Guards Trophy Race Oulton Park 2017

Here at Britten's chicane are five of the cars that contested the 40 minute long Guards Trophy Race for Sports Racing Cars at the HSCC's Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2017.

This is the 1966 McLaren M1B driven by Anthony Taylor and Andrew Wareing and is powered by a 5.7 litre Chevrolet  V8 engine.

This 1964 Cooper Maserati driven by Michael O'Shea is a Cooper T61 Monaco chassis with a 5 litre V8 Maserati engine, as found in the Maserati Tipo 151.

The 1964 Elva Mk7S of Nick Pancisi and Rob Wainwright is powered by a 1,991cc BMW engine

The 1968 Lenham P69 of Brian Casey is powered by a 1,594cc Ford engine.

Philip Nelson's 1968 Chevron B8 has a 1,991cc BMW engine.

Lola T70

This car competed in the 1 hour long Historic Motor Racing News Gentlemen Drivers Sports Racing Challenge race at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2005.

It's the 1965 Lola T70 Mk1 driven in the race by Frank Sytner and Simon Hadfield, and a note in the programme of the event says this about the car:

Debuted, unpainted, by David Hobbs at Goodwood in 1965, chassis SLXX/4 was also raced by Monte Shallet and road registered by a later owner. Reimported from the USA by Frank Sytner in 2003, it is probably the earliest T70 still racing. Chevrolet V8 engine packs a big punch in Eric Broadley-designed monocoque chassis.

The car that David Hobbs drove at Goodwood in 1965, though, was that of Harold Young Racing, which was chassis SL70/2. Chassis SL70/4 was returned to the factory soon after delivery to Hugh Dibley and the car was rebuilt using chassis SL70/7. The history of SL70/2 is told in this Bonhams auction offering.

Here's the car during the race at Britten's chicane leading the 1965 Elva Mk8 of David Clark and the 1963 Elva Mk7S of Ivan Scotti.