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I knew him (Mike Smith) in 1975 when he ran in the Radio 1 Championship running a Capri. I remember there was also a Marc Smith who I was good friends with and also ran a Capri. Mike Smith was a bit of a hothead then too.That is when I was working with Mazda withJohn Markey's Arian Automotive in BTCC and also ETCC and the British Production series.... we ran a number of RX3's in the Championship. We ran Cozy Powell, drummer of note (another for this list) Tony Lanfranchi we also ran amongst many others. Im sure I already mentioned him in the early days of the thread though.Others running were Gerry Marshall, Noel Edmonds, (another name for the list if he hasnt been mentioned with Cozy)as he was at the time a Radio DJ before he became a TV Presenter. ). Edmonds ran a Capri as well. Jeff Allam was another, as was John Brindley.
There were two Production car Series that year.... one the BBC Radio 1 Series, the other the Britax Production series. Many competitors ran both.
Cozy after a class win in the RX3. Actually Cozy also won outright Ford Escort celebrity races and the pic might have been from one of them.
Cozy at Snetterton with the Hitachi sponsored RX3 alongside.
For those interested I wrote an article (with pics) about the Mallory Park Radio 1 fun day which was quite an event. 50,000 tartan clad teenage Bay City Roller fans were there and we had a track invasion by most of them in the middle of a Formula Ford race. (The Bay City Rollers had just arrived by helicopter on the infield.) Oh and it involved the Wombles in a boat with Tony Blackburn, another top DJ at the time, and several police wading in the lake trying to apprehend fans
Quite an amusing read even if I say so myself. Happy Days
Anyway it is here viewtopic.php?p=314590&hilit=Mallory+Pa ... ay#p314590