Maserati 4CL

This car competed in the HGPCA Pre '52 GP Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in August 1996.

It's Norbert Schmitz-Koep's 1939 Maserati 4CL, chassis #1566, and sitting in the cockpit is Martin Morris. Norbert Schmitz-Koep is sitting alongside in another of his cars, a 1934 Maserati 4CS. The Maserati 4CL was designed for Voiturette racing, and had a supercharged 1,491cc straight-4 engine. The car had some success in it's first season until racing was curtailed by the Second World War, and dominated racing in the years immediately following the war in the hands of drivers such as Raymond Sommer, Tazio Nuvolari and Luigi Villoresi, until the arrival of the Alfa Romeo 158.