1978 Chevron B43

This car took part in the Single Seater Challenge/Toyota Formula 3 Race at the Historic Sports Car Club's Summer Race Meeting at Oulton Park in July 1995.

It's Chris Fearon's 1978 Chevron B43 and has a 4-cylinder inline 1,997cc Toyota engine. Sixteen of these cars were built, but the Chevron B43 proved to be a difficult car to set up for a race and didn't achieve much success, although Patrick Gaillard managed wins at Imola and the Nürburgring in that year's European Formula 3 Championship.

1939 Maserati 4CL

This car competed in a Celebration Maserati Invitation Race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Maserati themed SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2005.

It's the 1939 Maserati 4CL of Rodney Smith, chassis #1564,  and was driven in the race by Mark Gillies. The car was designed for Voiturette racing and has a 4-cylinder inline 1,491cc supercharged engine. Nine of the cars were built in 1939, and a further sixteen after the war between 1946 and 1947.

1962 Lotus 24

I took this photograph on the start/finish straight at Aintree during practice for the 1962 British Grand Prix.

It's the UDT Laystall Racing Team's 1962 Lotus 24 driven by Masten Gregory and for this race it had the 4-cylinder inline 1,500cc Coventry Climax FPF engine, although for most of the races that year he drove it with a 1,498cc V8 BRM P56 engine. He qualified in fourteenth place on the grid and ended the race in seventh position, one lap behind the winner, Jim Clark in a Lotus 25. Masten Gregory didn't have a very successful season with the car, scoring a single point in the World Drivers' Championship with a sixth place in the USA Grand Prix.

1994 Lister Storm

I took this photograph in the paddock at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1998.

It's a 1994 Lister Storm, one of only four road-going examples that were produced between 1994 and 1995, although racing versions of the car were built, the GTS, GTL and GT taking part in the FIA's GT Championship racing from 1995 to 2005. The Lister Storm was powered by a 6,996cc V12 engine that was based on the one used by the Jaguar XJR-9. On 27 January 2016 I showed a photograph of a Lister Storm GTL that I had taken at Silverstone at the same meeting.

 

Aston Martin

I took this photograph in the paddock at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in September 1993.

It's a 1930's Aston Martin, either an Ulster or a Le Mans, but without a race number of registration plate I've not been able to identify it. The lack of a registration plate means it was possibly competing that day and the race numbers had not yet been applied, and the only red 1930s Aston Martin shown in the programme of the event is the 1933 Aston Martin Le Mans of Nick Mason, driven at this meeting by Chloe Mason. 

1960 Porsche 718

 I took this photograph at Tom Wheatcroft's Donington Park Museum in May 1989.

It's a 1960 Porsche 718/2, chassis 202, formerly campaigned by Dutch driver Carel Godin de Beaufort and is finished in the orange Dutch racing colours. A book printed in 1974 giving details of many of the cars in the collection says this about the Porsche (which is now in the Porsche Prototyp Museum in Hamburg):

The Porsche 718

Germany's Challenger

French driver Jean Behra began Porsche's single-seater venture into Formula 2 in 1958. He had a central-seat version of the RSK sports car built up and it proved very successful. For 1959 the Stuttgart works produced 'proper' singe-seater cars, with similar air-cooled flat-four engines and trailing-link torsion bar front suspension, and when the 1½ litre Formula 1 came into operation in 1961 they were well prepared to enter Grand Prix racing for the first time.

Dan Gurney and Jo Bonnier drove the cars, which proved quite competitive, and when the new eight-cylinder was introduced for 1962 the old cars were sold. Two of them went to the giant Dutchman, Count Carel Godin de Beaufort, and he enjoyed himself hugely as one of that rare breed of private owner-drivers in Formula 1. He suffered a fatal accident in one of the obsolete old Porsches during practice for the 1964 German Grand Prix at Nürburgring. He was, as ever, trying as hard as he could to reach a qualifying time, and the loss of this jovial, larger than life character took some much-needed colour from the Grand Prix scene.

PORSCHE 718

Engine: 180° 4-Cyls; 2VPC; 2OHC; Air-cooled; 85mm x 66mm, 1498cc; c. 155bhp/7500rpm.

Chassis: Tubular spaceframe.

Suspension: IFS by trailing arms and TBs/IRS by wishbones and CSp.

Brakes: Discs.

On 25 February 2019 I showed a photograph of Carel Godin de Beaufort driving the second of the two Porsche 718/2 cars that he bought, chassis 201, at Aintree during practice for the 1962 British Grand Prix.

Friday's Ferrari

This car is listed in the programme of the event as a reserve for the Shell Ferrari Historical Challenge race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1997.

It's the 1972 Ferrari 365 GTB/4 C of Carlos Monteverde and was due to be driven in the race by David Franklin. The 365 GTB/4 C is a competition version of the GTB/4 with an aluminium body and the Gioacchino Colombo designed 4,390cc V12 engine is specially tuned to give 400 bhp. Carlos Monteverde's car is chassis #15667 and is the eighth of the fifteen competition cars that were built. The car was originally acquired by Charles Pozzi who entered it for the 1972 Le Mans 24 Hour race where it was driven by Claude Ballot-Léna and Jean-Claude Andruet, finishing in fifth place overall and winning the GTS class.