1956 Maserati 250F

The SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2005 featured the Maserati marque, and in particular the Maserati 250F. One of the races was a Celebration Maserati Invitation Race, and I took this photograph at McLean's Corner during that race.

It's one of 10 Maserati 250F replicas built by Cameron Millar and this one has the chassis number CM2. Cameron Millar acquired a genuine Maserati 250F in 1964 (originally 2501, later renumbered 2523) which he kept and raced for 8 years. In this time he purchased all the remaining cars and spare parts belonging to the Scuderia Centro Sud who had competed with the 250F in the 1950s, and also the chassis jigs from the Maserati factory. He then set about creating this series of replicas, using as far as possible genuine period parts, which are so well crafted that the FIA has allowed them to race alongside the genuine Maserati 250F and its contemporaries in competitive historic racing events. At the time of this Donington Park event CM2 was owned by Ian Duncan and was driven in the Maserati Invitation race by Rick Hall.

Celebration Maserati Invitation Race

The SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2005 featured the Maserati marque, and in particular the Maserati 250F. One of the races was a Celebration Maserati Invitation Race, and I took this photograph at McLean's Corner during that race.

Leading is the Tec-Mec F415 of Barrie Baxter, a car that Valerio Colotti was working on as a development of the Maserati 250F when Maserati pulled out of racing at the end of the 1957 season. Colotti set up the Studio Tecnica Meccanica to build the car for the 1959 season, but only one car was built, and it only started in one race, the 1959 US Grand Prix, where it only lasted for six laps. There were 12 Maserati 250Fs listed in the programme of the event for this race and two of them are behind the Tec-Mec here but I can't identify which ones they are - although the one to the right of the Tec-Mec may be the Cameron Miller replica CM7 of Allan Miles. The car with the blue band round the nose behind that trio is the V12-engined Maserati 250F (2531) of Thomas Bscher and the car bringing up the rear is the Cameron Miller 250F replica (CM2) of Ian Duncan, being driven by Rick Hall.