Ferrari D50, French Grand Prix 1956 #14

Ferrari inherited the D50 in 1955, when Lancia, in financial trouble after Alberto Ascari's death, passed its Formula One cars and equipment to Maranello. Ferrari moved the fuel from Vittorio Jano's side panniers into a tank behind the driver and ran the exhausts through the faired-in sides. At Reims on 1 July 1956, Peter Collins, in his first season with the team, started third and won the French Grand Prix by three-tenths of a second from his team-mate Eugenio Castellotti after 61 laps. It was his second World Championship win in a row, a month after his first at Spa.

The model is the short-nose car Collins drove at Reims, in red with white #14 on the nose, flanks and tail and Scuderia Ferrari shields. The engine cover lifts off and locks back on to expose the V8 and its pipework, the bundled four-pipe exhausts exit ahead of the rear wheels, and there is a flip-open vent for the driver's footwell. Metal suspension with a De Dion rear tube, an oil cooler ahead of the radiator, hinged fuel and oil fillers, a leather-covered seat and a wood-rimmed wheel are all reproduced, and the wire wheels with stainless-steel spokes wear Englebert Competizione tyres. CMC builds it at 1:18 as a hand-assembled metal precision model of 1,161 parts, in a limited edition of 1,500.