Cooper Bristol

The Cooper Bristol was the car with which 1958 World Champion Mike Hawthorn made his name in the 1952 season, and which alongside HWM and Connaught carried the British flag in the 1952 and 1953 seasons when the World Championship was run to Formula 2 regulations. The engines were Bristol-built derivatives of the 1,971cc BMW 328's straight-6 engines that powered all Bristol cars until 1961. Ten examples of the Cooper Bristol were entered in the Twelve Lap Scratch Race for Post War Racing Cars at the VSCC's meeting at Oulton Park in August 1996, and three of those cars are pictured below.

This is the 1952 model of Proby Cautley, a Mark I car. The Mark I car was later designated Type 20.

This is the 1953 car of Roderick MacPherson, a Mark II car, later called a Type 23.

This car shown at Lodge Corner during the race is the 1952 T20 Mark I car of Spencer Flack.

On 17 July 2016 I showed a photograph of four Cooper Bristols at Silverstone in 1996 which included two of the cars shown above.