1936 Maserati V8RI

I took this photograph at Foulstons chicane during the Richard Seaman Memorial Trophy Race for Historic Racing Cars at the Vintage Sports Car Club’s meeting at Oulton Park in June 1993.

It’s a Maserati V8RI with a 4,788cc supercharged V8 engine, only four of which were built. This car is chassis 4503 owned at the time by Doug Marr and was driven on the day by Tony Merrick. 4503 was originally delivered in February 1936 to Phillipe Etancelin who drove the car to win the Pau Grand Prix in its first race and competed with it in most of the European Grands Prix that year. At the end of 1936 Etancelin took the car to the USA to compete in the Vanderbilt Cup where he finished in eighth place, but soon afterwards sold the car which remained in the USA until it was eventually brought to England and ended up in the hands of Doug Marr in the late 1970s.