1925 Bugatti Type 13

This car competed in the Boulogne Trophy Race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2005. I must have taken the photograph early in the morning as the car seems to have just been unloaded from its transporter and doesn't yet have its race number (113).

It's the 1925 Bugatti Type 13 of Kraig Mycock which has a 16-valve 4-cylinder inline 1,496cc engine. Five examples of the Type 13 were produced before the First World War and when the war was over Ettore Bugatti prepared the cars for racing. The cars took the first four places in the 1921 Brescia Grand Prix and the Type 13 subsequently became known as the Brescia Bugatti. There was a great demand for the car and its derivations and 2000 were built before production ended in about 1926.