OBL 46F
Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2020 4:15 pm
Unread postby worksminis » 17 Mar 2017, 20:56
RAC November 67 (cancelled at 12 hours notice because of “foot and mouth” outbreak). Hopkirk/Crellin. Group 6. (One source states that 4 injection cars were entered. Only GRX311D for Makinen was injection).
Camberley “rallysprint”. Quickly organised for TV on what would have been the first stage of the cancelled RAC Rally. It was not then called a “rallysprint”, which is a modern term. In fact it was not called anything – and most certainly not a “rallycross”, as some sources now suggest. Hopkirk drove this car and Makinen drove GRX311D with Fall as passenger.
A Rallycross was held at Lydden Hill the next weekend. This was previously scheduled and intended to include an international field of RAC Rally competitors on one day and a club event on the other. Most of the foreign RAC entries had already departed and it was mainly UK competitors. BMC used the Corsica Rally cars that had retired early under suspicious circumstances, GRX5D and JBL172D, not the RAC cars.
Circuit of Ireland April 68. Ytterbring/Perssson. Group 6. Retd.(hit bridge and rolled). Written off.
Reg. no. is then recorded on a race car for Handley at Brands Hatch in March 69 (first round of the 69 BSCC). For sure a new car. Retd. accident.
It is unclear why some cars (of all makes) contesting the BSCC in the Group 5 era (66-69) carried reg. nos. The Cooper Car Company cars of that time did not. Fords of their various supported teams did. It may have been a requirement for some continental events but not the BSCC.
Reg. no. reappears on a 1275GT for London – Mexico World Cup Rally recce.
Sold to P. Cooper.
RAC November 67 (cancelled at 12 hours notice because of “foot and mouth” outbreak). Hopkirk/Crellin. Group 6. (One source states that 4 injection cars were entered. Only GRX311D for Makinen was injection).
Camberley “rallysprint”. Quickly organised for TV on what would have been the first stage of the cancelled RAC Rally. It was not then called a “rallysprint”, which is a modern term. In fact it was not called anything – and most certainly not a “rallycross”, as some sources now suggest. Hopkirk drove this car and Makinen drove GRX311D with Fall as passenger.
A Rallycross was held at Lydden Hill the next weekend. This was previously scheduled and intended to include an international field of RAC Rally competitors on one day and a club event on the other. Most of the foreign RAC entries had already departed and it was mainly UK competitors. BMC used the Corsica Rally cars that had retired early under suspicious circumstances, GRX5D and JBL172D, not the RAC cars.
Circuit of Ireland April 68. Ytterbring/Perssson. Group 6. Retd.(hit bridge and rolled). Written off.
Reg. no. is then recorded on a race car for Handley at Brands Hatch in March 69 (first round of the 69 BSCC). For sure a new car. Retd. accident.
It is unclear why some cars (of all makes) contesting the BSCC in the Group 5 era (66-69) carried reg. nos. The Cooper Car Company cars of that time did not. Fords of their various supported teams did. It may have been a requirement for some continental events but not the BSCC.
Reg. no. reappears on a 1275GT for London – Mexico World Cup Rally recce.
Sold to P. Cooper.
