The Coys International Historic Festival of 1997 at Silverstone featured a tribute to Ferrari and there was an impressive display of cars on show. Today's car is the 1955 Ferrari 555 Super Squalo, serial number FL/9001, an improved version of the 553 Squalo of 1954, but the performance and handling of the car couldn't match that of the Mercedes-Benz W196 and Maserati 250F.
I never saw the Super Squalo in action in 1955. By the time of the British Grand Prix the team had apparently given up on the car and turned up with the old 625 model which was essentially the 1952/53 500 model with an engine enlarged to 2.5 litres.
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