1956 Lotus Eleven

This is a photograph that I took at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2005.

It's the 1956 Lotus Eleven of Neil Davies that competed in the BRDC Historic Sportscar Championship race and which the programme of the event says has a 1,480cc engine. The Lotus Eleven was designed by Colin Chapman and the aerodynamic body by Frank Costin and was intended to compete in the 1,100cc sports car class. A Lotus Eleven with a 1,098cc Coventry Climax engine driven by Reg Bicknell and Peter Jopp finished in seventh place in the 1956 Le Mans 24 Hour Race, winning the 1,100cc class. The Lotus Eleven was raced with various other engine sizes up to 1,500cc, and for the 1957 Le Mans 24 Hour Race Coventry Climax produced the 744cc FWC engine that enabled the Lotus Eleven of Cliff Allison and Keith Hall to win the 750cc class, and also the Index of Performance. 

The number 22 car in the background is Bernard Brock’s Formula Junior 1959 Elva 100.

1959 Elva 100 FJ

I took this photograph at Lodge Corner during the AMOC Miller Oils Historic Formula Junior Championship race at the Aston Martin Owners Club meeting at Oulton Park in May 2002.

It's Bernard Brock in his 1959 Elva 100 FJ which has a 1,098cc BMC A series engine. Initially successful, the front-engined Lola was overshadowed by the Cooper and Lotus rear-engined cars in the 1960 season.