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Originally Posted by allenbrown
The plot thickens. MN 17 Jun 1971 p26, talking of Gerry Kinnane's Lotus 69, says that it "looks suspiciously like the one driven by Alan Rollinson on a couple of occasions at the beginning of the season". Kinnane's first entry of his 69 (a DNA) was at Thruxton just days before the MN report above. Rollinson's car was on the same entry list - also a DNA.
So did Rollinson drive the ex-Ikuzawa 1970 Lotus 69 '69.F2.2' at Hockenheim and was the 1971 '71/69.2.F2' actually a typo/figment of the imagination?
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I have come to the same conclusion. Here are some references from MN in 1971, with some repetition for completeness.
11-2-71 – Gerry Kinnane (Team Ireland) acquires the ex Tetsu Ikuzawa 1970 Lotus 69 for John Pollock.
9-12-71 – in the season review it was stated that there were “only four totally new cars built” – these would be 69-71-3-F2 (MN style of reporting Lotus 69 numbers) for Gerry Birrell (J + J Stanton Ltd), 69-71-14-F2 for Emerson Fittipaldi (Team Bardahl), 69-71-18-F2 for Richard Scott (LIRA) and one for Tetsu Ikuzawa (presumably chassis 1). Thus the Irish Racing Cars entry for Alan Rollinson at Hockenheim in April would be a 1970 car.
17-6-71 – R St J Y reported of the Bishopcourt meeting that the John Pollock/Gerry Kinnane 69 “looks suspiciously like the one driven by Alan Rollinson”.
15-7-71 – John Pollock had his second run in Gerry Kinnane’s Team Ireland entry “originally handled by Alan Rollinson” (AH).
29-7-71 – AM reported from the Kirkistown meet that it was “ex Rollinson”.