Three-quarters rear view of a Red, 1956, Maserati 250F, driven, in period by Sir Stirling Moss, at the 2020 London Classic Car Show
Previously owned by Sir Stirling Moss in 1954, he guided it to his first Formula 1 victory when he won the non-Championship International Gold Cup. As Sir Moss recalled, he chose to buy the 250F as it was the most beautiful handling F1 car on the market for its powerful dual plugs litre straight 6 engine. Not long after his victory in 1954, he continued his Maserati success story by stealing 1st position at the Goodwood Glover Trophy Race. It famously became a factory team car with 8 race starts in 1956 and 1957 using chassis numbers 2516, 2522 and 2523 3. In 1965, it took a different path as it began vintage racing in 1965 with Richard Bergel and Lord Clydesdale and later Hon. Patrick Lindsay, Early of Strathmore and Bobby Bell. The Maserati 250F was a racing car made by Maserati of Italy used in ' litre' Formula One racing between January 1954 and November 1960. Twenty-six examples were made. In 1956 Stirling Moss won the Monaco and Italian Grands Prix, both in a works car. The 250F first raced in the 1954 Argentine Grand Prix where Juan Manuel Fangio won the first of his two victories before he left for the new Mercedes-Benz team. Fangio won the 1954 Drivers' World Championship, with points gained with both Maserati and Mercedes-Benz; Stirling Moss raced his own privately owned 250F for the full 1954 season. Prince Bira was another notable privateer favouring the 250F.
Size: 5616px × 3497px
Location: Olympia Exhibition Centre, West Kensington, London, W1
Photo credit: © John Gaffen / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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