[Mick O'Malley]

Great footage, took me right back

I organised this club trip having seen photo's of one made in '72, so very early in Dutton history - lots of shoulder length hair! I was magazine editor at the time and was hoping for a real convoy as we had 100+ at Stoneleigh for a few years but only four others signed up. The Dutton Sierra in the picture was owned by our membership secretary and the Phaeton on the left has featured in my Monaco blog.



We camped, Jaguar won, perfect weather, and once the other 250,000 punters had departed we found our way onto the track - we were just passing the main stand opposite the pits when this was taken. I went again a good few times up until about '97 and saw Jaguar win again twice - I discount the Mazda win as I'm sure the ACO weighted its capacity equivalence to beat the XJR9s, which came 2nd, 3rd & 4th. Shades of the Lotus 23 debacle!

Happy Days!

Regards, Mick