1973 70s Chevron B25 Formule 2 et Formule Atlantique vieille voiture de course conduite par Keith Harris au Cholmondeley Pageant of Power. L'action se trouve sur la piste de 1.2 kilomètres située dans le parc du château de Cholmondeley, où se disputent des voitures de course, couvrant sept décennies de sports mécaniques. Le week-end est l'une des plus grandes célébrations de puissance et de vitesse dans le pays.
3600 x 2400 px | 30,5 x 20,3 cm | 12 x 8 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
15 juin 2014
Lieu:
Cholmondeley, Malpas, Cheshire, UK
Informations supplémentaires:
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TThe Chevron B25 was a dual-purpose design for Formula 2 and Formula Atlantic. It was built around a full monocoque, the firm's first, and had a full-width nose incorporating a front radiator. Peter Gethin in F2 and John Lepp in Formula Atlantic were the most successful International drivers. The first three cars were sold to Gunston for the new F2 class of the South African national championship, and the fourth, Ed Reeves' car, was ready in time to appear on Chevron's stand at the Racing Cars Show at Olympia in January 1973. Peter Gethin was sent down to South Africa to drive one of Gunston's cars at Cape Town in early January and was delighted with its performance. In Formula 2, Grovewood Award winner David Morgan would drive Reeves' B25, and would be joined by works cars for Gethin and Gerry Birrell. In Formula Atlantic, John Lepp and Martin Webb ran private B25s. In both categories, Chevron was competing for sales with March, Brabham, GRD and Surtees, but both Morgan and Lepp performed well on the opening weekend of the season and Chevron's new sales and marketing director Grahame White was quickly able to add several more sales into French hillclimbs via agent Pierre Maublanc. Another F2 privateer joined later, the American ex-marine Brett Lunger, and a further two cars were sold to Geoffrey Freeman's Freeman Racing Enterprises in the US for Formula B, but that deal turned sour. In F2, the BDA-powered Chevrons were outgunned by the BMW-powered March 732s and struggled to remain on a par with the Surtees TS15s, Motul-Rondel M1s and Alpines. The best result of the season was Gethin's second place at Karlskoga, but Gerry Birrell had led at Thruxton until punted off by a March 732. Birrell would later lose his life in a B25 in a practice accident at Rouen.
