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The Motor Racing Legends Pre-War Sports Car race at Spa, a one-hour, two-driver race held on the Sunday of the Spa Six-Hours Meeting, was won by Belgian Hubert Fabri in his Alfa Romeo 8c Monza, sharing with Adrian Stoop. Second place was also taken by a Belgian driver, Nicolas D’Ieteren, in an 8c Monza, after a fierce battle with the HRG of William Mahany and James Baxter. Another contender was the Gillett/Blakeney-Edwards Frazer Nash, which would almost certainly have grabbed a place on the podium but for blowing a head gasket early in the race. Meanwhile, the 3/4½ Bentley Singer/Fearnside finished in 4th place, just two seconds ahead of the Strasoldo/Burnett Talbot.
In Class Four (cars between 2000cc and 3000cc), three Talbot 105s finished closely, taking 1-2-3 in class, with the van der Kroft/Burnett Talbot at the head of the pack. The Hudson/Sadler Talbot, third in class, might well have beaten the other two but for starting from the back of the grid, after missing qualifying due to a broken rotor arm. Other class winners included the Aston Martin Speed Model of Richard Lake and Jane Varley, the Frazer Nash Supersports of Champion/Stanton and the Williams/Baxter HRG Le Mans.
Remarkably, five of the competing pre-War cars were driven to the race from their homes in the UK, including Mike Preston's Type 50 Bugatti, which finished 13th overall. Richard Frankel and Peter Flood drove their 4½-litre Bentleys by road to Spa, while Nigel Stacy-Marks and Jock MacKinnon both drove their Bentleys all the way from Scotland!
Motor Racing Legends Chairman, Duncan Wiltshire, who himself piloted a Bentley 3 Litre, said, “It was a wonderful race, highly competitive but tremendously good-humoured, with a fantastic variety of cars. But the new chicane is bloody horrible. Everyone now remembers the much-hated Bus Stop with fond nostalgia. During the race, I found four abreast into the chicane particularly interesting!”
Photographs by Tim Scott of Fluid Images
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