1927 Bugatti Type 35B

This was one of the competitors in the Ten Lap Scratch Race in Memory of Sir Henry Seagrave for Vintage Cars at the Vintage Sports Car Club's meeting at Oulton Park in August 1996.

It's Julian Majzub in his 1927 Bugatti Type 35B which has the 8-cylinder inline 2,262cc engine. The Type 35 was the most successful of the pre-war Bugattis and the about 37 examples of the Type 35B were produced in the mid to late 1920s.

1927 Bugatti Type 35B

I took this photograph on the approach to Lodge Corner during the Vintage Memorial Trophy race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in August 1992.

It's Julian Mazjub in his 1927 Bugatti Type 35B which has the 8-cylinder inline 2,262cc engine. The Type 35 was the most successful of the pre-war Bugattis and about 35 examples of the Type 35B were produced in the middle and late 1920s.

1929 Pacey Hassan Bentley

I took this photograph at the Old Hairpin corner during the VSCC Vintage Seaman Trophy Race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2005.

It's Julian Majzub in his 1929 Bentley Pacey Hassan, which was originally built for Bill Pacey by Wally Hassan and Wally Saunders using the engine from Bill Pacey's 4½ litre Bentley and a frame built by Rubery Owen. On 17 March 2014 I showed photographs that I had taken of the car at Oulton Park in May of 2005.

1939 Delage D6-75 TT Replica & 1916 Sunbeam Indianapolis

I photographed these two cars in the paddock at the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2007.

On the left is the 1939 Delage D6-75 TT Replica of Robert Heelis that was driven in two races by Toby Heelis, the 2 hour long White House Memorial Pre-War Team Relay race and the VSCC Historic Seaman Trophy race. The Delage D6-75 was the last of the D6 models to be be produced before the war and has a 6-cylinder inline 2,998cc engine. The car on the right is the 1916 Sunbeam Indianapolis of Julian Majzub which was driven in the VSCC Edwardian Racing Cars race by Robin Tuluie. It is one of the two cars built by Sunbeam to contest the 1916 Indianapolis 500 race although only one car actually took part in the race which, for the only time in its history, was reduced to 300 miles. The cars had a twin-cam 24 valve 6-cylinder inline 4,914cc engine and the single entry was driven in the race by Belgian driver Josef Christiaens with Frank Bill as riding mechanic, finishing in fourth place in a race won by Dario Resta.

1931 Maserati Tipo 26M

This car was part of a display of Maserati cars in the Paddock Suite at the VSCC's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2005 where Maserati was the featured marque.

It's a 1931 Maserati Tipo 26M which was at that time owned by Julian Majzub. The 26M has a supercharged 8-cylinder inline 2,495cc engine and 15 of the cars were produced between 1930 and 1932. This car is chassis #2512 and was originally owned by Umberto Klinger of Ferrera. The car was acquired by John Appleton in 1932, and he shortened the chassis and replaced the Maserati engine with that from a Riley Nine as he considered the car to be under-powered. The two-seater body was replaced in 1935 by a single-seater and the car became known as the Appleton Special. It competed in this guise, with several changes along the way, until the late 1990s when the then owner Julian Majzub restored the car back to something like its original condition.

This excellent website will tell you most things you want to know about Maseratis.

Alfa Romeo 308

This car competed in the Pre '52 Grand Prix Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1995.

It's the 1937 Alfa Romeo 308 of Julian Majzub, driven in the race by Duncan Ricketts. The chassis of the Tipo 308 was developed from the 1935 Tipo C, and the engine from the supercharged straight-8 Tipo 8C 2900 enlarged to 2,991cc. The car was not a great success, unlike the Tipo 158 voiturette that followed it.

On 18 August 2015 I showed photographs that I took of this car at Silverstone in 1996.

Porsche Carrera 6

This car competed in the Pre-1972 Le Mans Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1998.

It's the 1,991cc flat-6 1966 Porsche Carrera 6 of Julian Majzub, also known as the Porsche 906. The earlier Porsche 904 with a flat-4 1,966 engine was too heavy and underpowered to compete with the Ferrari Dino 206 SP so the 906 was designed with a lighter chassis and body, and the six-cylinder engine was also lighter as well as being more powerful. These new cars took Porsche to 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th places in the Le Mans 24 Hour race behind three Ford GT40 Mk II cars with engines 3½ times their size.

I've featured the Carrera 6 four times previously, on 24 February 2015, 26 October 2015, 2 May 2017 and 10 January 2018.

Pacey Hassan Bentley

One of the cars contesting the Boulogne Trophy Race at the VSCC meeting at Oulton Park in May 2005 was the one pictured below.

It's a 1929 Bentley fitted with a 4½ litre engine and known as the Pacey Hassan Bentley. It was driven in the race by the owner Julian Majzub, shown below at Britten's Chicane.

Sadler Sports Cars

The Sadler was a sports car designed and built by Canadian born Bill Sadler in the 1950s. This is the Sadler MkIII of Julian Majzub pictured in the paddock at Oulton Park after winning the Hawthorn International Trophy race at the Hawthorn Memorial Trophies race meeting organised by the VSCC at Oulton Park in June 2008.

And here is Julian Majzub pictured at Britten's Chicane during his victorious drive.

I remember what was probably the first occasion on which a Sadler participated in a race at Oulton Park, in the late 1950s I think, although my memory doesn't tell me which meeting it was or the date. I seem to recall that it was a club meeting, either the Mid-Cheshire Motor Racing Club or the Lancashire and Cheshire Car Club, and was probably in 1957. I took the grainy photograph below with my trusty Brownie 127 camera.

Judging by the information here it appears to be the original Sadler MkI, probably after the original Triumph TR2 engine had been replaced with a Chevrolet V8 engine.