis Racing, with the chassis number observed by F1R at Snetterton in August 1979.
- March 783 [10] (Peré (Pedro) Noguès): Shown in March records for 1978 as delivered to Rushen Green Racing 29 March 1978, colour blue, with tub 78M42. Pedro Nogues joined Serra at Rushen Green from the end of April, with a blue 783. Retained into 1979. This chassis number observed on the hillclimb car of Tom Hart (Beckenham, Greater London) in the 1600cc class in 1981. To Barrie Dutnall (Gillingham, Kent) in 1983 and 1984, then to Billy MacMillan (Darvel, East Ayrshire, Scotland) and fitted with a Cosworth BDG, then to Bill Wood (Edinburgh) at the end of 1986. Wood did not enjoy it, and it was sold via David Keogh or Paul Rendle at the end of 1987 to Chris Drewett (Harbury, Warwickshire). Raced by Drewett from 1988 to 2002. Sold by Drewett via Paul Matty to Andrew Peach, and presumably the March 782 raced by him in the HSCC Derek Bell Trophy in 2004.
- March 783 [21] (Osamu Hatagawa): Shown in March records for 1978 as completed as a team car, 17 March 1978, with tub 78M43. This was the only works car built in 1978 and is the car debuted by Nigel Mansell at Silverstone, 19 March 1978, when race reports describe it as brand new. Used by Mansell in the early part of the season then by Snobeck, van Rooyen, Bullman and Hatagawa.
- March 773 [13] (John Bright): Shown in March records as a works car finished February 1977, on tub AM773-28 for Ayron Cornelson Filho. Also used by David Kennedy in 1977. Sold to John Bright in March 1978 to cover for his damaged Wheatcroft. Damaged badly by Bright and rebuilt on new tub in August. Retained by Bright in 1979 until wrecked at Snetterton.
- March 753 [14] (Wyatt Stanley): Originally a car belonging to the B&O team in 1975, when used by Pierre Dieudonné. Chassis number for this car and its sister, driven by Hervé Regout, observed by AF at Oulton Park 4 October 1975. Sold to Ken Silverstone for the 1976 season [Autosport 2 Sep 1976 p33 says his car is ‘ex Dieudonné.) To Wyatt Stanley in mid 1977 and retained by him for the 1978 season.
- Chevron B38 [38.77.25] (John Stokes): New to John Stokes (Birmingham) and raced in British F3 in 1977, sponsored by Bogarts of Birmingham. Retained for 1978 and rented by Philippe Colonna for the Zolder F3 in Zolder after Colonna had wrecked his ex-Stephen South March at Zeltweg. Then raced again by Stokes until the end of August.
- Chevron B38 [38.77.24] (Philip Bullman): New to Alan Docking Racing for Philippe Colonna to race in British F3 in 1977. Retained by the Docking team for 1978, and raced by Philip Bullman and by Colonna in British F3. Unknown in 1979 but purchased by Eddie Heasell in early 1980 for British F3 and libre. Retained for libre in 1981.
Sources
Note that the identification of individual cars in these results is based on the material presented elsewhere in this site and may in some cases contradict the organisers' published results.
These British Formula 3 results have been compiled by Chris Townsend using the main British magazines Autosport and Motoring News but also the US magazine On Track which carried surprisingly good coverage of the British series.
All comments, clarifications, corrections and additions are most welcome. Please email Allen (allen@oldracingcars.com) if you can help in any way with our research.