Friday's Ferrari

On 22 February I featured some photographs of Jan Biekens' Ferrari 156 recreation. That car was partly inspired by the replica of a 1961 Ferrari 156 built by Chris Rea for his film 'La Passione' which is about his boyhood idol, Wolfgang von Trips, who died in one of these cars as a result of an accident in the 1961 Italian Grand Prix at Monza. Chris Rea's replica was at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1995 and below are some photographs of the car I took at that meeting.

The car was apparently entered in a Coys auction in 2000 but whether it was sold, and who the current owner is, I don't know.

I saw the original cars race at Aintree in both 1961 and 1962 and the photograph below is of Giancarlo Baghetti's car at the 1962 Aintree 200 race (serial number 0001).

Ferraris and Other Things

I've started this blog to fire off a few photos which I've taken over the years into the ether in the hope that other people will come across them and maybe find them interesting. A lot of them will be photos of cars taken at Aintree, Oulton Park, Donington Park and Silverstone, and there will also be photos taken round about where I live in Hyde, Cheshire, although there won't be many of these as Hyde is already covered by two excellent blogs: Hyde Cheshire Blog and Hyde Daily Photo.

The first photo I'm showing is of the two Ferrari type 156 which appeared at the 1962 Aintree 200 race driven, so Wikipedia reminds me, by Phil Hill (serial number 0007) and Giancarlo Baghetti (serial number 0001). The car was known as the 'sharknose' due to the shape of the nose formed by the unusual air intake 'nostrils'. Wikipedia also tells me that the cars finished third and fourth in a race won by Jim Clark in a Lotus.