1965 RAC Tourist Trophy

I took this photograph at Lodge Corner on the first lap of the RAC Tourist Trophy race at Oulton Park in May 1965.

Leading is John Surtees in the Team Surtees Lola-Chevrolet T70 followed by the McLaren Elva-Oldsmobile M1A of Bruce McLaren and the Lotus Ford 30 of Jim Clark. None of these cars finished the race - John Surtees dropped out after 13 laps, Bruce McLaren after 30 laps and Jim Clark managed 102 laps before retiring. Denny Hulme won the race in Sidney Taylor Racing's Brabham-Climax BT8, completing 138 laps in the 4 hour long race.

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.