The UK VSCC recently requested information from the Bugatti Trust about the cast aluminium wheels used on Bugattis.

The letter sent by the Trust's curator is published on pages 24/5 of Newsletter 32 published in Autumn 2009.

What prompted this enquiry?

My guess is the protest that has been launched against one of its directors, a nineteen stone Welshman, who is being accused of using wheels made in America on his "35B" which are said to be non-standard.

Now everybody knows that all the serious racers use cars full of non-standard bits.
How else can a Brescia give 100 bhp without non-standard bits inside ?
I understand that the original Brescia team cars probably gave less than 40 bhp originally.

What I can't understand is why the VSCC and the UK BOC have allowed brand new cars made in the Argentine to run in the Williams Trophy race and how cars running plain bearing pressure-fed crankshafts can be described in the programme as type 35B, which, to the best of my knowledge always left Molsheim with a roller-bearing crank.

About four years ago I did ask the VSCC for a copy of the Williams Trophy regulations and was referred back to the BOC who in turn referred me back to the VSCC.
What I can't understand is how someone can be accused of contravening regulations when they have never been put into print.

And can someone explain to me how the Dixon Brooklands Riley (great car that it is) can be described as a pre-1934 GRAND PRIX CAR ?