1928 Bentley 3 litre

This car took part in the Pre-War Team Challenge Race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2017.

It's the 1928 Bentley 3 litre of Duncan Wiltshire and is pictured here at Druids corner during the morning qualifying session. The car is chassis ML1524.

Here's the car at Hislops chicane during the race in the afternoon followed by Richard Reay-Smith in his 1936 Lagonda LG45 Team Car.

1936 Lagonda LG45

This car took part in the Pre-War Team Challenge Race at the Aston Martin Owner Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2017.

It's the 1936 Lagonda LG45 of Richard Reay-Smith being inspected in the scrutineering bay before the start of the day's action. In 1933 Lagonda introduced the M45 with a 4,453cc Meadows engine, and three lightweight short chassis cars with more highly tuned engines were prepared by Lagonda main agents Arthur Fox and Charles Nicholl for the 1934 RAC Tourist Trophy race at Ards finishing in fourth, fifth and eighth places. Shortly after this the M45R, or Rapide, model was introduced by Lagonda  with the same short chassis and tuned engine. In 1935 one of the TT cars entered by the Fox and Nicholl team and driven by John Hindmarsh and Luis Fontés won the Le Mans 24 Hour race outright. Just before the Le Mans win Lagonda had gone into administration and was taken over by Alan Good who stopped production of the existing models and replaced them with the LG45 which had a revised version of the M45 chassis and a 4,467cc engine based on that of the M45R. Fox and Nicholl were commissioned to produce cars for the 1936 Le Mans race and they produced four cars, two four-seaters and two two-seaters, but the Le Mans 24 Hour race that year was cancelled because of a general strike in France in May and June. The two four-seater cars were broken up later that year but one of the two-seaters did compete at Le Mans in 1937. The car pictured above, DFY 187, is chassis 12210 and was originally bodied as a saloon but was rebuilt by Lagonda specialists Bishopgray in 2008 as a replica of one of those Le Mans cars.

Lagondas at Oulton Park

I took several photographs of Lagondas at the VSCC's Hawthorn Memorial Trophies Race Meeting at Oulton Park in July 2015, in the paddock, on the track and in the spectator car parks, and here they are below.

This is Tim Parker's 1930 Lagonda 2 litre SML in the pit garage

The 1929 Lagonda 3 litre of Andrew Howe-Davies

Tim Wadsworth's 1931 Lagonda 2 litre L/C Tourer

Richard Reay-Smith's 1936 Lagonda LG45

Nicholas Hine's 1937 Lagonda LG45

Nigel Hall's 1935 Lagonda LG45

A 1929 Lagonda 2 litre High Chassis Tourer

A 1931 Lagonda Speed TML T2 Tourer 2 litre

A 1927 Lagonda 14/60

Tim Wadsworth's 1931 Lagonda 2 litre L/C Tourer at Druids Corner in race 4

Richard Reay-Smith's 1936 Lagonda LG45 at Druids Corner in race 5

Tim Parker's 1930 Lagonda 2 litre SML at Lodge Corner in race 7

Nicholas Hine's 1937 Lagonda LG45 at Lodge Corner in the re-run of race 3

You can read a short history of the Lagonda car on the Lagonda Club's website.