1958 Cooper T43

This car competed in the HGPCA race for Pre-1966 Rear-Engined Grand Prix Cars at the VSCCs meeting at Donington Park in May 2001.

It's the 1958 Cooper T43 of Tania Pilkington and has a 1,960cc Coventry Climax FPF engine. The car was designed for the 1957 Formula One season, but also competed in Formula Two races with the smaller 1,475cc engine. The T43 gave the Cooper Car Company its first Grand Prix victory when Stirling Moss won the 1958 Argentine Grand Prix in Rob Walker's car. Tania Pilkington's car is chassis #F2-24-57, which was originally supplied to Tommy Sopwith.

Cooper T43

I took this photograph in the paddock at the Vintage Sports Car Club's meeting at Donington Park in June 2003.

The car would have competed in the Flockhart Trophy Race, but there's no number 223 listed in the programme of the event in that race, nor in any of the races at that meeting. It looks like the 2 litre 1957 Cooper T43 of Tania Pilkington, which did take part in that race but was supposed to be number 117. If it is Tania Pilkington's car it's chassis #F2-24-57. Car number 6 behind the Cooper is the 1,071cc 1960 BMC MkI of Grant Wilson that was entered in the Front-Engined Formula Junior Cars race.