Two Maseratis

The Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1998 celebrated the 50^th anniversary of the circuit, the first race there being the first ever British Grand Prix. To mark the occasion the grid for that first race was reassembled, the majority of the cars being those that actually took part in the 1948 race.

This is a photograph that I took in the paddock of two of the cars. On the left the Maserati 6CM that Duncan Hamilton drove in 1948 and was owned by M Greer in 1998. On the right is the Maserati 4CL that was a reserve car for the 1948 race and would have been driven by Fred Ashmore. In 1998 it was owned by Karl Bloechle.

1937 Maserati CM

This was one of the competitors in the Cheshire Building Society Allcomers Race at the Vintage Sports Car club's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in July 1987.

It's Peter Hannen's 1937 Maserati 6CM a car that was produced from 1936 to 1940 and has a supercharged 6-cylinder inline 1,496cc engine.

1936 Maserati 6CM

This car took part in the Richard Seaman Memorial Historic Trophy Race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's meeting at Oulton Park in June 1970.

It's the 1937 Maserati 6CM of Ray Fielding with a supercharged 6-cylinder inline 1,493cc engine. It is chassis 1540 and was at one time part of the Doune Motor Museum collection. The red car behind it is Lord Doune's 1930 Maserati 8C, chassis 2514, that was driven by Ray Fielding in the Richard Seaman Memorial Vintage Trophy Race. The programme of the event says this about the car:

'.....also in the third row is a most welcome dark horse in the form of a rare 1930 blown 8C 2½ litre Grand Prix Maserati. This car was brought over from Switzerland by Lord Doune, famous for his Scottish museum of Sports and racing cars and the Doune hill climb course, who has entered the car to be driven by Ray Fielding.'

1937 Maserati 6CM

This car competed in the HGPCA Pre '52 GP Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in August 1996.

It's the 1937 Maserati 6CM of Peter Hannan ad is chassis #1547. Grand Prix racing in the 1930s was dominated by the German teams of Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union, and to a lesser extent the Italian Alfa Romeo team. Smaller manufacturers like Maserati built their cars for the Voiturette (or 'small car') class which was for cars with a maximum capacity of 1½ litres. The 4-cylinder Maserati 4CM introduced in 1932 had considerable success, but when these cars started to be outclassed by the British ERA cars Maserati produced the 6CM with a 6-cylinder 1½ litre supercharged engine which then became the car to beat.

1937 Maserati 6CM

This car took part in the Richard Seaman Memorial Historic Trophy Race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's meeting at Oulton Park in June 1971.

It's the 1937 Maserati 6CM of Ray Fielding with a supercharged 6-cylinder inline 1,493cc engine. It is chassis 1540 and was at one time part of the Doune Motor Museum collection.

1938 Maserati 6CM

This was one of the participants in the VSCC Historic Seaman Trophy race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2007.

It's Sean Danaher's 1938 Maserati 6CM, 27 of which were produced between 1936 and 1940 to take part in Voiturette racing and has a 6-cylinder inline 1,492cc engine with a Roots-type supercharger. It is chassis #1556 and was originally raced by George Raphaël Béthenod de Montbressieux under the name 'Raph' for the Scuderia Torino.

1936 Maserati 6CM

This is one of three examples of the Maserati 6CM that took part in the Richard Seaman Memorial Historic Trophy race at the VSCC's meeting at Oulton Park in July 1987.

It's Gunnar Elmgren's 1936 model with a 1,493cc supercharged 6-cylinder inline engine. Gunnar Elmgren became President of the FIA Historic Motorsport Commission in his later years. Behind the Maserati is the 1936 ERA R12B of Bill Morris, one of the ERAs at one time run by Prince Chula's White Mouse Racing stable and driven by Prince Bira and was given the name Hanuman II. The ERA has a 1,482cc supercharged 6-cylinder inline engine.

Maserati 6CM

This was one of the competitors in the Richard Seaman Memorial Historic Trophy Race at the VSCC's meeting at Oulton Park in July 1987.

It's the 1937 Maserati 6CM of W H (Bill) Summers which was originally built with a six-cylinder inline engine of 1,493cc with a Roots type supercharger. The programme of the event, however, says that this car has a supercharged engine with a capacity of 1,972cc.

Here's the car during the race at Lodge Corner.

I've previously featured photographs of the Maserati 6CM on 27 March 2013 and 30 June 2015.

ERA

I took this photograph at Redgate Corner during the VSCC Historic Seaman Trophy race at the VSCC's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2007.

The 1,980cc supercharged 1936 ERA R7B of Paul Mullins is leading the 1,500cc supercharged 1936 ERA R10B of Paddins Dowling. Following are the 1,492cc supercharged 1938 Maserati 6CM (#1556) of Sean Danaher and the 1,496cc supercharged 1936 Riley Falcon of Pete Candy.

Friday's Ferrari

This is a photograph taken at Redgate Corner on the opening lap of a Shell Ferrari Maserati Historic Challenge race at the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2004.

The Ferrari in second place is the 1952/54 Ferrari 625, #0482, of Alexander Boswell, originally a Ferrari 500 that raced in the World Championship races of 1952 and 1953 when there was a 2-litre capacity limit. When this was increased to 2½ litres in 1954 the cars were lengthened, the engines replaced by 2½ litre units, and it was re-designated a Ferrari 625. On 28 July 2017 I showed a photograph of this car at the HGPCA meeting at Donington Park earlier in 2004. The car on the outside leading the race is the 1937 Maserati 6CM of Stefan Schollwöck and is chassis #1547, a car originally belonging to Austin Dobson. Behind Alexander Boswell is the 1939/50 Alfa Romeo 158 of Carlo Vögele, being driven by Willie Green, and on 24 May 2018 I featured three other photographs of the car at this meeting. Just visible at the rear is the 1958 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa of Carlos Monteverde, #0738TR, which I pictured in the pit lane at this meeting on 29 January 2016.

Maserati 6CM

This is one of the cars that took part in the 12 lap race for the Richard Seaman Historic Trophy at the VSCC race meeting at Donington Park in May 2001.

It's the 1936 Maserati 6CM of Roger Lucas. Grand Prix racing in the 1930s was dominated by the German teams of Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union, and to a lesser extent the Italian Alfa Romeo team. Smaller manufacturers like Maserati built their cars for the Voiturette (or 'small car') class which was for cars with a maximum capacity of 1½ litres. The 4-cylinder Maserati 4CM introduced in 1932 had considerable success, but when these cars started to be outclassed by the British ERA cars Maserati produced the 6CM with a 6-cylinder 1½ litre supercharged engine which then became the car to beat.

Maserati 6CM

Another Maserati from the Aston Martin Owners Club meeting at Oulton Park in September 1986. This one is a Maserati 6CM which was at the time owned and driven by Peter Hannen. The 6CM was a 1.5 litre car produced from 1936 to 1940 and this particular car is a 1937 model.

The car in the paddock before its race

Rounding Lodge Corner