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Showing posts with label David Beckett. Show all posts
Showing posts with label David Beckett. Show all posts

Wednesday, 13 October 2021

1968 Nerus Silhouette

This was one of the competitors in the HSCC Classic Sports Cars and RJB Thundersports Championship race at the Historic Sports Car Club's meeting at Oulton Park in June 2001.
It's David Beckett's 1968 Nerus Silhouette, a car that was built to compete in the short-lived Formula F100 that was intended to be a sports car version of the single-seater Formula Ford series, but it only lasted for 2 years. Nerus Engineering specialised in the manufacture of racing car components, and the Silhouette was designed by Cedric Seltzer who had been Jim Clark's race engineer in 1963/64. Only two cars were built, a third one later being built up from spare parts, and they were powered by a 1.3 litre Ford Kent engine. The programme of this event says that David Beckett's car has a 1,971cc engine.

Wednesday, 18 October 2017

Manx Norton

One of the motorcycles that took part in the Lansdowne Classic Series race at the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2004.
It's the 1958 500cc Manx Norton of David Beckett being prepared in the paddock before the race.

Saturday, 2 September 2017

Motorcycles

Here in the paddock are three motorcycles that took part in the Lansdowne Classic Series race at the VSCC's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Donington Park in June 2003.
The Auto Cycle Union Road Racing standing regulations stipulate specific colours for the number plate of each class of motorcycle, white numbers on a blue background for the 350cc class and black numbers on a yellow background for 500cc. Number 20 in the programme of the event is Roger Ashby's 500cc 1955 Matchless G45, which is obviously the machine in the middle of the three. The number 20 on the left isn't shown in the programme and is an AJS 7R which the number plate shows to be a 350cc model, possibly also belonging to Roger Ashby. On the right is David Beckett's 500cc 1958 Manx Norton.

On 21 January 2017 I showed a photograph at the first corner of the first lap of the Lansdowne Classic Series race at the Donington Park meeting in 2007. Roger Ashby is riding a 1956 350cc AJS 7R in that photograph.