1959 FERRARI 250 gt    

 
 

      Specifications    

Car type    Street Body design    
Year    1959 Engine design    
Make     Engine type    
Model    250 GT Interim Built by    
Colour ext/int     Total built    7 (1 Pininfarina proto, 6 
 Scaglietti)
Serial number    1523GT Built in period    xx/xxx/1959

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  xx/xxx/xxxx
Launch date  
and place   		 xx/xxx/xxxx at .......... Price    
Building date    xx/Sep/1959 Version    Europe
 Engine  Dimensions
Nr. of cylinders    12 Length    mm
Arrangement    V in 60 degrees Width    mm
Bore    mm Height    mm
Stroke    mm Wheelbase    2600 mm
Unitary and  
total capacity   		 cc
 2953 cc		 Track front  
Track rear   		 mm
 mm
Position    front longitudinally mounted Wheels make  
and type   		 
Cilinder block   and head     Wheel size front  
Wheel size rear   		 
 
Compression   ratio    ... : 1 Tyres make  
and type   		 
Max power   output    240 bhp at 7000 rpm Tyre size front  
Tyre size rear   		 
 
Spec. power  
per liter   		 bhp/liter Empty weight  
Kerb weight   		 kg
 1100 kg
Spec. weight  
per bhp   		 kg/bhp Maximum  
weight   		 kg
Max torque    Nm at ... rpm Engine weight    kg
Max revs  
(red  line)   		 ... rpm Fuel tank    liters
Timing gear    2 valves per cilinder
 SOHC		 Fuel tank   placement    
Fuel feed    3 Weber 36 DCZ/3 carburettors Weight distr.  
front / rear   		 ... % / ... %
Lubrication        
Ignition        
 Electrical   system        
Cooling system        
Sparkplugs        
Transmission Body and chassis
Wheeldrive    rear Body frame    
Clutch     Chassis type    
Gearbox    4 speeds + manual Number of seats    
Differential     Suspension front    
1st gear ratio    ... : 1 Suspension rear    
2nd gear ratio    ... : 1 Brakes front    
3rd gear ratio    ... : 1 Brake size front    mm
4th gear ratio    ... : 1 Brakes rear    
5th gear ratio    ... : 1 Brake size rear    mm
6th gear ratio    ... : 1 Steering    
7th gear ratio    ... : 1 Hand drive    l/r
Reverse gear   ratio    ... : 1    
Final drive  
ratio   		 ... : 1    
     Performance    
0-60 mph    ... seconds 0-100 kph    ... seconds
0-100 mph    ... seconds 0-200 kph    ... seconds
1/4 mile    ... seconds 0-1000m    ... seconds
1 mile    ... seconds Fuel   consumption   overall    ... liters/100km
top speed    kph    
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Type of   championship     Driver(s)    
Event     Car number    
Date(s) event    xx/xxx/xxxx

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Circuit     Sponsors    
Race result     Other suppliers    
     Comments    

After campaigning the long wheelbase (LWB) 250 GTs very successfully for over 5 years, Ferrari and Pinin Farina started work on a completely new car to be launched at the 1959 Paris Motorshow. Both the chassis and especially the body would be unlike any of the preceding 250 GTs. For the chassis the 'ideal' wheelbase of 2400 mm was chosen. This wheelbase was used by many very successful racers, like the Bugatti Type 35. The body, penned by Pinin Farina, was much rounder than that of its predecessors.

For testing purposes Pinin Farina constructed a new body for the 1959 LWB cars that very closely resembled the upcoming short wheelbase (SWB) 250 GT body. During the year Scaglietti constructed six more LWB cars using the SWB style body, thus creating an 'interim' version between the 250 GT LWB TdF bodied cars and the 250 GT SWB. The clearest visible difference between the Interim and the SWB is the addition of fixed rear quarter windows on the Interim, to fill up the extra space between the wheels.

Two of the Interims were entered in the LeMans 24 Hours, including the Pinin Farina prototype. Unlike the other six cars the Pinin Farina constructed Interim had a bonnet buldge, the others featured a blister for ram-air induction. The two LeMans cars were equipped with uprated 128DF engines. Powerful as they were, these engines suffered from small problems, making it impossible to get a class victory. This however went to an Ecurie Franchorchamps entered TdF bodied 250 GT.

In September four of the five other cars and the second LeMans car were entered in the Tour de France. An event that had been dominated by LWB 250 GTs in the late 1950s. It was only appropriate that the very last of around 100 of these GTs constructed took the victory in 1959. Most of these 100 built are usually referred by as Tour de France or TdF, to commemorate their absolute stronghold on the event. The 1959 winner was an interim-bodied 250 GT, driven by Gendebien and Bianchi.
 
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