1959 Cooper T51

The Coys International Historic Festival meeting of July 1994 at Silverstone featured a tribute to Juan Manuel Fangio and there was a display of some of the cars with which he was associated. At the side of this display were a few cars that didn't compete in any of the races at the meeting but which that took part in demonstration runs during the meeting and this is one of the photographs I took of some of them.

There's nothing in the progamme of the event about these cars, but the car in the background is a Cooper T51, the model with which Jack Brabham won his first World Drivers' Championship in 1959. Nearest the camera is a Jaguar C Type that another photograph I took shows to have the number 18, which is the number borne by the winner of the 1953 Le Mans 24 Hour Race driven by Tony Rolt and Duncan Hamilton, and if it is that car it is chassis number XKC051. Alongside it is the 1959 Aston Martin DBR1, chassis DBR1/2, that won the 1959 Le Mans 24 Hour Race in the hands of Roy Salvadori and Carroll Shelby.