Donington Park Museum

This is a photograph that I took at the Donington Park Museum in September 2014.

I don’t remember if there was an explanation for the ‘John Player Grand Prix’ sign but the British Grands Prix of 1972 to 1978 and 1981 to 1985 were sponsored by the John Player conglomerate, though most of the cars in this picture are from earlier or later years or not F1 cars. On the extreme left is the BRM P153 with which Pedro Rodriguez competed in the 1970 F1 season and next to that is a 1974 Trojan T101 Formula 5000 car. The car in the middle is a Stewart SF1 as driven by Rubens Barrichello and Jan Magnussen in the 1997 season and next to that is a 1993 Lola T330 Formula 5000 car. The car on the extreme right is a 1976 Hesketh 308D, mainly campaigned that season by Harald Ertl.

 

Donington Park Museum 2014

This is a photograph I took at Donington Park Museum in September 2014.

On the left is a 1997 Stewart SF01 that was designed by Alan Jenkins and was powered by a 2,998cc Ford JD Zetec-R engine. It was driven that season by Rubens Barrichello and Jan Magnussen but in the midst of a mass of retirements its best result was Barichello's second place in the Monaco Grand Prix - which was also its only points scoring finish. The car next to it is a 1973 Lola T330 which was designed for Formula 5000 racing. It is chassis HU21, originally owned by Jackie Epstein's Shellsport Luxembourg team and has a 5 litre Chevrolet V8 engine. The car on the right is a 1976 Hesketh 308D, uprated by Anthony Horsley from the Hesketh 308 and has a 2,993cc Ford Cosworth V8 engine.

1973 Lola T330

This was one of the competitors in the Derek Bell Trophy race at the Historic Sports Car Club's Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2017.

It's the 1973 Lola T330 of Brad Hoyt and competed in the 1972 to 1977 Formula 5000 class of the race. Formula 5000 was introduced in 1968 for cars with a maximum capacity of 5,000cc, and the Chevrolet small-block V8 engine quickly became the favoured power unit. The photograph was taken at Britten's chicane.