Mike Wilds – F5000 | The “forgotten” drivers of F1

1974 F5000 Mallory Park. Photo Tony Carwithen

1974 Oulton Park with Lella Lombardi. Photo John Leck

1974 26th International Trophy Silverstone. Photo and info Alan Cooper

1974 Silverstone. Photo Norman Hayes

1974 Zolder. Photo Paul Kooyman

1974 F5000 Zolder

1974 Zolder. Photo Christian Wolf

My dear friend Colin Bennett building the Dempster March 74A that I was going to drive in the 1974 Rothmans European F5000 Championship. We built the car in Brian Lewis’s Boxer Race Car workshop at Fairoaks Airfield in Surrey. Colin did a great job and we finished 2nd in its first race on the Brands Hatch GP Circuit behind Peter Gethin (VDS Chevron B24). Very happy days. Photo and info from Mike Wilds

My dear friend Colin Bennett building the Dempster March 74A that I was going to drive in the 1974 Rothmans European F5000 Championship. We built the car in Brian Lewis’s Boxer Race Car workshop at Fairoaks Airfield in Surrey. Colin did a great job and we finished 2nd in its first race on the Brands Hatch GP Circuit behind Peter Gethin (VDS Chevron B24). Very happy days. Photo and info from Mike Wilds

1976 30th August 1976 Brands Hatch ShellSPORT 5000 European Championship. Photo and info Alan Cooper

1980 Silverstone AFX F1 series with Graham Eden Racing Chevron B41-Ford. Photo Thomas Salkeld