1955 Maserati 250F

This car was driven by Peter Hannen in the HGPCA Pre’65 Grand Prix Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992.

It's indistinguishable from a 1950s Maserati 250F, but it's one of 12 replicas built by Cameron Millar and this one has the chassis number CM8. Cameron Millar acquired a genuine Maserati 250F in 1964 (originally 2501, later renumbered 2523) which he kept and raced for 8 years. In this time he purchased all the remaining cars and spare parts belonging to the Scuderia Centro Sud who had competed with the 250F in the 1950s, and also the chassis jigs from the Maserati factory. He then set about creating this series of replicas, using as far as possible genuine period parts, which are so well crafted that the FIA has allowed them to race alongside the genuine Maserati 250F and its contemporaries in competitive historic racing events. At the time of this Silverstone event CM8 was owned by Robin Lodge.

 

The number 12 car in the background is another of Cameron Millar’s Maserati 250F replicas, CM1, which was owned by Peter Waterman and was driven by Willie Green in this race.

Maserati 250F

On 19 Feb 2014 I showed some photographs of the Maserati 250F of David Wenman that took part in the Flockhart Trophy Race at the VSCC's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in June 2008. Here's a photograph of another 250F that took part in the race.

It's Charles McCabe's 1955 Maserati 250F, here seen in the pit lane during a practice session. It's chassis number CM1, one of (I believe) 12 Maserati 250F's built by Cameron Millar. He had acquired all the Centro Sud spare parts in 1967 and built up the cars, the later ones having a decreasing percentage of original parts.