Friday's Ferrari

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. This car (although a 1957 car) represented the year 1958.

It's a 1957 Ferrari 500TRC, a revised version of the previous year's 500TR to comply with Annex C of the new regulations introduced for 1957. The 1,985cc 4-cylinder inline engine was designed by Aurelio Lampredi and the body was fashioned by Carrozzeria Scaglietti, and the 500TRC was never used by the Ferrari works team, being solely raced by private entrants. This particular car is #0686MDTR and was originally owned by Austrian Gotfrid Köchert who in 1957 competed with it in the Mille Miglia, the Nürburgring 1000km race and the Le Mans 24 Hour race. After spending a couple of years in Cuba it went to the USA until it came to the UK in the late 1980s and was acquired in 1996 by Mody Enav who was the owner when it appeared at this Silverstone meeting.

Friday's Ferrari

This car was part of the Ferrari Feature at the Christie's International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992.

It's a 1957 Ferrari 500 TRC Spyder with Scaglietti bodywork, and the programme of the event had this note about the car:

13     500 TRC

In-line 4-cylinder engine; 2 litres; 180bhp at 7000rpm;

ifs/double wishbones/coil springs; rigid axle rear/coil

springs. A development of the previous year's 500 Testa

Rossa, the TRC version was built to meet the 1957

Appendix C regulations and intended for customer use

only. This car owned by Austrian G Kochert was at the

1957 Le Mans, Kochert/Bauer, DNF and at the 1000

Kms that year where it won the Sport 200 Class for

Kochert.

One of 19 cars built, this Ferrari 500 TRC has the serial number 0686MDTR.