Cooper T51

This was one of the competitors in the Pre-1966 Grand Prix and Tasman Cars race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1998.

It's the 1959 Cooper T51 of Peter Gooch. The car is one of three cars originally purchased by the British Racing Partnership/Yeoman Credit Racing Team in October 1959 for use in the 1960 racing season. It was fitted with a Coventry Climax FPF 2½ litre 4 cylinder in-line engine and features the unusual carburettor air intake only found on the Yeoman Credit cars. Chris Bristow, Tony Brooks, Olivier Gendebien and Phil Hill were amongst the drivers who raced the Yeoman Credit cars in the 1960 season.

On 19 December 2016 I showed a photograph of this car that I'd taken at the 1999 Silverstone Coys meeting.

Cooper T51

This car took part in the Maserati UK Race for Pre-1966 Grand Prix & Tasman Cars at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1999.

It's the 1959 Cooper T51 of Peter Gooch, and is in the colours of the British Racing Partnership/Yeoman Credit Racing Team of 1959-1960. The two British Racing Partnership cars of 1959 ran with 1½ litre Climax and Borgward engines, but the programme of this event says the car is fitted with a 2½ litre engine as used by the Yeoman Credit Racing Team in F1 races in 1960. On 20 May 2014 I showed a photograph of the late Sir Jack Brabham at the wheel of a Cooper T51 at the Coys meeting at Silverstone in July 1993.

Maserati 250F

Eight Maserati 250Fs were entered in the 'Maserati UK Race for Pre 1961 Grand Prix Cars' at the Coys International Historic Festival at Silverstone in July 2000, and here are photographs of two of them.

This is the 1957 car of Peter Neumark and is chassis number 2527. A note in the programme of the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2005 says this about the car:

2527

First of the Lightweight 'T2' 1957 factory team cars with smaller-gauge chassis tubing. Later sold to Australian motorcycle rider Ken Kavanagh. In 1964 the Hon Patrick Lindsay started racing it in UK. After huge accident at Thruxton chicane when throttle jammed open, the chassis was replaced. Now owned and raced by Peter Neumark.

This is one of Cameron Millar's recreations, owned by Peter Gooch, but I don't know its chassis number. It's being driven out of the pit lane here on a demonstration run by Maria Teresa de Filippis, the first woman to race in Formula 1. Sadly, Maria died in January this year at the age of 89.

(NB: I've now been told it's chassis number CM6)