Motorcycles at Redgate Corner

This is the first corner of the first lap of the Lansdowne Classic Series race at the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2007.

The ones with visible race numbers are:
4     Vernon Glashier 1962 500cc Manx Norton
25   Mark Sharrock 1961 500cc Matchless G50
67   Gordon Russell 1961 500cc Manx Norton
85   Chris Swallow 1962 500cc Manx Norton
68   Mike Russell 1962 500cc Manx Norton
9     Tim Jackson 1958 500cc Matchless G50
6     Malcolm Clark 1962 500cc Matchless G50
50   Nick Roberts 1962 500cc Manx Norton
171 Patrick Walker 1960 500cc Manx Norton
8     Mick Hemmings 1962 500cc McIntyre G50
5     Mike Attrill 1963 350cc Aermacchi Ala d'Oro
77   Cliff Ransley 1961 500cc Manx Norton
30   Roger Ashby 1956 350cc AJS 7R
21   Andy Reynolds 1963 500cc Manx Norton
117 Andy Molnar 1961 350cc Manx Norton
56   Mike Dryden-Holt 1962 350cc Manx Norton
20   Jamie Donaldson 1960 350cc Manx Norton

The programme note about the race reads:

'The Lansdowne Classic Series is dedicated to preserving the sights and sounds of yesteryear, presenting a taste of Grand Prix motorcycle racing as it was in the 1950s and early 1960s when British and continental four-stroke machines ruled the roost. Evocative names such as Norton, Matchless, AJS, Moto-Guzzi and Aermacchi once more line up, with riders having to push start their Machines.'

Friday's Ferrari

I took the photographs of this car at the Aston Martin Owners Club's Autumn Historic Car Races meeting at Oulton Park in September 1992.

It's Paul Alexander's 1954 Ferrari 750 Monza, chassis #0470MD, and on 20 March 2015 I showed some more photographs of this car at that meeting.

Here's Paul Alexander approaching Lodge Corner during his race.

On 20 September 2013 I showed a photograph of the same car at the 1993 Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone, where the programme of the event shows the entrant and driver of the car to be Paul Alexander, but the barchetta.cc record says that Brandon Wang was the owner at that time.

Jensen

Three Jensens at the Footman James Classic Car Show Manchester at EventCity in September 2016.

1970 Jensen Interceptor  Mk2

1973 Jensen Interceptor SP

1971 Jensen FF

There's a Jensen Owners' Club that caters for owners of all Jensen cars from 1934 to 1976.

Lotus 88

This car was part of a display of Lotus F1 cars at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1995.

It's the 1981 Lotus 88, a car which was banned by the FIA because the twin chassis design was deemed to circumvent the FIA's ban on the moveable skirts that teams had employed to increase the ground effect aerodynamics of their cars. It was never allowed to compete in any of the races in the 1981 season so Elio de Angelis and Nigel Mansell were forced to use the older Lotus 81B and 87 cars.

Lancia D50

At the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2006 this car was one of those on display in the Paddock Suite.

It's the Donington Museum's 1955 Lancia D50 recreation. The D50s were handed over to the Ferrari team when Lancia withdrew from racing towards the end of the 1955 season, and the cars were gradually modified over the next couple of seasons until, in the then usual Ferrari manner, the cars were scrapped when they reached the end of their useful life. In recent years the engines and many of the original components of the cars were recovered and several replicas constructed. Two of the original cars still exist in museums though, and on 2 January 2013 I showed photographs of one of these that was loaned to Silverstone in 1998 when they marked the 50th anniversary of the Silverstone circuit.

Halford Special

This car took part in the race for the Vintage Trophy at the Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in August 1992.

It's James Cheyne's 1923/25 Halford Special, driven in the race by Iain Cheyne, and the programme of the event said this about the car:

'James Chelne has entered Iain Cheyne to drive the Halford Special, which features an Aston Martin chassis and a twin-cam supercharged engine. This motor was designed by one of Britain's most brilliant engine designers, Frank Halford. He qualified for his aviator's licence, No. 639, at the Bristol School at Brooklands on 2nd October, 1913. He went on to design famous piston engines over a period that spanned both world wars. Later, he designed jet engines, but was also an accomplished racer of both motorcycles and cars.'

Scania 112

This was one of the entants in the Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally at Heaton Park, Manchester in September 1996.

It's not shown in the programme of the event, but would have been entered in the 'Operating PSV's Buses' Class and is a Marshall bodied Scania 112. Black Prince Buses was a bus company based in Morley, West Yorkshire and this was one of the Scania buses the company acquired from Newport Transport.

Black Prince was taken over by FirstGroup in 2005.