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Event: Date: 22.9.1956
Track: Oulton Park (United Kingdom), 4.443 kmsOrganiser: Mid Cheshire Motor Club

Oulton Park International [F2]
Non championship race
Weather:unknown
Start time:15:35
Grid:4-3-4, PP right
Distance:unknown
Attendance:unknown
Entered:39
Practiced:28
Qualified:28
Started:28
Finished:23
Classified:23
Classes:PractStartClass
Formula 2666
Sports 1500886
Sports 1100141411
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Race notes:
Running as an experiment to the coming 1957 Fomrula 2 regulations. However there were only four genuine F2-spec. cars (others shown as -F2-). The grid was filled with sports cars, including even an MGA.
Winners:
Overall:88Cooper T41 ClimaxRoy Salvadori
Sports 1500:69Lotus Eleven ClimaxRon Flockhart
Sports 1100:81Lotus Eleven ClimaxCliff Allison
Leaders:
laps 1-40:88Cooper T41 ClimaxRoy Salvadori
Fastest Laps:
Overall:88Cooper T41 ClimaxRoy Salvadori (GB)1:57.0000136.7138 km/h
Pole Positions:
Overall:92Cooper T41 ClimaxTony Brooks1:52.2000
Sports 1500:80Lotus Eleven ClimaxColin Chapman1:57.2000
Sports 1100:81Lotus Eleven ClimaxCliff Allison2:01.4000
Notes of interest:
Top makes by numbers:Cooper (14), Lotus (11)
Top engines by numbers:Climax (27)
Top car types by numbers:Lotus Eleven (10), Cooper T39 (10), Cooper T41 (4)
Driver nationalities:GB (25)
Team nationalities:GB (23)
Most used colours:green (70%), blue (8%), grey (5%), black (5%), red (5%), silver (5%)
Engine positions:mid-engined (51%), front-engined (49%)
Average engine size:1273 cc
Oldest known drivers:Ken Wharton (40), Les Leston (36), Dennis Taylor (35)
Youngest known drivers:Herbert Mackay-Fraser (19), Archie Scott-Brown (19), Mike MacDowel (24)

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