Friday's Ferrari

This car is pictured in the pit lane during a practice session at the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2004 where it took part in a round of the Shell Ferrari Maserati Historic Challenge series of races.

It's the 1958 Ferrari 250 GT LWB TdF of Swiss driver Conrad Ulrich and is chassis #1141GT. Officially known as the Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta it began to be known as the LWB - or Long Wheel Base model - after the introduction of a new series with a wheel base 20cm shorter which was referred to as the Short Wheel Base, or SWB. It received the TdF title after its win in the 1956 Tour de France endurance race which allowed it to use that name, as the official Ferrari website says:

'Any manufacturer whose car won the event, was permitted by the organisers to use the event name as part of the model title. Hence, after winning the 1956 running of the event, Ferrari could use the nomenclature. Although never used officially, it has become the general term used to identify this series of berlinettas.'

The car has the Colombo designed 2,953cc V12 engine used by the majority of the 250 series of cars, and is one of the 37 single louvre series of TdF models that were produced between 1957 and 1959.