Aston Martin Owners Club

The Aston Martin Owners Club has organised race meetings at Oulton Park for many years, and this photograph was taken at the 2002 meeting, in May of that year.

It's the start of Race 2 at that meeting, the long-winded sounding 'Pre-War Feltham Aston Martin Sports Cars + Other Pre-War/50s Sports Cars' race. Leading off the grid is Alan Collett's 2,922cc 1958 Aston Martin DB MkIII (SXT 1), and behind him the 3,780cc 1952 Jaguar C-Type (PUG 676) of Ben Cussons alongside the 2,922cc 1950 Aston Martin DB2 (VMF 65) of Oliver Leyba. Just poking its nose into the picture is another DB MkIII (MSL 277), the red 1958 model of Michael Hudson.

Bugatti T35B

I took the photograph of this car in the paddock being prepared to participate in the Williams Trophy for Pre-1934 Grand Prix Cars at the VSCC's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in May 2011. The race celebrates the win of Grover Williams in the first Monaco Grand Prix in 1929 and the trophy that he won in that race is in the custody of the Bugatti Trust, and is given to the winner of this race to hold for one year.

The car is the 1925 Bugatti Type 35B of Chris Hudson and has a supercharged 2,262cc straight-8 engine. It was driven in the race by Michael Hudson.

On 9 December 2015 I showed three photographs of this car being unloaded from its transporter earlier that day.

Bugatti T35B

I like to walk round the paddock early in the morning at race meetings watching as the various competitors arrive and unload their vehicles, and here is one I photographed at the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in May 2011.

It's Chris Hudson's 1925 Bugatti Type 35B..........

..........which competed in that afternoon's Williams Trophy Race for Pre-1934 Grand Prix Cars..........

..........in which it was driven by Michael Hudson.