This car competed in the HGPCA race for Pre-1966 Rear-Engined Grand Prix Cars at the VSCCs meeting at Donington Park in May 2001.
It's the 1958 Cooper T43 of Tania Pilkington and has a 1,960cc Coventry Climax FPF engine. The car was designed for the 1957 Formula One season, but also competed in Formula Two races with the smaller 1,475cc engine. The T43 gave the Cooper Car Company its first Grand Prix victory when Stirling Moss won the 1958 Argentine Grand Prix in Rob Walker's car. Tania Pilkington's car is chassis #F2-24-57, which was originally supplied to Tommy Sopwith.
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