This car competed in the Grand Prix Masters F1 Cars 1966-1985 race at the Silverstone Classic meeting in July 2010.
It's Robert Austin's 1976 Surtees TS19 with which Team Surtees competed in F1 racing in 1976, 1977 and 1978. The car was designed by John Surtees and Ken Sears and had a 2,993cc V8 Ford Cosworth DFV engine. The car did not fare well in any of those seasons, the highest points scorers being Alan Jones in 1976 with 7 points, Vittorio Brambilla in 1977 with 8 points, and Vittorio Brambilla again in 1978 with a solitary point. This website shows the record of each of the TS19s in those years, but I've not been able to ascertain the chassis number of Robert Austin's car - the most likely one is TS19/02. The programme of the event has this to say about Robert Austin:
'The real darkhorse is another former F3 racer in the form of Rob Austin and his ex-Alan Jones Surtees TS19. Austin has yet to have a proper run in the car but showed mighty pace in qualifying at Brands when he planted the car on pole. Unlike Coombs, Austin has his F3 experience from the last decade.'
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