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Sunday 23rd July 1972, Snetterton (MARC
RAC Permit RS8290) Report from Hot Car October 1972
Chick Woodruff's (sic) Snetterton Short Circuit
meeting improved still further the rapport that now exists
between Midget drivers and many Formula 1 Stock Car drivers
- and heightened the sense of challenge!… more to be added
Report from Car Advertiser & Auto News,
2nd August 1972
Chick Woodruff bought together at Snetterton
two of the fastest formulas on the raceways today the giant
spectacular Formula 1 Stock Cars with their big engines plus
the Grand Prix Midgets powered by full race engines up to
1300cc who surprised a lot of people at the end of the afternoon.
George Ansell held the 8-lap record with a
formula 1 Stock at 4 min 58 secs in the first Midget Race.
David Underhill recorded 4 min 32.8 secs which surprised everyone
including the midget drivers, the first race saw the most
spectacular crash ever seen in Midget racing in this country,
on lap 2 Car Advertisers Cliff Davis coming into the bend
near the grandstand made contact with the bank and the car
did a triple somersault end over end finishing the right way
up with wheels and parts coming off the car in the process,
thanks to the strong roll cage and a full harness part of
the safety regulations laid down by PRI Davis stepped out
of the car to the applause of the large crowd in the stand
with a few bruises and generally shaken up. These midget men
are made of strong stuff. After the wreckage was removed the
race was restored. Underhill. Robertson and Chris Davis (Car
Adv.) with Emery and Stubbs (Car Adv.) close behind, a very
fast race, with much changing of position the result was:-
1st Underhill 2nd Chris Davis 3rd Robertson 4th Emery 5th
Stubbs 6th Jopp
The Formula 1 races will be covered in our
special Stock Car feature. The second midget race recorded
an even faster time for 8 laps. This was won by Chris Davis
In a time of 4 min. 30.8 secs. New man Joe Therstappen made
a great start and held the lead for 5 laps till passed by
Davis and Robertson. Smith driving the fireball midget was
also in the picture but once again two young drivers Davis
and Robertson made their mark. The results were: 1st Chris
Davis 2nd Robertson 3rd Underhill 4th Emery 5th Therstappen
, 6th Stubbs The final was a similar story but for the fact
that our Ed Stubbs managed to get through from the back and
challenged for 1st place. This he took on lap 6 with Chris
Davis slipping into second place trying everything he knew
to pass, Graham and Smith showed up well in this race. but
the final result was: 1st Stubbs (new record time for 10 laps)
- 5 mins 45 secs 2nd Davis (Car Adv.) 3rd Emery 4th Robertson
5th John Smith 6th Graham
John Holtham (Auto Enth.) unfortunately coming
in to a bend had oil on his brake pedal his foot slipped on
to the accelerator and that was that. More damage to the front
- bad luck John. Congratulations Chick Woodruff and the Rochester
Motor Club for organising a really slick racing programme.
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