This is a group of cars I
photographed in the paddock at Silverstone in July 1995 at the Coys
International Historic Festival meeting preparing to join the circuit for the
morning practice session for the Louis Vuitton '50s Sports Car Race.
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The car at the
front is the 1956 Ferrari 860 Monza of Jean Sage, #0604M, and it is the car that won
the 1956 Sebring 24 Hour race driven by Juan Manuel Fangio and Eugenio
Castellotti. The Ferrari 860 Monza had
a Lampredi designed 4-cylinder inline 3,432cc engine and, in conjunction with the
290MM, was victorious in the 1956 World Sportscar Championship, winning three
of the five races on the calendar, the 12 hours of Sebring, the Mille Miglia,
and the Swedish Grand Prix. Three 860 Monzas were built and two of them were at this
Coys meeting.
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