Friday's Ferrari

This car competed in the HGPCA Race for Pre-66 Grand Prix Cars at the Silverstone Classic meeting in July 2010.

It's Jan Biekens' re-creation of the 1961 Ferrari 156 'sharknose' that won the World Drivers' Championship for Phil Hill in 1961. It's painted in the yellow racing colours of Belgium to represent the car that Jan Biekens' compatriot Olivier Gendebien drove to fourth place in the 1961 Belgian Grand Prix. The car was driven in the race at Silverstone by Iain Rowley.

Friday's Ferrari

On 22 February 2013 I showed some photographs of a Ferrari at the Silverstone Classic meeting in July 2010, and here are some more photographs of the same car.

It's Jan Biekens' recreation of the 'Sharknose' 1961 Ferrari 156 F1 car.

As Jan Biekens is Belgian the car is finished in the yellow racing colours of Belgium and represents the car driven by fellow Belgian Olivier Gendebien in the 1961 Belgian Grand Prix.

Friday's Ferrari

Another contemporary photograph of the 1962 Ferrari 156 Dino 'sharknose' in the paddock at Aintree in the British Grand Prix of that year during practice.

The man in the suit and tie on the right-hand side leaning over the car is, I think, Mauro Forghieri, at that time the Chief Engineer at Ferrari.

The car, serial number 0007 62, was driven by Phil Hill and was the only Ferrari in the race, qualifying 12th on the grid but retiring after 47 of the 75 laps.

Friday's Ferrari

This is a car seen at the Silverstone Classic meeting in July 2010 - a recreation of the 1961 Ferrari 156 F1 car, usually referred to as the 'sharknose'.

In the 1950s and 1960s it was common for Ferrari to destroy their F1 cars once they had come to the end of their useful lives and this is what happened to the 'sharknose' cars of 1961 and 1962. This car was recreated by the Belgian Jan Biekens and why and how he did so is told in this YouTube video.

The car is painted in the yellow racing colours of Belgium to represent the car driven by Olivier Gendebien in the 1961 Belgian Grand Prix in which he finished fourth - the Ferrari team cars filling the first four places.