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Showing posts with label Chris Alford. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chris Alford. Show all posts

Monday, 5 September 2022

1962 Lotus 25

This car competed in the HGPCA Pre '65 Grand Prix Car Race at the Christie's International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992.
It's the 1962 Lotus 25 of Cedric Selzer with a 1,496cc V8 Coventry Climax FWMV engine that was driven in the race by Chris Alford. The Lotus 25 was raced by Jim Clark in the 1962 season but its initial unreliability leading to retirement in four of the races meant that he could only finish in second place to Graham Hill's BRM in that season's World Drivers' Championship. He won the Championship the following year though and finished in third place in 1964 driving the Lotus 25 in the early part of the season before switching to the Lotus 33 for the second half of the season. Cedric Selzer's car was rebuilt from the remains of Lotus 25 chassis R4 that was destroyed in a crash during practice for the 1963 Belgian Grand Prix when being driven by Trevor Taylor.

Sunday, 26 April 2020

1963 Brabham BT6

This car competed in the Historic Formula Racing Cars Pre '65 Single Seater Championship Race at the Historic Sports Car Club's Summer Race Meeting at Oulton Park in July 1995.
It's the 1963 Brabham BT6 of Chris Alford, originally built as a Formula Junior car with an engine with a maximum capacity of 1 litre, but according to the programme of the event had a 1,500cc engine. A total of 20 Brabham BT6 Formula Junior cars were built and they are listed on this website, but it doesn't indicate which of these cars was the one owned by Chris Alford.