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OVERSEAS STARS
Peter Harper
Is one of Britain's top rally drivers. An ex-RAF pilot Harper in 12 years of competition has established himself as a cool, consistent driver, as he was a wartime pilot. He has been a Rootes Sunbeam team driver for seven years and has a top record in the Monte Carlo Rally, filling third, fourth, fifth, sixth and ninth in the event since he first entered in 1961.
Eric Jackson
Lead driver of car number 73, a Ford Works Team Lotus Cortina. With his Marathon partner Ken Chambers, he drove a Ford Corsair around the world in 42 days in 1963 and raced a ship from London to Capetown in 1965. Jackson, a British garage proprietor, was 1964 British rally champion and 1965 RAC rally champion.
Rob Slotemaker
Driving a DAF 55 lives near the famous racing circuit at Zandvoort in Holland. A Dutch racing and rally driver, he was Dutch racing champion in 1966 and 1967, driving an Alpha Romeo and 1968 driving a Ford Mustang. He has driven in the Monte Carlo Rally eight times and in 1966 he won his class in a BMW.
Rauno Aaltonen
Driver of a BMC 1800 Mk II, number 61, is the leader of the strong BMC Team in the Marathon. Aaltonen the winner of 1966 Monte Carlo Rally, is an ex-European rally champion. He joined BMC's works team in 1962. He is rated as one of Europe's best drivers with scores of wins to his credit.
Alexander Ipatenko
Driver of a Moskvitch 408 number 7, leads the four car Russian Team in the Marathon. The current USSR motoring champion is a former tank commander. He has six years general rally experience and early in 1967 was placed fourth outright in the gruelling Ethopian Rally.
Bengt Soderstrom
Is considered the "daddy" of the Ford Rally Team. He has won several top European rallies and in 1966 took one of the new Cortina GT's to Africa and was leading the rally by a large margin when the car "fell into a hole" and he was out. In 1967 he won the Austrian Alpine Rallly and finished third in the 1,000 Lakes Rally in Finland.
Paddy Hopkirk
The driver of the BMC 1800 Mk II, number 51, is the 'old fox' of International rallies. A member of the official BMC Works Team for six years, he won the 1964 Monte Carlo Rally in a Morris Cooper S. In 1966 he was outright winner of the French Alpine, Acropolis and Circuit of Ireland Rallies.
Giancarlo Baghetti
Driver of Lancia Flavia 1800 number 22 is one of Italy's top drivers. A 33 year old professional Grand Prix driver, he is Italy's sole entry in the Marathon. A works driver with Alfa Romeo, he has raced for the powerful Ferrari Team - particularly in their triumphant world rally championship days.
John Sprinzel
Heads the two-man team in a privately entered MG Midget. Sprinzel, an English garage owner and journalist has been a works driver for BMC, Triumph, Rover and Ford. An expert engine tuner, he is renowned for his ability for making small cars give big car performance.
Mike Taylor
The driver of a privately entered Mercedes 280SE number 26, was at one stage, one of the most promising Grand Prix drivers in the International Circus. His career ended with a 150 mph. accident in Europe during the 1960 season. Taylor has scored 29 wins in two years racing and rallying, including the Belgian Sports Car Grand Prix.
Roger Clark
Driver of the Ford Works Team, Lotus Cortina number 48, has been hailed as Europe's finest rally driver. A Ford Works driver, Clark stormed the rally scene in 1968 with stirring drives in the twin-cam Ford Escorts. His wins in 1968 include the Scottish, Circuit of England, Acropolis and the Tulip rallies.
Tony Fall
Driver of the official BMC Works 1800 Mk II, number 4, is the youngest member of the BMC Team. A car salesman, Fall had his first works drive with the team in 1965. The following year he won the Circuit of Ireland and the Polish and Scottish Rallies.
AUSTRALIAN STARS
David McKay
From Sydney, driver of Holden GTS number 36 and Team Captain of the three car Daily Telegraph Team. McKay, motoring editor of the Sydney Daily Telegraph is Australia's foremost motor-racing authority, and one of the country's most experienced drivers. He heads the powerful Scuderia Veloce Racing Team.
Doug Whiteford
From Victoria heads the crew in the second Daily Telegraph Team Holden GTS number 68. Whiteford, the manager of a large Melbourne car dealership, has three times won the Australian Grand Prix for Formula One cars. A racing competitor for more than thirty years, he drove in the 1954, 1955, 1956 and 1957 Round Australia Trials.
Barry Ferguson
Crew leader of the third Daily Telegraph Team Holden GTS number 76. Ferguson a sales supervisor with a large Australian biscuit firm, has been hailed by Australia's motoring press as the country's best rally driver. He won the four consecutive New South Wales rally championships since he began active competition in 1961.
Evan Green
The public relations manager of British Leyland Motor Corporation (Aust.), heads the BLMC (Aust.) entry - a BMC - Austin 1800 Mk II, number 31. A member of the BLMC Works Rally Team, Evan is one of the best known Australian Outback rally drivers. He has driven around or across Australia fourteen times in record attempts, durability tests and on film missions.
'Gelignite' Jack Murray
Winner of the 1954 Round Australia Trial, co-driver of car 31, a BMC - Austin 1800 Mk II, with Evan Green. Murray is Australia's most experienced long distance endurance driver. Murray earned his nickname "Gelignite Jack" during the Round Australia days because of his playful habit of exploding gelignite at control points and numerous dunnies (outhouses).
Bob Holden
A Sydney garage proprietor, heads the second AMOCO entered Volvo in the Marathon. Holden has been competing for more than a year prior to the Marathon in Volvos. His successes include an outright win in the 1966 Bathurst 500 (miles) motor race at Mount Panorama with BMC Works driver Rauno Aaltonen and a second place in the 1967 New South Wales Rally Championship.
Harry Firth
A Melbourne engineer driving car number 2, a works entered Ford Falcon V8. Firth, leader of the Ford Team, is one of Australia's most experienced veterans, both in racing and rallying. Twice Victorian rally champion, he has won the gruelling Bathurst 500 (miles) motor race at Mount Panorama four times, and led the Australian Rally Championship Series in 1967.
Ian Vaughan
From Melbourne, leads the Ford's second works crew in the Ford Falcon V8 number 24. Vaughan began driving in 1962 and was a Ford driver for four years. He scored numerous class wins in Cortinas and Anglias as well and several outright placings in Australian championship events.
Stewart McLeod
South Australian rally champion, drives Alfa Romeo number 39, for Addison Motors in the Marathon. McLeod, an Adelaide hotel licencee, teams up with long time rally partner Jack Lock. McLeod and Lock have won 19 events and taken five seconds and two thirds from only 26 starts.
John Keran
From Bayview in Sydney, partners Max Winkless in the AMOCO entered Volvo number 8. Keran, a 'retired' grazier is one of Australia's few full-time professional rally drivers. Keran has won Australia's International Southern Cross Rally.
Max Winkless
From Sydney, is lead driver in the AMOCO Team Volvo number 8. Winkless, the managing director of Swedish Motor Importers Pty. Ltd., imports Volvos in New South Wales, has more than 15 years consistent rally experience. He has been placed third in the NSW Trials Championship behind Telegraph-Holden team entrant Barry Ferguson.
Ken Tubman
A chemist from Maitland, New South Wales, co-driver of the TVW Channel 7 / Perth Daily News Volvo with veteran motorcyclist and trials driver Jack Forrest. Tubman, one of Australia's most respected rally authorities, won the first Round Australia in a Peugeot (only losing one single point) in 1953.
Ken also completed a detailed survey of both the Australian and Asian sections of the Marathon route. - Daily Telegraph
It needs to be said here that 'Gelignite' Jack Murray - won the Second Round Australia - Redex Trial in 1954, without losing one single point. This Redex Trial was fraught with more problems than the first Redex Trial and covered a greater distance by going down the West Coast of Australia to Perth, then across the Nullarbor Plain.
