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.
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.
The last picture o the 250LM at Oulton Park in 1965 was more likely chassis 5897 also owned by Piper also painted BP Green
ReplyDeleteYou're quite correct, I obviously didn't check the 250LMs carefully enough and I've inserted a correction with a link to the www.barchetta.cc record which shows 5897 was the 1965 TT car.
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