Lotus Mk X

This car is listed as the 2nd reserve entry in the Champagne Charles Heidsieck Sports Car Race in the programme of the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1993.

It's the 1955 Lotus Mk X of Jeremy Agace, identical to the Mk VIII but which used the 1,971cc Bristol engine in place of the smaller capacity Ford, MG and Coventry Climax engines typically used by the Mk VIII. The Mk X has a hump in the bonnet to accommodate the taller Bristol engine.

On 13 May 2015 I showed a photograph of this car that I had taken at Donington Park in 2004.

1909 Rover

I photographed this car at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Boulogne and Hawthorn Trophies Race Meeting at Oulton Park in June 2006.

The only note I made at the time is that it was a 1909 Rover and I can't ascertain whether it's a Rover 15 or a Rover 20. Both cars have a 4-cylinder inline engine, the Rover 15 being a 15 hp 2,450cc unit whereas the Rover 20 is a 20 hp car with a capacity of 3,251cc. From photographs I've seen I'm inclined to believe that it's a Rover 20.

Cooper Bristol

Two Cooper Bristol sharing a trailer in the paddock at the Vintage Sports Car Club's meeting at Donington Park in May 2001.

No racing numbers visible, but it looks like the car of Michael Parr on top and that of Bob Gilbert underneath. Both are the Cooper Bristol T23 model, or MkII, and have the 6-cylinder inline 1,971cc engine derived from the pre-war BMW 328 unit. The cars were numbered 19 and 44 respectively in the Ron Flockhart Memorial Trophy race at this meeting.

Old Trafford Car Park

Yesterday I showed photographs of a Ferrari 488 GTS that I had taken in the car park at Old Trafford on 10 April 2019 when Manchester United played Barcelona. Here are photographs of some of the other cars I took that night.

This car is a McLaren and unfortunately because of the position in which it was parked I couldn't get a photograph of the front of the car because of the van parked in front of it, nor the sides because of a car parked too close on one side and the angle of the sun on the other side. The DVLA record tell me that it's a 2019 car and has a 3,799cc engine, and it appears to be a McLaren 570GT with a twin turbocharged V8 M838T engine with twin overhead camshafts and 4 valves per cylinder.

I saw what looked like a BMW with this unfamiliar badge which turned out to be a high performance version of a BMW 5 Series developed by Alpina Burkard Bovensiepen GmbH of Buchloe, Bavaria and marketed as an Alpina D3.

It's a 2007 car and has a 1,995cc straight-four diesel engine.

One of several Bentleys on the car park, this is a 2016 Bentley Mulsanne with a 6,752cc twin turbo L-series V8 engine.

This Aston Martin is a 2015 Vanquish Convertible model with a 5,935cc 48 valve V12 engine.

A 2018 Mercedes-AMG GT R with a 3,982cc M178 twin turbo V8 engine with twin overhead camshafts and 4 valves per cylinder.

Another Bentley, this time a 2018 Bentley Bentayga with all-wheel drive, and which uses the Volkswagen Group's 5,950cc W12 twin turbo engine with 4 overhead camshafts.

This Bentley is a 2017 Flying Spur V8 S with a 3,993cc twin turbo V8 engine.

Friday's Ferrari

There were some exotic looking cars in the car park at Old Trafford on 10th April when Manchester United played Barcelona and this is one of them.

It's a 2018 Ferrari 488 GTS, powered by the 3,902cc V8 twin turbocharged F154 engine with 2 overhead camshafts per bank and 32 valves.

Porsche 917K

This car was in the paddock at the Christie's International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992.

It's a Porsche 917K in the Gulf Oil livery of John Wyer's JW Automotive Engineering team which campaigned with the cars in the 1970 and 1971 seasons. The cars won many events in the World Sportscar Championship in the 1970 and 1971 seasons, but a three-car team entered at the Le Mans 24 Hour race in both those years resulted in in five retirements with just a second place in the 1971 race to show for their efforts.

Ford GT40

I photographed this car at Britten's chicane during the Historic Motor Racing New Gentlemen Drivers Sports Racing Challenge race at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2005.

It's the 1965 Ford GT40 driven in the 60 minute long race by Shaun Lynn and Kevin Kivlochan and is chassis number GT40 P/1025. The GT40 was based on the Lola Mk6 and was developed by Ford specifically to beat Ferrari and win the Le Mans 24 Hour race, which it did on four occasions finishing in first place for four consecutive years from 1966 to 1969. Initially powered by the 289 cu in (4.7 litres) Ford Windsor V8 small block engine developed for the Ford Shelby Cobra, by the time of the 1966 Le Mans race the engine had been replaced by the 427 cu in (7 litres) Ford Galaxie engine and won the race with the same engine the following year. By 1968 the CSI had limited engine sizes to 5 litres for homologated cars (at least 50 had to be built) and 3 litres for the prototype class, and the GT40 reverted to a version of the original engine enlarged to 4.9 litres. That car won both the 1968 and 1969 races.

On 17 October 2017 I showed a photograph of Shaun Lynn's car in the paddock at this meeting.