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Saturday, 4 October 2025

1953 Cooper Bristol

This was one of the competitors in the race for Pre-1959 Front Engined Racing Cars at the Vintage Sports Car Club’s Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies Meeting at Oulton Park in June 1993.
It's the 1953 Cooper Bristol T23 (or MkII) of Raymond Wilkinson and is powered by a 1,971cc straight-6 Bristol engine based on the one in the pre-war BMW 328. The original Cooper Bristol was designed as a Formula 2 car, but found itself involved in Grand Prix racing in 1952 and 1953 when the World Championship was run to Formula 2 regulations.

The car on the left is the 1952/57 HWM Jaguar of Kirk Rylands and the car number 18 in the background is the 1936 ERA R14B of Donald Day.

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