Friday's Ferrari

Two cars leaving the pit lane here during a practice session for the Shell Ferrari Historical Challenge race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1998.

Leading is Christian Traber in his 1955 Ferrari 750 Monza, chassis #0554M, which has a 2,999cc 4-cylinder inline engine designed by Aurelio Lampredi. The car was originally owned by Masten Gregory. The car behind is the 1959 Ferrari 250GT LWB Berlinetta TdF of Plinio Haas, chassis #1401GT, which has the 2,952cc Gioacchino Columbo designed V12 engine common to most of the 250 series cars.

Friday's Ferrari

This car competed in the Shell Ferrari Historical Challenge race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1998.

It's the 1959 Ferrari 250GT LWB Berlinetta TdF of Plinio Haas, which has the 2,952cc Gioacchino Columbo designed V12 engine common to most of the 250 series cars. Four series of the TdF, a total of 77 cars, were produced between 1956 and 1959 which were defined by the number of louvres in the sail panel between the side and the rear windows. The first series had no louvres, the second 14 louvres, next 3 louvres and finally a single louvre. Plinio Haas's car is chassis #1401GT, one of the last series with only one louvre.

Friday's Ferrari

This car took part in a round of the Shell Ferrari Maserati Historic Challenge series of races at the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2004.

It's the 1959 Ferrari 250GT LWB Berlinetta TdF of Plinio Haas, which has the 2,952cc Gioacchino Columbo designed V12 engine common to most of the 250 series cars. Four series of the TdF, a total of 77 cars, were produced between 1956 and 1959 which were defined by the number of louvres in the sail panel between the side and the rear windows. The first series had no louvres, the second 14 louvres, next 3 louvres and finally a single louvre. Plinio Haas's car is chassis #1401GT, one of the last series with only one louvre.

I've shown photographs of this car at this meeting twice previously, on 17 July 2015 and 21 October 2017.

Friday's Ferrari

Three Ferraris here today, at the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2004.

Competing in a round of the Shell Ferrari Maserati Historic Challenge series are three Ferrari GT cars. All three have 3 litre 12-cylinder engines, and leading is the 1959 Ferrari 250GT LWB Berlinetta TdF of Plinio Haas, chassis number 1401GT. Behind that is the 1954 Ferrari 250 Europa GT Coupe of Erich Traber - being driven, according to the programme of the event, by Christian Traber - and is chassis number 0357GT. Bringing up the rear is the 1958 Ferrari 250 GT LWB Berlinetta TdF of Thomas Studer, which is chassis number 0909GT.

Friday's Ferrari

This car took part in one of the Historic Ferrari-Maserati Challenge races at the VSCC's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Donington Park in June 2003.

It's a 1959 Ferrari 250 GT LWB Berlinetta TdF belonging to Plinio Haas. The car is serial number 1401GT and on 17 July 2015 I showed a photograph of it taking part in the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in 2004.

Friday's Ferrari

Today's car competed in the Shell Ferrari Maserati Historic Challenge race at the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2004.

It's the Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta TdF of Swiss driver Plinio Haas, seen here in the pit lane during a practice session. There were 4 different versions of the Tour de France car, each identified by the number of louvres in the sail panel on each side of the car between the side and rear windows. There were cars with no louvre, a single louvre. three louvres and fourteen louvres. This particular car is one of the single louvre models, of which 36 examples were built, and has the serial number 1401GT.