This is a car seen at the Silverstone Classic meeting in July 2010 - a recreation of the 1961 Ferrari 156 F1 car, usually referred to as the 'sharknose'.
In the 1950s and 1960s it was common for Ferrari to destroy their F1 cars once they had come to the end of their useful lives and this is what happened to the 'sharknose' cars of 1961 and 1962. This car was recreated by the Belgian Jan Biekens and why and how he did so is told in
this YouTube video.
The car is painted in the yellow racing colours of Belgium to represent the car driven by Olivier Gendebien in the 1961 Belgian Grand Prix in which he finished fourth - the Ferrari team cars filling the first four places.
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