MOTOR SPORT
Damien Smith
RACING LINES
Masters Sports Car Legends had two Ferrari 512Ms (#23 and #14)
Brundle wins for Ferrari at Silverstone! No, this isn’t some vision from a parallel early 1990s Formula 1 universe. This is Alex Brundle, son of Martin, and we’re talking 1971 Ferrari 512M Le Mans sports prototype, at Silverstone Festival – the behemoth of all historic race meetings. His victory, shared with Gary Pearson in the glow of an evening sun, capped the highlight of an intense two days. Twenty races – 10 on the Saturday, 10 on the Sunday – coming thick and certainly fast, from dawn till dusk… It felt like an overindulgence.
To see one 512M let loose is special. But here, there were two of them in the Masters Sports Car Legends 50-minute thrash – Brundle and Pearson’s bright yellow one and a red version driven by father and son duo David and Olivier Hart. Pitched against Chevy-powered Lola T70 Mk3Bs and an assortment of pretty opencockpit late ’60s/early ’70s sports racers, all that was missing was a Porsche 917.