1973 Chevron B26

This was one of the competitors in the RJB Mining Championship race at the HSCC Summer Race Meeting at Oulton Park in July 1995 where it competed in the '2 Litre Group 6 cars with Cosworth BD derived engines' class.

It's the 1973 Chevron B26 of Richard Evans, seen here at Lodge Corner during the race. The B26 was a replacement for the B23, and as well as revised suspension and a rear wing it had an aluminium monocoque tub instead of the spaceframe chassis of all the earlier Chevron sports racing cars. It had a 4-cylinder inline 2 litre Ford engine with an aluminium block, which had been designed by Brian Hart and re-engineered by Cosworth. Only 9 of these cars were made, mainly due to lack of demand because of the 1973 oil crisis in the UK.