Peter Williams and Klaus Fiedler each scored a Classic Grand Prix race victory as the FORCE provided the headline event at Le Mans for their new for 2003 "LM Story" historic motor racing festival staged over the weekend of 20th - 21st September. In arranging the double header Classic Grand Prix event The FORCE brought 3 Litre Grand Prix cars back to Le Mans to race on the 2.655 miles long Bugatti Circuit which had previously staged the 1967 French Grand Prix won by Jack Brabham in his Brabham BT 24 Repco with team mate Denny Hulme 2nd (BT 24 Repco) and Jackie Stewart 3rd in a BRM P261. For 2003 the 3 litre grand prix cars were supported by F2 and F5000 cars in an 18 car grid representing cars from 1967 to 1977.

Both races were run in beautiful sunshine and 28°C temperatures and each provided the spectators with exciting racing which included dicing throughout the field and lead changes.
Qualifying took place on Saturday morning and provided Andrew Wareing (Williams FW06 DFV) with pole position who was joined on the front row by Peter Williams (March 761 DFV), the second row being filled by Nico Bindels (Lotus 77 DFV) and Ian Giles (Eagle FA-74A Chevrolet - F5000). Row 3 was occupied by Klaus Fiedler (Tyrrell 007 DFV) and Ed. Jowsey (Lola T400 Chevrolet - F5000) with Peter Wuensch (Brabham BT37 DFV) and Terry Sayles (Surtees TS 20 DFV) lining up on row 4.

When pole man Andrew Wareing's battery failed on the grid for Saturday afternoon's race after the formation lap he was pushed into the pit lane and was required to start from there after everyone else had got away!
So it was that as the lights changed, Peter Williams made best use of his front row position to lead the field away around the Dunlop Curve followed by Ian Giles, Peter Wuensch, Klaus Fiedler, a slow away Nico Bindels and the rest. Klaus Fiedler moved through to 2nd place by the end of lap 2 and when Peter Williams mechanical fuel pump failed causing him to drop back to 3rd as he switched on his electric pump, Klaus took the lead and set about controlling the race from the front. Peter Williams deposed Nico Bindels for 2nd place on lap 6 and caught Klaus and set about challenging for the lead. Further back Andrew Wareing was staging a storming comeback drive having started last out of the pit lane he was 15th by the end of lap 1, 9th by lap 3 and 7th by lap 7 as Frank Lyons retired his Lola T332 Chevrolet - F5000 car with a water leak.

On lap 14 having seemingly fought off all of Peter Williams' advances, Klaus suddenly slowed and pulled off at the "Chapelle" having run out of fuel!
Peter assumed the lead which he had earlier fought for and led the field home to take the flag first after 15 laps with Nico Bindels (Lotus 77) taking 2nd place ahead of Ian Giles' F5000 Eagle in 3rd (taking the F5000 Class C2 win), Andrew Wareing (Williams FW06) who finished in 4th place after his storming drive through the field, John Delane (Tyrrell 001 DFV) 5th (in doing so winning Class A2) and Peter Wuensch (Brabham) 6th. John Delane's son Ryan made his European and FORCE race debut in John's Lotus 69 BDA F2 car and by finishing in 9th place took the F2 (B2) Class win.

Few people were aware, but whilst he enjoyed his victory on Saturday, Peter Williams had begun to suffer with lack of power towards the end of the race with his engine refusing to rev above 8,000 RPM. Whilst the team worked hard to remedy the problem it reappeared on the formation lap for Sunday afternoon's race so Peter retired from the race to the pits without taking up his grid position.
 
At the start, Ian Giles took the lead in his F5000 Eagle and led Nico Bindels, Peter Wuensch, Andrew Wareing, John Delane, Klaus Fiedler and the rest around the Dunlop Curve for the first time.
Peter Wuensch was definitely the man on the move as he was up to 2nd place by "Garage Vert" corner and completed the first lap in Ian Giles' tyre tracks! For 3 laps Peter Wuensch chased the F5000 Eagle hard but as Ian Giles entered the "Garage Vert" corner on lap 4 the throttle stuck open on the Eagle causing Ian to spin the car into the gravel trap to avoid an accident!
As the cars appeared at the end of lap 4, Peter Wuensch led with Nico Bindels 2nd, Klaus Fiedler 3rd, Andrew Wareing 4th, Ed Jowsey (up from back row of the grid) 5th, John Delane 6th, Frank Lyons 7th and Terry Sayles 8th.
From lap 4 to lap 9, Peter Wuensch led the race and looked good for his first FORCE race win but on lap 10 he had dropped back to 5th behind Nico Bindels as he struggled to get gears as his clutch began to give problems. 
Klaus Fiedler took the lead as Peter Wuensch struck problems and now led from Ed. Jowsey in 2nd and Andrew Wareing 3rd.
On lap 11 Andrew Wareing moved ahead of Ed. Jowsey to take 2nd place and on lap 12 Peter Wuensch sadly retired to the pits having lost the use of his clutch altogether. 
So it was that after 15 hard fought laps, Klaus Fiedler (Tyrrell) took the race win with Andrew Wareing (Williams) in 2nd place, Ed. Jowsey (Lola) 3rd (taking the F5000 Class C2 win), Nico Bindels (Lotus) 4th, Frank Lyons (Lola) 5th and Terry Sayles (Surtees TS 20) in 6th place. Ryan Delane again took the F2 (B2) Class Win by finishing 8th overall having followed home Mike Scott (Lola T300 Chevrolet) 7th who took the F5000 Class C1 win in both races.

Andrew Wareing was awarded the FORCE "Jo Siffert Award" for his two storming drives which resulted in 4th place from 18th away at the start on Saturday and 2nd from 4th place on the grid on Sunday.

So ended the 2003 FORCE racing season and we're sure that everyone who watched and took part in the 2 races at Le Mans would agree the season finished on a high note - see you in 2004! 

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Incidents and elongated Safety Car period takes the shine off the "Gold Cup" as Martin O' Connell takes FORCE race win at Oulton Park in F2 Lotus 69 BDA to beat the F1 Classic Grand Prix Cars. 

Martin O' Connell won the "Rickett Grant Gold Cup" awarded to the outright winner of the FORCE race at Oulton Park on Monday August 25th in Sandy Watson's recently acquired F2 Lotus 69 BDA.
The Lotus, prepared by Zul Racing proved a very nimble and successful car in the hands of the one time F3 Class B star beating the more powerful 3 litre F1cars in a race reduced to 4 racing laps and a 5 lap safety car period.

The race lost the Tyrrell 001 of John Delane from the front row of the grid when the car's spark box failed causing the race to be delayed whilst the car was pushed from the grid.
After a second green flag lap, Andrew Wareing made best use of his pole position as the lights changed to lead the field into "Old Hall Corner" in his Williams FW06 DFV with Peter Wuensch (Brabham BT37 DFV), Martin O'Connell, Mike Littlewood (Wolf WR1 DFV up from 10th on the grid) and Malcolm Carter (March 711 DFV) and the rest in hot pursuit.
Sadly as the cars arrived at the Knickerbrook chicane for the first time, Philip Walker and Andy Middlehurst tangled as they entered the chicane and were both eliminated, further on Nick Rini went off at Druids, his Surtees TS 19 DFV striking the barrier and bouncing back onto the track.
By the end of lap 1 Andrew Wareing led from Martin O'Connell who had deposed Peter Wuensch for 2nd  and as the leaders arrived at Lodge Corner for the second time (after threading their way past the stricken Surtees), Martin O'Connell outbraked Andrew to take the lead in the Lotus 69.
The race stewards took the decision not to stop the race, clear the track and restart it, but to continue the race under safety car control whilst the marshalls moved Nick's car to a safer place, the safety car picked up the leader on lap 3.

A flatbed truck was dispatched to collect the Surtees as the field continued to circulate behind the safety car, their tyres getting colder and engines becoming hotter. As the safety car led field arrived at Lodge corner on lap 6 the flat bed truck was ahead and the crowd and commentator hoped the safety car would follow the truck into the pitlane and allow the cars to race once more but sadly this did not happen as the safety car promptly led Matrin O'Connell past the truck as they crested Deer's Leap to set off on yet another parade lap!

Next time around (lap 7) the safety car pulled into the pits and the field could once again race, but as the field raced towards Old Hall once again, Chris Ball locked up his cold front tyres and skated into the tyre wall in his Brabham BT28 BDA!
So it was that after only 9 laps (5 of them following the safety car), the flag came out and the "race" was over (as the race was a 20 minute race not a race of a pre-determined number of laps).
Fortunately no-one was injured in any of the incidents which happened during the race.

Martin O'Connell (Lotus 69 BDA) won with Andrew Wareing 2nd in the Williams FW 06 DFV, Mike Littlewood 3rd in the Wolf WR 1 DFV, Peter Wuensch (Brabham BT 37 DFV) was 4th, Malcolm Carter (March 711 DFV) took 5th place (and the Class A2 win), beating Aba Kogan (McLaren M23 DFV) into  6th place.

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Sir Jackie Stewart rolled back the years at Oulton Park on "Bank Holiday Monday" - August 25th  as he demonstrated Tyrrell 001 DFV at the circuit on which he debuted this first Tyrrell F1 car 33 years ago!

Sir Jackie Stewart, World Racing Drivers Champion in 1969, 1971 and 1973 rolled back the years when he climbed into the Tyrrell 001 DFV designed by Derek Gardner at Oulton Park on Monday lunchtime to do a number of demonstration laps for an enthusiastic crowd of spectators who lined the circuit to watch history repeated.

The car made it's public and race debut in his hands at the Oulton Park Circuit in the "Guards International Gold Cup" event on August 22nd 1970. Ken Tyrrell pulled off a real surprise as no one had even seen the car before the team unloaded it from the transporter in the paddock. During the race 33 years ago, Jackie was forced to make a pit-stop to free a sticking throttle but thereafter set off to take the fastest lap of the event with a time of  1:26.6 sec., 114.78mph. 
During his demonstration run on Monday, Jackie put in a lap of the circuit (which now features chicanes at "Foulstons" and "Knickerbrook") in the 1 minute 46 seconds bracket which (had he recorded the time in qualifying), would have resulted in him qualifying the car 12th on the grid for the FORCE race.
The demonstration was made possible thanks to the efforts of John Delane, the Tyrrell family, (who were in attendance), The FORCE, Brands Hatch Circuits Limited and of course Sir Jackie Stewart. By the reaction of the crowd who lined the circuit clapping and waving, all the efforts were much appreciated.  


Klaus Fiedler takes two hard fought FORCE Race Wins in 31st  AvD "Old Timer Grand Prix" at Nurburgring in his ex. Depailler Tyrrell 007 DFV.

Klaus Fiedler scored victories in both of the FORCE Classic Grand Prix races run as part of the 31st Old Timer meeting at the Nurburgring over the weekend of 8th to 10th August.
A very strong field of F1 cars representing the period from 1967 to 1978 took part in the two races run in the searing heat of the weekend which saw temperatures vary from 38°C on Friday (when qualifying took place) to 35°C for Saturday's race to 32°C for Sunday's race.
Qualifying saw Peter Williams take Pole in his March 761 DFV from Mauro Pane making his FORCE debut in his Tyrrell P34 DFV (6 wheeler), the two driver being separated by 0.313sec. Nico Bindels (Lotus 77 DFV) and Klaus Fiedler (Tyrrell 007 DFV) occupied row 2 of the grid from Frank Lyons (McLaren M26 DFV) and Terry Sayles (Surtees TS20 DFV) who made up row 3 of the 19 car grid.

On Saturday, Peter Williams made best use of his pole position to lead the field away but was out-dragged into the "Castrol S" by Mauro Pane who put his 6 wheel Tyrrell ahead of the March with Klaus Fiedler 3rd ahead of Frank Lyons and Nico Bindels.
Pane's lead was short lived as Peter Williams re-took the lead on lap 2 and despite Mauro's spirited slipstreaming of the leader, Peter held his position. Sadly Mauro went missing on lap 5 when he switched off and coasted to a halt out on the circuit after his water temperature reading went off the scale!
Nico Bindels deposed Frank Lyons for 4th on lap 1 and set about chasing down Klaus Fiedler, leaving Frank to fight off Terry Sayles initially until Terry started to loose touch the McLaren as the race continued due to fuel vapourisation.
With 2 laps to go, Peter Williams appeared to slow and spurred on by this Klaus Fiedler set about reeling in the March driver who was indeed slowing due to an oil leak from a broken outlet from the oil tank which was coating the rear of his car (including his rear brakes) in oil. As the cars appeared out of the "Coca-Cola Curve" for the last time, Klaus Fiedler's Tyrrell led Peter Williams' March across the line to take the flag and the race win.
Nico Bindels took 3rd in his Lotus from Frank Lyons McLaren M26 in 4th place. Malcolm Carter took 5th place (and with it the A2 Class Win) in his March 711 DFV despite progressively loosing the use of his gears during the race, finishing with 4th only and Rolf Lamberty took 6th place in his Hesketh 308E DFV.

Sunday's race was run later in the afternoon than on Saturday but when the lights changed it was Peter Williams in his March who once again made the best start to lead Nico Bindels (who out-dragged Klaus Fiedler to the "Castrol S"), Klaus, Frank, Terry, Rolf Lamberty, Graham Willcox and the rest out onto the first lap.
Nico Bindels chased Peter hard for 5 laps before moving ahead out of the "Castrol S" to take the lead, Peter retired seconds later as a misfire prompted him to switch off and park out on the circuit.
As the laps counted down, Klaus Fiedler gradually caught Nico and ran for lap after lap in his wheel tracks, almost taking the lead into the "Castrol S" on lap 10 and finally taking the lead on lap 11 through the "Michelin Curve". As the leading pair arrived at the "Coca-Cola Curve", Klaus began to slide so Nico drove wide to avoid the Tyrrell, (but sadly not wide enough) as he clipped the rear of the sliding car which resulted in him being pitched into the gravel his race over.
Klaus continued to take the flag to win his 2nd race of the weekend ahead of Frank Lyons 2nd, Terry Sayles 3rd, Rolf Lamberty 4th, Graham Willcox (McLaren M14A DFV) 5th (taking the A2 Class Win in the process) and Ean Pugh (Brabham BT 34 DFV) 6th. 
The A1 Class Win (for un winged cars from 1966 to 1969) was settled in favour of Ron Maydon who led home David Brown's ex. Piers Courage BRM P126 V12.

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Wins for Sid Hoole (Brabham BT 36) and Irvine Laidlaw (Lotus 69) at Charade "Festival Historique Nostalgie" as The FORCE goes F2 in Clermont Ferrand.

Due to circumstances beyond the control of The FORCE Organisation, the FORCE Classic Grand Prix event held at Charade (Clermont Ferrand) over the weekend of 25th to 27th of July became an F2 Class only event, but what scintillating racing those F2 drivers produced! 
The weekend produced two very exciting F2 races won by different drivers, in very different conditions.

In blazing hot sunshine & temperatures of around 32°C the drivers took the grid for Race 1 on Saturday lunchtime with Sid Hoole on Pole in his Brabham BT36 FVA and American John Delane alongside in his Lotus 69 BDA. 
When the lights changed Sid got away to lead the field through the first corner followed closely by a fast starting Mike Scott (March 702 BDA), John Delane and Irvine Laidlaw (Lotus 69 BDA) (up from 6th on the grid).
By the end of lap 2 Irvine Laidlaw had moved up to 2nd place with John Delane now 3rd and Mike Scott's March back in 4th. So began a race long duel between Sid and Irvine, the two were almost tied together and could not be separated. Irvine wrested the lead from Sid on lap 5 but Sid retook the place and held the Lotus at bay to the flag after 15 laps of very hot, hard (but fair) close racing. Sid crossed the line 0.175sec. ahead of Irvine in a photo finish.
John Delane finished 3rd in his Lotus 69 with David Brown (Brabham BT23C BDA) 4th (taking the Class B1 win). 
Sadly Mike Scott's spirited drive came to an end when he crashed (fortunately without injury) on lap 8 after getting a wheel onto the grass on the inside of the fast sweeping left hand bend high up above the paddock on the return to "Virages Rosier", the unforgiving concrete walls exacting heavy damage on the right hand side of the car. 

In total contrast to Saturday's hot sun, Sunday's race (held at 8:45 a.m.) was held on a cool, damp track after earlier rain with mist hanging in the trees to obscure much of the circuit from the spectators' view. 
Sid Hoole had scratched from the race after a suspect head gasket had caused the car to finish Saturday's race with hardly any coolant left in the engine / radiator, Sid deciding that 1 win and the engine still in one piece was a better result for the weekend than go for another win and risk an expensive engine rebuild.

The race began with John Delane getting away ahead of Irvine Laidlaw, John Moulds (Brabham BT23 BDA) in 3rd and Malcolm Ricketts (Lotus 58 FVA) 4th. John Delane led for 2 laps but as the cars arrived at "Virage du Petit Pont" on lap 3, Irvine had moved his Lotus 69 ahead of John's to take the lead which he held until the flag.
Sadly for John Delane he slid off into the gravel on the slippery downhill "Epingle de Champeaux" hairpin on lap 6, elevating John Moulds to 2nd (winning Class B1) and Chris Ball (Brabham BT 28 BDA) to 3rd. Malcolm Ricketts took 4th place in the Lotus 58 to make up for his none finish on Saturday due to overheating.
 

One Win each for Ian Giles (AAR Eagle 74A Chev.) and Nico Bindels (Lotus 77 DFV) at FORCE Classic Grand Prix event at Dijon "Grand Prix Historique De Bourgogne" over the weekend of 12th / 13th July.  

Ian Giles took pole position in qualifying and the race win in Saturday's FORCE race, in his beautiful AAR Eagle  74A Chevrolet F5000 car after a race long duel for the win with Nico Bindels in his ex. Gunnar Nilssen Lotus 77 DFV who was beaten to the win on the line, (Ian crossed the line only 0.102 sec. ahead of Nico after 14 laps of hard racing!).
The race for 3rd place was equally hard fought with Peter Wuensch (Brabham BT 37 DFV) and Terry Sayles (Surtees TS 20 DFV) fighting hard throughout the race with Peter taking the place at the end.

Klaus Fiedler chose the Dijon FORCE Classic Grand Prix event to debut his ex. Jody Scheckter Tyrrell 007 DFV (from 1974) and was quick from the off, qualifying 5th overall and maintaining that position in the first race to lead home Peter Austin in his ex. Mike Hailwood Surtees TS 9B DFV in 6th place.

Rob Harvey was first F2 car home in 7th place in his ex. Steve Thompson Chevron B17C BDA, ahead of John Moulds' ex. Jack Brabham Brabham BT 23 BDA in 8th place, (each taking a Class Win in the process).

In Sunday's FORCE race, Nico Bindels and Ian Giles again disputed the lead throughout the race but this time it was Nico's JPS Lotus 77 DFV which took the flag first, 0.800 sec. ahead of Ian's F5000 Eagle 74A Chev.
As in race 1, Peter Wuensch took 3rd place ahead of Terry Sayles in 4th with only 0.500 sec. separating them as they crossed the line.
Klaus Fiedler's Tyrrell non started race 2 due to fuel vaporisation problems, so it was F2 cars which filled the 5th and 6th slots with John Moulds Brabham BT 23 BDA leading home Rob Harvey in the Chevron B17C BDA.

F1 "A1 Class" honours were taken in both races by Ron Maydon in his Cooper T86C Alfa Romeo and Ean Pugh took the C1 Class win in both races (for early F5000 cars) in his McLaren M10B Chevrolet.

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Class Win for Lorina McLaughlin at "11th Goodwood Festival of Speed". 

In addition to The FORCE running a very exciting Classic Grand Prix double header event at Dijon over the weekend of 11th to 13th July, a number of the regular FORCE runners including Lorina McLaughlin ran their F1 cars in the 11th running of the annual Goodwood Festival of Speed hillclimb event.

Lorina ran her ex. James Hunt McLaren M23 DFV in the event and was successful in Winning Class 16 in the process. Congratulations Lorina.
The picture shows Lorina receiving her award from Stirling Moss and Lord and Lady March.

Other FORCE regulars taking part were John Delane with Tyrrell 001 DFV, his son Ryan in John's recently acquired Tyrrell 006 DFV, Andrew Wareing with his recently completed Williams FW07 DFV and Rick & Rob Hall who drove various cars over the weekend including from the 1950's a V16 BRM and a Vanwall.

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Mike Littlewood takes Two FORCE Race Wins at Zolder in "29th European Historic Grand Prix".

Mike Littlewood scored another double header win in John Fenning's ex. Jody Scheckter Wolf WR 1 DFV at a very hot Zolder as the FORCE provided the headline "single seater" event at the 29th running of Zolder's European Historic Grand Prix over the weekend of 20th to 22nd of June.

Mike was fastest in practise and led away from Pole to take the win in Race 1 from the duelling duo of Frank Lyons (McLaren M26 DFV) and Terry Sayles (Surtees TS 20 DFV) who took 2nd and 3rd places respectively, only 0.352 sec. apart as they crossed the line!
Peter Wuensch debuted his recently acquired ex. Carlos Reutemann Brabham BT 37 DFV at the Zolder event and took 4th place in his first race with the car ahead of F2 Class winner, ex. touring car racer Andy Middlehurst in his Tecno T69 BDA who finished 5th.
 
Nick Rini took the F5000 Class honours in his Lola T300 Chevrolet with 6th place after a race long scrap with Rob Harvey's F2 Chevron B17C BDA (who finished 7th). Mike Scott took 8th place overall and the "un-winged" F2 Class B1 honours in his ex. Howden Ganley March 702 BDA.

 In Race 2, Mike Littlewood started  the Wolf WR 1 from the pit lane after concerns about the car running hot on the "formation lap"  leaving Frank Lyons to lead away from the grid. 
Frank led the race away with Terry Sayles, Peter Wuensch and Andy Middlehurst chasing hard through out and swapping places amongst themselves.

After 2 laps the Wolf began to stalk it's prey and throughout the remaining laps, Mike gradually faught his way through to the front, taking the lead from Frank Lyons on the last lap to make it 2 in a row.
Once again Frank Lyons took 2nd in his McLaren but this time Andy Middlehurst was 3rd in his F2 Tecno T69 BDA (once again taking Class B2 honours) ahead of Terry Sayles 4th, Peter Wuensch 5th and Graham Willcox 6th in his ex. Denny Hulme McLaren M14A DFV (taking F1 Class A2 honours).

Mike Scott finished 7th in his "un-winged" March 702 BDA  (to take F2 Class B1) ahead of Nick Rini's Lola T300 Chevrolet in 8th taking the F5000 Class win.

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Mike Littlewood takes Two FORCE Race Wins in "3rd Grand Prix De Pau Historique". Mike Littlewood took two race wins in John Fenning's ex. Jody Scheckter Wolf WR 1 DFV as the FORCE provided the headline event at the 3rd running of the "Grand Prix De Pau Historique". Mike never put a foot wrong and won in true copybook style in the beautiful black and gold F1 car from 1977. This year's event was a double header with 2 races being run on Sunday 1st June. Unfortunately, Peter Williams who proved fastest in qualifying in his March 761 DFV (and finished 2nd in last year's event) was denied the opportunity of racing for victory after a drive shaft snapped on lap 1 of the 1st race whilst Peter was leading. Nico Bindels opened up his 2003 FORCE season at Pau and took two 2nd places in his ex. Gunnar Nilssen Lotus 77 DFV, but was made to fight for it in both races, as Sid Hoole racing in his ex. Rolf Stommelen Brabham BT36 FVA F2 car proved a less powerful but more nimble opponent around what always used to be a classic F2 circuit. Sid Hoole harried the F1 Lotus throughout race 1 but his challenge was blunted when he lost the use of 2nd gear in race 1 and he had to settle for 3rd place. With a full compliment of gears available to him , Sid challenged Nico Bindels for 2nd place in race 2, briefly taking the place only to spin and finish down in 5th place but without doubt the sight of the F2 Brabham "punching above it's weight" amongst the more powerful F1 machinery was one to behold. Terry Sayles (Surtees TS 20 DFV) was 4th in race 1 (3rd F1 car home) and Frank Lyons (McLaren M26 DFV) was 3rd in race 2, after he and Terry had disputed the position for the duration of the race, with Terry crossing the line 0.203sec. behind Frank after 15 laps hard racing. Peter Austin (Surtees TS 9B DFV) and Lorina McLaughlin (ex. James Hunt McLaren M23 DFV) took 5th and 6th in race 1, whilst Lorina followed Sid Hoole home in 6th in race 2. Click here for a full report on the event including entry, qualifying, detailed race reports and results.     Click on "NEWS" for more information on The FORCE "Trophee De France F2 - 2003" and the history of "Les Grands Prix De France" F2 Championship.
	Klaus Fiedler will be out in the Hill GH-2 DFV which it was hoped would bring Tony Brise his first Grand Prix win, but sadly the team's plans were halted as a result of the tragic plane crash which killed Graham Hill, Tony and other team members. Look out for the car in it's striking "Embassy" livery in FORCE Classic Grand Prix events during 2004. Don Edwards will be another FORCE Classic Grand Prix newcomer in 2004 as he takes to the track in the ex. Patrick Depailler Tyrrell 008 / 3 DFV in which Patrick won the 1978 Monaco GP. In 2002 the car was driven at Monaco by Trevor Reeves (who was holding 2nd place until 2 laps from the end of the race when his engine began to cut out, eventually finishing 9th) in the 3 litre F1 event which headlined the Monaco Historic weekend. Don is a very welcome addition to next year's FORCE Classic Grand Prix events.