1954 Cooper MkVIII

This car is passing under the Clay Hill bridge just after the Knickerbrook corner during the  500cc Formula Three Cars race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in June 1994.

It's the 1954 Cooper Mk VIII of Andrew Garner, one of the cars which dominated Formula 3 racing in the early postwar years. Many people found that the home-built cars with a 500cc motor cycle engine was an inexpensive way to compete in motor sport and Charles Cooper and his son John started to produce these cars in 1946, firstly for themselves but later making them for other people and eventually they formed the company that led to the Cooper Climax T51 with which Jack Brabham won the World Drivers' Championship in 1959.