1926 Bugatti Type 35B

I took this photograph at Lodge Corner during the Richard Seaman Memorial Vintage Trophy Race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's meeting at Oulton Park in June 1981.

It's Hamish Moffatt in Frank Wall's 1926 Bugatti Type 35B and has the 8-cylinder inline 2,262cc supercharged engine. A note in the programme of the event says this about the car:

'Last year's winner, Hamish Moffatt, again drives Frank Wall's Type 35B Bugatti, which was fitted with a single seater body after the last war by Peter Stubberfield who was very successful with it in hill climbs.'

Talbot Lago T26C

This car took part in the Cheshire Building Society Allcomers race at the VSCC's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in June 1982.

It's Chris Mann's 1950 4½ litre Talbot Lago T26C. These cars competed in the World Championship for Drivers in its first two years, 1950 and 1951, but the cars were generally outclassed by the 1½ litre supercharged Alfa Romeos. The blue car behind the Talbot is Hamish Moffatt's 1926 Bugatti T35B.

Here's Chris Mann during the race at Knickerbrook corner.

Bugatti Type 35B

There are quite a few visitors from France to my blog and especially for them here are are photographs of two Bugatti Type 35Bs which were taken at Oulton Park at the Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meetings of 1982 and 1987. The Type 35 with its different variations was the most successful of the Bugatti racing models and the 35B was the final version of the series which you can read about here.

This is Hamish Moffatt in his 1926 Type 35B at Lodge Corner in the Richard Seaman Memorial Vintage Trophy race in June 1982.

This is Terry Cardy's 1929 Type 35B in the paddock (above) and at Lodge Corner (below) in the Vintage Trophy race in July 1987.

Just as Ferraris are predominantly  finished in Italian racing red, so Bugattis tend to be mostly seen in French racing blue.