TriumphSpitfire

Triumph Spitfire Racing

Standard-Triumph raced and rallied the Spitfire for two seasons, 1964 and 1965, and won its class at Le Mans in 1965; privateers in Britain and America carried on, and Spitfires won national titles in the United States until 1980.

A blue Spitfire with a hardtop and the number 7 on its door, its helmeted driver visible, cornering on a circuit in front of a gravel trap.
A blue Spitfire in the Mk IV body, with a hardtop, No. 7, cornering at Oulton Park in a club race in August 2014.Darren Garlick, CC0

Three works Spitfires started the Le Mans 24 Hours on 20 June 1964, and one finished: No. 50, ADU 2B, driven by David Hobbs and Rob Slotemaker, 21st overall. A year later Triumph's fastbacks finished 1st and 2nd in their class there.

Standard-Triumph raced and rallied the Spitfire for those two seasons only. Privateers kept its cars racing in Britain into 1967, the Macau Spitfire, built for a race in Macau in 1965, ran in America in 1966–67, and American drivers won national titles in Spitfires until 1980. The results at the foot of the page give each entry, race by race.⁠1​2​3​4​5​6​7​8

The works cars

Harry Webster, Standard-Triumph's engineering chief, chose the Spitfire for Le Mans, and Graham Robson writes that Webster had his engineer Ray Bates make its engine give about 100 reliable horsepower, using a prototype eight-port cylinder head. For the 1964 race Triumph's experimental department at Canley built four fastbacks, registered ADU 1B to ADU 4B: an aluminium inner structure with glass-fibre panels riveted to it, on a lightweight chassis.

The rally cars, ADU 5B to ADU 7B, were steel, production-based Spitfires with aluminium panels and a long nose, and from 1965 most of them had a glass-fibre fastback hardtop. ADU 8B was a fourth rally car according to New Zealand Classic Car, and a test and spare car according to Canley Classics. With them ran ADU 467B, built in the competition department for Stirling Moss's SMART team, and in 1965 AVC 654B, a left-hand-drive car built for Simo Lampinen. The factory built ERW 412C, which Canley Classics calls the "fifth 'Le Mans' car", for Bill Bradley in 1965, and the Macau Spitfire was a single-seater on a Le Mans tub.

A dark green fastback Spitfire race car with a yellow nose and race number 20 in a paddock.
A replica of the 1965 Le Mans Spitfires, No. 20, in the paddock at the Pau historic meeting in May 2015: the shape, not a works car.Handelsgeselschaft, CC BY-SA 4.0

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Le Mans, 1964 and 1965

In 1964 the three cars ran among the prototypes from 1 to 3 litres, against Porsche 904s and Alpines. Mike Rothschild crashed No. 49, ADU 1B, after 23 laps. No. 65, ADU 3B, had a damaged tail that let exhaust fumes into the cockpit; Denis Jenkinson reported in Motor Sport that Jean-Louis Marnat, overcome, weaved from Arnage to the pits and crashed at the end of the pit area without hitting anyone. No. 50 ran on to finish 21st, 4th of the prototypes up to 3 litres as racingsportscars groups them.

In 1964 I did Le Mans in a works Triumph Spitfire with Rob Slotemaker. It would only do about 120 top whack, flat all the way from Arnage to the Esses, teetering through Tertre Rouge with its rear swing-axles on tip-toe. We won the class and I was paid £200, which was good money. In 1965 I drove for them again, but Rob crashed it.

David Hobbs to Simon Taylor, Motor Sport, January 2011

That is his memory. The results put No. 50 behind a Porsche 904 and two Alpines in its class; the question of its place is below. The works team's other recorded circuit races that year were in France: Jean-François Piot retired at the Reims 12 Hours in July, and in October he and Marnat won the 1.15-litre GT class of the Paris 1000 km at Montlhéry, 22nd overall.

In 1965 all four cars ran in the 1.15-litre GT class, whose only other starter, an Alpine A110, retired with a failed clutch. No. 53, ADU 2B, shared by Peter Bolton and Bradley, went out after 6 laps with engine trouble (Canley Classics records a split oil cooler), and No. 52, ADU 1B, crashed with Slotemaker at the wheel. No. 60, ADU 4B, driven by Jean-Jacques Thuner and Simo Lampinen, won the class and finished 13th overall, and No. 54, probably ADU 3B, driven by Piot and Claude Dubois, was 2nd in class and 14th, the last car classified.

An empty straight road between trees, with steel barriers, a red run-off strip and a chicane.
The Mulsanne Straight at Le Mans at its Michelin chicane in June 2011, with no race running: the modern road, not as the works Spitfires raced it in 1964 and 1965, when it had no chicanes.David Merrett, CC BY 2.0

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Where did ADU 2B finish in its class in 1964?

Fact check

4th

racingsportscars.com, among the prototypes from 1 to 3 litres

3rd

Classic & Sports Car, German Wikipedia and gt6mk2.com

Our reading. It did not win its class. racingsportscars puts it 4th of the prototypes up to 3 litres, behind a Porsche 904 and two Alpines, and 21st overall; 3rd probably follows the organisers' own capacity classes, which no source read lists, so both readings stand.⁠1​25​26​27

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Sebring, 1965

On 27 March 1965 Standard Triumph Inc., the American company, entered three of the Le Mans cars in the Sebring 12 Hours, prepared under Kas Kastner, and Canley Classics has a photograph of a works mechanic, Peter Clarke, with ADU 4B there. No. 67, ADU 4B, driven by Ed Barker, Duane Feuerhelm and Rothschild, was 29th overall and 2nd in the GT class for cars up to 1,300 cc; No. 66, ADU 2B, with Bob Tullius and Charlie Gates, was 30th and 3rd; and No. 65, ADU 1B, crashed after 5 laps. The class went to the works MG Midget of Andrew Hedges and Roger Mac.⁠28​29​5​20​18

A white town sign reading Welcome to Sebring, home of 12 Hour Grand Prix, with three American flags.
The welcome sign at Sebring, Florida, home of the 12 Hours, in April 2007: the place, not the 1965 race.Chuck Schultz, CC BY-SA 2.0

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The rallies, 1964–65

Which rally car carried which crew is mostly unrecorded in the sources read. On the Coupe des Alpes in June 1964, Terry Hunter was 7th in the GT category; Thuner retired after a collision with a car that was not in the rally, and Roy Fidler with a burnt piston on the Rousset.

On the Tour de France Automobile in September, No. 131, driven by Slotemaker and Hunter, won the GT class for cars up to 1,300 cc and finished 15th overall and 10th of the GT category. John Davenport reported in Motor Sport that a miscalculation left it out of petrol (gas) on the tightest road section in the Pyrenees, and it was penalised for lateness, which its best performance on handicap at Clermont-Ferrand could not undo. The other three Spitfires retired, among them ADU 467B, driven by Valerie Pirie and entered by Moss. Hunter's best result came that autumn, on the Geneva Rally:

Second overall was Terry Hunter in a works Spitfire, which was a magnificent drive by the young English driver in a car that shows much promise for next year.

John Davenport, Motor Sport, December 1964

In January 1965 three works Spitfires finished the Monte Carlo Rally, one of them 11th overall, in a year when only 35 of the 237 starters were classified; Pirie retired ADU 467B. On the Tulip Rally in April snow fell on the Champagnole–Mont Salève section, and the works Triumphs got their studded tyres too late. The best came on the Coupe des Alpes in July, which had no overall classification. In the Prototype category, against Böhringer's works Porsche 904 and a private Alfa Romeo TZ, Lampinen and Jorma Ahava were 1st and Thuner and J. Gretener 2nd, and the Spitfires beat the Porsche on the road sections before it retired. Davenport wrote of "Simo Lampinen's 40-kilometre sprint on the tightest selectif of all with no brakes in his Spitfire".

No source read records a works Spitfire on the RAC Rally of 1964 or 1965; Triumph's 1965 entry was a team of Triumph 2000s. After the works team stopped, Thuner won Group 3 on the 1966 Geneva Rally in the Swiss Leyland team's Spitfire, which Motor Sport called "the only semi-works appearance of this car in 1966".

A pale blue Spitfire 4 with a hardtop, four extra lamps and door numbers, parked under a shelter.
A pale blue Spitfire 4 with a hardtop and extra lamps, prepared for historic rallying, at the Classic Motor Days in Hohenlockstedt, Germany, in June 2013: a car of the type, not a works car.Nightflyer, CC BY 3.0

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Privateers: Bradley, Macau and Gold Seal

From 1965 Bradley raced cars the factory built and looked after for him: ERW 412C in 1965, ADU 2B until June 1966 and then a car rebuilt around ADU 1B, with ADU 5B as a spare. Both his Nürburgring 1000 km entries retired: in 1965 ERW 412C lost a wheel, and in 1966 ADU 2B crashed when Steve Neal was clipped, by Bradley's account, by the Chaparral that won the race. In 1965 he won a handicap race at Phoenix Park in Dublin, a Marque race at Brands Hatch and his class at Castle Combe, and from August 1966, by his own record, he won his class every time he raced the rebuilt car.

The Macau Spitfire was built for Walter Sulke of Z.F. Garages, the Standard-Triumph distributor in Hong Kong, and ran in the Macau Grand Prix on 28 November 1965. Canley Classics, which owns the car, says Sulke finished 3rd, and that Albert Poon was 2nd in it in the Portuguese Trophy race at the same meeting; one later account, in Moss Motoring in 2025, has Poon 2nd overall in the Grand Prix. In 1966–67 Kastner's department raced it in America, with Gates driving.

Peter Cox won the Freddie Dixon Trophy in 1967 in ADU 467B. In 1968 and 1969 Gold Seal Car Company, a London sports-car dealer, backed three drivers, Cox, Richard Lloyd and Chris Marshall, in Spitfires built and run by Cox and Peter Clarke, both former works mechanics. Their bodies, made by Windmill Plastics of Coventry, became almost all glass fibre, with only the bulkhead and floors in metal. A much-modified ADU 467B was Cox's first Gold Seal car. At the Mugello Grand Prix in July 1969 Cox crashed one car heavily in practice; in the race Marshall and John Britten were delayed by a puncture and finished 43rd, 4th in the 1-litre prototype class.⁠17​20​18​11​40​41​42​6​43​44​45

A city dual carriageway lined with barriers and striped kerbs, a footbridge crossing it below tall buildings.
The Guia street circuit in Macau, empty of racing in November 2010: the city where the Macau Spitfire raced in 1965, not the car.Klaus Nahr, CC BY-SA 2.0

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In America

The Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) decided its national champions at the American Road Race of Champions, later called the Runoffs. At the first, at Riverside on 14 November 1964, Ed Barker won G Production in a Spitfire, leading from the 3rd lap and setting the fastest lap, and other Spitfires were 3rd to 6th and 8th.

Group 44, founded at Falls Church, Virginia, in 1965 by Tullius, the mechanic Brian Fuerstenau and the advertising man Dick Gilmartin, raced Spitfires in the SCCA, and Gilmartin won national races for it at Cumberland and Connellsville that year. Over its 25 years Group 44 won 14 SCCA national titles in several makes; no source read says how many came in Spitfires.

Later Spitfire champions, as far as the sources read record them, were Don Devendorf in G Production and Fuerstenau in F Production in 1968 (racingsportscars lists Fuerstenau's car as a Spitfire), Lee Mueller in F Production in 1969 and John Kelly in F Production in 1970. Jerry Barker was 2nd in 1970, in F Production by racingsportscars' record and in G Production by his Road Racing Drivers Club biography. He won G Production in 1975, Steve Johnson won F Production in 1979, and Barker took F Production in 1980, his second national title, in the year Spitfire production ended. The sources read are incomplete for 1971–78.⁠42​46​7​8

A black Spitfire race car with a blue roll hoop, number 18, panned at speed past a blurred fence.
A race-modified Spitfire in the SCCA's H Production class, panned at speed in an American club race in July 2022.Robert Yorde, CC BY 2.0

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Historic racing

In about 2004 Canley Classics thought it unlikely that any original works circuit car would be at Le Mans for the 40th anniversary of the 1964 race. According to Triumph World, as reported by gt6mk2.com, a replica registered ADU 1B first ran at the Le Mans Classic in 2004.

Genuine cars appear too. The Macau Spitfire has been shown at MIRA, driven by the former Triumph test driver Fred Nicklin, and at Enstone Airfield in 2002, and the rally car ADU 5B ran the Norwich Union Rally in 2007 and the Chatsworth Historic Rally Stages in 2008. In America, Moss Motoring recalled in 2021, the Friends of Triumph have held a Kastner Cup race event at Road Atlanta.

ADU 4B, the class winner of 1965 and the one Le Mans car to survive complete, raced again in America for about three years before Canley Classics bought it in 2004 and brought it back to England.⁠47​27​6​11​48​5​49

A dark green fastback Spitfire, number 65, cornering past tyre walls and a crowded grandstand.
The replica that carries ADU 1B's registration, No. 65, racing at the Le Mans Classic in July 2014: a replica, not the works car.David Merrett, CC BY 2.0

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Results

A yellow year marks a win.

  • 1964

    Geneva Rally 1964

    1964. Terry Hunter: 2nd overall⁠33

  • 1964

    Le Mans Test Weekend 1964

    19 April 1964, Le Mans, France. No. 49, Jean-Louis Marnat, David Hobbs and Rob Slotemaker: 25th overall⁠42

  • 1964

    Le Mans Test Weekend 1964

    19 April 1964, Le Mans, France. No. 50, Jean-François Piot: 26th overall⁠42

  • 1964

    Coupe des Alpes (Alpine Rally) 1964

    June 1964. Terry Hunter: 7th in GT⁠30

  • 1964

    Coupe des Alpes (Alpine Rally) 1964

    June 1964. Jean-Jacques Thuner: retired: collision with a non-competing car⁠30

  • 1964

    Coupe des Alpes (Alpine Rally) 1964

    June 1964. Roy Fidler: retired: burnt piston on the Rousset⁠30

  • 1964

    Le Mans 24 Hours 1964

    20 June 1964, Le Mans, France. No. 50, David Hobbs and Rob Slotemaker, in ADU 2B: 21st overall, 4th in P3.0⁠1​20

  • 1964

    Le Mans 24 Hours 1964

    20 June 1964, Le Mans, France. No. 49, Mike Rothschild and Bob Tullius, in ADU 1B: retired: accident⁠1​2​18

  • 1964

    Le Mans 24 Hours 1964

    20 June 1964, Le Mans, France. No. 65, Jean-François Piot and Jean-Louis Marnat, in ADU 3B: retired: accident⁠1​2​19

  • 1964

    Reims 12 Hours 1964

    5 July 1964, Reims, France. No. 56, Jean-François Piot and Alain Bertaut: retired: engine⁠22

  • 1964

    BRSCC Brands Hatch, August 1964

    3 August 1964, Brands Hatch, England. No. 133, Valerie Pirie, in ADU 467B: did not arrive⁠42

  • 1964

    Tour de France Automobile 1964

    11 September 1964, France. No. 131, Rob Slotemaker and Terry Hunter (co-driver): 15th overall, 1st in GT1.3⁠31​32

  • 1964

    Tour de France Automobile 1964

    11 September 1964, France. No. 129, Jean-Jacques Thuner and J. Gretener (co-driver): retired: mechanical⁠31

  • 1964

    Tour de France Automobile 1964

    11 September 1964, France. No. 130, Bill Bradley and Roy Fidler (co-driver): retired: engine⁠31

  • 1964

    Tour de France Automobile 1964

    11 September 1964, France. No. 132, Valerie Pirie and Taylor (co-driver), in ADU 467B: retired: engine⁠31​15

  • 1964

    Riverside 3 Hours 1964

    10 October 1964, Riverside, USA. No. 24, Ed Barker and Charlie Gates: did not arrive⁠42

  • 1964

    Paris 1000 km 1964

    11 October 1964, Montlhéry, France. No. 57, Jean-François Piot and Jean-Louis Marnat: 22nd overall, 1st in GT1.15⁠23

  • 1964

    American Road Race of Champions 1964

    14 November 1964, Riverside, USA. No. 61, Ed Barker: 1st in G Production⁠42

  • 1964

    American Road Race of Champions 1964

    14 November 1964, Riverside, USA. 3rd in G Production⁠42

  • 1964

    American Road Race of Champions 1964

    14 November 1964, Riverside, USA. 4th in G Production⁠42

  • 1964

    American Road Race of Champions 1964

    14 November 1964, Riverside, USA. 5th in G Production⁠42

  • 1964

    American Road Race of Champions 1964

    14 November 1964, Riverside, USA. 6th in G Production⁠42

  • 1964

    American Road Race of Champions 1964

    14 November 1964, Riverside, USA. 8th in G Production⁠42

  • 1965

    Monte Carlo Rally 1965

    January 1965. 11th overall⁠34

  • 1965

    Monte Carlo Rally 1965

    January 1965. finished⁠34

  • 1965

    Monte Carlo Rally 1965

    January 1965. finished⁠34

  • 1965

    Monte Carlo Rally 1965

    January 1965. Valerie Pirie, in ADU 467B: retired⁠15

  • 1965

    Sebring 12 Hours 1965

    27 March 1965, Sebring, USA. No. 67, Ed Barker, Duane Feuerhelm and Mike Rothschild, in ADU 4B: 29th overall, 2nd in GT1.3⁠28​5​49

  • 1965

    Sebring 12 Hours 1965

    27 March 1965, Sebring, USA. No. 66, Bob Tullius and Charlie Gates, in ADU 2B: 30th overall, 3rd in GT1.3⁠28​20

  • 1965

    Sebring 12 Hours 1965

    27 March 1965, Sebring, USA. No. 65, Peter Bolton and Mike Rothschild, in ADU 1B: retired: accident⁠28​18

  • 1965

    Le Mans Test Weekend 1965

    11 April 1965, Le Mans, France. No. 53, Jean-François Piot, Claude Dubois and Rob Slotemaker: 26th overall⁠42

  • 1965

    Le Mans Test Weekend 1965

    11 April 1965, Le Mans, France. No. 52, Jean-François Piot: 28th overall⁠42

  • 1965

    SCCA National, Cumberland 1965

    16 May 1965, Cumberland, USA. Dick Gilmartin: 1st in its class⁠42

  • 1965

    Nürburgring 1000 km 1965

    23 May 1965, Nürburgring, Germany. No. 102, Bill Bradley and David Prophet, in ERW 412C: retired: lost a wheel⁠40​17

  • 1965

    Crystal Palace International 1965

    7 June 1965, Crystal Palace, England. No. 81, Richard Attwood: ⁠42

  • 1965

    Le Mans 24 Hours 1965

    19 June 1965, Le Mans, France. No. 60, Jean-Jacques Thuner and Simo Lampinen, in ADU 4B: 13th overall, 1st in GT1.15⁠3​24​5​49

  • 1965

    Le Mans 24 Hours 1965

    19 June 1965, Le Mans, France. No. 54, Jean-François Piot and Claude Dubois: 14th overall, 2nd in GT1.15⁠3​24

  • 1965

    Le Mans 24 Hours 1965

    19 June 1965, Le Mans, France. No. 52, David Hobbs and Rob Slotemaker, in ADU 1B: retired: accident⁠3​24​21​18

  • 1965

    Le Mans 24 Hours 1965

    19 June 1965, Le Mans, France. No. 53, Peter Bolton and Bill Bradley, in ADU 2B: retired: engine (Canley Classics: a split oil cooler)⁠3​20

  • 1965

    BARC Mallory Park, June 1965

    27 June 1965, Mallory Park, England. No. 85, Bill Bradley: 2nd in GT1.15/Clubman 1.0⁠42

  • 1965

    BARC Mallory Park, June 1965

    27 June 1965, Mallory Park, England. No. 85, Bill Bradley: 2nd in Handicap A⁠42

  • 1965

    Coupe des Alpes (Alpine Rally) 1965

    July 1965. Simo Lampinen and Jorma Ahava (co-driver): 1st in Prototype⁠36​4

  • 1965

    Coupe des Alpes (Alpine Rally) 1965

    July 1965. Jean-Jacques Thuner and J. Gretener (co-driver): 2nd in Prototype⁠36

  • 1965

    Phoenix Park races 1965

    24 July 1965, Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland. No. 40, Bill Bradley: 1st in Formula Libre Handicap 2⁠42

  • 1965

    LCCC Oulton Park, July 1965

    31 July 1965, Oulton Park, England. No. 55, Bill Bradley: did not start⁠42

  • 1965

    BARC Croft, August 1965

    15 August 1965, Croft, England. No. 114, Bill Bradley: 12th in GT⁠42

  • 1965

    BARC Oulton Park, August 1965

    21 August 1965, Oulton Park, England. No. 148, Bill Bradley: 4th in GT⁠42

  • 1965

    BARC Oulton Park, August 1965

    21 August 1965, Oulton Park, England. No. 148, Bill Bradley: 7th in Handicap⁠42

  • 1965

    SCCA National, Connellsville 1965

    29 August 1965, Connellsville, USA. Dick Gilmartin: 1st in its class⁠42

  • 1965

    Redex Trophy, Brands Hatch 1965

    30 August 1965, Brands Hatch, England. No. 151, Bill Bradley: 16th overall⁠42

  • 1965

    Mittholz–Kandersteg hill climb 1965

    September 1965, Mittholz–Kandersteg, Switzerland. Jean-Jacques Thuner, in ADU 4B: 1st in its class⁠5

  • 1965

    BARC Brands Hatch, September 1965

    12 September 1965, Brands Hatch, England. No. 14, Bill Bradley: 1st in Marque⁠42

  • 1965

    BARC Brands Hatch, September 1965

    12 September 1965, Brands Hatch, England. No. 14, Bill Bradley: retired⁠42

  • 1965

    H&DLLC Castle Combe 1965

    9 October 1965, Castle Combe, England. Bill Bradley: 1st in GT1.2⁠42

  • 1965

    H&DLLC Castle Combe 1965

    9 October 1965, Castle Combe, England. Bill Bradley: 3rd in Sports⁠42

  • 1965

    Portuguese Trophy, Macau 1965

    November 1965, Macau. Albert Poon, in Macau Spitfire: 2nd overall⁠6

  • 1965

    SCCA Regional, Vaca Valley 1965

    6 November 1965, Vaca Valley, USA. No. 20, Ed Barker: 1st in GP+HP+HM⁠42

  • 1965

    American Road Race of Champions 1965

    27 November 1965, Daytona, USA. Dick Gilmartin: 4th in G Production⁠42

  • 1965

    Macau Grand Prix 1965

    28 November 1965, Macau. Walter Sulke, in Macau Spitfire: 3rd overall⁠6

  • 1966

    Geneva Rally 1966

    1966. Jean-Jacques Thuner: 1st in Group 3⁠38

  • 1966

    BARC Brands Hatch, April 1966

    24 April 1966, Brands Hatch, England. No. 154, Michael Costin: 4th in Marque⁠42

  • 1966

    BARC Oulton Park, May 1966

    7 May 1966, Oulton Park, England. No. 59, Michael Costin: 7th in Marque⁠42

  • 1966

    Nürburgring 1000 km 1966

    5 June 1966, Nürburgring, Germany. No. 39, Bill Bradley and Steve Neal, in ADU 2B: retired: accident⁠41​20

  • 1966

    BRSCC National, Crystal Palace 1966

    6 August 1966, Crystal Palace, England. Bill Bradley, in ADU 1B: 1st in its class⁠18

  • 1966

    BARC Oulton Park, August 1966

    20 August 1966, Oulton Park, England. No. 76, Michael Costin: 8th in Marque⁠42

  • 1966

    American Road Race of Champions 1966

    26 November 1966, Riverside, USA. Rick Hilgers: 2nd in G Production⁠42

  • 1966

    American Road Race of Champions 1966

    26 November 1966, Riverside, USA. Dick Gilmartin: 3rd in G Production⁠42

  • 1967

    American Road Race of Champions 1967

    25 November 1967, Daytona, USA. Ed Barker: 3rd in G Production⁠42

  • 1968

    BARC Mallory Park, May 1968

    12 May 1968, Mallory Park, England. No. 77, Peter Cox: 4th in Special GT⁠42

  • 1968

    BARC Snetterton, June 1968

    16 June 1968, Snetterton, England. Peter Cox: 5th in Production⁠42

  • 1968

    American Road Race of Champions 1968

    23 November 1968, Riverside, USA. No. 47, Don Devendorf: 1st in G Production⁠42

  • 1968

    American Road Race of Champions 1968

    23 November 1968, Riverside, USA. Mike Downs: 2nd in G Production⁠42

  • 1968

    American Road Race of Champions 1968

    23 November 1968, Riverside, USA. No. 44, Brian Fuerstenau: 1st in F Production⁠42

  • 1969

    Mugello Grand Prix 1969

    20 July 1969, Mugello, Italy. No. 54, Chris Marshall and John Britten: 43rd overall, 4th in P1.0⁠45​44

  • 1969

    Mugello Grand Prix 1969

    20 July 1969, Mugello, Italy. No. 55, Peter Cox and Richard Lloyd: did not start: crashed heavily in practice (Cox)⁠45​44

  • 1969

    Barcelona 12 Hours 1969

    5 October 1969, Barcelona, Spain. No. 24, Chris Marshall and John Britten: 13th overall⁠42

  • 1969

    American Road Race of Champions 1969

    30 November 1969, Daytona, USA. No. 3, Lee Mueller: 1st in F Production⁠42

  • 1970

    American Road Race of Champions 1970

    29 November 1970, Road Atlanta, USA. No. 4, John Kelly: 1st in F Production⁠42

  • 1970

    American Road Race of Champions 1970

    29 November 1970, Road Atlanta, USA. Jerry Barker: 2nd in F Production⁠42

  • 1975

    SCCA Runoffs 1975

    November 1975, Road Atlanta, USA. Jerry Barker: 1st in G Production⁠7

  • 1979

    SCCA Runoffs 1979

    1979. Steve Johnson: 1st in F Production⁠8

  • 1980

    SCCA Runoffs 1980

    1980. Jerry Barker: 1st in F Production⁠7​8

  • 2007

    Norwich Union Rally 2007

    2007. In ADU 5B: finished⁠11

  • 2008

    Chatsworth Historic Rally Stages 2008

    2008, Chatsworth, England. In ADU 5B: ⁠11

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Sources

Sources are given as plain text; their addresses are on the sources page.

  • Primarymade at the time, by the maker or by people who were there
  • Referenceserious later work: clubs, specialists, magazines, books
  • Databaseresults and listings, entry by entry
  • Uncheckedencyclopaedias and enthusiast sites: cited beside a good source, named in the sentence, or marked Unchecked
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  4. New Zealand Classic Car, "Getting the facts straight: Spitfires at Le Mans", 4 Nov 2015. Reference
  5. Canley Classics, "Spitfire ADU 4B Le Mans", para. 1; photo captions; photo captions; "Our Museum"; photo caption. Reference
  6. Canley Classics, "Macau Spitfire", the build; demonstrations. Reference
  7. Road Racing Drivers Club, "Jerry Barker". Reference
  8. zoompics.com, "1980 Runoffs" photo report. Reference
  9. Graham Robson, "Harry Webster – My Technical Mentor", Moss Motoring (Moss Motors), 12 Jun 2019, Le Mans. Reference
  10. Canley Classics, "Spitfire ADU ~B Le Mans". Reference
  11. Canley Classics, "Spitfire ADU 5B Rally". Reference
  12. Canley Classics, "Spitfire ADU 7B Rally". Reference
  13. Canley Classics, "Spitfire ADU 8B Test / Spare Car". Reference
  14. Graham Robson, "One Design, Many Derivatives", Moss Motoring, 26 Oct 2022, the rally cars' nose. Reference
  15. Canley Classics, "Spitfire ADU 467B Rally". Reference
  16. Canley Classics, "Le Mans Fuel Tanks", AVC 654B. Reference
  17. Canley Classics, "ERW 412C". Reference
  18. Canley Classics, "Spitfire ADU 1B Le Mans", Bradley's account. Reference
  19. Canley Classics, "Spitfire ADU 3B Le Mans". Reference
  20. Canley Classics, "Spitfire ADU 2B Le Mans". Reference
  21. Simon Taylor, "Lunch with… David Hobbs", Motor Sport, Jan 2011. Reference
  22. racingsportscars.com, Reims 12 Hours 1964, results, No. 56. Database
  23. racingsportscars.com, Paris 1000 km 1964 (Montlhéry), results, No. 57. Database
  24. Denis Jenkinson, "Le Mans 24-hour race", Motor Sport, Jul 1965, p. 11. Primary
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