Friday's Ferrari

I took this photograph at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1997.

It's Paul Pappalardo's 1967 Ferrari 412 P, also known as a P3/P4, which was a customer version of the Ferrari 330 P3. Both cars have a 3,967cc V12 engine, but the 330 P3 has Lucas fuel injection whilst the 412 P has six Weber carburettors - which gives it slightly less power than the fuel injection cars and made the private entries less likely to beat the works cars. Paul Pappalardo's car is chassis #0850 and was originally built for the Belgian Ecurie Francorchamps team. hence the yellow Belgian racing colour. Only two cars were originally built as 412 Ps, #0850 and #0854. Two cars were built as 330 P3s, #0844 and #0848, but were later converted to 412 P specification.

Friday's Ferrari

The entry list for the British Empire Trophy race at Oulton Park in April 1958 included two Ferrari 250 Testa Rossas from the Belgian racing team Ecurie Francorchamps, to be driven by Alain de Changy and Freddy Rousselle. Here's a photograph of one of them in the paddock before the race.

It's Alain de Changy's car, serial number 0724TR - the barchetta.cc record for that car doesn't show it to have been in that race, but it's shown in the World Sports Racing Prototypes record. This car finished ninth in the race, but Freddy Rousselle didn't manage to qualify his car into the final from its heat.

NB: (20 Nov 2015) It looks as if the WSPR record is incorrect, and this is in fact 0736TR
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