Friday's Ferrari

This car competed in the Louis Vuitton '50s Sports Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1995.

It's Fritz Grashie's 1956 Ferrari 860 Monza, chassis #0602M, part of the Ferrari team alongside the 290MM in the 1956 World Sportscar Championship. The 860 Monza was a very similar car to the 857S with a longer wheelbase, but the same 3,432cc 4-cylinder inline engine.

I've shown photographs of this car previously, most recently on 14 October 2016.

Friday's Ferrari

This car took part in the Louis Vuitton '50s Sports Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1995.

It's one of two 1956 Ferrari 860 Monzas that competed in this race, and this is Fritz Grashie's car, chassis number 0602M. I remember seeing photographs of this car, driven by Luigi Musso, and the sister car of Peter Collins (chassis number 0628 - since converted to a 290MM) in the 1956 Mille Miglia. Musso finished in third place and Collins was second to the 290MM of Eugenio Castellotti.

Friday's Ferrari

This is a group of cars I photographed in the paddock at Silverstone in July 1995 at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting preparing to join the circuit for the morning practice session.

They're going to take part in the practice for the Louis Vuitton '50s Sports Car Race and are being led out by the 1956 Ferrari 860 Monza (serial number 0602M) of Fritz Grashie. This is the car that finished in third place in the 1956 Mille Miglia driven by Luigi Musso, and finished second in the Nürburgring 1000km race the same year driven by Juan Manuel Fangio and Eugenio Castelotti.

You can see the race numbers of two other cars, number 40 being the 1959 Lotus 15 of Robert Brooks and 37 the 1956 Aston Martin DB3S of Dudley and Sally Mason-Styrron.

Friday's Ferrari

The 1956 Ferrari 860 Monza had a Lampredi designed 3.4 litre four cylinder engine and, in conjunction with the 290MM, was victorious in the 1956 World Sportscar Championship, winning three of the five races on the calendar, the 12 hours of Sebring, the Mille Miglia, and the Swedish Grand Prix. Three of the cars were built, one of which is now owned by Chris Evans. Two of the cars were at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1995, although the programme shows the engine displacement for both of them as 3000cc.

This car, serial number 0604M, in 1995 was owned (and driven) by the Frenchman Jean Sage

The programme shows this one, serial number 0602M, to have been owned and driven by the German Fritz Grashie