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 2005 Ferrari 612 Scaglietti and has a 5,748cc V12 Ferrari F133 engine. It replaced the Ferrari 456 and was succeeded by the Ferrari FF.

1994 Peugeot 106 Rallye

This is a car I spotted in Hyde one morning when I was on my way to buy my daily newspaper.

It's a 1994 Peugeot 106 Rallye and has the 1,294cc 4-cylinder inline engine.

The S1 Rallye was designed as a homologation special to compete in the 1300 cc rally class and featured a four cylinder, 8-valve, high compression engine.

1935 Alvis Speed 20

This was one of the cars on display at the Northern Classic Car Show at Belle Vue, Manchester in September 1985.

It's a 1935 Alvis Speed 20 with a straight-6 engine that the DVLA record says has a capacity of 2,762cc, and it says that the car has not been taxed since August 2008. 

1954 Jaguar D-Type

The Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2003 included a round of the BRDC Historic Sports Cars Championship, and here is one of the cars that took part in that race.

It's the 1954 Jaguar D-Type chassis XKC402 which finished second that year in the Le Mans 24 Hour Race. It was driven in that race by Tony Rolt and Duncan Hamilton and at the end of the season the car was sold to Duncan Hamilton. I remember seeing Duncan Hamilton drive this car at the first motor race I ever attended, the 1955 British Empire Trophy Race at Oulton Park, where he finished in seventh place. At the Oulton Park Gold Cup meeting in 2003 the car was driven by Peter Neumark.

1968 BRM P133

The Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1998 marked 50 years of racing at the circuit with a display of 50 cars marking each of those 50 years, some of which also took part in track parades throughout the weekend. This is the car that was chosen to represent 1968.

It's the 3 litre V12 1968 BRM P133 of Ean Pugh - at least that's what it says in the programme of the event. The P133 was produced in Bourne by BRM following the design of Len Terry's P126 which was built by his own Transatlantic Automotive Consultants company. There is some suggestion that the car pictured above is actually a P126. Only two examples of the P133 were built, the second of which was written off in an accident at the 1968 Monaco Grand Prix by Pedro Rodriguez. The remaining P133 was driven in the 1968 season by Pedro Rodriguez, and by Jackie Oliver in the first part of the 1969 season. The programme of the event made this brief mention of the car:

‘The BRM concern had its ups and downs but 1968 was one of its better years, and the 3-litre P133, as raced by Pedro Rodriguez, will certainly bring memories flooding back.’

Pedro Rodriguez didn’t win any of the races that year, but he had a second place finish at the Belgian Grand Prix, and two third, a fourth and a sixth place finish to end the season in sixth place in the World Drivers’ Championship table.'

1963 ATS Tipo 100

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

It's a 1963 ATS Tipo 100 F1 car, and the book 'Great Racing Cars of the Donington Collection' says this about it:

The ATS ‘Tipo 100’

An Italian failure

 

During Ferrari’s Championship year of 1961, pressures were severe within the company, and six top executives walked out late in the season. They included engineer Carlo Chiti and team manager Romolo Tavoni, who formed the nucleus of a rival team sponsored by Count Giovanni Volpi (patron of the Scuderia Venezia), businessman Jaime Ortiz Patiño, and industrialist Giorgio Billi.

The team was set up at Sasso Marconi, near Bologna, and Chiti began work on a Ferrari-like Formula 1 car with a new V8 engine for 1963. The car was to have been called the Serenissima, but when Volpi backed out of the organization he took the name with him, and the team became known as Automobile Turismo e Sport, or ATS for short.

Phil Hill and Giancarlo Baghetti were recruited from Ferrari as drivers, and when the new car was released to the Press in December 1962 it impressed everyone with its incredibly low build and tiny four overhead camshaft 1494cc V8 engine. This was claimed to produce 190bhp at 10,500rpm and the design seemed promising.

Unfortunately, development was slow, and when the cars made their debut in the 1963 Belgian Grand Prix at Spa they were dreadfully prepared. Chassis tubes, welded in place over the engine, had to be sawn through before the engine could be changed!

Both cars retired with transmission trouble, and failed again in the Dutch GP. The team’s transporter crashed en route to the German GP, their next event following a mid-season development programme, and then in much improved trim, ATS ran at Monza and both cars finished – eleventh and fifteenth. A luckless American tour followed, after which the cars were withdrawn. In 1964 one car was resurrected, unsuccessfully, for the Italian GP, but ATS had failed dismally in their attempt to take on Ferrari at his own game and win.

1958 Cooper T45

This car took part in the HGPCA Pre-1966 Grand Prix Cars race at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2002.

It's the 1958 Cooper T45 of Brian Jolliffe and has the 2 litre Coventry Climax 4-cylinder inline engine. The Cooper T45's first F1 win was at the Monaco Grand Prix in 1958 with Rob Walker's 2.2 litre car driven by Frenchman Maurice Trintignant - this followed the win by Stirling Moss in Rob Walker's Cooper T43 in Argentina the same year.

Friday's Ferrari

This car took part in two rounds of the Shell Ferrari Historical Challenge series of races at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1997.

It's the 1962 Ferrari 268SP of Bernie Carl and was driven in the races by Gregor Fisken. The car is chassis #0798 and was built in February 1962 as a Ferrari 248SP but by April of that year the engine had been modified to 268SP specifications, which involved increasing the 2,459cc V8 engine to 2,645cc. It was driven in the 1962 Le Mans 24 Hour race by Giancarlo Baghetti and Ludovico Scarfiotti but retired with clutch problems after 18 hours.

1930 Standard Teignmouth

This car took part in the Lancashire Automobile Club's annual Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run in June 1980.

It's a 1930 Standard Teignmouth but I no longer have the programme of the event so don't have details of the car and owner. I found this information in the Standard Register:

'A very popular model was the four door, four light, ‘Teignmouth’ fabric saloon.  This was later joined by a six-light steel-bodied coach built saloon which was also called the ‘Teignmouth’, this was joined in the range by the ‘Selby’ tourer, and the continental looking, two door, four seater, fabric bodied tourist coupe.     A contemporary road test of the ‘Teignmouth’ saloon, then priced at £215, showed a top speed of 52 m.p.h., 10 – 30 m.p.h. in middle gear in ten seconds, and petrol consumption of 32 – 34 m.p.g.  The gear ratios were 5.0, 9.3 and 20.0 to 1.'

1958 Maserati 300S

This car competed in the Louis Vuitton '50s Sports Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1995.

It's the 1958 Maserati 300S of Burkhard von Schenk with the 6-cylinder inline 2,991cc engine derived from that of the Grand Prix Maserati 250F, and is chassis #3082. Its early history is rather sketchy, but it appears to have started off in Angola where it took part in the Angolan Grand Prix five times between 1958 and 1963. Álvaro Lopes drove the car on four of those occasions and in 1962 it was driven by Flávio dos Santos, the best result being when Álvaro Lopes took third place in 1963. It eventually went to South Africa where it remained until the 1980s when it came to the UK and was acquired by the notable German collector and historic racer Burkhard von Schenk.

1935 Aston Martin Series 3

This was one of the competitors in the Pre-War Feltham Aston Martin Sports Cars race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2002.

It's Simon Allen's 1935 Aston Martin Third Series, originally built as a 4 seater Mark 2 but has been rebuilt as a copy of an Ulster race car. It would have originally had a 1½ litre engine, but the programme of the event and the DVLA record say that it now has a 2 litre engine.

Juan Manuel Fangio

The Coys International Historic Festival meeting of July 1994 at Silverstone featured a tribute to Juan Manuel Fangio and had a display of some of the cars with which he was associated.

This photograph shows one of the cars with which he won two of his World Drivers’ Championship victories and another from his earlier exploits in Argentina before he came to Europe. Although he started 1954 driving a Maserati 250F, Mercedes Benz introduced their new car at the French Grand Prix and he won the Championship in that year and in 1955 driving the W196 model, one of which is shown here nearest the camera. The blue and yellow car behind the Mercedes Benz is a 1949 Ferrari 166 F2 car, Enzo Ferrari's first single seat racing car. It is thought to be one of the cars that Fangio drove early in his career before he came to Europe and joined the Alfa Romeo F1 team, and had been fully restored by Tony Merrick in the 4 years before this appearance. The display also featured a 1950 Alfa Romeo 158, representing the later Alfa Romeo 159 with which Fangio won his first World Championship in 1951 and there was a Maserati 250F in the display which Fangio drove in winning the 1957 Championship. He won the 1956 Championship driving a Lancia-Ferrari but at the time of this tribute there were none left in existence, although since then several of the earlier Lancia D50s and the Lancia-Ferrari have been recreated.

1973 ERF 5AG

This was one of the participants in the Greater Manchester Transport Society's Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally at Heaton Park, Manchester in September 1993.

It's a 1973 ERF 5AG with Gardner 100 diesel engine and described in the 1996 Rally as an ERF LAG. I understand that the '100' refers to the bhp of the engine, in which case it would seem to be a 6LW 102hp 6-cylinder 8,370cc engine. The programme of the rally said this about the vehicle:

ERF 5AG 1973                                                                                                         RTS457

Entered by G. Dawson, Old Glossop

New to Scottish haulier Joseph Grant Ltd of Broughty Ferry and restored by the owner to their livery.

1956 HWM Jaguar

This car competed in the Ten Lap Invitation Scratch Race for 1950s Sports/Racing Cars at the Vintage Sports Car Club's meeting at Oulton Park in August 1996.

It's the 1956 HWM Jaguar of Stephen Curtis and is powered by a 6-cylinder inline 3,781cc Jaguar D-Type engine. Originally bought from HWM in 1956 by Phil Scragg who, as a Hillclimb specialist, preferred his cars to have cycle wing mudguards for use on the narrow British hills. He had many class victories in SPC 982 and won the sportscar Hillclimb championship with it in 1959.

Friday's Ferrari

The Christie's International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992 featured a special display of Ferraris in the paddock and some of these were driven in track demonstrations by former Scuderia Ferrari drivers. This is one of those cars at Luffield Corner during one of the demonstration runs.

It’s a 1978 Ferrari 312 T3 and is being driven by Jody Scheckter who drove the car in the first 2 races of the 1979 season alongside Gilles Villeneuve. In the 1978 season Gilles Villeneuve and Carlos Reutemann drove the car in all but the first 2 races, Villeneuve winning the last race of the season in Canada while Reutemann won the United States West Grand Prix at Long Beach, the British Grand Prix and the United States Grand Prix at Watkins Glen.

1957 Austin Metropolitan

This was one of the exhibits at the Footman James Classic Car Show Manchester at EventCity in September 2018.

It's a 1957 Austin Metropolitan, a car designed by Nash in the USA but built by the Austin Motor Company in England with a 4-cylinder inline 1,490cc engine and marketed as a Nash and later also as a Hudson in the USA. I remember it from the 1950s as a Nash Metropolitan, probably from the 'Observer's Book of Cars'.

1961 Lotus Elite

This was one of the competitors in the Richardson Hosken Classic Sports Car Championship race at the Historic Sports Car Club's Summer Race Meeting at Oulton Park in July 1995.

It's the 1961 Lotus Elite of Chris Ross which has a 1,216cc 4-cylinder inline Coventry Climax FWE engine. 1,030 of these cars were built between 1957 and 1962, although some sources say there were 1,047.

1937 Daimler Light 6

This is one of the cars that took part in a Vintage & Historic Vehicle Display & Run organised by the Saddleworth Museum in June 1987.

It's not shown in the programme of the event but I made a note at the time that it was s 1937 Daimler Light 6. The DVLA record says that it was last taxed up to April 2014 and shows the engine capacity as 3500cc so it would seem therefore to be a 1937 Daimler 24, which had a 3,317cc straight-6 engine.

1981 Williams FW07C/D

This car competed in the Grand Prix Masters F1 Cars 1966-1985 race at the Silverstone Classic meeting in July 2010.

It's Roy Walzer's Williams FW07C/D, the final version of the FW07 model and is chassis FW07D/16. The Williams FW07 had the 2,993 V8 Ford Cosworth DFV engine and was designed by Patrick Head, Frank Dernie and Neil Oatley. It competed in the 1979 season finishing in second place in the World Constructors' Championship, Alan Jones winning four races and ending the season in third place in the World Drivers' Championship, while Clay Regazzoni won one race and with a further four podium places finished in fifth place in that Championship. In 1980 Alan Jones won the World Driver's Championship in the FW07 and Carlos Reutemann was in third place, second being Nelson Piquet in the Brabham BT49. Williams won the World Constructors' Championship that year. In 1981 Carlos Reutemann and Alan Jones finished in second and third places with the FW07C in the World Drivers' Championship which was won by Nelson Piquet in his Brabham. For the 1982 season, it was upgraded to FW07D specification using some components developed for the new FW08 and was raced twice by Carlos Reutemann with a second as the best result, and once by Mario Andretti, who retired from the US Grand Prix West at Long Beach.

1972 Aston Martin V8

I took this photograph at Foulstons chicane during the Inter-Marque Championship Race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's Autumn Historic Car Races meeting at Oulton Park in September 1993.

It's Gerry Marshall in his highly modified 1972 Aston Martin V8 with the 5,240cc engine. The car following him is Bob Watson's 1990 Porsche RSR.

1977 McLaren M26

 This is a photograph I took at the Donington Park Museum in March 1996.

These are two McLaren F1 cars, the nearest one being the 1977 McLaren M26 as driven by James Hunt for the second half of the 1977 season and in the 1978 season, and has a 2,993cc V8 Ford Cosworth DFV engine. James Hunt finished in fifth place in the World Drivers' Championship in 1977 with his team-mate Jochen Mass in sixth place, and McLaren took third place in the World Constructors' Championship. In 1978 James Hunt finished equal thirteenth with his team-mate Patrick Tambay in the Drivers' Championship, and McLaren were eighth in the Constructors' Championship.

The car behind it is the 1976 McLaren M23, the car with which James Hunt won the 1976 World Drivers' Championship. The McLaren M23 also had the 2,993 V8 Ford Cosworth engine and was raced by the McLaren team for five seasons from 1973, Emerson Fittipaldi winning the World Drivers' Championship in 1974, as well as finishing in second place in both 1973 and 1975. In 1976 James Hunt won six races to finish one point in front of Niki Lauda in his Ferrari in the World Drivers' Championship, the title being decided at the last race of the season, the Japanese Grand Prix, where James Hunt finished in third place and Niki Lauda withdrew before the end of the race because of the hazardous weather conditions.

Friday's Ferrari

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

It's a Ferrari 488 GTB with the 3,902cc twin turbocharged 32 valve F154 V8 engine which has two overhead camshafts per bank. Manufacture of the 488 started in 2015 and ended in February 2019. Its successor is an updated version of the 488, the Ferrari F8 Tributo.

2017 Ginetta G55

This car competed in the 50 minute long GT Challenge race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2018.

It's a 2017 Ginetta G55, driven in the race by Mike Newbould and William Burns, and is here in the pit garage after the morning qualifying session being prepared for the race. The Ginetta G55 is built to FIA GT3 regulations and competes in the Ginetta GT Supercup series of races and in the GT3 class of the British GT Championship. It has a 3,726cc Ford Cyclone V6 engine and has been in production since 2011.

I took this photograph at Druids Corner during the morning qualifying session.....

.....and this one at Britten's chicane during the race.

1910 Maudslay 32hp

This was one of the participants in the Lancashire Automobile Club's annual Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run in June 1979.

It's a 1910 Maudslay 32hp which has a 6-cylinder inline 4,624cc engine with an overhead camshaft. I don't now have the programme of the event, but the car is now at the Coventry Transport Museum which bought it in 1964 so would have been the owners at the time of this Car Run.

1954 Austin Healey 100S

This car was parked in the Healey Drivers Club area at the Silverstone Historic Festival meeting in August 2001.

It's a 1954 Austin Healey 100S, a version of the Austin Healey 100 intended primarily for racing which gained the 'S' suffix after one of the cars won its class in the 1954 Sebring 12 Hour race. It has a tuned version of the Austin Healey 4-cylinder inline 2,660cc engine and has an unusual two-tone black and white livery - the majority of the 100S models were a two-tone white and dark blue.

1971 March 712

This was one of the competitors in the FIA Historic Formula 2 International Series race at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2017.

It's the 1971 March 712 of Paul Bason and has a 4-cylinder inline 1,600cc Ford Cosworth BDA engine. The March 712 was the car favoured by several teams in the European Formula Two Championship in the 1971 season, which was won by Ronnie Peterson in a March Engineering 712. Paul Bason's car was driven by James Hunt for the Hesketh Racing team in 1972.

Here's Paul Bason at Brittens chicane during the race leading the 1971 Brabham BT36  of Klaus Bergs and the 1975 Chevron B29 of Gwyn Pollard.

1933 Austin 7 RN van

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

It's a 1933 Austin 7 RN van and has the 4-cylinder inline 747cc engine. A note in the programme of the event said this about the vehicle:

Austin 7 van, 1933                                                                           DE9399

Entered by               F Kershaw, Strawberry Fields, Oldham

Renovated van in the pre-war livery of the Oldham Evening Chronicle.

1965 Lola T70 Spyder

This car competed in the Pre 1974 Le Mans Cars race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 2000.

It's the 1965 Lola T70 Spyder of Harrogate Horseless Carriages, chassis SL71/31, which was driven in the race by Colin Blower. It has a 5 litre Chevrolet V8 engine and the programme of the event has this note about the Lola T70 entrants in the race:

'Spyder versions are handled by ex-rallycrosser Colin Parry-Williams and Colin Blower. The latter, owned by TVR dealer Nigel Kemp, set the outright lap record for Silverstone's GP Circuit in 1996 driven by Denny Hulme. A year later he was Formula 1 World Champion.'

Friday's Ferrari

This car took part in the Aston Martin GT Challenge race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2017 and is pictured at Old Hall Corner during the early morning qualifying session.

It's a 2009 Ferrari F430 Challenge and it was driven in the 50 minute long race by Richard Cook and Harvey Stanley. The Ferrari F430 Challenge, which has a 4,308cc V8 engine, replaced the 360 Challenge and was produced from 2007 to 2001, being succeeded by the 458 Challenge.

1935 MG NB

This is one of the cars on display at the Northern Classic Car Show at Belle Vue, Manchester in September 1984.

It's a 1935 NG NB with the same 1,271cc 6-cylinder inline KD Series overhead camshaft engine that powered the MG NA. The doors were now front-hinged instead of the rear-hinged ones used in the TA.

1960 Lotus 18

This was one of the competitors in the Maserati UK Race for Pre-1966 &Tasman Cars at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1999.

It's the 1960 Lotus 18 of Alan Baillie in the light green UDT Laystall racing colours. The Lotus 18 was designed by Colin Chapman for Formula Junior, Formula Two and Formula One racing and gave Lotus its first World Championship Grand Prix win with victory by Stirling Moss in Rob Walker's car at Monaco in 1960. Alan Baillie's car has the 4-cylinder inline 2,497cc engine that powered the Formula One cars in 1960.