Ecurie Ecosse

I took this photograph in the paddock at Oulton Park at the British Empire Trophy Race meeting in April 1956.

The Ecurie Ecosse team had entered two Jaguar D-Types in the race to be driven by Ron Flockhart and Ninian Sanderson and here are some of the team at the side of one of the D-Types. On the left is Ron Flockhart in conversation with the founder of the team, David Murray, and next to David Murray is chief mechanic Wilkie Wilkinson. The British Empire Trophy Race was run as three preliminary heats (up to 1.5 litres, 1.6 to 2.7 litres and over 2.7 litres) and a final for the qualifying cars run as a handicap race. This proved very advantageous for the smaller capacity cars which finished in the first six places (Stirling Moss winning in a Cooper T39 Bobtail) with Ron Flockhart finishing in seventh place and Ninian Sanderson in ninth place. Three months later Ron Flockhart and Ninian Sanderson won the Le Mans 24 Hour Race in one of these Ecurie Ecosse cars.

Ecurie Ecosse 1956

I took these photographs at the British Empire Trophy meeting at Oulton Park in April 1956.

This is a 1956 'shortnose' Jaguar D-Type, chassis XKD561, one of two cars entered in the race by Ecurie Ecosse and has the 6-cylinder inline 3,441cc engine.

This is Ron Flockhart who drove the car in the photograph above. The race was run in the form of three heats, for cars up to 1500cc, 1501cc to 2700cc, and over 2700cc. There was then a final race over 25 laps run on a handicap basis with the smallest capacity cars getting a 40 second start, the next group 25 seconds, and those with the largest engines on scratch. Ron Flockhart finished in seventh place in the D-Type, the first finisher in the over 2700cc class, with the six cars in front of him all being from the up to 1500cc class. Stirling Moss won the race in a Cooper T39.

This is Ninian Sanderson who drove the other Ecurie Ecosse Jaguar D-Type in the race and finished in ninth place in the final. 

Three months later. in July of 1956, the Le Mans 24 hour race was won by an Ecurie Ecosse Jaguar D-Type driven by Ron Flockhart and Ninian Sanderson.

BRM

The Owen Racing Organisation entered three BRM P25s for the British Grand Prix at Aintree in July 1959, to be driven by Harry Schell, Jo Bonnier and Ron Flockhart, and a further P25 was entered by the British Racing Partnership team for Stirling Moss to drive.

This is Ron Flockhart's car, chassis number 2511, pictured in the paddock on the Friday practice day. Ron Flockhart qualified in eleventh place on the grid, but retired from the race after 53 of the 75 laps.