Friday's Ferrari

This car took part in the Historic Grand Prix Cars Association Sports Car Race at the Christie's International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992.

It's the 1953 Ferrari 250MM of Jeremy Agace, chassis #0390MM, and was originally owned by Spanish driver Alfonso, Marquis de Portago. A total of 31 of these cars were produced, some with Berlinetta bodywork by Pinin Farina and the others with Barchetta bodywork by Vignale. They had the 2,953cc V12 engine designed by Gioacchino Colombo.

1954 Aston Martin DB2

This car competed in the Pre-1959 Aston Martin Race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in September 1986.

It's John Curtis Chamberlain's 1954 Aston Martin DB2/4, chassis LML/555. The DB2/4 was produced from 1953 to 1957 and this car has the 6-cylinder inline 2,580cc engine, later cars having the larger 2,922cc version of that engine.

1962 Lotus 24

This is one of the photographs I took in the paddock at Aintree during practice for the British Grand Prix in July 1962.

It's Jack Brabham's 1962 Lotus 24 with a 1,496cc Coventry Climax V8 FWMV engine. Jack Brabham had left the Cooper team at the end of the previous season to design his own F1 car and in the 1962 season he competed with the Lotus 24 until the Brabham BT3 was available. It was hoped that he'd be able to drive the BT3 in the British Grand Prix, but it wasn't ready till the following race in Germany. At Aintree Jack Brabham qualified the car in ninth place on the grid and ended the race in fifth place. He was ninth in the World Drivers' Championship table that year, ending the season with fourth place finishes in the last two races with the Brabham BT3.

1986 Ecosse C286

This car took part in the 2 hour long British Empire Trophy race at the Silverstone Historic Festival meeting in August 2001 driven by Mike Wilds and Gary Pearson.

It's a 1986 Ecosse C286 that competed in the C2 Class of Group C series racing in 1986 and 1987. The C286 was campaigned by the Ecurie Ecosse team and originally had a 3 litre Austin-Rover V6 engine. In the 1986 season the car gained C2 Class wins at the Nürburgring, Spa-Francorchamps and Fuji but at Le Mans was disqualified in the early hours of the Sunday morning for receiving outside assistance after an accident following a burst tyre. For 1987 the Austin-Rover engine was replaced by a 3,298cc V8 Ford Cosworth DFL engine and the car won the C2 Class at Silverstone and Brands Hatch. At Le Mans in 1987 the Ecosse driven by David Leslie, Ray Mallock and Marc Duez finished in eighth place overall and was second in the C2 Class to a Spice SE86C. 

1970 McLaren M19A

These two cars competed in the HSCC Seldon Pre '71 Single Seater Championship race at the Historic Sports Car Club's Spring Historic Race Meeting at Oulton Park in May 1986.

The number 1 car is a 1971 McLaren M19A, chassis M19A/1, and the number 72 is a 1970 Lotus 72, chassis 72/R4. Both cars belonged to the then owner of the Oulton Park racing circuit (and Brands Hatch and Snetterton), John Foulston, who drove the McLaren in that race whilst his wife Mary drove the Lotus. The McLaren M19A was designed by Ralph Bellamy and the Lotus 72 was designed by Colin Chapman and Maurice Philippe, both cars having the Ford Cosworth DFV 2,993cc V8 engine. The Lotus was the more successful of the two cars, Jochen Rindt winning the World Driver's Championship in 1970  and Emerson Fittipaldi  in 1972, and Lotus winning the World Constructor's Championship in 1970, 1972 and 1973. The McLaren's best results were a third place in the Driver's Championship in 1972 for Denny Hulme and a third place in the Constructor's Championship the same year for McLaren.

Here's John Foulston at Deer Leap during the race.

1983 RAM March 01

This is one of the photographs I took at the Donington Park Museum in September 2014.

It's the 1983 RAM March 01 that the RAM team campaigned in the 1983 season and has a 2,993 cc V8 Ford Cosworth DFV engine. The board next to the car reads as follows:

1983 RAM Racing March

RAM Racing was a Formula One racing team which

competed during the racing seasons of 1976 to 1985.

The team entered other manufacturers’ chassis from

1976 to 1980, then ran March’s team from 1981 to

1983, only entering a car entirely their own in 1984 and

1985.

1983 saw the RAM name make itself onto the chassis

for the first time, with David Kelly’s RAM March 01

design. Salazar returned to drive the main entry, while a

second car for Jean-Louis Schlesser was fielded at the

French Grand Prix as a one-off. Salazar scored a 15th

place in the season opener, but the bulky car struggled

to qualify. Financial reasons saw the team skip the

Detroit Grand Prix, while they only made the Canadian

Grand Prix due to fielding local driver Jacques

Villeneuve Sr. and attracting some Canadian

Sponsorship. Kenny Acheson then took over for the rest

of the season, only qualifying once, at the season-

closing South African Grand Prix, where he took the

team's best result of the year, 12th and last.

1935 Railton 8

This was one of the exhibits at the Northern Classic Car Show at the G-Mex Centre, Manchester in August 1993.

It's a 1935 Railton 8, and was on the stand of the Railton Owners Club. It's not mentioned in the brochure of the event which says this about the Club:

'We are celebrating the 60th birthday of the Railton which first appeared in 1933 and with its effortless top-gear performance and superb acceleration was hailed as being '10 Years Ahead Of Its Time'. Reid Railton, who gave his name to the car, was best known for designing the Napier Railton, which holds the Brooklands track record, and the Railton Mobile Special, which broke the world Land Speed Record in 1938 and again in 1947 being the first car to actually exceed 400 mph.'

The Railton 8 was produced between 1933 and 1940 and has an 8-cylinder 4,168cc engine, and when AWX 118 was shown at the 1986 Northern Classic Car Show the following note appeared in the Show's brochure:

'The Railton was a successful combination of American power and English coachwork, It was based on the 8 cylinder Hudson chassis and the example shown is fitted with the popular Fairmile drophead coupe body.'

Friday's Ferrari

This is one of the cars I photographed at the Ferrari Racing Days meeting at Silverstone in September 2017.

It's a Ferrari 348 GTS, 137 of which were produced between 1993 and 1995. It has the 3,405cc V8 Ferrari F119H engine with twin overhead camshafts per bank and four valves per cylinder.

1936 ERA R5B 'Remus'

I took this photograph in the paddock at Oulton Park at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies Meeting in June 1984.

It's the 1936 ERA R5B of the Hon. Pat Lindsay, originally one of Prince Chula's White Mouse Stable cars driven by Bira and given the name 'Remus'. The car took part in two races at this meeting, the Richard Seaman Memorial Historic Trophy Race and the Cheshire Building Society Allcomers Race. The engine was based on the 6-cylinder inline Riley 12/6 engine, three different versions of which were produced to allow the cars to compete in 1100cc, 1500cc and 2000cc classes of racing and this car has the larger of those engines, officially 1980cc, although for some reason the programme of this event shows the capacity in its first race to be 1983cc and in the second race 1984cc.

1955 Cooper Mk IX

I took this photograph at McLeans Corner during the 5 lap Scratch Race for Formula 3 (500cc) Racing Cars at the Vintage Sports Car Club's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in May 2011.

Leading is John Turner in his 1955 Cooper Mk IX, followed by Frederick Harper who was competing in the Invited Class in a 1950 Cooper Mk IV with a 1,100cc engine. After the Second World War motor racing in the UK was slow to re-start, partly because of petrol rationing and the cost of running a suitable car. Home-built ‘specials’ powered by 500cc motorcycle were created to provide a reasonably cheap way means of getting involved in the sport. John Cooper and Eric Brandon, with the assistance of John’s father Charles, decided in 1946 to build two cars, and in 1947 in the second post-war race meeting to be held Eric Brandon won the first race to feature 500cc cars. In 1950 this 500cc class of racing was adopted by the FIA as a new Formula 3, and John and Charles Cooper went on to build a series of these 500cc cars, eventually graduating to Formula 2, then Formula 1 culminating in Jack Brabham winning the World Drivers’ Championship in 1959 and 1960 in the 2½ litre Cooper Climax. There's a 500 Owners Association for enthusiasts and owners of these cars.

1971 Lotus 72

This car contested the F.O.R.C.E. Pre-1972 Grand Prix Cars Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 2000.

It's the 1971 Lotus 72 of Mike Littlewood and is chassis R6, the car with which Ronnie Peterson won the French, Austrian, Italian and USA Grands Prix of 1973. The Lotus 72 was designed by Colin Chapman and Maurice Phillippe and had several innovative features including an air intake above the rear engine, inboard brakes, and radiators in side pods instead of the front of he car enabling a wedge shaped and more aerodynamic nose. It was powered by the 2,993cc V8 Ford Cosworth DFV engine and competed in Grand Prix races for six seasons, from 1970 to 1975, winning the World Constructors' Championship three times, in 1970, 1972 and 1973. Lotus Team drivers Jochen Rindt, Emerson Fittipaldi and Ronnie Peterson won 20 Grand Prix races between them in that time, Jochen Rindt winning the World Drivers' Championship in 1970 despite losing his life in an accident during practice for the Italian Grand Prix late in the season. Emerson Fittipaldi won the 1972 World Drivers' Championship in the car, but it became increasingly less competitive over the next three seasons and was replaced in 1976 by the Lotus 77.

1936 Bugatti T57

I photographed this car on the approach to Lodge Corner during a 5 lap handicap race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in June 1982.

It's Mrs Averil Scott-Moncrieff in a 1936 Bugatti T57, chassis 57176, which has a twin overhead camshaft 8-cylinder inline 3,257cc engine. A Bugatti T57G Tank with a streamlined all-enveloping body won the 1937 Le Mans 24 Hour race driven by Jean-Pierre Wimille and Robert Benoist, and Jean-Pierre Wimille and Pierre Veyron repeated that feat in a similar Bugatti T57C Tank in 1939.

1939 Maserati 4CL

Maserati was the featured marque at the VSCC's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2005, and this is one of the Maseratis that took part in the Celebration Maserati Invitation Race.

It's the 1939 Maserati 4CL of Georg Kaufmann and is chassis #1569. The Maserati 4CL was designed for Voiturette racing, and had a supercharged 1,491cc straight-4 engine. The car had some success in its first season until racing was curtailed by the Second World War, and dominated racing in the years immediately following the war in the hands of drivers such as Raymond Sommer, Tazio Nuvolari and Luigi Villoresi, until the arrival of the Alfa Romeo 158. Nine of the cars were built in 1939, and a further sixteen after the war between 1946 and 1947. 1569 was delivered on 29 May 1939 to Johnny Wakefield who campaigned it successfully up to the outbreak of war. After Wakefield's death in 1942 it was purchased by Reg Parnell and raced by him extensively between 1946 and 1948, then was raced by David Murray in 1948/49. It was an Ambrosiana Team spare during 1950 before passing via John Green to Bobby Baird in 1951. It later went to George Weaver in the USA, then via British, Swiss and German owners to Swiss driver Georg Kaufmann.

1925 Talbot 10/23 Coupe

This car took part in the Lancashire Automobile Club's annual Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run in  June 1986. The Run started from the Exchange Station car park in Manchester and is seen here just after the start turning from Victoria Street onto Chapel Street, the A56, to commence its journey.

It's the 1925 Talbot 10/23 Coupe, also known as a 'Doctor's Coupe', of William Barker and a note about the car in the programme of the event reads as follows:

53     1925 Talbot 10/23 Coupe

          Reg:  XX 2957   4 cylinder    1018cc

          (William Barker, Trawden, Colne)

This is a rare and lovely 'Doctor's Coupe' with a 

nifty overhead valve engine. As the mileage

reading of 22,000 mils since new is believed

to be genuine, it couldn't have belonged to a

particularly busy doctor.

Friday's Ferrari

 This car took part in the Italian Historic Car Cup race at the Silverstone Classic meeting in July 2010.

It's the 1969 4,993cc V12 Ferrari 512S of Carlos Monteverde who shared the driving in the hour long race with Gary Pearson. Twenty five examples of the Ferrari 512 were produced, allowing it to be homologated into the FIA's Group 5 Sports Car Category, and this car is chassis 1016. It was developed to challenge the Porsche 917 in the International Championship for Makes but won only one race in the 10 round Championship (Ignazio Giunti/Nino Vacarella/Mario Andretti at Sebring in 1970), although the Ferrari team picked up two second and four third places to finish that season in second place to Porsche.

Alfa Romeo

I took this photograph at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies Meeting at Oulton Park in June 1981.

On the left is a 1925 Alfa Romeo RLSS which has a 6-cylinder inline 2,996cc engine, and on the right a 1931 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Monza with a supercharged 8-cylinder inline 2,336cc engine. Both cars belonged to David Black who drove the RLSS in a 5 lap handicap race, and the Monza was one of his alternative entries together with his 1934 Maserati 8CM for the Richard Seaman Memorial Historic Trophy Race.

1955 Bristol 450

This was amongst the cars displayed in the paddock at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1998.

It's the sole surviving example of the three Bristol 450S cars that were built primarily to contest the Le Mans 24 Hour race, in which they competed with three different body styles in 1953, 1954 and 1955. The cars ran in the under 2 litre class and were powered by the 1,971cc straight-6 Bristol engine derived from the pre-war BMW 328 unit. The 1953 car had a coupé body with an unusual looking nose which had two headlamps, two spotlights, and a series of air intakes including a strange series of slats in the bodywork where the grille of the car would normally be. The rear of the car was swept back with a fin on either side of the rear window. Two cars were entered for the 1953 Le Mans race but both retired before the race was half way through. For the 1954 race the body was altered, retaining the rear end of the 1953 car, but having the new nose as seen on the 1955 car in the above photograph. Three cars were entered at Le Mans and they finished seventh, eighth and ninth in the overall positions, and first, second and third in the 2 litre class. In 1955 the cars were given the open body as seen above, and again finished seventh, eighth and ninth overall, and in the first three places in the 2 litre class. After that race Bristol withdrew from racing, in part because of the terrible accident there, and the best parts of the three cars were used to build one car, the rest being scrapped. The owner of Bristol Cars, Tony Crook, kept the car until 1992 when he sold it to Simon Draper who took it along to several historic race meetings to sit alongside the cars of other members of the Bristol Owners' Club, but the only time I saw it actually compete was at the Coys meeting at Silverstone in 1993 where it was driven by Stephen Archer.

1975 Brabham Cosworth BT44B

I took this photograph at the Donington Park Museum in October 1989.

This is the 1975 Brabham BT44B, designed by Gordon Murray and powered by the 2,993cc V8 Ford Cosworth DFV engine, with which the Brabham team contested the 1975 season. Carlos Reutemann won the German Grand Prix, and with two second place finishes, three third places and two fourth places he finished in third place in the World Drivers' Championship that was won by Niki Lauda. Carlos Pace won the Brazilian Grand Prix, and that and a series of minor placings gave him sixth place in the Championship. Brabham finished in second place to Ferrari in the World Constructors' Championship.

1954 Maserati 250F

I took this photograph during the Allcomers Scratch Race at the VSCC's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies Meeting at Oulton Park in June 1974.

It's Ray Fielding in his 1954 Maserati 250F, originally a 1952 A6GCM serial number 2038 with a 6-cylinder 1,987cc engine that was a works car in 1952 and acquired the following season by Swiss driver Baron Emanuel (better known as 'Toulo') de Graffenried. Early in 1954 the car was given a 6-cylinder 2,490cc Maserati 250F engine and a new identity as chassis 2503. Toulo de Graffenried raced the car in 1954 before selling it to Australian Reg Hunt who took it 'down under' and raced it in Australia and New Zealand before selling it to Kevin Neal when he acquired Maserati 250F chassis 2516. In 1965 2038/2503 went to the UK and was campaigned by Colin Crabbe and Dan Marguiles, then to Ray Fielding before ending up in a private Swiss collection.

1949 Austin FX3 Taxicab

 This is one of the vehicles I photographed on a visit to the Pallot Museum in Jersey in May 2013.

It's an Austin FX3 Taxicab, and judging by the Jersey registration number it's a 1949 model. The FX3 was produced from 1948 to 1958 and the coachwork on the Austin chassis was built by Carbodies of Coventry. It originally had the 2,199cc ohv petrol engine from the Austin 16, but because the petrol engined car proved expensive to run later models were given a diesel engine.

1948 Alfa Romeo 158

This car competed in the Magneti Marelli UK Race for Pre-1952 Grand Prix Cars at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1997.

It's the 1948 Alfa Romeo 158 of Carlos Monteverde and was driven in the race by Willie Green. The Alfa Romeo 158 was originally designed in 1938 to compete in the pre-war Voiturette class of racing and has a 1,479cc supercharged straight-8 engine. A note in the Silverstone programme said this:

'The final two seasons of pre-war voiturette racing were dominated by Alfa Romeo's Tipo 158, a scaled-down version of one of its GP designs. Whenever it ran it won, leaving the Maserati and ERA opposition to fight over the pickings. Alfa carried on in the 1940s where it had left off before the war, for the 'Alfetta', as it was known, now complied with the new Grand Prix regulations. It retired in one 1946 race, but from then on was unbeatable until, famously, an unblown 4.5 litre Ferrari dealt the death blow here at Silverstone in 1951.'

This is the only Alfa Romeo 158/159 in private hands, and it was given by Alfa Romeo to Michel Poberejsky (who had raced under the name Mike Sparken) in exchange for the ex-Lord Doune 1938 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Le Mans Berlinetta that had competed in the Le Mans 24 Hour race that year. Michel Poberejsky later sold the car to Carlos Monteverde, and it has since been purchased by Carlo Voegele.

Three each of the Alfa Romeo 158 and 159 cars still exist, and this one is chassis 158.107 and has engine 159.227 - the others are as follows:

158

Chassis 158.005 on display in the Alfa Romeo Museum at Arese with engine 158.102.

Chassis 158.109 on display in the Biscaretti Museum, Turin.

159

Chassis 159.109 on display in the Alfa Romeo Museum as a chassis without bodywork, with engine 159.211.

Chassis 159.111 on display in Alfa Romeo Museum.

Chassis 159.112 on display in Alfa Romeo Museum and used in events.

Friday's Ferrari

I photographed this car at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2017 from Knickerbrook when it was a fair distance away on the other side of the track.

It's a 1972 Ferrari Dino 246 GT with a 2,419cc V6 engine, 3,761 of which were produced between 1969 and 1974. Three series of the Dino 246 GT were produced, all the chassis being even numbered, series 1 from 1969 to 1970 - a total of 357 cars the chassis numbers being 00400 to 01116, series 2 from 1970 to 1971 - a total of 506 cars with chassis numbers 01118 to 02130, and series 3 from 1971 to 1974 - a total of 1624 cars with chassis numbers in the range 02132 to 07650. Ferrari also produced 1274 Spyder versions of the car between 1972 and 1974 with chassis numbers in the range 02174 to 08518.

1955 Lotus Mk X

This car competed in the Louis Vuitton 1950s Sports Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in August 1996.

It's the 1955 Lotus Mk X of Adrian Hall which has a 6-cylinder 1,971cc Bristol engine. Six or seven examples of the Lotus Mk X were built, and it is very similar to the Mk VIII but modified to take the larger Bristol engine that was derived from the pre-war BMW 328. The body of the car was designed by Frank Costin, brother of Mike Costin, who together with Keith Duckworth founded Cosworth Engineering. The programme of the event says that the car is red, and I have a photograph of the car I took the following year when it was red with a white stripe across the body just above where the number '6' is here, so it looks as if the painting of the car took place later than was anticipated.

1929 Riley Brooklands

This car took part in two races at the Vintage Sports Car Club's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in May 2011, including the two hour long VSCC Team Relay Race for Pre-war Sports Cars.

It's David Lamb's 1929 Riley Brooklands with a tuned version of the Riley Nine's 1,087cc 4-cylinder inline engine. The Riley Nine was designed by two of the Riley brothers, Percy and Stanley, and the Brooklands was the work of John G Parry Thomas and Reid Railton who shortened the chassis by some 15 inches and fitted an undershield the full length of the car. The engine had high compression pistons, special camshafts and 2 carburettors, increasing its output to 50bhp.

1958 Leyland Titan PD2/34

This was one of the entrants in the Greater Manchester Transport Society's Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally in Heaton Park, Manchester in September 1995.

It's a 1958 Leyland Titan PD2/34 with a Burlingham H64R body, originally part of the Manchester Corporation Transport fleet, and is now part of the collection of the Museum of Transport, Greater Manchester. A note in the programme of the event says this about the vehicle:

Leyland PD2/34, Burlingham H64R, 1958                                           TNA520

Entered by         J Crankshaw, Meltham, Huddersfield

This vehicle is unusual in that it originally entered service with a fully automatic gearbox. It was later converted to semi-automatic, which is itself unusual.

1953 HWM Jaguar

I photographed this car in the paddock at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1995, but it does not appear to have taken part in any race at this meeting.

It's a 1953 HWM Jaguar - there was an HWM Jaguar in the 1950s Sports Car Race here, but it was a 1957 car driven by Douglas Jamieson. YPG 3 did compete in the 1992 meeting at Silverstone where it was driven by Clive Rides. John Heath and George Abecassis, partners at Hersham and Walton Motors, had built Alta powered cars which they raced in the 1948 and 1949 seasons, then for the 1950 season they built three Alta powered cars that could be adapted to race in both Formula 2 and sports car events and with which they could spend the season travelling from race to race on the continent. That season they took part in 20 international events over 27 weeks commuting backwards and forwards to run their garage whilst the team took the cars to the next meeting and prepared them for racing. Other drivers were taken on to drive the third car, including a 20 year old Stirling Moss who had previously only raced a 500cc F3 Cooper. Despite their lack of power compared to the other cars they enjoyed a relatively successful season. For the 1951 season the HWMs became proper F2 single seaters and they continued their European exploits over the next three years with the help of drivers such as Peter Collins, Harry Schell and Paul Frère. In 1953 John Heath and George Abecassis fitted a Jaguar engine to a modified HWM F2 chassis and gave it an all-enveloping two-seater body to compete in sports car racing. Originally given the registration number HWM 1 it was later given the number YPG 3 and is the car shown in the photograph above. This car was driven by George Abecassis in the 1954 Mille Miglia race but failed to finish - his co-driver was motoring journalist Denis Jenkinson, who was co-driver for Stirling Moss in the winning Mercedes-Benz 300SLR the following year. Several more sports car were built by HWM, some of which are still active in historic racing, but the HWM team lost most of its impetus with the death of John Heath in the 1956 Mille Miglia.

Frazer Nash, Oulton Park 1973

I took this photograph in the paddock at Oulton Park at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies Meeting in June 1973.

On the left is the 1936 Frazer Nash BMW of R Newton which competed in a race for Vintage PVT and Pre-war Historic Racing Cars.. The Frazer Nash BMW 319 of that period had a 6-cylinder inline 1,911cc engine, though the programme of this event says the engine capacity of this car was 1,960cc. To the right of that car is a 1952 Frazer Nash Le Mans Replica which has a 6-cylinder inline 1,971cc engine based on that of the BMW 328. This car is chassis 421/100/164 and its original owner was Col. Hal O'Hara Moore. It has the chassis from 421/100/152 which was wrecked in an accident in 1951 and its competition history reads as follows: 

Rallye Soleil Cannes 1952 - Winner; Rallye Soleil Cannes 1953, 1954; Tulip Rally 1952, 1953, 1954; Liege-Rome-Liege 1952 - DNF; RAC Rally 1952, 1954

1960 Lotus 18

I took this photograph at the Donington Park Museum in May 1989.

It's a 1960 Lotus 18 that Stirling Moss, driving for Rob Walker's team, campaigned in 1960 the last year of the 2½ litre Formula, and in 1961 the first year of the 1½ litre Formula. In 1960 the car had a 2,497cc 4-cylinder inline Coventry Climax FPF engine and Stirling Moss won the Monaco Grand Prix, and also the last Grand Prix of the season in the USA. In 1961 the 1,500cc version of the FPF engine was used, and this is what the 'Great Racing Cars of the Donington Collection' book says about that season:

'Ferrari were well-prepared for the start of the new Formula with their F2-based V6 engines and true to form they dominated the 1961 season and won the Constructors’ Championship. Only one man and one car surpassed the Ferraris during the year, and that was the incomparable Stirling Moss doing his best at the wheel of Walker’s underpowered and now obsolete Lotus 18. He scored classic victories  in the Monaco and German GPs on the two most testing circuits in the series. Of Monaco he wrote:

“I said to myself: Well I may only have 80 per cent of the Ferrari’s power behind me, but let’s make them go; make them go the whole race…. When I had finished I could not recall any point in 90 or so of the 100 laps where I had taken a corner at less than my limit or had braked earlier for it than I could….”.

At the Nürburgring he gambled on using Dunlop D12 wet-weather tyres on a partially damp track, and the gamble paid off. By this time the Walker 18 had been modified with more streamlined ‘type 21’ bodywork and revised rear suspension, and at the close of the season Walker had Moss driving another 18/21 fitted with the new Coventry-Climax V8 engine.'

Friday's Ferrari

This car took part in the Maserati UK Race for Pre-1961 Grand Prix Cars at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1999.

It's the 1952 Ferrari 625 of David Vine, a car that was originally a Formula Two Ferrari 500 with a 4-cylinder inline 1,984cc engine designed by Aurelio Lampredi, and competed in World Championship races in 1952 and 1953 when they were run to Formula 2 regulations. It was an Ecurie Francorchamps car, chassis 0208F, and after being in an accident at the end of 1953 it was rebuilt as a 625 with a lengthened chassis and a 2,498cc version of the Lampredi engine to contest the 2½ litre Formula One starting in 1954. At the same time it was given a new chassis number, 0540. In 1955 it was acquired by Alfonso de Portago who competed in a couple of non-World Championship Grands Prix then was injured in a crash during practice for the International Trophy Race at Silverstone and then sold the car. It then passed through various hands before ending up with David Vine in 1998.

Although the car has Maurice Trintinant's name on the side it is not the Ferrari 625 with which he won the 1955 Monaco Grand Prix.

Supermarine Seafire Mk XVII

These photographs were taken at the Air Display at the  Yorkshire Air Museum at RAF Elvington on a damp and overcast day in July 2010.

It's a Supermarine Seafire Mk XVII, which was the naval development of the Spitfire. SX336 (G-KASX) was built by Westland Aircraft in 1946 and served with various units in the Royal Navy before it was scrapped in 1955. It was recovered in the 1970s as a bare fuselage and after a few owners, went to Tim Manna of Kennet Aviation to finish the restoration, taking to the air for the first time since restoration in 2006.