Strange that the D50 is wearing Ferrari shields when they had no input into it apart from being gifted the cars. It would have been better to have left it as an original Lancia team car.
Way back about 15 years or so ago Gus Mckay arranged a trip for the Thema Consortium as it was then and other lmc members got an invite to Jim Stokes Workshop to have a look around, at the time they were bodying this version, but we were sworn to secrecy as it wasn't common knowledge at the time.
I'll see if I can find the photos I took at the time.
At the time they were manufacturing replica Alfa straight 8 engines, so the owners didn't have to worry about blowing up the originals racing.!
You're right though, if anything Ferrari messed about with the D50, such as the lengthened nose and filling in the gap between the saddle tanks, which did nothing for the car, and certainly didn't help it win.
Brian
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