CHASSIS / ENGINE No 5006
Owner / driver / Custodian: Peter Giddings
DESIGNED DURING 1930, VITTORIO JANO'S MASTERPIECE TIPO B "P3" No5006 CONTAINS MAJOR COMPONENTS WHICH ARE DATE STAMPED AS EARLY AS 1931.
No 5006 IS THE SOLE SURMMING FIRST SERIES TIPO B, RETAINING ITS ORIGINAL ( SUBSEQUENTLY FACTORY WIDENED ) SLIM SIDED BODY AND HALF ELLIPTIC REAR SUSPENSION, WHICH STILL BEING RACED IN HISTORIC EVENTS TODAY.
No 5006 IS ONE OUT OF ONLY FIVE TIPO B'S FROM A TOTAL OF 13 SURVIVORS TO HAVE EARNED DENNIS JENKINSON'S ACCOLADE OF "GENUINE".
SCUDERIA FERRARI TIPO B'S ( No 5006 PROMNENT AMOUNGST THEM ) SWEPT THE BOARD FROM THE OUTSET WITH A STUNNING FIRST ( TAZO NUVOLARI ), SECOND ( UMBERTO BORZACCHINI ), AND THIRD ( RUDOLF CARACCOLA ) AT THE 1932 FRENCH GP, AVERAGING 90 MPH.
NUVOLARI ( WITH CO DRIVER GUSEPPE CAMPARI ) THEN WENT ON TO WIN THE ITALIAN GP AT OVER 100 MPH, FOLLOWED BY A WIN AT AVUS IN 1933 AT OVER 128 MPH, AMAZING SPEEDS EVEN BY TODAY'S STANDARDS, CONFIRMING THAT THE P3 WAS AND IS TRULY A LONG STRAIGHTAWAY RACING CAR.
WHILST TODAY, COMPLETE AND SPECIFIC TIPO B RACE HISTORIES ARE UNCLEAR, FOR DECADES No 5006 HAS BEEN ACKNOWLEDGED AS THE GUY MOLL 1934 MONACO OF WINNING CAR MOLL, AT 23, BECAME THE YOUNGEST EVER GRAND PRIX WINNING FACTORY DRIVER, A RECORD UNBROKEN FOR MORE THAN 50 YEARS.
AFTER No 5006'S ILLUSTROUS SERVICE WITH SCUDERIA FERRARI, IT WAS RELEASED IN 1935 TO GEORGES RAPH, WHOSE PLACINGS INCLUDED FRENCH GP 2ND GP DE LA MARNE 7th, DEPPE GP ( RETIRED FRACTURED CARBURETOR FLOATS ) CIRCUIT OF COMMNGES 2nd PLUS 1936 CIRCUIT OF PAU * PLACE UNKNOWN ).
POST WAR No 5006 WENT STRAIGHT BACK TO WORK, WINNING EVENTS AT CURRAGH, LEINSTER AND ULSTER DRIVEN BY ANTHONY PONVYS-LYBBE.
AT THE TIME, PONVYS-LYBBE STATED THAT "P3s" WERE "ONLY REALLY SUTABLE FOR THE LONG TRACKS OF SPAIN AND IRELAND!
THE NEXT OWNER WAS JOHN WESSEY WHO ACHIEVED A FINE SECOND PLACE IN THE RICHARD SEAMAN RACE BEHIND MASERATI 8CM "30M" ( WHICH HAS FOR MANY YEARS, BEEN OWNED BY PETER ).
No 5006 WAS ALSO CAMPAIGNED BY JOHN CROWTHER AND MICHAEL THACKRAY.
IN 1966 ON THE LONG ROUEN CIRCUIT No 5006 IN THE HANDS OF WILLIAM SUMMERS, OUT PERFORMED, IN STRANGHT LINE SPEED, THE CURRENT FORMULA TWO CARS NEIL CORNER BECAME No 5006'S NEXT OWNER.
IN THE 1970'S ERA EXPONENT PETER WALLER MANAGED A GOOD THIRD PLACE WITH No, 5006 BEHIND A MERCEDES W125 ( WHICH WAS SUBSEQUENTLY RACED BY PETER IN HISTORIC EVENTS ) AND A WELL DEVELOPED 2 LITRE ERA.
WALLER REMARKED THAT No, 5006 WAS A LARGE CAR TO MANHANDLE WHEN COMPARED WITH AN ERA, A CHALLENGE ( PARTICULARLY GIVEN THE SHORTER TRACKS OF TODAY ) THAT PETER WILL NOW HAVE TO COPE WITH.
TODAY No, 5006 AFTER AN EXTENSIVE TWO YEAR RESTORATION BY AUTO RESTORATIONS OF NEW ZELAND WILL IN PETERS HANDS. AGAIN TRY TO EMULATE THE UNPARALLED ACHIEVEMENTS OF No, 5006 IN WHAT IS NOW A 70 PLUS YEAR OLD GRAND PRIX CAR.
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