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Showing posts with label Rob Wilson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rob Wilson. Show all posts

Wednesday, 20 January 2021

1984 Porsche 956B

This car competed in the British Empire Trophy race for Group C Endurance Cars at the Silverstone Historic Festival meeting in August 2001.
It's the 1984 Porsche 956B of Martyn Konig that was driven in the 2 hour long race by Rob Wilson and Martyn Konig. This is the Skoal Bandit Porsche & John Fitzpatrick Racing Team car that finished in third place in the 1984 Le Mans 24 Hour race driven by David Hobbs, Philippe Streif and Sarel van der Merwe, and has a 2.65 litre turbocharged flat-six engine.

Wednesday, 21 August 2019

1969 Brabham BT26 DFV

This car competed in the Force Pre-1972 Grand Prix Cars race at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2002.
It's the 1969 Brabham BT26 DFV of Philip Walker, and was driven in the race by Rob Wilson. The car is chassis BT26/2, which was orginally built in 1968 with a Repco engine and was driven in 6 Grands Prix that season by Jochen Rindt. The car was rebuilt for the 1969 season with a 2,993cc V8 Ford Cosworth DFV engine and driven by Jack Brabham until he crashed and severely damaged the car in a test session at Silverstone in June of that year. Later that year the car went to America, but returned to Europe and was rebuilt in its Cosworth DFV form not long before it appeared at this meeting.

Saturday, 19 August 2017

Austin Healey

This photograph was taken at the HSCC's Summer Race Meeting at Oulton Park in July 1992 and shows three Austin Healeys that took part in the HSCC Classic Sports Car Championship race at that event.
The car on the left is the 1961 Austin Healey 3000 of David Summerson, a car that was produced between 1959 and 1967 with a straight-six 2,912cc engine, although the programme says this car had a capacity of 2,996cc. The other two cars are both examples of the Austin Healey 100/6, the predecessor of the 3000 and produced from 1956 to 1959. It also had a straight-six engine with a capacity of 2,639cc. The middle car is the 1958 car of Rob Wilson, a car that the programme says has an engine of 2,962cc, and the car on the right is Eddie Falkous' 1957 model which has a 2,996cc engine according to the programme.