Friday's Ferrari

Here are a a couple of photographs I took at the Richard Seaman Memorial Trophy meeting at Oulton Park in 1971.

I've featured this car before (on 11 May 2012) at the Richard Seaman Memorial Trophy meeting in 1970. It's designated as a 1957 Ferrari 625 GP Monoposto, serial number 0712, which was built for New Zealander Pat Hoare and you can read something about the car and see more photographs of it here.

Not a very good photograph, but it shows the car on the Hill Top straight leading to Knickerbrook corner. I don't have the programme of the event, but the owner of the car at that time was Nigel Moores (of the Littlewoods Pools family), so he's probably driving it here.

Friday's Ferrari

Today's Ferrari is one spotted at the Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in 1970. I can't find the programme now, but as I recall it didn't identify what type of Ferrari this was supposed to be. It looks very much like the final version of the Lancia-Ferrari raced in 1957, particularly from the side and rear, except for the exhaust pipes. The 1957 car had a V8 engine with 4 exhausts coming along each side of the car whereas the one in these photographs has exhausts suggesting a 4-cylinder engine. The 1957 cars were apparently dismantled by the factory when they were no longer needed and the surviving engines and transaxles have been used in recent years to reconstruct four, I think, of the original 1955 Lancia D50 and 1956 Lancia-Ferrari cars.

Note (Nov 2014); I've now found that this is a 'special' constructed on chassis 0712 by Ferrari for New Zealander Pat Hoare and you can read about it here.