- Single-seater in very good condition, original BP Racing colours

- Excellent design by Tico Martini

- Known history, ex-Claude Michy

- Good overall condition

- No reserve

A Formula Renault single-seater, this Martini Mk8 was originally owned by Claude Michy, who later became an organiser of sports events. Michy probably competed with it, in its BP Racing livery, in five rounds of the European Formula Renault Challenge, where he finished sixth, and in 21 rounds of the French ‘Critérium national de Formule Renault’, finishing seventh. It was then bought by an enthusiast who restored it before obtaining its FIA identity card in 1997. In 1998, he consigned it to Me Hervé Poulain for sale at an auction held as part of the Paris Motor Show, where Paul-Émile B bought it. “Above all, we used it to learn how to drive on track, myself and my children”, Paul-Émile B told us. His mechanic Michel Magnin took care of maintaining and overhauling it. It should be noted that the engine was completely rebuilt by Magnin in 2022 and it has been little used since then.

A great lover of motorsport, Tico Martini began to build single-seaters in 1967 and it was with one of his cars that Jacques Laffitte became the French champion in Formula Renault and then in Formula 3, in 1972 and 1973.

The Martini Mk8 from the collection has a four-cylinder 1596cc Renault-Gordini engine fed by twin Weber 45 DCOE carburettors and mated to a five-speed gearbox. It comes with a valuation report from Jean-Michel Cérède and its FIA papers. In its attractive green and yellow BP Racing colours, it makes a great training school for single-seater racing, the purest of all disciplines in motorsport.

Photos © Alexis Ruben