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Showing posts with label Keith Norris. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Keith Norris. Show all posts

Tuesday, 13 July 2021

1967 Lola T70 Aston Martin

This car competed in the Pre-'70 Le Mans Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1994.
It's the 1967 Lola T70 Aston Martin of Ean Pugh who shared the driving in the race with Keith Norris. Two of these cars were built at the instigation of John Surtees.Team Surtees who entered them in the 1967 Le Mans 24 Hour Race, to be driven by John Surtees/David Hobbs and Peter de Klerk/Chris Irwin, but the first car only lasted 3 laps and the second retired after 25 laps. Ean Pugh's car is Lola T70 chassis SL73/101. The car in the background is the Lotus Elan GT of Don Hands and Peter Dixon, which also took part in that race.

Tuesday, 6 October 2015

Lola-Aston Martin T70

This car took part in the Visage Pre '72 Le Mans Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in August 1996.
It's a 1967 Lola-Aston Martin T70, a car built at the instigation of John Surtees.Team Surtees entered two of the cars in the 1967 Le Mans 24 Hour Race, to be driven by John Surtees/David Hobbs and Peter de Klerk/ Chris Irwin, but the first car only lasted 3 laps and the second retired after 25 laps. The entrant for this Silverstone race was listed in the programme as Ean Pugh, and it was driven by Keith Norris.