The Coys International
Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1998 celebrated the 50th
anniversary of racing at the Silverstone circuit with a display of cars
representing each of the years from 1948 to 1997, and this is the car that
represented 1957.
It's the 1958 BRM P25 of Steve
O’Rourke and is a car that was said to be the fastest of the 1954-1960 Formula
1 era, partly due to the oversquare (102.87 mm bore x 74.93 mm stroke) 2,491cc
engine allowing for larger valves to be fitted. The car was plagued with
reliability problems, however, and the only Grand Prix win was Jo Bonnier's
victory in the 1959 Dutch Grand Prix. Behind it is the Ferrari 500TRC of Modi
Enav which represented 1958.
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