1929 Napier Bentley

This car competed in the Brooklands and Goddard Trophies race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Hawthorn Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in June 2008.

It's the 1929 Napier Bentley of Christopher Williams and this is probably an early morning shot as it bears the number 193, presumably from a previous meeting, as it was number 70 at this meeting.

The Napier-Bentley was created by Peter Morley and David Llewellyn in 1968 using a 24 litre Napier Sea Lion engine which has a 'W' configuration - two banks of four cylinders in a 'V' with a third upright bank between them. The car was originally built on a Sunbeam chassis but after an accident was rebuilt using the chassis of a 1929 8 litre Bentley.

Here's Christopher Williams at Britten's chicane during the race