1956 Maserati 250F

The featured marque at the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2005 was Maserati with particular emphasis on the 250F and twelve of these cars are listed in the Celebration Maserati Invitation Race with a further four being shown as static display or track demonstration cars. This is one of the cars that took part in that race photographed inside a marquee in the paddock where various of the Maseratis were displayed at times during the meeting.

It's Stefan Rettenmaier's 1956 Maserati 250F, chassis 2520, and was driven for the Maserati team by José Froilán Gonzales in the Argentine Grand Prix in January of 1956 and by Pablo Gulle in the Buenos Aires City Grand Prix two weeks later. It was then sold to Australian Stan Jones (father of later World Drivers' Champion Alan Jones) who raced the car 'down under' with considerable success during the rest of the 1950s. In 1963 it was brought to the UK by Colin Crabbe and it passed through various other hands before spending some time in the private collection of Giulio Dubbini in Padova until it was acquired by Stefan Rettenmaier. There are little notes about each of the Maserati 250Fs in the programme of the event, and the one for this car reads as follows:

2520

Factory car for Argentina and raced by Froilán Gonzales before deal with Stan Jones in Australia. Colin Crabbe brought it to the UK in 1963. Break from Historic racing life in the Guido Dubbini collection, and now in Germany with Stefan Rettenmaier.