Alfa Romeo 158

This car took part in a Shell Historic Ferrari Maserati Challenge race at the VSCC's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies race meeting at Donington Park in June 2003.

It's Carlo Vögele's 1939 1,479cc Alfa Romeo 158, in the pit lane during a practice session, and the programme of the event said this about the car:

'The 158 Alfetta, a voiturette, of Carlo Vögele (14) with its Columbo designed straight-eight engine first appeared in 1938 at the Coppa Ciano where the three cars entered and came first, second and seventh. With only a single stage supercharger, the engine was said to develop 195bhp at 7500rpm. A Formula One Grand Prix car from 1948, in its final form in 1951 the engine had two-stage supercharging, developed something like 400bhp plus after the superchargers had taken some 135bhp, and did 1.6mpg, according to David Hodges. This car had independent suspension all round with trailing links at the front. You may have asked how the Alfa Romeo cars feature in a Ferrari Maserati challenge, well the competition Alfas  were prepared by the Scuderia Ferrari in the 1930s.'

On 22 February 2018 I showed photographs of this car at Silverstone in 1999.