Lutos
Lutos
The Lutos was based on the Lotus 22 and was originally designed and built in Örebro as a F Junior but it never raced in this class, the chassis was built by Sportscars AB who used the same frame for their Focus (q.v.). It was bought by Sven-Erik Eriksson and it was fitted with rear suspension from a F2 Lola and bodywork from the F3 Svebe (q.v.). It raced occasionally in 1966-67 and it appeared again briefly in the 1970s fitted with a twin-cam engine.
Thanks to Peter Pettersson for the above information.
Drivers:
1966 Lars Bjuhr.
1967
Björn Öhrman.
197? Frank Lacknack.
Lucangeli
Lucangeli
n 1959 Sergio Lucangeli built a rear-engined F Junior car, the chassis was multi-tubular with independent suspension front and rear, the engine and gearbox were Fiat.
In June 1964 Odoardo Govoni failed to finish a race at Monza in a Ford-powered chassis, beating several notable names that failed to qualify. In September of the same year, again at Monza, the Lucangeli finished ninth whilst in October it failed to qualify for a Monza round. In the final race it was listed as Fiat-powered. Its reasonable level of competitiveness indicates that perhaps this 1964 model wasn’t a modified F Junior chassis.
Drivers
1964 Odoardo Govoni.
Lova
Lova
The Lova was a Belgian machine constructed by Jef Dujourie at Louvain (hence the derivation of its name, the Latin name for Louvain was Lovanium). The first Lova was a 500cc car raced by Dujourie himself in Belgian hillclimbs and in 1960 he built a front-engined DKW powered F Junior which, despite André Pilette having an outing at Monthléry, proved uncompetitive.
A new chassis was constructed, this time moving the DKW engine to the rear and was driven by the wonderfully named Willy Vroomen, a Dutchman from Antwerp and Jean-Claude Franck, a 21 year old from Louvain. Results were still disappointing and even the adoption of a Holbay-tweaked Ford engine did not noticeably improve matters.
Vroomen took part in several early F3 races, where the Lova reverted to a DKW engine in what would seem to be the F Junior car converted to F3. It only ever appeared to run towards the back of a handful of races and then vanished as the racing became more serious.
Thanks to Stefan Örnerdal for additional information.
Drivers:
1964 Willy Vroomen.
1965 Roger Béguint, Willy Vroomen.
1966 Willy Vroomen.
Lotus
Lotus
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
An entirely new design for 1969, the Dave Baldwin designed 59. It was a dual purpose F2/F3 spaceframe chassis composed of square tubing. Suspension was the familiar double wishbone, outboard springs and dampers at the front with top link, reversed lower wishbone and twin radius rods at the rear. Triumph Herald uprights were used at the front with cast-magnesium units the rear. Wheels were cast magnesium with a knock-on centre-lock fitting. The oil tank, pump, cooler and catch-tank were all sited over the Hewland gearbox.
Wheelbase: 92.5 ins.
Track: front & rear 56 ins.
The 59 first appeared at the Brands Hatch Boxing Day meeting, actually the 27th December 1967. After overcoming some early season problems with spring rates and the oil system the car proved a success, its chunky body hampered it a little on fast circuits but it had a reputation for putting the power down very well. Most successful driver was an up-and-coming young Brazilian named Emerson Fittipaldi, a string of nine wins saw him take the UK Lombard Championship.
1970
1971
1972
According to Lotus publicists the 73 was the F3 answer to the F1 World Championship winning 72. It was built purely for use as a works car and was officially designated a “John Player Special”. Early design work was by 72 designer Maurice Phillippe before he left Lotus and it was originally intended to be a F2 car. The design was finalised by Dave Baldwin and Martin Wade. Like its F1 big brother the 73 had a bathtub monocoque with the engine acting as a stressed member attached via a tubular framework. At the front a tubular sub frame carried the rack and pinion steering, inboard front brakes, rising rate suspension with fabricated double wishbones with outboard coil springs and dampers. Rear suspension was via a single upper link, twin parallel lower links and twin radius rods, the whole design was based on the 59/69 series. Coil springs/dampers were outboard, brakes inboard.
Early season results were good with Trimmer winning at Mallory and coming second at Monaco but ultimately the car was too complex to be set up quickly in the short F3 race days and the car faded as the season progressed. Additionally the impression was that Lotus weren’t really interested in F3 and that some of the JPS F3 budget ended up in the F1 coffers.
A modified version, the 73B was prepared for 1973 but lack of a sponsor meant Lotus never raced it. The cars were sold to Dr Joseph Ehrlich in 1975 who entered one in a race at Monza as an Ehrlich-Lotus, driven by Patrick Neve, it retired after failing to feature.
Drivers (N.B. Race reports in the early sixties often didn’t specify the chassis type so details are necessarily uncertain)
1964
31
Rodney Banting, Richard Burton, Piers Courage, Jörgen Ellekaer, John Fenning, Pierre Gelé, Evert Jan Groen, Freek Dudok van Heel, Martin Kaye, David van Lennep, “Franz Müller” (Roman Dirschl), Georges Rossetti, Sverrir Thoroddsson, Jonathan Williams.
27
Malcolm Angood, Jean-Paul Behra, John Berry, Roland Binder, Bruno Deserti, Franz Dörfliger, Bruce Eglinton, Simon de Lautour, Melvyn Long, Hans Maasland, Luigi Malanca, Alberico Passadore, Malcolm Payne, David Porter, Harry Stiller, Barry Wood, Philippe Vidal.
22
Georges Ansermoz, Pino Babbini, Guglielmo Bellasi, John Berry, Luigi Bettiol, Bernard Collomb, Franco Conti, Piers Courage, Paul Craven, Jörgen Ellekaer, John Fenning, Franco Ghezzi, Kai Godenhjelm, Brian Hart, Henri Julien, Jens-Christian Legarth, Alain Leguellec, Michel Looser, Jean-Pierre Muller, Jack Pearce, Jacques Pouzet, Georges Rossetti, Stefan Sklenar, Jonathan Williams, Walter Wüst.
20/22
Mike Herbertson.
20
Albert Achinger, Norberto Bagnalasta, Jean Bruyère, Ralph B.de Laforest, Dieter Lanzerath, Charles Lucas, Otto Lux, Jean-Pierre Muller, Franco Pigozzi, Jacques Pouzet, Georges Rossetti, Keith St John.
18
Jean Audhuy, Christian Berger, Jean Bruyère, Chicard, Kurt Dernen, Patrick Dupin, Horst Görs, Jean-Marie Guyot, Georges Héligoin, Jean-Louis Mise, Vincent Palmaro, Johnny Rives, Claude Robert, Claude Swietlik, Olivier Turcat, Karl Untersteggaber, Richard Weber.
?
Malcolm Angood, Brian Barton, Daniel Cerisier, Franco Conti, Yves Deprez, Ray Dilley, Thierry van Eyll, Len Gibbs, Toni Hildebrand, Albert McMillen, Alessandro Rigamonti, “Thierry”, Walter Treser, Giuseppe Vanaria.
1965
35
Bob Bondurant, John Cardwell, Adrian Chambers, Brian Hart, Freddy Kottulinsky, Melvin Long, John Miles, Filippe Nogueira, Ray Parsons, Peter Revson, “Jorge S”, Alban Scheiber, Roby Weber.
34
Dieter Lanzerath.
32
John Cardwell, Francesco Ghezzi, Harry Stiller.
31
Derek Bell, Paul Deetens, Ray Hills, Ole Jörgensen, Tony Lanfranchi, Morris Nunn, Leif Persson, Georges Rossetti, Giuseppe Vanaria, Adam Wyllie.
27
Roland Binder, Sean Brady, Walter Flückiger, Patrice Gransart, Tonio Hildebrand, Hans Maasland, Harry Stiller.
22
Rodney Banting, Guigliemo Bellasi, Alessandro Braga, Giouse Butti, Walter Flückiger, Kai Godenhjelm, Ole Jörgensen, Jörn Qviste, Georges Rossetti, Tom Trana.
20/22
Mike Herbertson.
20
Romolo Baston, Raymond Sodreau.
18
A. Prince, Hans Nilsson.
?
Francois Chevalier, Edwin Dawson, Peter Derré, Luigi Foschi, Carmelo Genovese, Peter Gethin, Patrice Gransart, Willi Keufen, Dieter Lanzerath, Ray Parsons, Malcolm Payne, Gunnar Pedersen, Aldo Pessina, Luigi Petri, Boley Pittard, Walter Wüst.
1966
41
Derek Bell, Lars Bjuhr, Jean Blanc, John Cardwell, Gunnar Carlsson, Piers Courage, Andrew Cowan, Teddy Dawson, Tony Dean, Cacho Fangio, “Geki” (Giacomo Russo), Francesco Godia, Nick Gold, Egert Haglund, Brian Hart, L Hawkins, John Hine, David Hobbs, Tetsu Ikuzawa, Bill Ivy, José-Maria Juncadella, Emil Knecht, Simon de Lautour, Melvyn Long, Wim Loos, Charles Lucas, Chris Moore, Hans Nilsson, Morris Nunn, Eric Offenstadt, Jackie Oliver, Vincent Palmaro, Malcolm Payne, Roy Pike, Peter Revson, Alex Soler-Roig, Rob Slotemaker, Harry Stiller, Thierry Tilmant, Peter Welstead.
35
Walter Flückiger, Keith Greene, Brian Hart, L Huerta-Garcia, Brian Jordan, Freddy Kottulinsky, Jochen Neerpasch, Colin Priddey, Karl von Wendt, Andy Wilkinson.
32
Jaime Martinez.
31
Tony Broster, Roy Cook, Ken Crook, Teddy Dawson, Bengt Ekström, Peter Fattorini, Len Gibbs, Mike Heathcote, Brian Jordan, John Hartle, John Lindsay, Ken Luscombe-Whyte, Mike Potter, Jeff Roberts, Simon Sherman, Steve Thompson, David Wragg.
27
Roland Binder, Werner Jörgensen.
22
Tony Bracegirdle, Tony Broster, Giosue Butti, Kaj Godenhjelm, Alessandro Guidetti, Gabriel Lacoste, Chris Lewis, Luigi Malanca, John Peake, Jörn Qviste, David Wragg.
20
John Lindsay, Betty Peters, Heinz-Dietmar Riedinger.
18
Thorkild Thyrring.
?
Jean-Pierre Beynac, Alessandro Braga, Antonio Braga, Capozzi, Foresti, Giancarlo Gagliardi, Stefan Gelmar, Genovese, Francesco Ghezzi, “Giagi”, A. Guidetti, Olavi Kuikka, Gabriel Lacoste, Dieter Lanzerath, Hasse Nilsson, Saint-Michel, Saverio Salerno, Hans Sjosted, Andrea Tosi.
1967
41C
Vladimír Hubácèk, Freddy Kottulinsky.
41 (some may be the 41C chassis)
Albert Badan, Giancarlo Baghetti, Jean-Claude Beynac, David Bickel, Roland Binder, Jean Blanc, John Cardwell, Chris Cox, Peter Crossley, Mac Daghorn, Jürg Dubler, Bo Eriksson, Nasif Estefano, John Fenning, Malcolm Fletcher, Alain Franceschi, Peter Gaydon, “Geki” (Giacomo Russo), Ramon Griffoll, Cliff Haworth, John Hine, Vladimir Hubacek, Emil Knecht, Brian Jordan, “Josse”, John Kendall, Freddy Kottulinsky, Robert Lamplough, Freddy Link, Charles Lucas, Carlos Martin, John Miles, Chris Moore, John Netherwood, Hans Nilsson, Morris Nunn, Eric Offenstadt, Andrew Page, José-Maria Palomo, Jaime Piera, Roy Pike, Comte Adam Potocki, Gilbert Salles, Jaime Samsò, Alex Soler-Roig, Georges Taquet, Javier de Vilar, Peter Welstead.
35
José Juncadella, Dieter Lanzerath, Freddy Link, Ernst Maring, Ove Nicklasson, Eric Offenstadt, Chris Williams.
32
Brian Jones, Brian Jordan.
31
Bengt Ekström, Peter Farrer, Bernard Unett, Leif Wikander.
27
“Kirke”, Tim Stock.
22
A Bracegirdle, Tim Schenken.
20
Heikki Heidenstrauch, Börje Lindberg.
18
Bob Howlings.
?
Franco Foresti, Eugen Kiemele, Jean-Paul Moussier.
1968
59
John Miles.
51
Jac Nelleman.
41X
John Miles.
41C
Ken Crook.
41 (some may be the 41C chassis)
Albert Badan, Eugenio Baturone, Jean-Pierre Beynac, Roland Binder, Jean Blanc, Alain Cheval, Paul Cure, Leif Englund, Lennart Engström, Malcolm Fletcher, Josef Frei, Carlos Giro, Freddy Kottulinsky, Freddy Link, Morris Nunn, José Palomo, Lars-Eric Salé, Richard Scott, Georges Taquet, Philippe Vidal, Staffan Wahlström.
35
Roland Binder, Tony Birchenhough, Paul Fischer, Freddy Kottulinsky, Freddy Link, Ernst Maring, Bengt Rådmyr, Åke Roslund, Paul Tucom.
22
Willi Deutsch.
20
Willi Deutsch.
?
Björn Öhrman, Vladislav Ondrejik, Bengt Rådmyr, Per-Owe Söderberg.
1969
59B
Tetsu Ikuzawa.
59
Mike Beckwith, Bev Bond, Lars Elgin, Emerson Fittipaldi, Tetsu Ikuzawa, Freddy Kottulinsky, Matti Lamminen, François Mazet, Morris Nunn, Ronnie Peterson, Roy Pike, Andy Sutcliffe, Dave Walker.
51
Ernst Ungar.
41B
Francois Humbert.
41
Vladimir Hubacek, Jörg Kissling, Vladislav Ondrejik, Bengt Radmyr, Peter Rosenmaier, Lars-Erik Sale, Mike Watkins.
35
Tony Birchenhough, Paul Fischer.
1970
59A
Sten Axelsson, Bev Bond, Wilson Fittipaldi, James Hunt, Fritz Jordan, Freddy Kottulinsky, Carlos Pace, Dave Walker.
59
Sten Axelsson, Bev Bond, Claude Bouroignie, David Cole, Wilson Fittipaldi, James Hunt, Per K:son Kjellberg, Freddy Kottulinsky, Carlos Pace, Bengt Rådmyr, Andy Sutcliffe, Tony Trimmer, Ole Vejlund, Dave Walker, Tom Walkinshaw.
41B
Michel Richard.
41
Bengt Rådmyr, Mike Watkins.
35
Paul Fischer.
?
Rolf Gröndahl, Vladimir Hubacek, Vladislav Ondrejik.
1971
69
Ian Ashley, Thomas Betzler, Guisseppi Bianchi, Gerry Birrell, Claude Bourgoignie, Freddy Kottulinsky, Manizio Levi, Richard Longman, Alan McCully, Manfred Möhr, Dave Morgan, Giancarlo Naddeo, Fernando Natividade, Fabrizio Noe, Rikki von Opel, Gerold Pankl, Bengt Radmyr, Andy Sutcliffe, Dave Walker, Sven Wingaard, Geddes Yeates.
59A
Wilson Fittipaldi, Fritz Jordan, Carlos Pace, Tony Trimmer, Dave Walker.
?
Paul Fischer, Sigi Hofmann.
1972 73
Tony Trimmer, Bernard Vermilio,
69
Ross Ambrose, Carlo Breidenstein, Alan Edgar, Harald Ertl, Roger Keele, Günter Kölmel, Freddy Link, Lella Lombardi, Barrie Maskell, Ernesto Neves, Bruno Pescia, Bengt Radmyr, Gerhard Witti, Geddes Yeates.
1973 69
Malcolm Bohm, Carlo Breidenstein, Günter Kölmel, Gaudenzio Mantova, Klaus Scholtyssek.
1974 69
Carlo Breidenstein, Günter Kölmel.
1975
73B
Patrick Neve.
? (Listed as a Lotus 3)
Peter Rössler.
Lola
Lola
1964
1965
1966
1967
1969
1971
1972
1973
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1983
Lola had one more look at F3 with the T870, it was tested in mid-1983 and Lola announced it would race once it was fully competitive. It never raced which implies it wasn’t ready to take on the Ralt RT3 head to head. That was Lola’s last F3 car for 20 years until the creation of the Lola-Dome (q.v.).
Drivers
1964
Mk53
Bill Bradley.
Mk5A
Jacques Clemente, Jean-Claude Franck, Dieter Mantzel, Eric Offenstadt.
Mk5
Andrea de Adamich, David Baker, Tommy Bunn, William Caiger, Len Selby.
Mk3
Josef Hecht, Klaus Miersch, August Rösner.
Mk2
Tony Goodwin.
?
Richard Höhfeld, Chuck Jones, Jean-Pierre Muller, Heinrich Oestreich, Giuseppe Polistena, Josef Schnitzer.
1965
T60
Mike Beckwith, Eric Offenstadt.
Mk5A
Andrea de Adamich, Jean Bruyére, Georg Duneborn, Jean-Pierre Muller, Antonio Peixinho, Paul Pellero, Claude Sitrakian.
Mk5
Claude Sitrakian.
Mk3
Ralph Buschaus de Laforest.
?
Pierre Derré, Sten-Olof Gunnasson, J-C Muller, Ernst Schelble, Hasse Sjostedt, Yngve Wallin.
1966
T60
Mike Beckwith, Eric Offenstadt, Luigi Petri, Giorgio Pianta, Steve Thompson.
Mk5A
Ted Reece, Georges Taquet.
Mk3
Karl Starke.
?
Dieter Braun, Stig Dahlman, Lothar Ranft, Yngve Wallin.
1967
T60 (see 1967 above)
Ian Ashley, Michel Dagorne, Pierre/Philippe Marchesi, Boley Pittard, Steve Thompson.
Mk3
Karl Starke.
?
Mario Acquati, Mac Daghorn, Daniel Gache.
1968 ?
Göran Porander.
1969
T62
Guy Edwards.
?
Klaus Tenbensel.
1975 T350
Robert Joubert.
1976
T470
Patrick Bardinon.
1977 T570
George Aposkitis, Ian Ashley, Nigel Mansell.
1978 T670
Walter Baltisser, Roland Bitterlin, Mike Blanchet, Tommy “Slim” Borgudd, Fredy Eschenmoser, Arie Luyendijk.
1979
T770
Phillipe Alliot.
T672
Roland Bitterlin, Mike Blanchet.
T670
Mike Blanchet, Beat Blatter, Fredy Eschenmoser, Edy Kobelt, Max F. Welti.
1980
T770/2
Mike Blanchet.
?
Jean-Pierre Lebet, Pierre-Alain Lombardi.
1981
T570
Jean-Pierre Trachsel.
T672
Jean-Pierre Lebet, Pierre-Yves Meinen.
1982
T672
Robert Simac.
T670
Jean-Pierre Trachsel.
1983 ?
Christian Nenning, Walter Pedrazza.
1984 ?
Roland Dupasquier.
Lenham- Hurst
Lenham- Hurst
1979
In 1979, Roger Hurst showed his Lenham P87 F3 car, it was based on a March chassis (which one isn’t clear). I can find no trace of it racing.
Drivers
1972 Richard Croucher.
Le Grand
Le Grand
1967
In 1967 the Le Grand Mk5 appeared in a number of minor Continental races where it ran well. The Mk5 consisted of a thin gauge metal space frame employing a number of magnesium castings and suspension parts that made it very light (but expensive). It was fitted with a Cosworth engine and Hewland gearbox and unusually it was fitted with American Airheart disc brakes. It was a small car with a track 2.5 inches less than the contemporary Lotus 41 and a 4 inch shorter wheelbase.
Results were quite good with a 4th at Schleiz the best.
Drivers
1967 Bruce Eglinton.
Lance
Lamoureux
Lamoureux
1983
Although it looks quite neat in the picture it was apparently pretty horrible in the flesh. It took part in a European Championship round and some French F3 Championship rounds with no success.
Drivers
1983 Michel Lamoureux.