Friday's Ferrari

This is a photograph I took on the Friday practice day for the 1962 British Grand Prix at Aintree with my Kodak Brownie 127 camera.

It's the 1962 Ferrari 156 that was driven in the race by Phil Hill. It had a 1,476cc 120° V8 Ferrari Type 178 engine, but was not as successful as the 1961 model in which Phil Hill had won that year's World Drivers' Championship. In 1962 the Ferrari wasn't as quick as the British BRM, Lotus, Lola and Cooper cars with their new V8 Coventry Climax engines, and they were hampered by a series of strikes in Italy which meant they were unable to compete in the French Grand Prix and Phil Hill's was the only Ferrari that took part in the British Grand Prix. The Ferraris also failed to start in either of the last two races that season, in the USA and South Africa. Phil Hill only managed to qualify the car in 12th place on the grid at Aintree, and retired from the race on the 47th of the 75 laps with distributor failure. The man in the light-coloured suit is Mauro Forghieri, Chief Engineer at Ferrari, and the man in front of him appears to be Phil Hill.