This car competed in the Pre-War Sports Car Race at the
Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1998.
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It's the 1934 Maserati 4CS of
Norbert Schmitz-Koep and he shared the driving in the race with Ludwig
Willisch. The Maserati 4CS was produced from 1931 to 1936 with a supercharged
1,088c engine, and from 1932 to 1936 with a lengthened chassis and a supercharged
1,498cc engine. Norbert Schmitz-Koep's car is chassis #1123 and was one of the
five cars built with the smaller engine. Six cars were built with the larger
engine, but in the 1980s or 90s #1123 was given one of the 1,498cc engines.
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