This was one of the entrants
in the 1950s Sports Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival
meeting at Silverstone in July 1999.
It's Nick Mason's 1959
Maserati T61, chassis #2457, and has a 4-cylinder inline 2,890cc engine. The
T61, and the 1,989cc T60 were generally known as Maserati Birdcage cars because
of the intricate tubular space frame chassis, and in common with many of these
cars 2457 started off life in the USA. After passing through various hands it
was acquired by Nick Mason in the 1980s. Sixteen examples of the T61 were
produced between 1959 and 1961.
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