March 703 - 713

[allenbrown]

Originally Posted by Chris Townsend

By the time of Varano 27 Aug 72, Clois Avigni had got a BT35 too, so the ad was presumably a success.

Sorry, I should have been clearer. It wasn't an ad, it was a news piece.

Allen

[Steve Wilkinson]

From the 1972 Italian F3 series:

713-1 = Pier-Giorgio Tenani & "Shangry-La" - Scuderia Italia

713M-5 = Antonio Stalfieri - Scuderia Italia

NB Fabrizio Noe also drove a 713 (chassis number unlisted) at Nurburgring 03/04 for Scuderia Italia - it could have been either -1 or -5.

[pantah]

I am now the proud owner of 703-7, having purchased it from Tony Keele. It will spend its time doing hillclimbs and the odd sprint, before I eventually get enough confidence to join the HSCC race series!

Andrew Thorpe

[pantah]

Originally Posted by pantah

I am now the proud owner of 703-7, having purchased it from Tony Keele. It will spend its time doing hillclimbs and the odd sprint, before I eventually get enough confidence to join the HSCC race series!

Andrew Thorpe

Having now gained that confidence - it had its first outing circuit racing (in my hands) at the HSCC meeting at Snetterton on May 31st 2009.

Note slight change of colour scheme!

Many thanks to Eric Sawyer for the very nice photo - more of which I shall be purchasing from him during the season.

[Finn]

Originally Posted by pantah

Having now gained that confidence - it had its first outing circuit racing (in my hands) at the HSCC meeting at Snetterton on May 31st 2009.

Note slight change of colour scheme!

Many thanks to Eric Sawyer for the very nice photo - more of which I shall be purchasing from him during the season.

Hi Andrew,

Good to see you at Snetterton, nice to see another 703 out!

Car looked and sounded good.

Are you out at Brands next week? A record 31 cars entered, great...

Grant. (Red March 703)

[armarriott]

I am joining this very late. But as the Team Manager for Petonyer Team March I can clarify a few things. Saw a comment about the Bremner chassis. Geoff was a ship broker and knew the PCW Underwriting people who owned the Petonyer cab leasing business. He had won the Formula 1172 Championship like Max Mosley and bought a second hand Chevron F3.

PCW were already sponsoring Tom Walkinshaw, so Geoff put a deal together to have a new March but also for the team to run as the factory squad with a second car for Tom. Then March put in a third car and their works driver Ian Ashley. It all came together late, I was hired from Motoring News to manage it having handled the March early PR as a freelance. So we had a three car team. Geoff always had the same car which answers the original question.

I have lots of memories of that year - 1970.