March 761

This photograph was taken at Luffield Corner during the Grand Prix Masters race at the Silverstone Historic Tribute meeting in June 2004.

Peter Williams in the blue and yellow 1976 March 761 is leading the 1976 Penske PC3 of Frank Sytner with, in the background, Lorina McLoughlin in a 1974 McLaren M23. All three cars are powered by the 2,993cc V8 Cosworth DFV engine. According to the programme of the event the March is chassis #761/5 which didn't actually take part in any races until the 1977 season. The Penske is chassis #PC3/02, driven in period by several drivers including John Watson and Derek Bell, and the McLaren is chassis #M23/6, which competed in the 1974, 1975 and 1976 seasons, being driven by Denny Hulme, Jochen Mass and James Hunt, amongst others.

Lagonda Rapier

You can always rely on seeing a few Lagonda Rapiers at any VSCC meeting and I photographed these three at the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in May 2011 where they took part in some of the Handicap and Scratch races.

This is the 1934 car of Julian Grimwade with what the programme of the event says is a 1,460cc engine, though the original Lagonda Rapier had a 1.1 litre unit.

This is Douglas Martin's 1935 model, and this has a 1,086cc engine.

This is the 1935 Eccles Rapier Special of Tim Metcalfe, built by Roy Eccles, and has a 1,087cc supercharged engine.

Jensen CV8

I photographed this car at the Vintage Sports Car Club's meeting at Oulton Park in July 2015.

It's a 1965 Jensen C-V8, a car that superseded the Jensen 541S and was produced from 1962 to 1966. The 541S had straight-six 4-litre Austin engine, but the C-V8 was powered by the Chrysler Golden Commando V8 engine, a 5.9 litre (361 cu in) unit in the early cars, but from 1964 by the 6.3 litre (383 cu in) version. The CV8 was replaced in 1966 by the Jensen Interceptor, which continued to use the Chrysler engine.

Jaguar

These cars took part in the Italy v Rest of the World Race for Pre 1959 Drum Brake Sports Cars at the Silverstone Historic Festival meeting in August 2001.

On the left is the 1952 Jaguar C-Type of David Wenman that was driven in the race by Tony Stephens. It's chassis XKC008 and has the 6-cylinder inline 3,442cc Jaguar XK6 engine that powered all the C-Types, and was originally owned by Leslie Johnson who drove it in the 1953 Mille Miglia but failed to finish the race. The car on the right is the 1954 Jaguar XK120 of George Holt, again with the 3,442cc XK6 engine.

Friday's Ferrari

The VSCC's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophy meeting at Donington Park in June 2003 featured demonstration runs by several Ferrari F1 cars. This is one of those that took part.

It's a 2,997cc V10 Ferrari F399, as driven by Michael Schumacher and Eddie Irvine in the 1999 season. Eddie Irvine finished in second place to Mika Häkkinen in the World Championship and Michael Schumacher missed a large part of the season after breaking his leg in the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. The programme of the event doesn't say who drove the car at Donington Park.

On 16 August 2013 I showed photographs of the car in the pit garage at this meeting.

Aston Martins at Oulton Park

I took these photographs at Druids Corner during the morning qualifying session for the 45 minute long AMOC Intermarque Championship race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2015.

Dr Robin Marriott's 4.3 litre 2009 Aston Martin GT4

The 4.7 litre 2010 Aston Martin GT4 driven in the race by Peter Montague and Zak Mercer

The 4.7 litre 2007 Aston Martin Vantage N24 of Steven Byrne and Spencer Marsh

The 4.7 litre 2007 Aston Martin V8 Vantage Coupe of Geoffrey Lewis

Christopher Scragg's 5.3 litre 1973 Aston Martin V8

Nicholas King's 4.5 litre 1959 Aston Martin DB4

The 4.5 litre 1959 Aston Martin DB4 Lightweight of Simon Watts and Roberto Giordanelli

The 5.3 litre 1971 Aston Martin DBS V8 of Paul and Clive Hipwell

Bentley 4½ litre

This car is about to be shown the starting flag in Manchester's Exchange Station car park at the start of the LAC's  Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run in May 1992.

It's a 4½ litre Bentley, and the only information about it in the programme of the event is that it's a 1927 Bentley 4½ litre Le Mans and was entered by Martin W Ingham of Harwood, Bolton. The Vintage Bentleys site though says that the car - chassis number RN3044 and engine number RN3048 - was originally delivered to its first owner, in Australia, with a 4-seat open touring Vanden Plas body and was given the registration number BPB 908. It subsequently went to the USA then to the UK, where it  appears to have been given its Le Mans replica body and registration number SL 9705, and the last record of it is at the Technik Museum Speyer in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.