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.

The Maserati Club

At many historic car race meetings there are areas set aside for various car clubs to gather and put on a display of their members' cars. Here are some photographs of one such display, by the Maserati Club, at the Silverstone Classic meeting of July 2010.

1974 Maserati Quattroporte MkII Prototype

1954 OSCA MT4 - built by the Maserati brothers who had started the OSCA company in 1947 after fulfilling their contract with Adolfo Orsi, to whom they had sold the Maserati company.

1963 Maserati 5000 GT

1964 Cooper T61 Maserati - a Cooper Monaco T61 with a 4.9 litre Maserati V8 engine which was driven in the 1-hour Italian Historic Car Cup race at this meeting by the owner, Michael O'Shea, partnered by Roberto Giordanelli.

Jaguar E-Type

The Jaguar E-type won at Oulton Park in 1961 on its first competitive outing in a car driven by Graham Hill. The Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2012 included two races for the 'J.D.Classics Pol Roger Champagne E-Type Challenge' and the programme of the event had this to say about the races:

'Conceived last year by Jaguar Heritage and the Historic Sports Car Club, the E-Type Challenge celebrated the 50th anniversary of one of the finest sports cars ever built. Now, in its second season, the E-Type Challenge returns to Oulton Park for a double-header this weekend.

Initially the plan was for the E-Type Challenge to be a one-year only series to mark the special anniversary, but in response to overwhelming competitor demand it has been continued this year. The fact that the cars are up to fifty years old makes the story all the more remarkable.'

Here are photographs of four of the cars I took during one of those races at Lodge Corner:

This is the 1963 car of Michael Wilkinson

Chris Scragg's 1962 car

This is the 1961 car shared in the two races by Michael O'Shea and David Hall

Peter Burton in his 1962 car