Third round of this season’s Shell Ferrari Historic Challenge, a series that always features an element of period dress, giving thepaddock and track a really special atmosphere. An added zest comes from the factthat this is the “LM Story 2007” event taking place on France’s Le Mans circuit which is redolent with history.
In the European series for the Prancing Horse historic cars, as well as thoserunning under the Maserati banner, in Race-1, it was the 1937 Maserati 6CM of Willi Balz which recorded the win in Grid A (single-seaters). In the separate grid B classification (sports-prototypes and GT cars fitted with drum brakes) victory wentto Max Werner’s 1955 Maserati 300 S.
Tomorrow is the main day of the programme, with the final races getting underway at 9.30, with the Grid C (cars with disc brakes) also on track.
The Historic Challenge season will come to a close as part of the traditional FerrariWorld Finals which this year take place at the Mugello Circuit from 24 to 28October, alongside races counting towards other series run by the Corse Clienti Department of Maranello. It also features the usual demonstration from theScuderia Ferrari Formula 1 team.
| 
|