The Coys International
Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 2000 celebrated 50 years of
Formula One, the World Drivers' Championship having started in 1950, and the
first race of that Championship was run at Silverstone on 13th May of that
year. At the July 2000 meeting at Silverstone there was a representative
display of cars covering that 50 year period, and the car below was one of
those taking part.
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It's a re-creation of the
Lancia D50 that competed in the Championship in 1954 and 1955. This car was
owned by Robin Lodge, and was entered in the Maserati UK Race for Pre 1961
Grand Prix Cars, but Robin Lodge had taken the precaution of also entering his
1959 Ferrari 246 Dino for that race in case the Lancia was not allowed to take
part. The programme of the event says:
'The mouth-watering prospect of
Robin Lodge's pannier-tanked Lancia D50 - a magnificent reproduction chassis,
using original 0ffset V8 engine and transmission salvaged from Enzo Ferrari's
'scrapyard' - joining the fray hangs in the balance. Lodge will bring his V6
Ferrari Dino if the sensational flashback to 1954 is blackballed.'
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