Friday's Ferrari

I photographed this car in the pit lane during a practice session at the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2004.

It's Alexander Boswell's 1952 Ferrari 625A, chassis #0482, that competed in the Ron Flockhart Memorial Trophy Race and in two rounds of the Shell Ferrari Maserati Historic Challenge Series. It was originally a 2-litre Formula 2 Ferrari 500 and competed in World Championship races in the 1952 and 1953 seasons when they were run to Formula 2 regulations. When the 2½ litre Formula 1 regulations came into effect in 1954 a four cylinder inline 2,498cc engine was fitted to the lengthened Ferrari 500 chassis and the car was redesignated a Ferrari 625. Later in 1954 a 2,942cc 4-cylinder inline engine from a Ferrari 735 sports car was installed and the car was raced in Australia by Peter Whitehead.

I've featured photographs of this car several time, most recently on 4 January 2019.