1967 Oulton Park Gold Cup Saloons

[yakacm]

have you tried WD40 for that projector, if you are lucky and rich enough to be able get a lotus cortina today, you can bet that at some point in it's life some hooligan has been doing this to it. I remember my old man turning up in one one day. it was his bosses company car, and he had let pop use it for 2 weeks while the boss was away on holiday. A few years later my old man managed to convince the same boss to let him have an rs2000 as his company car, pity i was still too young to drive.

[Ulleval73]

Great color footage. So nice.

[sturdle]

brilliant.....thaanks.......



[craig50]

Fantastic footage,and it is definitely Shell corner,can't believe how close you could get to the action in those days!!

[DrBGW]

@craig50 Actually it WAS Esso Bend, but between then and now it has been renamed as Shell Corner.

Brian

[craig50]

@DrBGW Thanks Brian,i never knew that,great video by the way,wish i could get that close to the racing these days!!

[DrBGW]

Actually it WAS Esso Bend, but between then and now it has been renamed as Shell Corner.

Brian

[jazzbo13]

Is that a steam driven movie projector?

[MrSoundFinder1]

mmmm mk2 niceeee, i want

[eradeziel]

I love how the older cars used to lift a wheel on cornering. Really great stuff!

[avril2]

I can hear Mr Hill now as he found the water 'oh, bugger'

[midgetace]

A big Murry Walker 'Faaaaaantastic'

[MrSoundFinder1]

@midgetace haha murray walkerism's.... "its like de ja vu, all over again":)

[soullover69]

awesome Lotus Cortinas MK2 threewheeling bigtime!

[THEBLUEBULLY]

Reason to believe i was probably at this event, no doubt one of my first outings to Oulton Park, Sitting in my Pram at Knicker Brooke. Great footage!

[kasabian8888]

Great video, thanks for posting.

HAve you got any of early mk1 escorts? Wouldn't have been long after this was shot.

[max753kel]

Fantastic footage!

Those drivers were amazing drifting those cars on three wheels...

[nastyevilninja]

Excellent!

Which corner were they lifting their wheels out of? Is it one that's been 'remodelled' since?

[nastyevilninja]

@nastyevilninja Looking at it again that has to be Cascades, doesn't it??

[15SecondsToFreedom]

@nastyevilninja its island bend and its still like that just with barriers and curbs.

[UrgentementeUK]

@15SecondsToFreedom

Isn't it Shell? Looks to wide a curve to be island, tho it could have changed a lot in the 41 years between this clip and the first time I marshalled there!

Cascades is easy to spot tho, even with the complete change of scenery compared to today.

Cool to see these older films of Oulton and spot the changes.

[bijlus]

Sorry to nitpick: these are Ford Falcons, not Galaxies. Great footage!

[DrBGW]

Great, not nitpicking at all! Accuracy improved. I've corrected it. Thanks!

Brian

[bijlus]

@DrBGW Hi Brian, If you'd like to see a '64 Falcon having a go at historic racing, please have a look at mine. Just search for 'falcon' and 'assen' (for the track in the north of Holland) and enjoy! The original guys in the sixties, as in your film, inspired me to get a license and a car and spend all my money for the last 25 years trying to go as sideways as possible!

[cfcstevie1888]

@bijlus 106was jim clark 105 was graham hill

[cfcstevie1888]

@bijlus 106 was jim clark 105 was graham hill

[cfcstevie1888]

@bijlus 106 was jim clark  105 was graham hill

[motorsportinprint]

Superb footage. I agree with dazzyboy74, this stuff needs to be on a DVD. Great seeing the 3 wheeling.

I have actually done some artwork from this race. Was really surprised to find some footage!

[dazzyboy74]

This is amazing. You should get all this clips professionally put on a DVD for all motor sport fans to enjoy. Amazing that Graham Hill ended up near the lake!! - loved the 3 wheeled cortinas!!

[timelinetwist]

great film! I had a white MK2 cortina years ago, glad I never raced it, looks a bit of a handful. I did race Golf GTis and luckily went to Oulton a couple of times. Best circuit in the UK.

[falconhell69]

So for race 2 they put the left front onto the right rear hahahahahaha,awesome video,we had those little cortinsa racing over here too.

[neilb13]

0:37 secs. Amazing!

[discodave43]

Cheers mate , Happy Days .

[jdb47games]

Hill and high water! Looks like Graham stopped for a picnic by the lake! This 8mm is a real gem: thanks for posting it!

[ormus55]

great video.

lots of memories of oulton park in the 60s.

used to race a yamaha 250 there in 66.

(and minis/escorts cars in the 70s).

loved seeing Sir Graham Hill in the 3 wheel lotus cortina!

great times indeed.

modern day racing is boring as fcuk.

[baileybobbys]

thats weird seeing oulton like that! i do track days on my gsxr 1000. used to have a mk2 lotus. wish i still had it!

[violentstreak]

that car sounds fucked!

[Biz4rr3Ninj4]

Heh. That remark might be a little too witty for YouTube.

[drooper]

Great film. Thanks for posting.

[colin5577]

Spellbinding footage. Thanks very, very much for taking the time to share it.

[Chunkychucky]

Yeah, were those Mk 2's the work's developments cars with the FVA's in them?

[mykneeme]

this is absolutely brilliant!

[caprisierra24v]

thanks, great vid.

[leach1527]

Wonderfully evocative stuff. Yes, definitely Hill and Ickx in the Mk2 Cortinas. Also on view is the race winning red and gold Alan Mann Ford Falcon of Frank Gardner ( which won the BTCC that season) and Vic Elford's Porsche 911.

A shame we can't hear the growl of the V8s in the Mustangs and Falcons or the wail of the Cosworth FVA engines in the works Cortinas.

Thanks for posting this - brings back some great memories of a great era of motor racing in this country.

[atomage1000]

From the colour of the helmet I'd say it was Graham Hill who ended up in the drink

[robinlee1972]

never put a cross ply and a radial on the same axle......!

[Kringlebeast]

Absolutely amazing footage, love it!

[MikeJF355]

Brilliant stuff, love the cortina in the lake. Typically British guy probably said, " a quick cup of tea and we'll get it back on the track".

Thanks for posting it.

[JasperIzaks]

Thanks !! please post more !!!

[klassiekerrally]

Fantastic stuff, thanx, cheers, Dink.

[osbert43]

Fantastic footage...love the way the Lotus Cortina powers out on three wheels!!!

[boo66]

Thganks for sharing these amazing films DrBGW.

I was less than a year old when you shot this.. I grew up idolising Graham Hill and remember being shocked when he died so young.

This is a fine tribute.

[nicol1955]

I will give this film TEN STARS !!

[sandman1071]

Great video! Bet it would be even better with some "classical" music overlayed to replace the clattering from the projector tho.

[JohnnyAckgpl2006]

one of the cortinas is being driven by graham hill, I saw the helmet

[bluetoes591]

Wow! You have the best amateur racing footage from the 60s that I have ever seen. Thanks so much for sharing. Going to take me awhile to work through them all.

[neverbeen2]

mk2's are better at waving wheels than mk1's :)

[paolo748]

Great nostalgic film - I was there at Cascades.

Wasn't Jim Clark in the other Cortina-Lotus?

[DrBGW]

There's been considerable discussion about that: I remembered it as being Jim Clark, but the experts convinced me it was Jackie Ickx. Looking closely at the original movie, they are right :(

Was it as spectacular at Cascades?

[paolo748]

Yes Cascades was our favourite spot. I can't imagine today's F1 drivers doing a Grand Prix then going into a saloon car race can you? I later bought a Mk11 Lotus, the most charismatic car I have ever owned. Sadly stolen and stripped down, over 30 years ago. I still miss it!

[Batdud]

I've got the programme for this meeting. Jackie Ickx was entered by Tyrell Racing in a Formula 2 Matra for the Gold Cup, and by Team Lotus in Lotus Cortina (No 106) in the over 1300cc Saloon race.

[Batdud]

I passed my driving test in a MK11 Lotus Cortina (a whole 105bhp wow!!)wasn't water cooled as much as Graham Hills' though. Lift that wheel up!

[superrantam]

Woww, look how that Hill's car moves on turns :)

[DrBGW]

...and then goes over the banking into the water!