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The first section of pictures on this page were taken at the Hot Car/Radio Luxembourg Grandnationals meeting staged by the NDRC at Blackbushe on 20 August 1972. |
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This is Jim Brown and his blown 1260cc blown JAP getting a little heat into the slick. |
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The concensus is that this is John Woolfe Racing's head honcho Dave Riswick at the wheel of business partner Arnold Burton's Gordon Keeble. |
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This is Dave Render's Buick-powered Ginetta. |
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Nick Pettitt has kindly identified this Standard Vanguard as belonging to Bill Beeman from Greenwich in south east London. |
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Harold Bull had it all his own way in his dimuntive 995cc 4 cylinder Stripduster dragster. He won Junior Dragster by cranking out consistent mid-eleven second runs which were a second or more quicker than the opposition. |
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John Whitmore was yet another man who could extract incredible power from small British 4 cylinder engines. Here he is in his Drag'n'Fly dragster. |
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John Williamson's Poison Ivy altered used a Falco Carribean body and a 3.8 litre Jaguar engine. |
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Freddie Whittle's Shutdown was super-consistent running 9.77/159, 9.80/153 and 9.79/164 but didn't have the legs to out-run Dave Stone in Tee Rat who blasted out a 9.48/172 pass which set a new speed record for altereds. |
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Gary Goggin at the wheel of his Super Vette Top Street car. |
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A couple of shots of Roger Bell's 5.7 litre Formula 1 BRM which he entered in Top Dragster. Roger's 11.88/120 however was no much for Bruce Brown's 9.79/161. |
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A terrific sequence, doubtless taken with Alan's motor drive, of Dennis Priddle burning out in the Priddle, Riswick, Stanford and Gane Mr Six fueller. |
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Dennis was matched up against his arch rival Clive Skilton and here are the pair of them boiling the slicks on the notoriously loose Blackbushe runway. |
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Dennis took the silverware home on this occasion and in the process laid down the first ever six second run at Blackbushe with a 6.92/194 and later clocked 6.91 seconds at 211 mph smoking the slicks for the entire quarter mile. This was the fastest speed so far recorded in the UK so he had plenty to smile about. Clive's best run of the day was 7.62/189. |
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Left : Jimmy Parsons the Press Officer of Radio Luxembourg is on the left, Dave Riswick is in the centre of shot with Dennis Priddle on the right. |
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The Transcontinental Funny Car of the Hillbillies team of Mike Derry and Roland Pratt made its debut on 25 June 1972 at Santa Pod Raceway. After some initial handling problems Roland Pratt ran a very creditable 8.77/162.34 pass on only 25% nitro which was a very encouraging start. |
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