Timothy Metcalf, negotiating the Loop, in his Silver, 1960, Cooper T56,during the Historic Formula Junior Race at the 2023 Silverstone Festival
The Cooper T56 was the second series of Formula Junior racing cars offered by the Cooper Car Company. Although officially a 1961 model, the first T56 raced in 1960. In addition to the factory constructed cars, a number of kits were sold. The T56 was replaced by the T59, the third of Cooper Formula Junior design, offered in 1962. The Cooper Car Company was founded in December 1947 by Charles Cooper and his son John Cooper. Together with John's boyhood friend, Eric Brandon, they began by building racing cars in Charles' small garage in Surbiton, Surrey, UK in 1946. Through the 1950s and early 1960s, they reached auto racing's highest levels as their rear-engined, single-seat cars altered the face of Formula One and the Indianapolis 500, and their Mini Cooper dominated rally racing. Due in part to Cooper's legacy, Britain remains the home of a thriving racing industry, and the Cooper name lives on in the Cooper versions of the Mini production cars that are still built in England, but are now owned and marketed by BMW.
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Location: Silverstone Circuit, Towcester, Northamptonshire, NN12 8TN
Photo credit: © John Gaffen / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: 1097cc, 1960, 2023, car, circuit, company., cooper, festival, formula, historic, john, junior, loop, metcalf, race, silver, silverstone, t56, timothy, towcester
