The Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 2000 celebrated 50 years of the Formula One World Drivers' Championship with the first race on 13 May 1950 at Silverstone. There was a display in the paddock of many of the cars that competed during those 50 years, some of which took part in track demonstrations during the weekend of the meeting. I took this photograph in the marquee in the paddock that housed the cars.
It's Tony Brooks sitting in the Connaught B Type, possibly reminiscing about his win in the Syracuse Grand Prix in 1955 in one of these cars. The car he is sitting in is chassis B4, originally owned and raced by Rob Walker's racing team and owned in 2000 by, I think, Tony Smith. The car in which Tony Brooks won the Syracuse Grand Prix was chassis B1, and like all the Connaught B Types had a 4-cylinder inline 2,470cc Alta engine. The photograph below shows Tony Brooks leaving the pit lane in the car on one of the demonstration runs.
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