1939 Maserati 4CL

This car competed in the Maserati UK Race for Pre 1952 Grand Prix Cars at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 2000.

It's Norbert Schmitz-Koep's 1939 Maserati 4CL, chassis #1566, which was designed for Voiturette racing and had a supercharged 1,491cc straight-4 engine. The 4CL had some success in its first season until racing was curtailed by the Second World War, and dominated racing in the years immediately following the war in the hands of drivers such as Raymond Sommer, Tazio Nuvolari and Luigi Villoresi, until the arrival of the Alfa Romeo 158. The green car next to the Maserati is Dick Skipworth's ERA R3A, which was driven that day by Barrie Williams.

1934 ERA R3A

This car competed in the Maserati UK Race for Pre 1952 Grand Prix Cars at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 2000.

It's the 1934 ERA R3A of Dick Skipworth which was driven in the race by Barrie Williams and has the 6-cylinder inline 1,980cc ERA engine. R3A was the car, with a 1,488cc engine, which Raymond Mays drove to gain ERA's first major international victory, winning the 1935 ADAC Eifelrennen Voiturette race at the Nürburgring. Hans Rüesch was second in a Maserati 4CS with Tim Rose-Richards third in ERA R1A, Richard Seaman fourth in ERA R1B and Humphrey Cooke fifth in ERA R2A