1934 MG K3

This car competed in a scratch race and a handicap race  at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in June 1993.

It's the 1934 MG K3 Magnette of Philip Walker. The original K type Magnette, the K1, had a 6-cylinder inline 1,087cc engine and was available as a 4-seat open tourer or a 4-door saloon. The K2 was an open 2-seater with a shorter chassis, and could have the same engine as the K1 or a larger 1,271cc version of that engine. The K3 was a racing variant using the shorter chassis and a supercharged 1,087cc engine. Only 33 of the K3 model were made, many of which have not survived, and a number of replicas have been made using the K1 or K3 cars. Philip Walker's car may be one of those, and the programme of this Oulton Park event shows it to have a 1,408cc supercharged engine.

1963 ATS 100 GP

The Coys International Historical Festival meeting of July 2000 marked 50 years of the Formula 1 World Championship for Drivers with a display of cars covering that period, this car being one of those representing the 1960s.

It's the 1963 ATS 100 GP of Philip Walker and it also took part in the Maserati UK Race for Pre 1966 Grand Prix & Tasman Cars during the meeting. The car and its 1,495cc V8 engine were designed by former Ferrari chief engineer Carlo Chiti and was the only F1 car produced by ATS. Phil Hill and Giancarlo Baghetti were the drivers, and the cars only started in five Grand Prix races (all in 1963), both cars retiring in the Belgian, Netherlands, USA and Mexican races, and finishing in eleventh and fifteenth places respectively in the Italian Grand Prix. Carlo Chiti was involved in designing the 1961 Ferrari Dino 156 that had won the World Championship for Phil Hill that year, but he and several other personnel had walked out of Ferrari in October 1961 due to a disagreement with Enzo Ferrari and later formed the ATS racing team.

 

The display was in a large marquee where the main source of illumination was the light coming through the canvas of the marquee behind the cars which doesn't help if you're taking photographs.

1934 MG K3

This car competed in three races at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in August 1992.

It's the 1934 MG K3 Magnette of Philip Walker. The original K type Magnette, the K1, had a 6-cylinder inline 1,087cc engine and was available as a 4-seat open tourer or a 4-door saloon. The K2 was an open 2-seater with a shorter chassis, and could have the same engine as the K1 or a larger 1,271cc version of that engine. The K3 was a racing variant using the shorter chassis and a supercharged 1,087cc engine. Only 33 of the K3 model were made, many of which have not survived, and a number of replicas have been made using the K1 or K3 cars. Philip Walker's car may be one of those, and the programme of this Oulton Park event shows it to have a 1,408cc supercharged engine.

1959 Lotus 16

This was one of the competitors in the HGPCA Pre '60 GP Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in August 1996.

It's the 1959 Lotus 16 of Philip Walker and has a 4-cylinder inline 2,495cc Coventry Climax FPF engine. The first Grand Prix race for the Lotus 16 was the 1958 French Grand Prix where the car's 1,964cc Coventry Climax engine proved to be severely underpowered for the very fast Reims circuit and Graham Hill retired the car on lap 19 with an overheating engine. By 1959 the car was fitted with the 2,467cc Coventry Climax FPF engine, but the front-engined cars were now outclassed by the rear-engined ones and the Lotus 16 never achieved great success, the best efforts being Innes Ireland's fourth place in the Dutch Grand Prix and fifth place in the USA Grand Prix. Eight of the cars were built and Philip Walker's car is Chassis 368.

1963 ATS Tipo 100

This car took part in the John Cooper Trophy Race for Pre 1966 Grand Prix and Tasman Cars at the Silverstone Historic Festival meeting of August 2001.

It's the 1963 ATS 100 GP, entered for the race by Philip Walker and driven by Andrew Wolfe. The car and its 1,495cc V8 engine were designed by former Ferrari chief engineer Carlo Chiti and was the only F1 car produced by ATS. Phil Hill and Giancarlo Baghetti were the drivers, and the cars only started in five Grand Prix races (all in 1963), both cars retiring in the Belgian, Netherlands, USA and Mexican races, and finishing in eleventh and fifteenth places respectively in the Italian Grand Prix. Carlo Chiti was involved is designing the 1961 Ferrari Dino 156 that had won the World Championship for Phil Hill that year, but he and several other personnel had walked out of Ferrari in October 1961 due to a disagreement with Enzo Ferrari and later formed the ATS racing team.

1977 Hesketh 308E

This car took part in the 'Silverstone International Trophy for Pre 1978 Grand Prix Cars' race at the Silverstone Historic Festival meeting in August 2001.

It's the 1977 Hesketh 308E of Philip Walker, driven in the race by Andrew Wolfe, and is chassis 308E/1. Designed by Frank Dernie and Nigel Stroud it has a 2,993cc V8 Ford Cosworth engine and was driven in the 1977 season by Rupert Keegan, whose best result was seventh place in the Austrian Grand Prix.

1969 Brabham BT26 DFV

This car competed in the Force Pre-1972 Grand Prix Cars race at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2002.

It's the 1969 Brabham BT26 DFV of Philip Walker, and was driven in the race by Rob Wilson. The car is chassis BT26/2, which was orginally built in 1968 with a Repco engine and was driven in 6 Grands Prix that season by Jochen Rindt. The car was rebuilt for the 1969 season with a 2,993cc V8 Ford Cosworth DFV engine and driven by Jack Brabham until he crashed and severely damaged the car in a test session at Silverstone in June of that year. Later that year the car went to America, but returned to Europe and was rebuilt in its Cosworth DFV form not long before it appeared at this meeting.

Lotus 16

This car competed in the Ron Flockhart Memorial Trophy race at the VSCC's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2007.

It's Philip Walker's 1959 Lotus 16, a car designed to compete in both Formula 1 and Formula 2 races, the bodywork being designed by Frank Costin who was responsible for the aerodynamic body of the 1956 Vanwall. Philip Walker's car has a 2,495cc engine, presumably the 4-cylinder inline Coventry Climax FPF unit. The Lotus 16 was campaigned by Lotus from 1958 till early 1960 when it was superseded by the Lotus 18, and its best result in that time was fourth place in the 1959 Dutch Grand Prix driven by Innes Ireland. Eight cars were produced in that period, and it seems that this car is chassis #368.

On 3 September 2014 I showed a photograph of Philip Walker in this car at Oulton Park in 1996.

Lotus 15

This car competed in the 1950s Sports Cars race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2007.

It's the 1958 Lotus 15 of Philip Walker. The Lotus 15 was a successor to the Lotus X, but was visually similar to, and developed from, the smaller Lotus Eleven, and was designed for the 4-cylinder inline Coventry Climax FPF engine which varied in capacity from 1½ to 2½ litres. Philip Walker's car had the 1,995cc engine.

I've previously shown photographs of the Lotus 15 on 28 May 2014 and 3 September 2017.

Lotus 16

This car competed in the Flockhart Trophy Race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2006.

It's Philip Walker's 1959 Lotus 16 with what the programme of the event says is a 2,495cc engine - presumably the 4-cylinder Coventry Climax FPF unit. The Lotus 16 was raced by Team Lotus, and private entrants, from 1958 to 1960 with little success in World Championship races. Colin Chapman had to wait until the Monaco Grand Prix of 1960 for his first Lotus victory, achieved by Stirling Moss in Rob Walker's Lotus 18.

On 3 September 2014 I showed a photograph of Philip Walker in this car at Oulton Park in 1996.

The Flockhart Trophy Race

I took this photograph at Redgate corner on the first lap of the Flockhart Trophy Race at Donington Park at the VSCC's SeeRed meeting in June 2008.

Leading is Philip Walker in his 1959 2½ litre Lotus 16 from the 1957 2 litre Cooper T43 of Andrew Smith. Behind them is the 1958 3.8 litre Lister Jaguar Monza of Rod Jolley, and at the rear is Hubert Fabri's 1957 3 litre Aston Martin DBR4 just behind Ian Nuthall's 1952 2 litre Alta F2.

ATS Tipo 100

This car took part in the Historic Grand Prix Race Association for Pre-1966 Rear-Engined Grand Prix Cars at the VSCC's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Donington Park in May 2001.

It's a 1963 ATS Tipo 100, a car designed by Carlo Chiti, the former chief engineer of Ferrari who, along with several other people were fired by Ferrari in late 1961 and went on to form the ATS company. This was the only F1 car produced by ATS and you can read about it and the singular lack of success it experienced in this conceptcarz article. The owner at the time of the Donington Park race was Philip Walker and it was driven in the race by Andrew Wolfe.

Lotus 16

On 27 August I showed a photograph of a Lotus 12, the first single-seater racing car built by Colin Chapman. In the same race at that August 1996 Oulton Park VSCC meeting was a car which was the successor of the Lotus 12, the Lotus 16, shown here being driven by Philip Walker at Lodge Corner.

It was an improved version of the Lotus 12 with the bodywork designed by Frank Costin who also designed the Vanwall, to which it bears a passing resemblance. Like the Lotus 12 though it didn't have much success, being dogged by unreliability problems.