Friday's Ferrari

I took this photograph at the Christie's International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992 where there was a special display of Ferraris in the paddock numbered 1 to 32, and a page in the programme of the event gave details of each of the cars.

This is a 1965 Ferrari 330 P2, and the note in the programme about this car reads as follows:

'23      330 P2

Mid-engined V12; 4 litres; 410bhp at 8200rpm; twin ohc

per bank; all round independent suspension by double

wishbones/coil springs. Intended for use by the works

team, their first appearance in racing was at Daytona

Continental, February 1965. In line with what had

happened in 1964 a 3.3 litre 275P2 version was also

available. Both models were used to gain the prototype

championships for Ferrari that year.'

The car then belonged to David Piper (and still does) and is chassis #0836.

Friday's Ferrari

I took this photograph in the paddock at the at the Silverstone Historic Tribute meeting in June 2004.

It's David Piper's 1965 Ferrari 365 P2, #0836, originally built as a 330 P2 with a 3,967cc V12 engine, but converted to 365 P2 specifications with a 4,390cc V12 engine before it was acquired by David Piper in late 1965. This Silverstone meeting included a race for the 'European Sports Prototype Trophy Organised by Group4Racing' for which this car would have been eligible, but it is not listed in the programme of the event nor the table of results.

Friday's Ferrari

This is one of David Piper's cars at the Silverstone Historic Festival meeting in August 2001.

It's a 1964 Ferrari 330P2, serial number 0836 and another four of David Piper's Ferraris are behind the 330P2. This Wikipedia article tells you about the Ferrari P series of sports prototype racing cars.

Friday's Ferrari

At the Silverstone Historic meetings I went to in the 1990s and early 2000s David Piper was usually present with a few of his stable of Ferraris. The photographs below show the cars he took along to the Historic Festival meeting of 2001.

1967 Ferrari 330P4, serial number 0822

1964 Ferrari 330P2, serial number 0836

1964 Ferrari 365P, serial number 0824

1967 Ferrari Dino 246S

1964 Ferrari 275LM, serial number 8165

The photograph below, which I took at the 1965 Tourist Trophy race at Oulton Park, is presumably of the same car, although at that time it was labelled a 250LM. The Wikipedia entry for Ferrari says:

'Only the very early LM's were true 250 models, with all the rest made as 3300cc models and as such should have been named 275 LM (the early cars were also converted to the 3300cc engine).'

Correction: The car in the 1965 Tourist Trophy race in 1965 was 5897, now owned by Englebert Stieger.