1962 Lola Mk4

I took this photograph during practice for the Aintree 200 race in April 1962.

It's a 1962 Lola Mk4 with a 1,494cc V8 engine that was campaigned in the 1962 season by the Bowmaker Racing Team in place of the Cooper T53 cars they had used the previous season. John Surtees drove this car in the race, qualifying in third place on the grid, but retired after 37 of the 50 laps with a valve gear malfunction. The second Bowmaker Racing Team car was driven by Roy Salvadori who qualified in 15th position on the grid but retired after 8 laps with a broken throttle linkage.

Lola Mk 4

This is another of my Kodak Brownie 127 photographs from practice day for the British Grand Prix at Aintree in July 1962.

It's the Lola Climax Mk 4 spare car for the Bowmaker-Yeoman Racing Team, used by John Surtees and Roy Salvadori during practice. The Lola Mk 4, like several of the other teams, used the 1,496cc V8 Coventry Climax FWMV engine. Three of these cars were apparently built, so with John Surtees driving chassis BRGP42 in the race and Roy Salvadori chassis BRGP43, this is presumably BRGP41. John Surtees qualified in second place on the grid behind Jim Clark's Lotus 25 and those two drivers finished the race in that order. Roy Salvadori qualified in eleventh place on the grid but failed to finish the race, retiring after 35 laps with ignition problems.