The 1976 Griffin Golden Helmet Trophy was a non-championship Formula Three race, held at the Mallory Park circuit, in Leicestershire, England, on 26 September. The race saw Stephen South score his first International race victory.
Report
Entry A total of 26 F3 cars were entered for the event, however of those, only seventeen took part in qualifying and race. Of the nine, who were entered, but did not arrive included the BARC BP Super Visco British F3 Champion, Rupert Keegan.
Qualifying Stephen South took pole position, ahead of Brazilian Paulo Gomes. Another Brazilian, Aryon Cornelsen-Filho took third with Geoff Lees completing the second row of the grid.
Race After 18 laps of the Mallory Park circuit, South took the chequered flag, in a time of 13:35.4 mins., averaging a speed of 107.28 mph. Second place went to Lees, who was just 1.4secs behind. Gomes was a little further adrift in third, completed the podium.
Classification
Race Pos. No. Driver Entrant Car - Engine Time, Laps Reason Out 1st 1 Stephen South Dortmunder Union Bier/Bogarts of Birmingham March-Toyota 763 13:35.4 2nd 18 Geoff Lees Rob Roy Racing with D.J. Bond Chevron-Toyota B34 13:36.8 3rd 25 Paulo Gomes Team Modus Ltd Modus-Toyota M1 13:43.2 4th 11 Geoff Brabham Brabham Racing Organisation Ralt-Toyota RT1/76 13:44.6 5th 29 Aryon Cornelsen-Filho March Racing Ltd March-Toyota 763 13:45.4 6th 28 Boy Hayje F & S Properties Ralt-Toyota RT1/76 13:46.4 7th 30 Barrie Maskell Jeff Sharpe Dastle-Ford Mk 10B (or Mk 12) 8th 6 Paul Bernasconi Paul Bernasconi Ralt-Toyota RT1/76 9th 26 Tim Keen Team Modus Ltd Modus-Toyota M1 10th 22 Pierre Dieudonné Dr. Joseph Ehrlich Ehrlich-Toyota ES5/6 DNF 16 John Lain Imado Watch Company Ltd Modus-Ford M1 DNF 8 Torsten Palm Ralt-Toyota RT1/76 DNF 27 Bruce Coate-Bond Waves (Car Displays) March-Toyota 753 DNF 20 Roger Andreason GRD-GRD 374 DNF 2 Giordano Regazzoni March-Toyota 753 DNF 21 Luis de Almenara Ray Race International Ray-Toyota 376 DNF 5 Tony Dron March-Toyota 763
Fastest lap: Stephen South & Geoff Lees, 44.6secs.
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