Friday's Ferrari

I took this photograph at the RAC Tourist Trophy Race at Oulton Park in May 1965.

It's David Piper in his 1964 Ferrari 250 LM, which should strictly be called a 275 LM because it has the larger 3.3 litre engine instead of the 3 litre engine of the 250LM. The car is chassis number 5897 and it finished in third place in the race which was won by Denny Hulme in a Brabham BT8.

Friday's Ferrari

This car took part in the Shell Ferrari Historical Challenge race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1997.

It's the 1964 Ferrari 250LM, chassis 8165, of David Piper and was driven in the race by Chris Rea. The '250LM' should indicate a 3 litre engine, but since all but the first example of the model (which did have the 2,953cc V12 Colombo engine) had the 3,286cc version of that engine it should really be referred to as a 275 LM. The intention was for the 250LM to be homologated for the FIA's Group3 GT class so when the larger engine was fitted Enzo Ferrari insisted that the '250LM' should be retained to help with the homologation process.

Friday's Ferrari

This was one of the cars in the special Ferrari display at the Christie's International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992.

Numbered 31 in the list of display cars in the programme of the event it's a 1965 Ferrari 250 LM, which should indicate a 3 litre engine, but since all but the first example of the model (which did have the 2,953cc V12 Colombo engine) had the 3,286cc version of that engine it should really be referred to as a 275 LM. At the time of this race meeting the car was thought to be chassis #6023, the car that won the 1964 Angola Grand Prix, but it has since been found that it is #6313, the car that finished in second place in the 1965 Le Mans 24 Hour Race. Both cars were owned by Ecurie Francorchamps during that period, and it's thought that at some stage the chassis tags were swapped over to match a relevant travel carnet when crossing borders. Photographic evidence was used to rectify this just a few years ago.

Friday's Ferrari

This is one of the cars displayed at the 'Ferrari Feature' at the Christie's International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992.

It's a Ferrari 330 P2, and this is what the programme of the event said about it:

22    330 P2

Mid-engined V12; 4 litres; 410bhp at 8200rpm; twin ohc

per bank; all round independent suspension by double

wishbones/coil springs. intended for use by the works

team, their first appearance in racing was at Daytona

Continental, February 1965. In line with what had

happened in 1964 a 3.3 litre 275P2 version was also

available. Both models were used to gain the prototype

championships for Ferrari that year.

These Ferraris of David Piper are frequently difficult to identify, but this one seems to be chassis #0824.

The car behind is another of David Piper's cars, a Ferrari 250 LM, which is presumably #8165. 
NB: The Ferrari factory called it the '250 LM', though it should strictly speaking be a '275 LM', having a V12 engine of 3.3 litres. It got the 250 LM label because the first to be produced had a 3 litre engine.

Friday's Ferrari

Today's car competed in the Shell Historic Ferrari/Maserati Challenge races at the VSCC's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Donington Park in June 2003.

It's the 1964 Ferrari 250LM which www.barchetta.cc says was at that time jointly owned by Andre Lara Resende and Frederico della Noce, and was driven on that day by Frederico della Noce. The programme of the event, however, says that it was due to be driven by Andre Lara Resende. The car is serial number 5899.

Friday's Ferrari

The VSCC Seaman Trophies meeting at Donington Park in June 2003 included three races on both of the two days of the meeting for different categories of the Shell Historic Ferrari/Maserati Challenge. Here is a photograph taken in the pit lane during practice showing two of the cars which took part in these races.

Number 66 is the 1961 Ferrari 250GT SWB Berlinetta of Gregor Fisken, serial number 2443GT. Car number 90 behind it is the 1964 Ferrari 250LM which the programme of the event says was driven at this meeting by Andre Lara Resende. The car is serial number 5899 and www.barchetta.cc says that the car was at that time jointly owned by Andre Lara Resende and Frederico della Noce, but driven on that day by Frederico della Noce. In the distance you can see the nose of Carlo Vögele's 1963 Ferrari 330LM.

Friday's Ferrari

This is a car I photographed at the London Motor Show at Earls Court in October 1963.

It's a Ferrari 250 LM, serial number 5149, and the official Ferrari website says that the car was introduced at the Paris Motor Show in October 1963, which must have been in the early part of that month as the London show ran from 16th to 26th of October. The Wikipedia website says this about the 250 LM:

250 LM

The mid-engined 250 Le Mans looked every bit the prototype racer but was intended to be produced as a road-going GT. Descended from the 250 P, the Le Mans also appeared in 1963 and sported Pininfarina bodywork. Ferrari was unable to persuade the FIA that he would build the 100 examples required to homologate the car for GT racing. Eventually, 32 LMs were built up to 1965. As a result, Ferrari withdrew from factory participation in the GT class of the 1965 World Sportscar Championship, allowing the Shelby Cobra team to dominate the class. Only the very early LM's were true 250 models, with all the rest made as 3300cc models and as such should have been named 275 LM (the early cars were also converted to the 3300cc engine)

Friday's Ferrari

At the Silverstone Historic meetings I went to in the 1990s and early 2000s David Piper was usually present with a few of his stable of Ferraris. The photographs below show the cars he took along to the Historic Festival meeting of 2001.

1967 Ferrari 330P4, serial number 0822

1964 Ferrari 330P2, serial number 0836

1964 Ferrari 365P, serial number 0824

1967 Ferrari Dino 246S

1964 Ferrari 275LM, serial number 8165

The photograph below, which I took at the 1965 Tourist Trophy race at Oulton Park, is presumably of the same car, although at that time it was labelled a 250LM. The Wikipedia entry for Ferrari says:

'Only the very early LM's were true 250 models, with all the rest made as 3300cc models and as such should have been named 275 LM (the early cars were also converted to the 3300cc engine).'

Correction: The car in the 1965 Tourist Trophy race in 1965 was 5897, now owned by Englebert Stieger.