Here is one of the greatest line up of 70’s Sports cars ever assembled, the 1970 1000kms at Brands Hatch when it rained torrents most, if not all of the race.
So much so that Goodyear ran out of “wet” tyres for the big wheels on the T70 Lolas and the big Porsche cars. When Sid Taylor’s men took their T70 to tyre fitting they had no rear tyres and in fact the best they could offer were had grooved slicks. Sadly this rendered the car undrivable in those super wet conditions. Howden Ganley who was meant to start the race refused to drive it, so it was left to me to try ! I nearly went of a couple of times on the warm up lap, I told Sid this on the start line. He said just do a couple of laps and come in. So having nearly completed the 1st lap I went off in a big way coming out of Clearways and crashed in a most spectacular manor right on the start finish line just by the press box.
This incedent created one of the best sprts car races ever seen. Apparntly Pedro Rodriguez over took someone on the yellow flags being shown due to my accident. Nick Syrett, the Clark of the Course, black flagged Pedro for his indisgression and Pedro duly stopped for a dressing down in the pit lane by Nick. Pedro was furious and rejoined the race and drove like a demon to eventually win the race together with his co-driver the late great Leo Kinnunen. It was an amazing drive and a great race. I am sorry I could not have taken more part but hey ho , that is how it went. I am proud to have been amoung these great drivers of the best ever sports car racing period. See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970_1000km_of_Brands_Hatch