337 Lancia D50A (1955) (Recreation)
Lancia D50A (1955) (Recreation) Engine 2488cc Lancia DS50 V8 Production 6 original 4 recretions
Entrant: Eberhard Thiesen
LANCIA SET
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The Lancia D50 was designed as a Formula One car by Vittorio Jano making use of the innovative ideas of using the engina as a stressed chassis member, the offset positioning of the driver to allow a lower overall height and the use of pannier fuel cells between the wheels to improve weight distribution and aerodynamics.
Debuting towards the end of the 1954 season in the hands of twice World champion Driver, Alberto Ascari the car claimed pole position and fastest lap but was thwarted by a failed clutch. Ascari started the 1955 season with two accidents the second at Monaco, four days later he was watching his freind Eugene Castelotti testing a ferrari 750 Monza at Monza when he asked to try a few laps. The car sommersaulted and Ascari was thrown out and fatally injured.
Following Ascari's death, and in increasing financial trouble, the Lancia family sold their controlling share in the Lancia company, and the assets of Scuderia Lancia were given to Scuderia Ferrari. Ferrari continued to develope the car although ammending and removing many of its features, including the side pontoons, and rebadging the cars as Ferrari D50, in which form Fangio went on to win the 1956 drivers championship.
Of the six original cars four were either broken up or destroyed the remaining two reside in Italian Museums. Throughout the 1960's, 70's & 80's, Guido Rosani made it his life's project to gather all the remaining D50 components, plus a complete set of D50 drawings, much technical data including dyno reports and spidery hand written race reports as well as Ascari’s contract with Lancia. the Fiat Lancia Museum very kindly allowed Guido to dismantle one of the two surviving original D50s to check details and measure dimensions. Ercole Spada, retired chief stylist at Zagato, helped Guido with body drawings and designs as well as the buck. Borrani agreed to supply wheels and hubs to the original pattern. Allemano which had made the instruments for the D24 and the D50 in the 1950s and was still in business agreed to help. In England Jim Stokes painstakingly disassembled the chassis and checked, X-rayed and crack tested every item. He then rebuilt the car to race standards and re-assembled the engines and transaxles. The engine had new pistons, rods and crankshafts, both for reliability and to save the unthinkable risk of damaging an original block or head. Everything was rebuilt to the original specification with very much the same methods as would have been used in the 1950s. On the dyno, the engines gave almost exactly the same output as Lancia had obtained, varying between about 220 and 230bhp. After minor adjustments, mainly for handling balance, the cars turned out to be race worthy and reliable as built.
Anthony Bamford, Bernie Ecclestone and the late Tom Wheatcroft helped with the project.
It is said that these Lancia are more original than many of the Maserati 250F's they now regularly encounter
Goodwood Ref: 3-164
Shot at The Goodwood Festival of Speed 01:07:2011 Ref: 76-337
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337 Lancia D50A (1955) (Recreation)
Lancia D50A (1955) (Recreation) Engine 2488cc Lancia DS50 V8 Production 6 original 4 recretions
Entrant: Eberhard Thiesen
LANCIA SET
www.flickr.com/photos/45676495@N05/sets/72157623795824232...
The Lancia D50 was designed as a Formula One car by Vittorio Jano making use of the innovative ideas of using the engina as a stressed chassis member, the offset positioning of the driver to allow a lower overall height and the use of pannier fuel cells between the wheels to improve weight distribution and aerodynamics.
Debuting towards the end of the 1954 season in the hands of twice World champion Driver, Alberto Ascari the car claimed pole position and fastest lap but was thwarted by a failed clutch. Ascari started the 1955 season with two accidents the second at Monaco, four days later he was watching his freind Eugene Castelotti testing a ferrari 750 Monza at Monza when he asked to try a few laps. The car sommersaulted and Ascari was thrown out and fatally injured.
Following Ascari's death, and in increasing financial trouble, the Lancia family sold their controlling share in the Lancia company, and the assets of Scuderia Lancia were given to Scuderia Ferrari. Ferrari continued to develope the car although ammending and removing many of its features, including the side pontoons, and rebadging the cars as Ferrari D50, in which form Fangio went on to win the 1956 drivers championship.
Of the six original cars four were either broken up or destroyed the remaining two reside in Italian Museums. Throughout the 1960's, 70's & 80's, Guido Rosani made it his life's project to gather all the remaining D50 components, plus a complete set of D50 drawings, much technical data including dyno reports and spidery hand written race reports as well as Ascari’s contract with Lancia. the Fiat Lancia Museum very kindly allowed Guido to dismantle one of the two surviving original D50s to check details and measure dimensions. Ercole Spada, retired chief stylist at Zagato, helped Guido with body drawings and designs as well as the buck. Borrani agreed to supply wheels and hubs to the original pattern. Allemano which had made the instruments for the D24 and the D50 in the 1950s and was still in business agreed to help. In England Jim Stokes painstakingly disassembled the chassis and checked, X-rayed and crack tested every item. He then rebuilt the car to race standards and re-assembled the engines and transaxles. The engine had new pistons, rods and crankshafts, both for reliability and to save the unthinkable risk of damaging an original block or head. Everything was rebuilt to the original specification with very much the same methods as would have been used in the 1950s. On the dyno, the engines gave almost exactly the same output as Lancia had obtained, varying between about 220 and 230bhp. After minor adjustments, mainly for handling balance, the cars turned out to be race worthy and reliable as built.
Anthony Bamford, Bernie Ecclestone and the late Tom Wheatcroft helped with the project.
It is said that these Lancia are more original than many of the Maserati 250F's they now regularly encounter
Goodwood Ref: 3-164
Shot at The Goodwood Festival of Speed 01:07:2011 Ref: 76-337
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