Aug 14

ACU British Grand Prix

Silverstone Circuit, Towcester, England, Great Britain 4.667 km airfield course

P	Rider	#	Bike	Entrant	Tires	Race Result		Grid
1	Mick Grant		750 Kawasaki KR	Boyer Team Kawasaki		15	24:03.00
2	Barry Sheene		500 Suzuki XR14	Heron Team Suzuki GB
3	Teuvo Länsivuori		750 Suzuki GT	Team Life International
4	Phil Read		500 Suzuki RG	Team Life International
5	Kork Ballington		750 Yamaha TZ	Sid Griffiths Racing
6	John Newbold		750 Suzuki GT	Heron Team Suzuki GB

Distance 15 laps = 70 km Speed 174.6 km/h

FL Mick Grant 1:34.40 - 178.0 km/h

Sources Vincent Glon, Moto-Revue #2280, Annotated official race programme

P	Rider	#	Bike	Entrant	Tires	Race Result		Grid
1	Barry Sheene		500 Suzuki XR14	Heron Team Suzuki GB		10	16:07.00
2	Teuvo Länsivuori		500 Suzuki RG	Team Life International
3	Phil Read		500 Suzuki RG	Team Life International
4	John Newbold		500 Suzuki RG	Heron Team Suzuki GB
5	Philippe Coulon		500 Suzuki RG	Ecurie PEM
6	Steve Parrish		500 Suzuki RG
7	Christian Estrosi		500 Suzuki RG	Ecurie PEM
8	Marco Lucchinelli		500 Suzuki RG	Gallina Corse
9	Alex George		500 Suzuki RG	Alex George
10	Tony Rutter		354 Yamaha TZ

Distance 10 laps = 46.7 km Speed 173.9 km/h

FL Teuvo Länsivuori 1:35.00 - 176.9 km/h

Sources Vincent Glon, Moto-Revue #2280, Annotated official race programme

P	Rider	#	Bike	Entrant	Tires	Race Result		Grid
1	Victor Palomo		350 Yamaha TZ			12	19:52.40
2	Chas Mortimer		350 Maxton-Yamaha TZ	Danfay Racing Team
3	Kork Ballington		350 Yamaha TZ	Sid Griffiths Racing
4	Eddie Roberts		350 Maxton-Yamaha TZ	Bill Smith Motors
5	Alan Stewart		350 PA-Yamaha TZ	William Armstrong
6	Bill Simpson		350 Yamaha TZ
7	Tony Rutter		350 Yamaha TZ	Bob Priest
8	Bernard Fau		350 Yamaha TZ	Ecurie Solamor GPA
9	Barry Woodland		350 Yamaha TZ
10	Mick Patrick		350 Coppock-Yamaha TZ	Harold Coppock

Distance 12 laps = 56 km Speed 169.1 km/h

FL Victor Palomo 1:36.60 - 173.9 km/h

Sources Vincent Glon, Moto-Revue #2280, Annotated official race programme

P	Rider	#	Bike	Entrant	Tires	Race Result		Grid
1	Takazumi Katayama		250 Yamaha TZ	Danfay Racing Team		12	20:22.60
2	Victor Palomo		250 Yamaha TZ
3	Tom Herron		250 Yamaha TZ	Tom Herron
4	Kork Ballington		250 Yamaha TZ	Sid Griffiths Racing
5	Tony Rutter		250 Yamaha TZ	Bob Priest
6	Jon Ekerold		250 Padgett-Yamaha TZ	Padgetts Racing
7	Olivier Chevallier		250 Yamaha TZ	Ecurie Chevallier
8	Alan Stewart		250 PA-Yamaha TZ	William Armstrong
9	Ken Nemoto		250 Yamaha TZ
10	Neil Tuxworth		250 Yamaha TZ

Distance 12 laps = 56 km Speed 164.9 km/h

FL Takazumi Katayama 1:40.00 - 168.0 km/h

Sources Vincent Glon, Moto-Revue #2280, Annotated official race programme

P	Rider	#	Bike	Entrant	Tires	Race Result		Grid
1	Tony Rutter		408 Honda CB			12
2	Neil Tuxworth		408 Honda CB
3	Alex George		750 Triumph Trident
4	Bill Smith		408 Honda CB
5	Richard Stevens		250 Yamaha RD
R	John Cowie		1000 Gus Kuhn BMW R90S				Disqualified

Distance 12 laps = 56 km

FL Tony Rutter 1:49.80 - 153.0 km/h

Started 6 Classified 5 DNF 1

Sources Vincent Glon, Moto-Revue #2280, Annotated official race programme

P	Rider	#	Bike	Entrant	Tires	Race Result		Grid
1	George O'Dell Kenny Arthur		700 May-Yamaha	George O'Dell		10	17:24.80
2	Dick Greasley Cliff Holland		700 Chell-Yamaha	C.G. Chell Motorcycles
3	Mac Hobson Mick Burns		750 Ham-Yamaha	Hamilton Motocycles
4	Bill Hodgkins John Parkins		700 Francis-Yamaha	Joe Francis Motors
5	Mick Horspole John Horspole		750 Bingham-Yamaha
6	Bryan Rust Alan Bedford		1000 Chesman-Imp

Distance 10 laps = 46.7 km Speed 160.9 km/h

FL George O'Dell , Mac Hobson 1:42.60 - 163.8 km/h

Sources Vincent Glon, Moto-Revue #2280, Annotated official race programme

P	Rider	#	Bike	Entrant	Tires	Race Result		Grid
1	Werner Schwärzel Andreas Huber		680 König	Werner Schwärzel		12	20:58.00
2	George O'Dell Kenny Arthur		700 May-Yamaha	George O'Dell
3	Dick Greasley Cliff Holland		700 Chell-Yamaha	C.G. Chell Motorcycles
4	Bill Hodgkins John Parkins		700 Francis-Yamaha	Joe Francis Motors
5	John Ring Chris Mould		700 MRH-Yamaha
6	Clyde Gough Peter Benson		700 Hughes-Yamaha

Distance 12 laps = 56 km Speed 160.3 km/h

FL George O'Dell 1:43.40 - 162.5 km/h

Sources Vincent Glon, Moto-Revue #2280, Annotated official race programme