Focus shifts for Derek Bell series

July 7, 2014

The HSCC plans to re-work the Derek Bell Trophy in 2009, switching the focus to historic Formula 5000 and F2 cars.

As F5000 marks its 40th anniversary in Britain, five or six mainly double-header race meetings will be run, with the club applying to the MSA for championship status for the series. For the first time Formula 1 cars will no longer be admitted, although few have raced in the series in recent seasons.

“There are a lot of people running Formula 2 cars in Britain, and interest in Formula 5000 is building all the time,” said the HSCC’s Grahame White.

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Paul Lawrence

Here is a man who goes racing every weekend from March to October. Paul’s passion for the sport goes back to when he was a child of the 1960s. He has organised, competed in and marshalled on scores of events, and has written about the subject for 20 years. He is as at home in the paddock at Brands Hatch as in a Welsh forest or at Shelsley Walsh.

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