Richard Seaman Memorial Historic Trophy Race

I took this photograph just past Old Hall Corner in the early laps of the Richard Seaman Memorial Historic Trophy Race at Oulton Park in June 1973.

Car number 6 is the 1930/23 Bentley Napier (also known as the Napier Bentley) of David Llewellyn with Martin Morris alongside in his 1936 ERA R11B 'Humphrey'. The programme of the event said that the favourites today would be;

'....Neil Corner's ERA R4D, and Martin Morris's 2 litre ERA R11B, with a beam front axle and the engine set back in the chassis for Ken Wharton's sprinting activities with it. An unknown quantity to challenge these cars is David Llewellyn's Bentley Napier, powered by a 12 cylinder 24 litre Napier Lion aero engine. This car proved to be faster than the ERAs at Silverstone in April, but may be less successful on the twists and turns of Oulton Park, though this has yet to be proved.'

The Bentley Napier is here in it's original guise, and on 16 August 2015 I showed how it looked with newer bodywork at Donington Park in May 2001.