Continued From Page 1 Shadows of Tom Pryce and Jean-Pierre Jarier for third palace. Both were hard pushed to stay ahead of Gunnar Nillson in a much improved John Player Special. Nilsson eventually settled for sixth behind the two Shadows. A total of 20 entries were received for this non-championship event of which only the fastest 18 were allowed to start. The non-appearance ofthe works Ferrari and of the Penske of John Watson ensured that the two reserves would in fact be able to take up positions on the grid. Penske were absent as the new PC4 is nearing completion and the two PC3 cars were undergoing modification to bripg them up to the specification of the new Form ula One regulations which go into effect on the second of May. The team felt it silly to rush things to take part in a non- championship event, preferring to be that much better prepared for an event that counted towards the World Championship. A third car that did not appear was the second JPS for Bob Evans. It came as no surprise tofind that Hunt was on pole, for it was he who dominated the last half hour or so of practice looking really determined but never ragged in front. of his home crowd. The point that did surprise, however, was that his pole position time was a fraction more than eight tenths of a second quicker than that of his nearest rival. The Shadows. shown here with Tom Pryce leading Jumper Jarier. finished a strong fourth and fifth. Whilst Hunt was dominating this last portion of practioe Brambilla had an ott course excu.rsion, picking up minor damage which meant he was not able to be out on the circuit fOF most of the final half hour. He did reappear with about five minutes to go but this was not enough to remove Hunt. circulating quietly safeguarding his position, from pole and so he settled for second spot on the grid. Lunger First F-l Driver Hurt In '16 American Grand Prix driver Brett Lunger became the first Formula One driver to receive hospital treatment in 1976 when he crashed at Silverstone in Saturday's final qualifying. Third spot. went to Tom Pryce, who had been forced to use the team's spare ear after he hit a hare out on the circuit and, unknown to him, had a brake line damaged. This ledto an excursion into the catch fences at the chicane at Woodcote when the brakes failed to work as expected. Damage was slight and Pryce emerged unharmed. Surprise of the day came from Gunnar Nillson, who forced his way up to fourth spot on the grid after missing the first timed session because of a clutch failure. It was magic to watch Nilsson out on the circuit smoothly going about the business of getting the quiCKest time possible. The JPS at last was doing what was expected of it. If you lived in England, and wanted-to watch the races on television. this car would be the reason you couldn't: the Durex Surtees of Alan Jones. Lunger lost control under braking for the fast Copse Corner as he started to turn the very last lap of the qualifying session. He went straight on through several layers of the recently erected chicken wire catch fencing. The wire virtually cleaned his helmet of paint and even ripped badges off his overalls and one of the posts hit Lunger on the head. He was unconscious in the car for a couple of minutes but recovered to walk to the ambulance. Auntie 8eeb's Big Decision: Next on the grid and in much the same time bracket as Pryce and N elsson were Scheckter and Jarier. Scheckter, having probably his last race in the four wheel Tyrrell 007, as the six wheel Project 34 car was making its first pulic appearance in the form of a demonstration between races at this meeting. Jody is expected to Continued On Next Page The 1976 International Trophy race was the first in over five years which had not been shown to British television viewers. But unlike the Brands Hatch debacle Auntie Beeb (Short for BBC, the British Broadcasting Company-Ed.) pulled out way before the meeting. It has also announced that it will not be covering the Thruxton Formula 2 meeting at Easter, which was originally scheduled and has a field of cars carrying largely foreign sponsorship slogans which mean nothing to British viewers. The public is now starting to wonder if RACERS! MECHANICS! PROFIT BY OUR EXPERIENCE In Race Car & Race Boat Plumbing We are the "Original Competition Plumbing Specialists" who desiQned. 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Meanwhile Britian's other channel, lTV, had proved that it finds motor racing perfectly acceptable. In fact it obtained the CBS coverage of Long Beach, did its own edit and commentary and screened twenty minutes of the action at peak viewing time on the Saturday afternoon after the US Grand Prix West. The coverage showed all the sponsors names including that of the famous Bri tish dirty word Durex, which has made the BBC blush so. But as far as British racing fans are concerned the dirtiest word in racing at the moment is the BBC. However doctors at Silverstone decided he should be admitted to Northampton General Hospital where he had a "comfortable night" and after further observation he was released on Sunday afternoon. Lunger still has some cuts to the neck and "can't remember a thing about the accident. " The arrester 'fences certainly saved the car, which otherwise would have plowed into a solid bank and Team Surtees mechanics could have had the Chesterfield TS19 in race shape had Lunger been fit. Lunger now plans to continue his Granct Prix career in Spain next month.-Allan Trim TEXAS REGION SCCA SPRING SPRINTS REGNA TRACES [DJffiTI
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