Friday's Ferrari

This car took part in the Italy v Rest of the World Race for 1960s World Endurance Cars at the Silverstone Historic Festival meeting in August 2001.

It's listed in the programme of the event as David Piper's green 1967 Ferrari 330P4, but it appears to be a 1964 Ferrari 330P, though I can't identify the exact car - it's possibly #0824 and should have the Gioacchino Colombo designed 3,967cc V12 engine. The green car behind is David Piper's 1964 Ferrari 275LM #8165 with a 3,286cc V12 engine.

Friday's Ferrari

This is one of the cars displayed at the 'Ferrari Feature' at the Christie's International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992.

It's a Ferrari 330 P2, and this is what the programme of the event said about it:

22    330 P2

Mid-engined V12; 4 litres; 410bhp at 8200rpm; twin ohc

per bank; all round independent suspension by double

wishbones/coil springs. intended for use by the works

team, their first appearance in racing was at Daytona

Continental, February 1965. In line with what had

happened in 1964 a 3.3 litre 275P2 version was also

available. Both models were used to gain the prototype

championships for Ferrari that year.

These Ferraris of David Piper are frequently difficult to identify, but this one seems to be chassis #0824.

The car behind is another of David Piper's cars, a Ferrari 250 LM, which is presumably #8165. 
NB: The Ferrari factory called it the '250 LM', though it should strictly speaking be a '275 LM', having a V12 engine of 3.3 litres. It got the 250 LM label because the first to be produced had a 3 litre engine.

Friday's Ferrari

In April last year I posted photographs of some of David Piper's Ferraris at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in 2001. David Piper and his cars have been regular competitors in historic motor racing and below are photographs of some more of his cars, plus one from Nick Mason's Ten Tenths company at the 1999 Coys meeting.

Car number 7 is Nick Mason's 1970 Ferrari 512S (1026), number 81 is David Piper's 1964 Ferrari 275LM (8165) and number 8 is David Piper's 1969 Lola T70 MkIIIB

Nick Mason's 1970 Ferrari 512S

David Piper leaving the pits during practice in his 1964 Ferrari 275LM

Friday's Ferrari

Today's photograph is of one of David Piper's cars, 1964 Ferrari 275LM, serial number 8165, at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1994.

It's lining up in the paddock ready to take part in a practice session for the Pre-1970 Le Mans Car race and is being driven by the singer Chris Rea, who is of Italian extraction and has a well-known passion for Ferrari racing cars.

Friday's Ferrari

At the Silverstone Historic meetings I went to in the 1990s and early 2000s David Piper was usually present with a few of his stable of Ferraris. The photographs below show the cars he took along to the Historic Festival meeting of 2001.

1967 Ferrari 330P4, serial number 0822

1964 Ferrari 330P2, serial number 0836

1964 Ferrari 365P, serial number 0824

1967 Ferrari Dino 246S

1964 Ferrari 275LM, serial number 8165

The photograph below, which I took at the 1965 Tourist Trophy race at Oulton Park, is presumably of the same car, although at that time it was labelled a 250LM. The Wikipedia entry for Ferrari says:

'Only the very early LM's were true 250 models, with all the rest made as 3300cc models and as such should have been named 275 LM (the early cars were also converted to the 3300cc engine).'

Correction: The car in the 1965 Tourist Trophy race in 1965 was 5897, now owned by Englebert Stieger.