This car competed in the HGPCA
Sports Car Race at the Christie’s International Historic Festival meeting at
Silverstone in July 1992.
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It's the 1957 Ferrari 500 TRC
of David Cottingham has a twin overhead camshaft 4-cylinder inline 1,984cc
engine derived from the 1953 Formula 2 unit designed by Aurelio Lampredi and a
body designed and built by Scaglietti. The 500TRC was an updated version of the
500TR, the first to have the 'Testa Rossa' red camshaft covers, modified to
comply with the 1957 Appendix C Regulations, and it was a 'customer' car, never
being raced by Scuderia Ferrari. David Cottingham's car is chassis #0682MDTR
that was first owned by Ecurie Nationale Belge (also known as Equipe National
Belge) which was formed by a merger of Ecurie Belge and Ecurie Francorchamps.
It finished in seventh place in the 1957 Le Mans 24 hour race in the hands of
Lucien Bianchi and Georges Harris, winning the 2 litre class.
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