Ferrari 250S

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Giovanni Bracco in a Ferrari 250S at the 1952 Mille Miglia

The Ferrari 250S , also Ferrari 250 Sport , was a racing car that was developed by Scuderia Ferrari in 1952 .

Explanation of terms and type designation

As is so often the case in the Ferrari typology, the 250S appears with different names in various publications about the brand and in the races' results lists. Since the vehicle was a one-off, the names 250S , 250 Sport , 250S Coupé Vignale and 250S Berlinetta Vignale always refer to one and the same model.

The type designation goes back to the previous practice at Ferrari of naming the models according to the displacement of a single cylinder. The total displacement of the V-12 engine developed by Gioacchino Colombo is 2953 cm³.

Many Ferrari sports cars were called 250, from the 250S to the 250P from 1963; Racing cars that had little in common apart from their names.

Development history and technology

The 250S was a one-off. The car was originally a 225S with chassis number 0156ET that was converted. The conversion work mainly related to the engine and was one of the first works by Aurelio Lampredi for Enzo Ferrari . Lampredi had the cylinder bore increased to 73 mm with an unchanged stroke of 58.8 mm. The mixture was prepared by 3 double Weber carburettors of the 36DCF type. The wheel suspensions were double wishbones and transverse leaf springs at the front, and a rigid axle with longitudinal leaf springs at the rear. The car was preserved.

The Berlinetta body was made by Vignale .

Races and successes

The 250S was only raced 11 times before it became a collector's item in 1954. The car was registered for the Giro di Sicilia 1952 , but could not be completed in time. It was therefore first used at the Mille Miglia . The planned driver was Luigi Villoresi , who had to miss the start due to an injury. Giovanni Bracco took his place and won the race. Villoresi and Alberto Ascari drove the car at the 24 Hours of Le Mans . Ascari achieved the fastest race lap with an average speed of 173.149 km / h; after 3 hours, however, the car had to be parked prematurely after a damaged clutch.

After a third place in the sports car race in Senigallia in 1952 by Villoresi, Bracco won the 12-hour race of Pescara together with Paolo Marzotto . At the Carrera Panamericana of the same year , Bracco was in the lead with the 250S before an act of knightly sportiness took place. Through journalist Günther Molter, Bracco had a stunned Mercedes team informed that there was no point in driving fast any longer because his car was suffering from major technical problems and it would soon break down. In fact, a few kilometers after the start of the last stage, the Ferrari's power transmission failed and victory went to Karl Kling and Mercedes.

After a failure at the Giro di Sicilia in 1953 , the 250S was sold to Roberto Bonomi and entered for a race for the last time at the 1000 km race in Monza that year. Giulio Musitelli and Primo Pezzoli were out.

literature

  • Pino Casamassima: Storia della Scuderia Ferrari. Nada Editore, Vimodrome 1998, ISBN 88-7911-179-5 .
  • Peter Braun / Gregor Schulz: The great Ferrari manual. Heel, Königswinter 2006, ISBN 3-89880-501-8 .

Web links

Commons : Ferrari 250S  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information and pictures about the 250S
  2. ↑ Le Mans 1952
  3. ↑ Senigallia sports car race 1952
  4. ^ 12-hour race in Pescara 1952
  5. ^ Monza 1000 km race in 1953