Car · Maserati · 1954–1960
Maserati 250F
The 250F is the reason the mid-1950s grids existed at all - Maserati sold them to privateers and they filled out every race for six seasons. Fangio's 1957 German Grand Prix in one is the drive the sport keeps coming back to: a botched pit stop dropped him 48 seconds behind, and he took it all back in 22 laps, breaking the lap record ten times and passing Hawthorn on the last lap.
- Seasons
- 1954–1960
- Entries
- 250
- Wins
- 6
- Poles
- 7
- Fastest laps
- 9
- Drivers' titles
- 2
Why it mattered
The idea. The customer car of the 2.5-litre era: not the fastest, but the one anyone could buy and almost anyone could drive
What it did. 8 championship wins across 1954-1960. Fangio's 1954 and 1957 titles.
- Designers
- Gioacchino Colombo, Vittorio Bellentani, Alberto Massimino
- Supersedes
- —
- Design life
- 1954–1960
- Confidence
- high
Specification
- Chassis
- Aluminium tubular ladder frame
- Front suspension
- Independent wishbone
- Rear suspension
- De Dion tube
- Brakes
- drum
- Gearbox
- 1954: Maserati 4 speed manual; 1956: Stirnsi
- Gears
- 5 speed
- Tyres
- Pirelli
- Fuel
- 50% methanol, 35% petrol, 10% acetone, 4% benzol, 1% castor oil
- Engine
- Maserati
- Configuration
- 1954 – 2493 cc, straight 6; 1957 – 2491 cc works cars V12
- Capacity
- 2,493 cc
- Aspiration
- naturally aspirated
- Power
- 240 bhp
- Power note
- 220 bhp at 7,400 rpm in 1954, about 240 bhp with fuel injection from 1955; a 315 bhp V12 was offered in 1957 and rarely used
- Weight
- —
- Wheelbase
- —
- Track, front
- —
- Track, rear
- —
A blank is a figure nobody published for this car. Where several teams quote the same number in a season it is usually the rule they were all built to rather than a measurement, so it is kept with the regulation limits instead of here.
Every entry 250 entries
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Where this comes from
- Constructor
- Maserati
- Predecessor
- Maserati A6GCM
- Successor
- Maserati 300S
- Races (published)
- 46
- Wins (published)
- 8
- Poles (published)
- 8
- Confidence
- reference
- Specification source
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maserati_250F
- Register source
- https://github.com/f1db/f1db