Ford F3L

This car took part in the Pre-1972 Le Mans Cars Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1997.

It's a 1968 Ford F3L - also known as a Ford P68 - which was designed by Len Bailey and built by Alan Mann Racing for them to compete in the Group 6 prototype class in the 1968 season. The car has a 2,993cc V8 Ford Cosworth DFV engine but proved to be very unreliable, not finishing in any of the races in which it took part in 1968. In 1997 the car was owned by David Piper and was driven at Silverstone by Andrew Fletcher.

1960s Sports Prototypes

At the Silverstone Historic Tribute meeting in June 2004 one of the races was for the 'European Sports Prototype Trophy Organised by Group4Racing'. This table in the programme showed the cars which were eligible for this race series:

Here are a couple of the cars shown in the pit lane during the Saturday morning practice session for this race:

This is the 1968 Ford F3L DFV entered and driven by Jonathan Baker. You can read about the Ford F3L (or P68) in this Wikipedia article.

This is the 1969 Lola-Chevrolet T70 Mk3B of Nigel Hulme and you can read about the T70 here.

Here are both cars at Luffield Corner during the afternoon's race being followed by the Lola-Chevrolet T70 Mk3 of Frank Sytner.