1954 Maserati 250F

I took this photograph at Luffield corner during the Corporate Jets Historic Grand Prix Car Race at the Christie's International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992.

It's Robin Lodge in the ex-Gilby Engineering Company's 1954 Maserati 250F, with the replacement chassis #2507/2 given to the car after an accident at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in 1954, and it has the 6-cylinder inline 2,491cc Maserati engine.

1954 Maserati 250F

The races at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophy meeting at Oulton Park in June 1982 were run on the short circuit omitting the loop from Cascades to Knickerbrook, and I took this photograph on the exit from Foster's corner, just before Knickerbrook.

It's the Hon. Amschel Rothschild in his 1954 Maserati 250F, the ex-Gilby Engineering Company car with the replacement chassis 2507/2 given to the car after an accident at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in 1954. It was campaigned by Roy Salvadori for the Gilby Company during 1954, 1956 and 1957. The Maserati 250F was produced by Maserati from 1954 to 1957 with a 6-cylinder inline 2,490cc engine and raced throughout the 2½ litre Formula 1 years from the first race in 1954 to the last race in 1960.

Maserati 250F

I took these photographs at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1997.

This is the ex-Gilby Engineering 2½ litre 1954 Maserati 250F, chassis 2507/2 which does not have a racing number and may or may not have taken part in the meeting. In the programme of the event seven Maserati 250F's are listed in the HGPCA Pre-1960 Grand Prix Race and the programme shows the colour of each of the cars, but one is shown as being blue and the other six are red. The 1936 Maserati 4CM behind the 250F belonged to Robin Lodge who did have a Maserati 250F but it is not listed in the programme for this race.

On 11 May 2019 I showed a photograph of Roy Salvadori in this car at Silverstone in 1993.

Maserati 250F

The Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1993 featured a celebration of British Racing Green, with a display of a large number of British racing cars and the appearance of several of the drivers who had raced those cars in period. This is one of those who took part in track demonstrations during the meeting.

This is Roy Salvadori preparing to join one of the track demonstrations in the ex-Gilby Engineering Company's 1954 Maserati 250F, chassis #2507/2 that he drove in the 1955 and 1956 seasons. The car had been damaged in a crash at Oulton Park in August 1954 and given a new chassis at the Maserati facory, retaining the original chassis number 2507.

On 14 August 2016 I showed two photographs that I had taken of this car at Donington Park in 2005.

Maserati 250F

This is one of about a dozen Maserati 250Fs that were present at the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2005.

It's the ex-Gilby Engineering Company's Maserati 250F, with the replacement chassis 2507/2 given to the car after an accident at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in 1954. The programme of the Donington Park SeeRed meeting had brief notes about all the 250Fs that Maserati built, and all the replicas subsequently produced by Cameron Millar. The note about 2507/2 said this:
2507
Second car with 2507 number when delivered back to Gilby Engineering. Driven by Salvadori, Jim Russell and Ivor Bueb. Eventually ended up with Portuguese collector in the 1960s until its return to UK and historic racing with the late Amschel Rothschild. Now in Germany with Klaus Edel.