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.

Aston Martin DB2

This photograph was taken at the Aston Martin Owners Club meeting at Oulton Park in May 2002. It's a 1950 Aston Martin DB2, one of three cars which were built to take part in the 1950 Le Mans 24 hour race. Unfortunately it didn't take part in that race because of an accident en route to the circuit and this Bonhams website describes the history of the car when it was offered for auction in 2010. It was raced at the Oulton Park meeting by the then owner, Oliver Leyba of Hamburg, who is shown in action below at Lodge Corner.