1956 Maserati 250F

This car competed in a Twelve Lap Scratch Race for Post War Racing Cars at the Vintage Sports Car Club’s meeting at Oulton Park in August 1996.

It’s David Pennell’s 1956 Maserati 250F which has the 6-cylinder inline 2,491cc Maserati engine. It is chassis #2524 which was sold new to Francisco Godia-Sales and with which he competed in the F1 World Championship races in 1956 and 1957. In 1958 it was sold to Joakim Bonnier who raced it during the 1958 season with Phil Hill taking the wheel at the French Grand Prix and Troy Ruttmann taking over for the German Grand Prix, although engine problems meant that he did not start the race. Scuderia Centro Sud entered the car in the 1958 Italian and Moroccan Grands Prix, driven by Giulio Cabianca and Hans Herrmann respectively.

2003 McLaren MP4/17D

This is a photograph that I took at the Donington Park museum in September 2014.

It’s a 2003 McLaren MP4/17D. a car that competed in the Formula One World Championship races in 2003. It had a 2,998cc Mercedes-Benz V10 engine and was driven by David Coulthard and and Kimi Räikkönen. They each won one race – Coulthard the  Australian GP and Räikkönen the Malaysian GP - and Räikkönen ended the season with 91 points and second place to Michael Schumacher in the Drivers’ World Championship while Coulthard had 51 points in seventh place. McLaren finished in third place in the Constructors’ Championship.

Friday's Ferrari

This is a photograph that I took at the Ferrari Racing Days meeting at Silverstone in September 2017.

It's a Ferrari F12 Berlinetta and has a 6,262cc V12 Ferrari F140 FC engine with an output of 740PS at 8,250 rpm. It was in production from 2012 to 2017.

1929 Alvis Silver Eagle

This is one of the cars that took part in the Lancashire Automobile Club's Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run in June 1977.

It's the 1929 Alvis Silver Eagle of Mr M.O.Attock and the programme of the event had this note about the car:

151     Mr. M.O.Attock, Bradford.

           1929 Alvis Silver Eagle, 17 h.p. 6-cylinder, 2148c.c.

This car has been used by Mr. Attock as a normal family motor car for the last 39 years. It was used in the James Herriot film "All Things Bright and Beautiful".

1953 Seddon Mk5

This is one of the vehicles that took part in the Greater Manchester Transport Society's Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally in Heaton Park, Manchester in September 1988.

It's a 1953 Seddon Mk5 and the programme of the event said this about it:

 

EM 5505 Seddon Mk5/L platform. 1953. Entered by R. Sanders, Preston, Lancs. Rebuilt from scrap, this vehicle is displayed in the livery of its first owner, and can be seen at many rallies throughout the U.K.

Emeryson 500cc F3

This car competed in the '500cc Formula 3 Cars' class in the Historic Formula Junior Championship race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's Autumn Historic Car Races meeting at Oulton Park in September 1992.

It's a front-wheel drive 500cc Formula 3 Emeryson but it's not listed in the programme of the event, so sadly I don't know who owned the car or who drove it that day.

1960 Scarab F1

I took this photograph at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 2000.

It's a Scarab F1 car which was built by American Lance Reventlow's Reventlow Automobiles Inc to contest the 1960 Formula 1 racing season. Like the Aston Martin DBR4 it was virtually obsolete before it turned a wheel in anger - in the 1959 season, and again in 1960 the old front-engined cars were dominated by the rear-engined ones, and the old 2½ litre Formula was due to be replaced by a new 1½ litre limit in 1961. The car had a 2,441cc 4-cylinder inline engine designed for Scarab by Leo Goossen, formerly of Offenhauser, and only started in two races in 1960, both Lance Reventlow and Chuck Daigh retiring from the French Grand Prix, and the single entry in the USA Grand Prix finished in 10th place driven by Chuck Daigh. At this Silverstone meeting the car was driven by Don Orosco in the Maserati UK Race for Pre 1961 Grand Prix Cars.