This car was in a display of Ferraris at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1997 which featured a tribute to the marque.
It's a replica of the Ferrari 156 with which Phil Hill won the Drivers' World Championship in 1961, the original cars being dismantled by Ferrari, as was then their custom, at the end of their useful working life. The singer-songwriter Chris Rea had this replica built to be used in his 1996 film 'La Passione', which he intended to be about his childhood dream of this car and driver Wolfgang von Trips, but Warner Brothers took control of the film and effectively ruined Chris Rea's concept. The 1961 car had a 1,476cc V6 engine designed by Carlo Chiti, and Phil Hill won two, was second in two, and third in two of the seven races in which the cars competed that season. They didn't take part in the final race, the USA Grand Prix, after the death of Wolfgang von Trips in the penultimate Grand Prix of the season in Italy.
On 17 March 2017 I showed a photograph of Phil Hill driving the car in a track display at this meeting.
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