Historic Formula Junior Racing

I took this photograph at Britten's chicane during the Historic Formula Junior Championship race at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2005.

Leading is Simon Diffey in his 1961 Lotus 20 followed by Mike Hibberd in a 1963 Lotus 27 with the 1963 Lola Mk5A of Robin Longden bringing up the rear.

1962 Gemini Mk4A

This was one of the competitors in the Miller Oils/AMOC Historic Formula Junior race at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2004.

Pictured during the race at Lodge Corner, it's the 1962 Gemini Mk4A of Oliver Crosthwaite being driven by Simon Diffey and has a 4-cylinder 1,098cc Ford Cosworth engine. It was quite an advanced car for its era, particularly for a Formula Junior car, with inboard front brakes, side radiators, and futuristic aerodynamics.

Connaught B type

This is one of the entrants in the VSCC Ron Flockhart Trophy race at the Richard Seaman Memorial Trophy meeting at Donington Park in June 2003.

This is the 1955 Connaught B Type of J W Morley, driven in the race by Simon Diffey, and has a 2,470cc Alta engine. The B Type has been known as the Connaught Syracuse since Tony Brooks' victory in the Syracuse Grand Prix in 1955. Behind it is another Connaught, the 1956/57 car of Michael Steele shown in the programme of the event as a C Type. Only one C Type was made, the last car produced by Connaught, and it was sold to Bob Said in the USA. He entered it for the 1962 Indianapolis 500 race, but Jack Fairman failed to qualify the car for the race. The car is shown here with a copy of the 'toothpaste tube' body worn by B Type chassis B3 in the 1957 and 1958 seasons, but the C Type never had that body in period.

On 9 March 2015 I showed a photograph of B Type chassis B3 with the 'toothpaste tube' body at Aintree in 1958, when it was owned by Bernie Ecclestone.