Maserati was a featured marque at the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2005, and more particularly the Maserati 250F Formula One car, 16 examples of which appeared on the track and on display in the paddock. This is one of those cars, receiving attention in the paddock before its scheduled race.
It's Josef Rettenmaier's car, chassis 2508, a 1954 car once owned by Stirling Moss and in which he competed in 1954 before signing for the Mercedes-Benz team the following season. He continued to drive the car in non-Championship races over the next 2 years, as well as allowing other drivers to compete in it, most notably Mike Hawthorn. The Maserati 250F has a 2,490cc straight-6 engine and is the only car to have appeared throughout the whole of the 2½ litre Championship period from the first race of 1954, the Argentine Grand Prix, to the last race of the 1960 season where Bob Drake drove Joe Lubin's car in the United States Grand Prix.
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