  
|  |
|
|
SHELL HISTORIC CHALLENGE : Montlhery
The Grand Prix de l'Age d'Or took place at Montlhery, France as the second round of the Shell Historic Ferrari Maserati Challenge, the traditional series for historic Ferraris, which from this year, have been joined by Maserati. 29 cars took part in this weekend's event, of which 11 were pre-World War 2.
The two races for these cars ended up in the same finishing order: first was the Alfa Romeo Tipo B of Germany's Robert Fink, second was the 1939 Maserati 4CL of fellow countryman Wolfgang Wegner Bscher and third was the 1926 Bugatti 35B of Frenchman Jean-Louis Duret. Among the other cars taking part were two MG TA, two Delahaye and two Alvis. In both the races reserved for Ferraris and the cars of the Trident emblem, Maseratis took the top three places. Germany's Klaus Werner won both rounds at the wheel of his Maserati 300 S.
The first race was enlivened by a dice with the identical car of America's William Binnie, who came second. There was a good battle for third between the Englishman Jeremy Agace (Maserati 250 SI) and Switzerland's Plino Haas (Ferrari 250 GT, while Corrado Cupellion fought to the last at the wheel of his Ferrari 500 TR to take fifth ahead of the 250 MM of the Swiss, Christian Traber.
In the second race, Werner immediately took the lead and kept it to the chequered flag. Because of a jumped start, Binnie had to pit for a ten second stop-go penalty, thus handing second place to Agace. The first Ferrari home was Haas, ahead of Cupellini and Sweden's Lindquvist (250 GT.)
The next round for the Shell Historic Ferrari Maserati Challenge will take place on 3rd and 4th July at the Nurburgring.
Click here to return to the Ferrari Happenings page.
|
|