Friday's Ferrari

I photographed this car in the paddock at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2018.

It's a 1980 Ferrari 308 GTS, powered by a 2,926cc V8 engine with twin overhead camshafts on each bank and two valves per cylinder. This car replaced the Ferrari Dino 246 GTS and was in turn replaced by the Ferrari 328 GTS.

The numbering of this car, and its predecessor and successor followed the then Ferrari convention of using the engine capacity then the number of cylinders. Hence the Dino 246 was 2.4 litres and 6 cylinders, the 308 was 3.0 litres and 8 cylinders, and the 328 was 3.2 litres and 8 cylinders.

On 3 June 2016 I showed a photograph of this car at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in 2015.

Lotus 98T

This is one of the cars that took part in celebrating 50 years of Formula One at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 2000.

It's the Lotus 98T that was driven by Ayrton Senna and Johnny Dumfries in the 1986 F1 season. The Lotus 98T was a development of the 97T and was powered by a 1,494cc V6 Renault-Gordini Turbo engine. Ayrton Senna won two races, and with four second place finishes and two thirds finished in fourth place in the World Drivers Championship, Johnnie Dumfries finishing thirteenth. Lotus finished the season in third place in the Constructors Championship.

Here's the car leaving the pit lane on one of the demonstration runs carried out by a variety of cars during the meeting.

On 15 November 2015 I showed photographs of the Lotus 98T (and 97T) at Donington Park in 2003.

Airbus A380

At 6.55pm on 8 August 2018 this aircraft flew over Hyde, Cheshire just a few minutes before landing at Manchester Airport.

It's Emirates flight EK19 from Dubai.

It's an Airbus A380 and is the world's largest passenger aircraft.

Emirates currently has 104 of these aircraft, with orders for a further 58.

The registration number of this one is A6-EOY.

There are three daily Emirates flights from Dubai to Manchester, each one using the A380.

Morgan Super Aero

This car competed in the Seaman Trophy Race for Vintage Racing Cars at the VSCC's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in May 2011.

It's the 1929 Morgan Super Aero of Mrs Sue Darbyshire and has a V-twin JAP engine of 1,229cc.

Brabham BT33

This car took part in the Pre-1972 Classic Grand Prix Cars Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1999.

It's Duncan Dayton's 3 litre Cosworth DFV-engined 1970 Brabham BT33, the car with which the Brabham team finished in 4th place in the 1970 Constructors Championship. Jack Brabham finished in 6th place in the Drivers Championship, winning one race with two second places and a third. Team mate Rolf Stommelen managed one third place and finished in 11th place in the Championship. Duncan Dayton's car is chassis #BT33/1 which was driven by Rolf Stommelen in that season.

Singer Le Mans

This was one of the entrants in the Lancashire Automobile Club's Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run, starting from The Village Hotel at Cheadle, Stockport, in June 1993.

It's a 1933 Singer Le Mans, and the only information the programme of the event had about it was that the owner was Eric Watkiss of Ansdell, Lytham, Lancashire. The Le Mans was a variant of the 972cc inline-4 Singer 9 model with a more highly tuned engine and other improvements that made it successful at a variety of motoring events, including Le Mans.  There's a Singer Owners' Club for owners of all Singer cars.

Osella BMW

This car competed in the RJB Mining Group 6 Championship/HSCC 2 Litre Championship race at the Historic Sports Car Club's Summer Race Meeting at Oulton Park in July 1992.

The entry in the programme of the event is for the 1975 2 litre Osella BMW of Lawrence Rose, but I had crossed out the '1975' and written '1972' instead. In 1992 Lawrence Rose appears to have been driving a 1976 Osella PA3, chassis number PA4-039, that was originally a 1974 Osella Abarth 1600cc PA3, chassis number PA2-009. It may be that when it was converted to a PA3 it was given a BMW engine, but I can't see where 1972 comes into it. The above photograph, and the one below, were taken at Lodge Corner.