Friday's Ferrari

I took this photograph at the Christie's International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992 where there was a special display of Ferraris in the paddock numbered 1 to 32, and a page in the programme of the event gave details of each of the cars.

This is a 1965 Ferrari 330 P2, and the note in the programme about this car reads as follows:

'23      330 P2

Mid-engined V12; 4 litres; 410bhp at 8200rpm; twin ohc

per bank; all round independent suspension by double

wishbones/coil springs. Intended for use by the works

team, their first appearance in racing was at Daytona

Continental, February 1965. In line with what had

happened in 1964 a 3.3 litre 275P2 version was also

available. Both models were used to gain the prototype

championships for Ferrari that year.'

The car then belonged to David Piper (and still does) and is chassis #0836.

BAe Avro RJ

 This is one of the aircraft I photographed at the Woodford Air Show in June 1994.

It's a BAe Avro RJ in the livery of Air Malta, and the brochure of the event says this about it:

'Another BAe product is the Avro International RJ Avroliner, a development of the BAe 146 with new engines, flight deck and cabin layouts. Built here at Woodford with recent deliveries to Turkey, China, the USA and Switzerland, its continuing success is attracting interest from the world's airlines.'

1918 Straker Squire

This was one of the competitors in the Richard Seaman Memorial Vintage Trophy race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's meeting at Oulton Park in June 1981.

It's Adrian Liddell at Lodge Corner in his 1918 Straker Squire which has a 6-cylinder inline 3,921cc engine and was raced at Brooklands by Bertie Kensington Moir. A note in the programme says this about the car:

'There is absolutely no excuse (presuming it starts, of course) for not noticing Adrian Liddel's 1918 Straker Squire, for this ex-Brooklands car has been painted with black and white dazzle paint, such as it wore at Brooklands, surely supplied to Adrian by the same firm which made the blue and green Gordon tartan paint applied to the Arrol-Johnston cars which took part in the 1912 Coupe de l'Auto race at Dieppe.'

1977 Wolf WR1

I took this photograph on a visit to the Donington Park Museum in May 1989.

Walter Wolf was a Canadian who became a Formula One constructor in 1976 by buying the assets of the Hesketh team when it withdrew from F1. The first car designed and built by the team led by Harvey Postlethwaite was the WR1 which, driven by Jody Scheckter, won its first race in Argentina then went on to win the Monaco and Canadian Grands Prix, finishing second to Niki Lauda in the Drivers' World Championship and fourth in the World Constructors' Championship. It was powered by the Ford Cosworth DFV 2,993cc V8 engine.

1972 Triumph

These motorcycles took part in the Mike Hailwood Memorial Trophy race at the Silverstone Historic Festival meeting in August 2001.

Number 17 is the 750cc Triumph of Alan Windsor, and the number 9 is shown in the programme of the event as Gary Nixon's 750cc Windsor Triumph Triple. Gary Nixon won the AMA Grand National Championship in 1967 and 1968 riding for the Triumph factory racing team, and the programme has this note about him:

'One of Hailwood's best racing friends, American Gary Nixon, has travelled from Maryland to keep faith with the memory of the 'Oxford Flyer' who rode under the banner of Ecurie Sportive. Gary has long waited to meet Mike's son David Hailwood, now 27, and has come to ride a 750cc Triumph Triple in the Mike Hailwood Trophy race for Formula 750 machines. Still racing in American Historic Racing Motorcycle Association events, Nixon is no slouch and will be hoping to take home the Mike Hailwood Memorial Trophy donated by Mike's wife Pauline. Twice a National USA Champion Gary 'spent time' with Mike and the two became very close. Mike Hailwood would have loved this Silverstone Historic Festival and in meeting David, Gary will fulfil a 20 year long wish.'

1928 Ford Model A

This car took part in the Lancashire Automobile Club's annual Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run in May1992 and is seen here in the Exchange Station car park in Manchester making its way to the start line.

It's a 1928 Ford Model A, and the only information about it in the programme of the event is that it was entered by Peter C. O'Callaghan of Wrea Green, Preston. The Model A was a replacement for the Ford Model T which had been in production from 1908 to 1927. It had a 4-cylinder inline 3,294cc engine, although Ford UK used a 2,043cc engine for the European market as some European countries taxed cars according to the engine size. Production of the Model A lasted from 1927 till 1931. The DVLA record says that the capacity of this car's engine is 1,801cc

1954 Frazer Nash Sebring

I took this photograph in one of the car parks at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in June 1975.

It's a 1954 Frazer Nash Sebring only three of which were built and which, as with most of the post-war Frazer Nash cars, has the 6-cylinder inline 1,971cc Bristol engine. This car is chassis 421/200/207 and was driven in the 1955 Le Mans 24 Hour race by Cecil Vard and Dick Odium, but retired from the race with engine problems after 6 hours.

Friday's Ferrari

There were a series of demonstration runs in Ferrari F1 cars by Corse Cliente drivers at the Ferrari Racing Days meeting at Silverstone in September 2017 and this is a photograph I took from inside the paddock at Club Corner of one of the cars returning to the pit lane after one of the runs.

It's the Ferrari F2003-GA that was driven in the 2003 season by Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello, the 'GA' being added as a mark of respect to head of Fiat Gianni Agnelli who had died in January 2003. The car was designed by a team headed by chief designer Rory Byrne and was introduced almost half-way through the 2003 season. It was based on the previous season's Ferrari F2002 and was powered by the 2,997cc 40 valve twin overhead camshaft V10 Ferrari 052 engine. Michael Schumacher won six Grands Prix that season and with two more third place podium finishes won the sixth of his seven World Drivers Championships, with Rubens Barrichello winning two Grands Prix to finish in fourth place in the Championship.

1938 Auto Union D-Type

This is a photograph I took at Donington Park in May 2001 at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting on the straight between the Old Hairpin and Starkey's Bridge.

It's a 1938 Auto Union D-Type which Audi had brought to the meeting together with a 1937 Auto Union C-Type and various other vehicles which were displayed in the paddock, and some of which took part in demonstration runs round the circuit. The Auto Union D-Type chassis was based on the previous year's C-Type, but the engine was of a completely new V12 design. With the displacement limited to just three litres it had a capacity of 2,986cc and a Two Stage Roots-Type Supercharger producing 420 bhp at 7000 rpm. Another major change was the move of a single central mounted fuel tank to two side-tanks, which enabled the driver to sit further back in the chassis. There were only four races in the 1938 European Grand Prix Championship, three of which were won by the Mercedes Benz W154 and one by Tazio Nuvolari in an Auto Union D-Type.

1952 Connaught A-Type

This was one of the competitors in the Allcomers Scratch Race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in June 1973.

It's Gerry Walton's 1952 Connaught A-Type with a 1,960cc engine based on the Lea Francis 4-cylinder 1,767cc unit, and is chassis A8. Ten Connaught A-Types were built and A8 is one of only two that  featured a Hilborn-Travers fuel injection system instead of the Amal carburettors that were fitted to the other eight cars. It was mainly driven in period as a works car by John Coombes, Stirling Moss and Prince Bira. A later owner, Mike Young, sold the 2 litre engine and installed a 2½ litre HWM-Alta engine in 1955 to take part in Formula One racing and later took the car to South Africa. Phil Bowker subsequently bought the car and Gerry Walton sourced the Lotus 10 with the original engine which was reunited with A8. Gerry Walton acquired the car in the late 1960s and fully restored it to its 1953 state, competing with it until 1988.

1989 Porsche 962C

I took this photograph in the paddock at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 2000, but the car was not involved in any of the races at that meeting.

It a 1989 Porsche 962C, chassis 962-150, that was campaigned in the 1989 and 1990 seasons by Brunn Motorsport without any great success, and bears the number 16 that it had in the Shell BRDC Empire Trophy race at Silverstone in May 1990. It was driven by Walter Brun and Jesus Pareja in that race where it finished in seventh place. Porsche produced 91 examples of the 962 for World Sportscar Championship and IMSA GTP racing, the World Sportscar Championship cars being marked by the 'C' suffix and powered by the Porsche Flat-6 twin turbocharged 2,869cc engine.

1907 Lion Peugeot Type VA

I took this photograph at a car show in Ashton-under-Lyne in March 1987.

It's the 1907 Lion-Peugeot Type VA of local businessman Clive Williams, in the front passenger seat here, and that's probably his son John in the driving seat. About 1,000 of these cars were produced between 1906 and 1908 and it has a single cylinder 785cc engine.

1952 Cooper Bristol

This car took part in the Allcomers Race for Historic Racing Cars at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Richard Seaman Trophies Meeting at Oulton Park in June 1971.

It's the 1952 Cooper Bristol MkI of John Roberts which has a 1971cc 6-cylinder inline Bristol engine that was derived from the pre-war BMW 328 unit. Father and son Charles & John Cooper had started the Cooper Car Company in 1946, and at first specialised in building cars for the new 500cc class of racing that British enthusiasts had started as a simple and economical way to go motor racing after the war. This developed into the International Formula 3 class in 1950, and Cooper then ventured into the Formula 2 class by putting a 1,100cc JAP engine into one of these cars, way below the 2 litre limit allowed, but even with the lack of power the car was still reasonably competitive because of its light weight. When the World Championship was run under Formula 2 regulations in 1952 because of a dearth of the larger-engined Formula 1 cars Cooper decided to design a car to compete at that level. The 1,971 Bristol engine was chosen, but the Cooper Bristol MkI (later designated the T20) could not really compete with the Ferraris and Maseratis in World Championship races and was much more successful in minor British events. In 1953 the MkII (later T23) car was introduced, having a tubular frame chassis instead of the box section frame of the earlier car and the drive train was altered to lower the driver's seat. Although a better car it wasn't much more successful than the MkI, and the following season when the new 2½ litre Formula 1 regulations came into force the car was rendered obsolete. They still soldiered on for a few years, mainly in minor British events, and then became regulars in the historic racing scene, where they're still to be seen to this day.

1953 Ford E83W

This was one of the participants n the Greater Manchester Transport Society's Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally at Heaton Park, Manchester in September 1996.

It's a 1953 Ford E83W, a 10cwt commercial vehicle with a 1,172cc Ford 10hp side-valve engine that was produced from 1938 to 1957. The programme of the event has the following note about the vehicle:

Ford E83W, 1953                                                                                                       PKP 404

Entered by    G.Bubb, Shrewsbury, Shropshire

Restored in the livery adopted by the  South Eastern Gas Board on its  formation in

1948. Restored by the present owner who has owned it since 1976. Has been rallied

extensively all over the country.

Friday's Ferrari

I took this photograph at the Ferrari Racing Days meeting at Silverstone in September 2017.

It's a 2004 Ferrari 360 Modena, a car that was introduced in 1999 replacing the Ferrari F355 and was superseded by the Ferrari F430 in 2004. It has the 3,586cc Ferrari F131 V8 engine with twin overhead camshafts per bank and five valves per cylinder.

1965 RAC Tourist Trophy

I took this photograph at Lodge Corner on the first lap of the RAC Tourist Trophy race at Oulton Park in May 1965.

Leading is John Surtees in the Team Surtees Lola-Chevrolet T70 followed by the McLaren Elva-Oldsmobile M1A of Bruce McLaren and the Lotus Ford 30 of Jim Clark. None of these cars finished the race - John Surtees dropped out after 13 laps, Bruce McLaren after 30 laps and Jim Clark managed 102 laps before retiring. Denny Hulme won the race in Sidney Taylor Racing's Brabham-Climax BT8, completing 138 laps in the 4 hour long race.

1970 Plymouth Road Runner

 I took these photographs at the Footman James Classic Car Show Manchester at EventCity in September 2018.

It's a 1970 Plymouth Road Runner which has a 383 cu in (6.3 litre) V8 engine. It's a First Generation model which was produced from 1968 to 1970 and the Second and Third Generations continued the line until 1980.

1900 Georges Richard Dogcart

This vehicle is waiting to join in the Track Parade of the Cheshire Life Concours entrants during the lunchtime break at the Vintage Sports Car Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2019.

It's the 1900 Georges Richard Dogcart entered by Mrs H Peacop and Rodney Fowler, and has a 2 cylinder 9hp 708cc engine.

1964 Elva Mk7S BMW

This was one of the competitors in the Coys of Kensington 30th Anniversary Trophy for Pre-1972 Le Mans Cars race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1999.

It's the 1964 Elva Mk7S BMW of Belgian driver Christian Bultiauw. The Elva Mk.7 was designed by Keith Marsden and the Mk.7S was the upgraded car for 1964 when the BMW power unit became the engine of choice with modifications to the chassis, particularly to strengthen the engine bay area, larger brakes with Girling AR calipers and wider wheels to 6" & 7" rims. The programme of the event says that the car has a 1,981cc engine.

2000 McLaren MP4-15A

I took this photograph on a visit to the Donington Park Museum in September 2014.

It's the 2000 McLaren MP4-15A, chassis #002, that David Coulthard drove in the 2000 season alongside his team mate Mika Häkkinen. The car was designed by Adrian Newey, Steve Nichols, Neil Oatley and Henri Durand with Mario Illien designing the Ilmor-built Mercedes-Benz FO 110J 2,998cc V10 engine. The two McLaren drivers battled against Michael Schumacher in his Ferrari F1-2000 for most of the season until the Ferrari driver won the last four races (nine in total) to win the World Drivers' Championship. Mika Häkkinen won four races to end up in second place, and David Coulthard finished in third place with three victories. The only other driver to win a Grand Prix was Michael Schumacher's team mate, Rubens Barrichello. McLaren finished second to Ferrari in the World Constructors' Championship.

1962 Porsche 804

I photographed this car on the approach to Waterway corner at Aintree during practice for the British Grand Prix in July 1962.

It's Dan Gurney in the 1962 Porsche 804 in which he qualified in sixth position on the grid and finished the race in ninth position. Porsche had first built a single seat racing car in 1959, the 718, using the 1½ litre flat-four boxer engine from their sports car to create a Formula 2 car. In 1961 the engine capacity for Formula 1 cars was reduced to 1½ litres and the Porsche 718 was able to compete in Formula 1 races that season. The Porsche 804 was built to compete in Formula 1 races in the 1962 season using a new Flat-eight engine of 1,494cc, and with this car Dan Gurney won the French Grand Prix and finished in third place in the German Grand Prix to end the season in fifth place in the World Drivers' Championship. His team mate Jo Bonnier's best finish was fifth place in the Monaco Grand Prix and he finished in fifteenth place in the Championship. Porsche finished in fifth place in the World Constructors' Championship. That first place in the 1962 French Grand Prix is Porsche's only Grand Prix victory.

Friday's Ferrari

This was one of the competitors in the GT Challenge race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2018.

It's the Ferrari F430 Challenge of Wayne Marrs at Druids Corner during the qualifying session on the morning of the meeting. This is a track version of the Ferrari F430 intended for the Corse Clienti Challenge series of races, and has a 4,308cc V8 Ferrari F136 E engine.

1948 Gordini T15

This car took part in the HGPCA Pre-1952 Grand Prix Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1998.

It's the 1948 Gordini T15 of John Foster, with a 1,430cc 4-cylinder inline Simca-based engine. The T15 took part in World Championship Grand Prix races from 1950 to 1953, with a supercharged engine in 1950 and 1951, and without the supercharger in 1952 and 1953 when races were run with the Formula 2 limit of 2 litres. In the 1952 and 1953 seasons the works Gordini team used the updated Gordini T16, but the T15 was still used by some private entrants.

2020 Aston Martin DBS Superleggera

I saw this car at Old Trafford in September.

It's a 2020 Aston Martin DBS Superleggera and has a 5,204cc twin-turbocharged V12 engine.

1959 Alexis HF1 FJ

This car took part in the Historic Formula Junior Front Engine car race at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2018, and I took these photographs during the qualifying sessions on the Saturday of the 3-day Bank Holiday Weekend meeting.

It's Duncan Rabagliati's 1959 Alexis Mk1, chassis HF1, with a 4-cylinder 1,098cc BMC A series engine. This was the first car built by Bill Harris and Alex Francis who went on to produce rear engined Formula Junior cars and a series of Formula 2, Formula 3 and Formula Ford cars.

Here's Duncan Rabagliati on the exit of Lodge Corner during his qualifying session.

1958 Lister Monzanapolis

This car competed in the HGPCA Pre '60 GP Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in August 1996.

It's the 1958 Lister Monza of Ric Weiland with a 6-cylinder inline 3,781cc Jaguar engine that was built for Ecurie Ecosse to run in the Race of Two Worlds at Monza. The Race of Two Worlds was conceived as an annual exhibition event to be run on the banked oval at Monza and contested by two teams of cars from the USA (USAC cars as in the Indianapolis 500 race) and from Europe (F1 World Championship cars). Because of safety concerns and costs (and a lack of enthusiasm amongst the European F1 teams) the event only lasted for two years, 1957 and 1958, being won by the American cars on both occasions. Ecurie Ecosse entered a team of three Jaguar D-types in the 1957 race, and in 1958 two Jaguar D-types and this single seat Lister Jaguar built especially for the race and consequently known as the Lister Jaguar Monzanapolis. The aluminium body of the car was unpainted for the race, but at some time since then was painted this Ecurie Ecosse blue. It has more recently been returned to the original unpainted finish.

1965 TVR 1800S

This was one of the competitors in the Equipe GTS Series race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in May 2011.

It's the 1965 TVR 1800S of Mark Ashworth and has a 4-cylinder inline 1,798cc BMC B-series engine. The 1800S was a development of the TVR Grantura Mark III and approximately 128 were built between 1965 and 1967.

1960 Turner Climax

This car competed in the Jack Fairman Cup race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2018.

It's the 1960 Turner Climax of Declan Jones and has the 4-cylinder inline 1,216cc Coventry Climax FWE engine. This particular car has its nickname 'Tatty Turner' painted on the front wing, a legacy from its first appearance in 1960 at Mallory Park when it had been put together rather hastily and appeared with a bare fibreglass body as there hadn't been time to paint it. It finished third in its race that day and got the nickname when the commentator remarked "It may look tatty, but just look how well it's going!".

Here's the car during the race on the finishing straight, living up to its nickname with a taped-up front wing, presumably caused by an incident during the morning qualifying session.

Friday's Ferrari

This was one of the cars displayed in the 'Tribute to Ferrari' at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1997.

It's a 1996 Ferrari F310 as driven by Michael Schumacher and Eddie Irvine in the 1996 season. Michael Schumacher won three of the races and finished in third place in the World Drivers' Championship behind the Williams cars of Damon Hill and Jacques Villeneuve. Eddie Irvine finished in tenth place. The car had a 2,998cc V10 Ferrari Tipo 046 engine and was originally the only car that season to feature a low nose, but this was changed for the high nose, as seen in this photograph, halfway through the season at the Canadian Grand Prix.

1914 Ford Model T

This car took part in the Lancashire Automobile Club's annual Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run in June 1990, and is seen here lining up ready to start the Run.

It's the 1914 Ford Model T of Peter Green, and the programme of the event said this about the car:

1914 Ford Model T

Reg.  DS 8353  4 cylinder  22.4 hp

(Peter Green, Seedfield, Bury)

Affectionately known as Clementine, this car was purchased in the States last year - Mr Green is only the third owner. Originally she belonged to a family who lived in the Ozark Mountains and used her for many purposes, including running supplies of 'moonshine'. Sold to a gentleman in Mississippi, restoration was begun, but he sold her due to ill-health. Mr Green has completed the restoration this year.

1970 Cooper Chinook

This car competed in the Historic Formula Ford race at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2017.

It's the 1,590cc 1970 Cooper Chinook of Stuart Dix, built by the Canadian Fejer Racing Cars company of Toronto after George and Rudy Fejer had bought all Cooper Racing Cars' stock of cars and parts, including moulds and jigs, when Cooper stopped racing car production in 1969.