This is a photograph that I
took at Luffield corner during the Coys of Kensington GT Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1998.
It's Simon Draper's 1963 Aston
Martin DP214 in which he shared the driving in the race with David Clark. This
was one of two Project 214 cars built (the other being completely destroyed in
an accident at the Nürburgring in 1964) and was based on DB4GT chassis 0194/R
with the 3,670cc straight-6 engine bored out to 3,750cc.The car ran in the Le
Mans 24 Hour race twice, retiring after 11 hours with a broken piston when in
third place in 1963 driven by Bill Kimberley and Jo Schlesser, and in 1964 it
was driven by Mike Salmon and Peter Sutcliffe but was disqualified after 18
hours for topping up with oil before the permitted time. It was in eleventh
place at the time. Behind the Aston are the 1965 MGB of David Heynes/Mike Wilds
and the 1960 Austin Healey 3000 of Ted and Mark Williams.
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