Dijon MotorsCup 2016 - Historic Formula 2

Matthew Watts in his 2 litre March-BMW 772 leads the field on the first lap.  Matthew won from pole and also took fastest lap.

I don't think I have ever seen a historic F2 race before, so this race brought back many good memories of the cars I saw race at Crystal Palace and Thruxton in the seventies.  The series is for F2 cars that raced pre-1979 and is organised by the HSCC.   There are rounds at Donington, Brands Hatch, Monza, Zandvoort and Dijon with three claases, one for the 2,000ccc cars, one for the earlier 1,600cc cars and one for Formula Atlantic cars.  I particularly loved the 1,600cc cars of the early seventies.  It reminded me of Mike Hailwood, Ronnie Peterson, Emerson Fittipaldi and Tim Schenken racing in 1971 and 1972.

The March 782 driven by Frazer Gibney who finished fifth.

Two March 712Ms, a Surtees TS15 and a Chevron B40 battle it out.   Robert Simac in the red March won class A.

Nick Osborn in a March 732 who finished fifteenth.

The March 712M of Carlo Del Conte looking resplendent in its Ronnie Peterson colours.

The Lotus 69 of Roger Bevan.

The March 782 of Dean Forward who finished second 

The March 782 of Torgny Johansson who finished tenth.  I seem to remember that the slogan "Jesus Saves" was used by Alex Ribeiro who won at the Nurburgring in a similar car to this.

Richard Evans overtakes another car in his March 79B on his way to fourth place and victory in Class B.

The beautiful Brabham BT36 of Luciano Arnold who finished second amongst the older 1600cc cars.

The third placed March 752 of Phil Hall.

The Surtees TS15 of Jeremy Wheatley.

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