Friday's Ferrari

In April last year I posted photographs of some of David Piper's Ferraris at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in 2001. David Piper and his cars have been regular competitors in historic motor racing and below are photographs of some more of his cars, plus one from Nick Mason's Ten Tenths company at the 1999 Coys meeting.

Car number 7 is Nick Mason's 1970 Ferrari 512S (1026), number 81 is David Piper's 1964 Ferrari 275LM (8165) and number 8 is David Piper's 1969 Lola T70 MkIIIB

Nick Mason's 1970 Ferrari 512S

David Piper leaving the pits during practice in his 1964 Ferrari 275LM

Friday's Ferrari

This car, pictured in the pit garage at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in August 1996, is a 1970 Ferrari 512S entered by Ten Tenths Ltd and driven in the Visage Pre '72 Le Mans Car Race by Simon de Latour. This 5 litre V12 engined sports car was developed to challenge the Porsche 917 in the International Championship for Makes. Ferrari won only one race in the 10 round Championship (at Sebring), but picked up two second and four third places to finish the season in second place to Porsche.

It looks as if this is the car that was rebuilt from the remains of serial number 1026.