BRM P126

The Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1993 included a display of cars celebrating British Racing Green, and this is one of the cars included in that display.

It's a 1968 BRM P126, a car that was raced by BRM in the 1968 F1 season and had a 2,998cc V12 engine. Richard Attwood was one of the BRM team drivers that season, and he drove the car in the track display at this Silverstone meeting.

Allard J2X

This car took part in the Sportscar v Saloon Challenge Race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2002.

It's Josh Sadler's 1952 Allard J2X Cadillac, which the programme of the event says has a 6,092cc engine - about 372 cu in. I can't find a Cadillac engine corresponding to that size - the early 1950s V8 engine was 331 cu in (5,424cc) while the late 1950s unit was 365 cu in (5,981cc).

On 26 January 2015 I showed a photograph of an Allard J2X Le Mans taken at Oulton Park in 2008 which had all-enveloping bodywork to comply with Le Mans FIA regulations.

Benetton B190

In October 1992 we were going out one day in the car to Glossop and passed a garage and car showroom in Brookfield, just outside Glossop. When I saw this car in the showroom window I just had to stop and investigate.

It's a 1990 Benetton B190, as driven by Nelson Piquet, Alessandro Nannini and (for two races) Roberto Moreno in the 1990 Formula 1 World Championship season.

Nelson Piquet finished in third place in the World Drivers' Championship, thanks to wins in the final two races of the season in Japan and Australia. Alessandro Nannini finished in eighth place in the Championship despite not racing in the last two races after a serious injury in a helicopter crash that ended his driving career. Roberto Moreno took over the car for those two races and managed to take second place to Nelson Piquet in Japan.

The Benetton B190 had a 3,498cc Cosworth Ford HBA4 V8 engine and it helped Benetton to third place in the World Constructors' Championship.

Bugatti Type 35B

I photographed this car at the Vintage Sports Car Club's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2007.

It's a 1928 Bugatti Type 35B with a supercharged 2,262cc straight-8 engine and was apparently at that time one of the exhibits at the Bugatti Trust museum at Prescott. On its first competitive outing in May 1928 the car won the Targa Florio on the Madonie circuit with Albert Divo at the wheel.

Porsche 962C

This car was on display in the paddock at the Christie's International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992.

It's the 1990 Porsche 962C which had finished in 12th place just a month earlier at the 1992 Le Mans 24 Hour Race, entered by ADA Engineering and driven by Derek Bell, Justin Bell and Tiff Needell. It's chassis #RLR-202 and is powered by the Porsche 3 litre twin-turbocharged Flat-6 engine.

Friday's Ferrari

This is one of three Ferraris that took part in the GT Challenge Race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2018.

It's the 1999 Ferrari 360, driven in the 50 minute long race by Matthew Wilton and John Cowan. Both the other Ferraris were Ferrari 430 Challenge models.

Here's the car at Druids Corner during the morning qualifying session. The Ferrari 360 has a 3,586cc V8 engine with twin overhead camshafts on each bank and five valves per cylinder.

This photograph was taken during the race at the exit of Britten's chicane.

Little and Large

I took this photograph at Lodge Corner during the Historic Racing Saloons Championship Race at the HSCC's Historic Race Meeting at Oulton Park in June 2001.

Number 88 is the 1,293cc 1966 Morris Cooper S of Norman Grimshaw, and number 8 is the 4,727cc 1965 Ford Mustang of Peter Hallford. I don't know who's overtaking who here - the Minis had a reputation for lagging behind the larger engined cars on the straights then overtaking them when they got to the corners.