Brisca F1 Stock car racing from Aycliffe 1974

[@ljtorano]

Tony Allen came to New Zealand. I actually worked for him as a apprentice mechanic.He raced stockcars over here and then moved up to Sprintcars. Won national titles and Outlaw series in sprintcars. His eldest Son Mike Allen raced sprintcars and also won several titles. Anthony Allen raced modifieds at Waikaraka Park. Tony is still alive in his 70s now. I learnt a heaps from him and would not be a mechanic if was not for him.

[@ragnarrthorsen2792]

Awesome. Thank you so much for the memories ❤️

[@Davidwaters-]

WOW Who the hell was that 348 harrassing smithy lol Gordon Smith and chissy too, wicked, didnt know Hillam brought that style of car out in 74 what a good engineer he was. Excellent stuff thanks for uploading

[@kenpics]

Mr Walkie Talkie - Be my boogie woogie baby - Aycliffes start music from the late seventies and early eighties, it brings a tear to my eye!

[@ukvespa]

I was a Smithy fan as a little kid till I moved into cleckheaton right next door to John Hillams factory . Go 229 Where I worked the bosses mate was a friend of johns pit crew. The guy who put the first wing on a car. Bring back BRISCA to Odsal Bradford

[@anythingoldmechanical]

Thanks for the share.. Great memories!!!

[@ragnarrthorsen2792]

Excellent

[@malcolmdeamer]

Great video it was real stock car racing then

[@swiftyxxx123]

i went to the final at belle vue in 1975 , Smithy started on front row, Chisholm on 3rd row and passed him quite easily , sure Dave Taylor used to race with a jag engine so did really well to be fairly competetive , btw RIP smithy

[@sonola1]

@sspanzer He (Tony Allen) was good - and he wasn't scared to mix it with the best of them. I don't know whether that meeting was some sort of qualifier, but Chissy was a credit to the gold roof, attending as many meetings as possible regardless of importance or distance, and usually showing his critics exactly why he deserved to be the Champ. Dave Taylor was also an Aycliffe regular. I was 13 then, but I remember seeing Ray Liddy taking this footage from the top of the commentary box.

[@Davidwaters-]

@sonola1 Crikey fancy Dave Taylor being a regular at Aycliffe I saw Chissy beat the Maestro at a Belle Vue world final I know I was sulking that night but think the Maestro was further back up the grid. Wish he emigrated later and I got to see Tony Allen racing at the North West tracks he was obviously on par with the very best.

[@sonola1]

@sspanzer That was Tony Allen. I forget where he was from, but - not long after that - he emigrated to New Zealand (as did Tony Neal (100) the year before).

[@swiftyxxx123]

excellent video !! have you got film of chisholm's wf wins at coventry and belle vue ?? would love to see those again

[@MrBigandy123]

Hi,justy come across this page and was wondering if anybody was at odsal when a young boy was hurt in the crowd when frankie wainmans car went over the fence and hit the floodlights making one of the lamps fell off and hit the boy on the head

[@777barry]

I have recently found some 27 colour slides of the Aycliffe stadium. My records say the date is around 07-04-1974 they do not look to be in bad condition I will try them through the scanner to see what I can get. Any driver in particular to look out for?

[@Davidwaters-]

@sonola1 I'm not familiar with him I was just a little kid then but he was obviously talented with a fast engine, must have been a big meeting getting all them stars going oop North not sure if I saw Dave Taylor as well as Chissy, long trek for them.

[@4forty4]

what is this music?

[@Davidwaters-]

So the tarmac at Aycliffe had ripples in it, the cars were bouncing all over the place.

[@PhilBurns-oc2vg]

They didn't call it aycliffe for action for nothing

[@kenpics]

Barry, contact me at the email address at the end of the video with a list of car numbers, I will give you more info.