This car contested the Formula 5000 Class in the Pre '71 Single Seater Championship race at the Historic Sports Car Club's Spring Historic Race Meeting at Oulton Park in May 1987.
It's the 1968 Surtees TS5A, chassis #TS5A/007 of Jon Reakes, originally a Team Surtees car raced in the USA by David Hobbs in 1970. In 1971 it returned to the UK where it was leased to French driver Hervé Bayard who competed in two races in the UK with the car, which then had a Chevrolet engine. At the end of that year it went to South Africa where it was given a Ford engine and remained there till at least 1974. By 1987 it had returned to the UK where it was acquired by Jon Reakes, and at some time between 1987 and 1992 the colour of the car was changed from blue to red.
On 1 February 2017 I showed a photograph taken in 1995 of the car at Oulton Park in its new red livery.
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