Circuit des Remparts 2023 - Plateau Demonstration - Louis Rosier / 50's Sports Cars and Bugattis

 

My view for most of the day at Angoulême.  You can this is real street circuit.

The first of the demostration plateau at the 2023 Circuit des Remparts was in honour of the great French driver Louis Rosier ans was mainly intended for 1950s sports cars and Bugattis. Louis Rosier won the 1949 Belgian GP, the 1950 24 Hours of Le Mans and a number of non-championship F1 races in the early fifties.

An interesting car in this plateau was the 1938 Lenkin GP car driven by Belgian driver Roger Troiani.  I had never heard of this car before, let alone see it.  It had the look of a home made special but it did indeed take part in a GP, the 1946 Grand Prix des Frontières at the Chimay circuit in 1946.  Apparently, the car has a Ford chassis as it's base with an Austrian 6 cylinder Steyr motor with 3 Solex carburettors, a Rosengart gearbox, a body that was meant to resemble an Italian GP car and was named after the Belgian mechanic's grandfathers nickname.   Driven by its  constructor Désiré Boudart it finished fourth in the 1946 GP which incidentally was won by Leslie Brooks in an ERA.  His wife hated motor racing so he never raced it again and it remained in a garage until the current owner bought it and restored it.  It now has a BMW motor.

The 1938 Lenkin GP car.

As this was the Louis Rosier plateau, very nice to see Laurent Schneider in a 1935 Talbot T110C special that looks rather like the Talbot Lagos that Rosier raced.

Busy at the hairpin with a 1934 Riley Ulster Imp, the Lenkin GP and a 1955 Cooper T39.

A 1959 Cooper Monaco and a 1924 Bugatti T35.

A 1924 FN 1300S leads a 1956 Jaguar C type (replica?).

This 1953 Allard J2X found it very difficult to get round this very tight hairpin.

1927 Fiat 509.

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1955 Elva Mk1B in the paddock.

Roger Troiani keeping cool in the paddock in his Lenkin GP.

The Plateau Rosier cars ready to go out and play.