Author Topic: Solved - MJW #255 - Behra-Porsche with Ms. Maria Teresa de Filippis at 1959 Monaco GP practice  (Read 580 times)

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What car is this?
Who is driving it?
Where?
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Re: MJW #255
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2011, 02:53:37 AM »
Expertise please......

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Re: MJW #255
« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2011, 05:42:39 AM »
Porsche 718?

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Re: MJW #255
« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2011, 06:20:13 AM »
It's Maria Teresa de Filippis @ 1959 Monaco GP with a Porsche RSK...
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Re: MJW #255
« Reply #4 on: February 04, 2011, 06:23:12 AM »
Maybe it's a Behra-Porsche.
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Re: MJW #255
« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2011, 07:00:11 AM »
The car is the Behra Porsche. It is Ms. De Filippis, but she didn't qualify for Monaco in 1959, so the picture was obviously taken during practise. As this was it's debut event, I suspect that the aluminium bodywork was just freshly completed and not yet painted, explaining the the rather odd appearance - those are grinding/sanding marks from the fabrication, not dents.

(though according to some sources, it could be mr. Behra himself?)

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Re: MJW #255
« Reply #6 on: February 04, 2011, 07:27:54 AM »
Dammit!  :censored:
I've been waiting for this to come up from the rookies and you beat me to it.   :sigh:
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Re: MJW #255
« Reply #7 on: February 04, 2011, 07:45:36 AM »
Well I think the point should go to Iluvatar as he first guessed Maria Teresa de Filippis at the Monaco GP in 1959 and then also added that it might have been the Behra-Porsche.
Unfortunately DeAutogids was just beaten to it and D-Type was half-an-hour too late.
Perhaps I'll post some more puzzles like this in future.

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