The ex-Juan Manuel Fangio World Championship winning 1956 Lancia Ferrari D50 in the Museo Casa Enzo Ferrari in Modena, Italy.
The Lancia D50 was a Formula One racing car designed by Vittorio Jano for Lancia in 1954. The car's design made use of many innovative features, such as the use of the engine as a stressed chassis member, the off-centre positioning of the engine to allow a lower overall height, and pannier fuel cells for better weight distribution and aerodynamics. Six of the cars were built, two of them are displayed in Italian museums. Ferrari took over the assets of Lancia's racing team. Ferrari continued to develop the car, although they removed many of Jano's most innovative designs,and the car was rebadged as the Lancia-Ferrari D50 and later simply the Ferrari D50. Juan Manuel Fangio won the 1956 World Championship of Drivers with this car modified by Ferrari. During their competition lifespan D50s were entered into 14 World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, winning five. Museo Casa Enzo Ferrari (also known as Museo Enzo Ferrari) is a museum in Modena focused on the life and work of Enzo Ferrari, the founder of the Ferrari sports car marque. The museum complex includes two separate buildings, a former warehouse belonged to Enzo Ferrari's father and a new building designed by the architectural practice Future Systems The new 6,000 square metres building houses, in a large gallery, a permanent exhibition displaying some of the most noteworthy Ferrari’s automobiles, including rare cars of the 1950s, Formula One race cars and more recent sports cars.
Size: 3056px × 4049px
Location: Museo Enzo Ferrari, Via Paolo Ferrari 85 – 41121 Modena, Italy
Photo credit: © Derek Gale / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: 1, 1956, car, casa, championship, colors, colours, d50, designed, enzo, f1, fangio, ferrari, future, grands, italian, jano, juan, lancia, manuel, modena, modified, museo, museum, national, number, prix, race, racing, red, sports, systems, vittorio, winning, workplace, world
