1963 MGB

I took this photograph at McLeans Corner during the Equipe GTS Series race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in May 2011.

The white car is the 1963 MGB of Derek Beresford and the red car is the 1963 MG of Simon Ashworth. The number 2 car leading the MGB's is the 1963 TVR Grantura of Rod Begbie, while the red car you can see behind David Beresford's car seems to be the MGB of Simon Wood and is also a 1963 car.

Rolls Royce Marina

The SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2006 featured a one hour Sports Racing masters race for sports cars of the 1960-65 period. One of the cars entered was shown in the programme as a Rolls Royce Marina, although I confess that I don't remember hearing of this car in the 1960s. It was apparently a tubular spaceframe chassis with Formula 1 Cooper suspension units at front and rear and a 6.25 litre Rolls Royce marine engine converted to dry-sump lubrication, although the programme shows the capacity of the car as 6.75 litres. Apparently the car wasn't successful in the 1960s and doesn't appear to have had any better luck since. It was driven in the Donington Park race by Simon and Mark Ashworth.

This link to a Bonhams auction in 2005 gives some information about the car. There's apparently no connection with the Morris Marina car of the 1970s - the 'Marina' in the name of this car being merely a reference to the 'marine' engine.