Tim Scott ©2022 Courtesy of RM Sotheby's

Lot 146

Villa Erba 2023

1956 Ferrari 500 TR Spider by Scaglietti

Offered From The Aurora Collection

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€3,717,500 EUR | Sold

Italy | Cernobbio, Italy

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Curt Lincoln flies past the crowd at the Eläintarhanajo GP on 12 May 1957. He would finish in 4th overall and take home a class victory.

Race number “58”, a Ferrari 500 TR driven by Gaetano Starrabba and Giorgio Mejer accelerates past car number “41”, the Porsche 550 entered by William J. Buff. The Starrabba/Mejer 500 TR would go on to finish five places ahead of Buff in the 1956 Supercortemaggiore, achieving 7th overall and 6th in its class.

The Ferrari 500 TR is captured hurtling along the Monza Circuit in June 1956.

Curt Lincoln is pictured before the 1957 Eläintarhanajo, sporting race number “1”. Lincoln would drive this Ferrari 500 TR to 4th place overall, finishing 1st in his class.

Lined up prior to the 1958 Eläintarhanajo GP, chassis 0610 MDTR wore race number “4” and was piloted by Fred Geitel. Geitel would finish 10th overall and 5th in class for Scuderia Askolin.

Holger Norrman is pictured driving chassis 0610 MDTR at the Eläintarhanajo GP on 15 May 1960.

The Ferrari 500 TR is seen at the Kanonloppet—or ‘Cannon Race’’—held at the Karlskoga Motorstadion on 10 August 1958. Driven by Bjarne Rehn, bad luck would strike on lap 12, when an engine failure forced the 500 TR’s retirement.

Chassis 0610 MDTR arrives at the 1959 Kanonloppet. Holgor Norrman would finish 13th overall and 8th in class.

Chassis 0610 MDTR sits in between chassis 0702 MDTR (Ferrari 500 TRC) and chassis 0723 GT (a Ferrari 250 GT ‘Tour de France’), all under the Scuderia Askolin banner.