Ferrari was the featured car at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1997 and this is one of the cars featured in the Ferrari display.
It's a 1949 Ferrari 166 chassis #011F that had been raced in the late 1940s and early 1950s in Argentina by Juan Manuel Fangio and José Froilán Gonzáles. It was built with a 1,995cc V12 engine and was originally used in Formula 2 racing, but became eligible for World Championship races when they were contested by 2 litre cars in 1952 and 1953. The 'YPF' decal on the side of the car denotes the Argentinian state energy company Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales.
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