Their was no championship AF2 round at OP in 1975, so not sure when this is, clearly a Friday tho, only a few folks in attendance!
winning the 1971 Touring Car race, start/finish is on ‘The Thomson Mile’ (NAS)Australian Vern Schuppan and British-born Hong Kong man John Macdonald both loved it. The 1971 CAMS manual says Up to 1600cc / Maximum of 2 valves per cylinder / maximum of 4 cylinders / commercial fuel. Aside from the doors, bonnet and engine cover, the body was moulded as a single unit of fibreglass. Birrana came to dominate the championship winning titles with Jason Bright, Paul Stokell, Rick Kelly and Simon Wills as well as giving Mark Webber his first racing experience of wings and slicks open-wheeler racing. Consequently, a floor over a hidden basement collapsed and the firefighters fell through.An investigation confirmed that the fire was set by Martin Pang in order to collect the insurance and to clear the property for development. Geoff Brabham took a 274 to victory in the 1975 Australian Formula 2 Championship.Birrana Racing Cars Pty Ltd was closed in 1974. The government acknowledged it would be impossible to implement adequate safety measures for the Thomson Road circuit.

It had rising rate suspension but it was an absolute pig.

The Birrana 374 was an Australian Formula 3 car. Another report of this incident had it; ‘Malcolm soldiered on until the pain of the petrol burning his balls forced him to retire.’ So, Ramsay’s retirement was due to either a burning car or burning balls!And while Geoghegan was heading for the pits, Lawrence’s Surtees lost the use of its mechanical fuel pump, and whether this slowed him as he switched on the electric one or it meant the engine lost power, the net result was that Schuppan’s March swept into the lead.Geoghegan’s return saw the lap record (Bartlett’s from 1970’s preliminary race) under threat as he carved his way through the backmarkers trying to regain as much of the two laps he lost as possible. Lots of sideways action, Aussie FF’s raced on Bridgestone RD102 road-radials in this period which made them wild to drive having driven my share of laps at the time! From 1971 to 1978 Birrana constructed a series of successful open-wheel racing cars as well as a Holden V8 touring car. Bob and fellow Sydney motor trader Geoghegan had an almighty battle for the AF2 title that year.

‘Boxes were Hewland Mk9/FT200 for ANF3/2 use respectively. Car restored approx. (NAS)Kiwi, Geoff Perry winning the bike GP on a Suzuki 500 (NAS)’73 Touring car race, help with cars/drivers welcome! Anyway, the book answers another question or two of yours. So FVAs and BDAs were out. Ramsay finished second in the Penang Grand Prix and the Selangor Grand Prix and third in Malaysian Grand Prix and was leading the series when it was cancelled. 108 was driven by Raymond Ho and the Ford Capri 1600 No. Workmanship and finish of these cars absolutely world class (Allison)Later, various of the F3/2 cars were fitted with a variety of 1.6 litre SOHC engines when the ANF2 rules were stupidly changed.Some of the F2 cars had the Ford Cosworth 1.6 litre BDD’s later fitted for F Atlantic/Pacific. . We have sorted the list from A-Z to include all auto manufacturers worldwide. Back in Australia the car was raced by Tony Stewart, then sold at the end of the year to Don Ubergang. So, back a step.By the middle of 1974 Ramsay and Tony Alcock his designer/partner in Birrana, decided it wasn’t commercially feasible to build cars profitably as they wanted to in Oz.Bob Muir, Birrana 273 BDD ‘009’ at Mallory Park 24 August 1975, DNF with fuel surge, Jim Crawford’s Chevron B29 won. Help welcome as to which corner and driver of the March (NAS)Bob Muir was a seasoned professional by the time he jumped into the Brown family’s 273’s in 1974. Bruce’ results got more consistent and better as the season wore on (Allison)‘By then it was clear we had to have a Birrana to run with the top guys. He jumped up to F5000 in an ex-Bartlett, well sorted Lola T332 Chev in ’75, ‘rattling the established F5000 order’ as the category’s ‘enfant terrible’ in much the same way Warwick Brown did in ’72.Bruce recalls the Birrana and that ’74 season with a lot of fondness; ‘I’d started racing an Escort Twin-Cam against the best of the guys in Series Production and realised how hard it would be to get an ‘equal car’ so we decided to buy an open-wheeler.

It was time to move up. March 722 Ford, note the differences in his standard spec body and Schuppan’s modified 722 (NAS)Rajah’s March was out at 25 laps with the battery dragging behind the car and Smith, March, struck problems to lose contact with the Stewarts, big Max passing young Tony as this happened for fourth. Of interest to Birrana historians; car was entirely new based on 273 tub design with forward braced roll bars as required then by FIA regs, and upper body panel, 274 nose with bottom lip added, bigger than 72-4 rear wing, no rear engine cover; the 272 and 273 did not have rear covers the 374/274’s did (Choong H Fu)The pick of the cars, given driver feedback seems to be the 273, although the evolved 274 was built in larger numbers and won F2 titles for Leo G ‘015’ in ’74 and Geoff Brabham ‘018’ in 1975.Dean Hosking in the John Blanden owned 374 Toyota ahead of the similar Lew Wade owned, Paul King driven car at Adelaide International in August 1974. Help welcome as to which corner and driver of the March (NAS)”.
Macdonald had won this from Canadian Brian Robertson and Poon, all drove BT40s. I passed it on in 2014.It was indeed a younger man's car, but I relished the experience.


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