Friday's Ferrari

This is a car I photographed at the Donington Park Museum in March 1996.

It's the car that started the Donington Grand Prix Collection, a 1949 Ferrari 125, chassis #114. Originally a works race car it was bought by Peter Whitehead in 1951, the first time that Enzo Ferrari had sold a Grand Prix car to a private owner. It was designed by Valerio Colotti with Gioacchino Colombo's 1,497cc supercharged V12 engine. Donington Park owner Tom Wheatcroft bought the car in 1964 and completely restored it after it had spent time in Australia and at one point had a Chevrolet V8 engine.

I've previously shown photographs of the car on 7 February 2014 and 23 December 2016.

Friday's Ferrari

Here's a photograph I took of a Ferrari at the Donington Park museum in March 1996, though the flash on the camera doesn't seem to have been terribly effective.

It's a 1949 Ferrari 125, the car formerly owned and driven by Peter Whitehead and was the car that started Tom Wheatcroft's Donington Grand Prix Collection. I showed better photographs of the car on 7 February 2014 that I'd taken on other visits to the museum. The car behind the Ferrari is a Cooper F3 car that had been campaigned by Lewis (known as 'Pop') Lewis-Evans in the 1950s. 'Pop' Lewis-Evans was the father of Stuart Lewis-Evans who drove for the Vanwall team in 1957 and 1958 and who died following an accident in the Moroccan Grand Prix, the last race of the season, in 1958.

Friday's Ferrari

This photograph taken at the Donington Grand Prix Collection (now known as the Donington Grand Prix Exhibition) in May 1989 is of a 1949 Ferrari 125. The car (serial number 114), once owned by Peter Whitehead, was bought by Tom Wheatcroft in 1964 and was the first of what was to become an extensive collection of Grand Prix machinery, eventually being opened to the public in 1973.

This is another photograph of the car, taken in October 1989