1965 McLaren M1B

This car took part in the World Sports Car Masters race at the Silverstone Classic meeting in July 2010.

It's the 1965 McLaren M1B of New Zealander Roger Wills and he shared the driving in the hour long race with Swedish driver Georg Kjallgren. The car is chassis 30/06 and has a 5½ litre Chevrolet engine, and was originally owned by US driver Marshall Brooke Doran.

Friday's Ferrari

This was one of the competitors in the GT Challenge race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2018.

It's a 2007 Ferrari F430 Challenge and was driven in the race by Tony Jones. The car has a 4,308cc V8 engine with twin overhead camshafts and four valves per cylinder 2018 and here it’s seen during the race just after Britten’s chicane on its way towards Hilltop and Knickerbrook.

2004 BAR Honda 006

 

This is a photograph I took at the Donington Park Museum in September 2014.

It's the BAR Honda 006 that Takuma Sato drove in the 2004 season powered by a 3,000 cc Honda RA004E V10 engine. Takuma Sato had one third place and a number of minor points-scoring finishes to earn 34 points for eighth place in the World Drivers’ Championship in 2004 and team mate Jenson Button had 4 second place and 6 third place finishes to finish with 85 points in third place in the Championship. BAR Honda ended up in second place in the World Constructors' Championship behind Ferrari.

1960 Maserati T61

This car competed in the Sir Stirling Moss Trophy for 50s Sportscars race at the Silverstone Classic meeting in July 2010.

It's the 1960 Maserati T61 of Mark Gillies and has a 4-cylinder inline 2,890cc engine. The T61, and the 1,989cc T60 were generally known as Maserati Birdcage cars because of the intricate tubular space frame chassis. In total 22 of these cars were built by Maserati, but this car is a recreation built by the Crosthwaite & Gardiner engineering company which is indistinguishable from the original cars and has been given the chassis number 2478.

Historic Formula Ford

I took this photograph at Brittens chicane on the first lap of the Historic Formula Ford race at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2017.

Leading is Dan Eagling in his 1969 Lotus 61MX from Michael Wrigley in a 1970 Lotus 59. The following cars are Kevin Stanzl's 1971 Crossle 20F, Gregory Thornton's 1967 Titan Mk3/4, Cormac Flanagan's 1968 Alexis Mk14, and you can just see the nose of the 1971 Merlyn Mk20 of  Tim Brise.

1969 Porsche 917K

This car was displayed in the paddock at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1999.

It's a Porsche 917K in the Gulf Oil livery of John Wyer's JW Automotive Engineering team which campaigned with the cars in the 1970 and 1971 seasons. The cars won many events in the World Sportscar Championship in the 1970 and 1971 seasons, but a three-car team entered at the Le Mans 24 Hour race in both those years resulted in in five retirements with just a second place in the 1971 race to show for their efforts. This car appears to be chassis #013/034 which was then owned by Mark Finburgh. During the filming of the Steve McQueen film 'Le Mans' the car was crashed and damaged to such an extent that the original chassis 013 had to be replaced by a new chassis 034. The 917 was powered by a flat-12 engine, originally of 4½ litres, later increased to 4.9 litres and then to 5 litres.

1908 Argyll 16hp

I took this photograph before the start of the Lancashire Automobile Club's Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car run in June 1973.

I don't now have the programme of the event but it's a 1908 Argyll 16hp, and something at the back of my mind is telling me that the driver is James Anderton who became Chief Constable of the Greater Manchester Police Force later in the 1970s.