The Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 2000 included a race for Formula Junior cars, and this was one of the competitors in a very long entry list.
It's the 1960 De Sanctis Fiat of Marco Antonucci, powered by the 1,089cc Fiat engine, as were the majority of the Italian Formula Junior cars. Formula Junior racing was advocated in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani as an inexpensive first step into single-seater motor racing using inexpensive parts from production vehicles. The engine capacity was set at 1,000cc for cars of up to 360kg, and 1,100cc with a weight limit of 400kg. As the 500cc Formula 3 cars provided that inexpensive first step for British drivers the British manufacturers largely ignored this new Formula and Italian cars dominated the first season of Formula Junior in 1959, but by 1960 the British manufacturers had started to take an interest and soon took over at the top.
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