This car took part in the Miller Oils/ AMOC Historic Formula Junior race at the Silverstone Historic Tribute meeting in June 2004.
Numbered 21 in the programme of
the event, it's the 1960 OSCA Formula Junior car of Peter Mullen and has a
4-cylinder inline Fiat 1,098cc engine. The OSCA company was established by the
Maserati brothers at the end of their 10 year contract with Adolfo Orsi, to
whom they had sold the Maserati concern in 1937. Formula Junior racing was
initiated in 1958 by Giovanni Lurani as an affordable introduction to single
seater racing and was initially dominated by the Fiat-engined Italian cars,
particularly Stanguellini. British interest remained for some time with the
500cc Formula 3 class of racing, but when they turned their attention to
Formula Junior cars such as Elva and Lola started to make an impression, and
when Cooper and Lotus introduced their mid-engined cars they became the ones to
beat.
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