Guinness World Record for Ferrari at Silverstone
Silverstone, 10 June 2007 – The Ferrari Racing Days
event ended today at the circuit which, back on 14 July 1951
saw the first ever win for a Ferrari in the Formula 1 World
Championship with Froilan Gonzalez at the wheel of a 375 F1.
The Silverstone weekend was also a further opportunity to
celebrate the Maranello marque’s sixtieth anniversary,
marked by setting a new Guinness World Record for the largest
gathering of Ferraris, with 385 Prancing Horse cars turning
out at the English circuit. Among them were forty F40s, which
marked the twentieth anniversary of this model by parading
around the track.
The European series of the Ferrari Challenge Pirelli Trophy
and the Shell Ferrari Historic Challenge today staged their
second races of the weekend. In the main class of the one
make series for the F430 cars, Bruno Senna (guest driver for
Ferrari GB Dealer Team) finished first, followed by Giacomo
Piccini (Motor) , Ange Barde (Stradale Automobile) and Michael
Cullen (Rossocorsa.) Among the gentlemen drivers in the Shell
Cup, the winner was Ronnie Kessel (Kessel Racing) who beat
Michael Cantillon (Ferrari GB Dealer Team) and Thomas Wille
(Kessel Racing.)
In the Shell Ferrari Historic Challenge, which since 1999
has also been open to Maserati cars, first place in Grid A
went to Stefan Schollwoeck, while Irvine Laidlaw took the
top slot in Grid B (sports prototypes and GT cars fitted with
drum brakes,) after the win in Race 1 yesterday. In Group
C (cars with disc brakes,) the 1972 Ferrari 312 PB of Irvine
Laidlaw came out on top in both races.
There was more spectacular action on track thanks to a demonstration
of historic single-seaters prepared by the Maranello F1 Clienti
department and by the FXX cars driven by the Ferrari “Owner
Test Drivers.”
The next event for Ferrari Corse Clienti is scheduled to
take place over the weekend of 17 June, with the Italian series
of the Ferrari Challenge Pirelli Trophy, at the Roman Vallelunga
circuit.
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