Alfa Romeo 8C-35

These photographs were taken at the Vintage Sports Car Club's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2006.

This is the 1935 Alfa Romeo 8C-35 of Peter Greenfield that took part in two of the races at this meeting. The car is chassis 50013 and has a supercharged 3,822cc straight-eight engine. It was raced by the Scuderia Ferrari team, by Tazio Nuvolari amongst others, on behalf of Alfa Romeo in 1936, and by Hans Ruesch as a privateer in the latter part of 1936 and in the 1937 season. Hans Ruesch and his co-driver Richard Seaman won the 1936 Donington Grand Prix in this car.

At this 2004 Donington Park meeting the car competed in the Historic Seaman Trophy Race bearing the number 24 as in the above two photographs taken in the pit garage.

Later in the day the car took part in the Flockhart Trophy Race as a reserve entry bearing the number 20, presumably because a Cooper Bristol in the same race had already been allocated the number 24. In the above photograph Peter Greenfield is leading David Wenman in his 1952 Connaught A4 at McLean's Corner during this race.

50013 was owned by Dennis Poore after WW2 and was raced by him between 1947 and 1955, later ending up in the Donington Park Museum where I took photographs of the car in 1989.