This was one of the competitors in the Pre-1966 Grand Prix and Tasman Cars race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1998.
It's the 1959 Cooper T51 of Peter Gooch. The car is one of three cars originally purchased by the British Racing Partnership/Yeoman Credit Racing Team in October 1959 for use in the 1960 racing season. It was fitted with a Coventry Climax FPF 2½ litre 4 cylinder in-line engine and features the unusual carburettor air intake only found on the Yeoman Credit cars. Chris Bristow, Tony Brooks, Olivier Gendebien and Phil Hill were amongst the drivers who raced the Yeoman Credit cars in the 1960 season.
On 19 December 2016 I showed a photograph of this car that I'd taken at the 1999 Silverstone Coys meeting.
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