Friday's Ferrari

The Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1997 featured the Ferrari marque and there was a display of cars in the paddock, some of which took part in track displays on the circuit.

This is one of the cars during a track display, a 1947 Ferrari 166 Corsa Spyder, and it’s being driven on a very wet day by Phil Hill who was a Ferrari team driver in the late 1950s and early 1960s driving both Grand Prix and sports cars. A board alongside the Ferrari in the paddock display read as follows:

1947

FERRARI 166

SPYDER CORSA 002C

WON THE FIRST GRAND PRIX

FOR FERRARI AT

VALENTINO PARK TURIN

Ferrari 002C started off in 1947 as a Ferrari 159C with a 1.9 litre engine, but that winter it was given a 2 litre engine and upgraded to a Tipo 166.

Friday's Ferrari

I took this photograph in the area set aside for members of the Ferrari Owners Club at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1995.

Originally a 1947 Ferrari 125 Spyder #01C it competed in various races, including the 1947 Mille Miglia in the hands of Franco Cortese and was also driven at Livorno by Tazio Nuvolari. Following an accident in practice at Modena when being driven by Fernandino Righetti it was rebuilt as a 166 Spyder Corsa and renumbered as #010I. On 6 July 2012 I showed an almost identical photograph of this car that I'd taken earlier at the meeting, at which time I'd not been able to confirm if it was an original car or a replica.

Friday's Ferrari

This is one of the cars at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1997 where the featured marque was Ferrari.

It's a 1947 Ferrari 166 Corsa Spyder, serial number 002C and, as this article by Supercars.net says, was converted in December 1947 from the Tipo 159 which won the 1947 Gran Premio di Torino.

Friday's Ferrari

A 1947 Ferrari 166 Corsa Spyder seen at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in 1995. Not sure if it's genuine or a replica though.