Ferrari 275 P – 0816: the only Ferrari to have won Le Mans twice

The definitive story of the only Ferrari to win Le Mans twice.

Limited to 750 copies. Printed and bound in Great Britain.

'....a stunning book from specialist automotive publishers Porter Press.' Sunday Mail

• Limited edition of 750
• A comprehensive history of the only Ferrari to win Le Mans twice
• Chassis 0816 won all three of the Challenge Mondiale/Prototypes Trophy races it entered in 1963 and 1964
• Raced at three major circuits: Sebring, Le Mans, and Road America. Detailed circuit maps and reports on all three
• The car’s drivers receive in-depth profiles: Ludovico Scarfiotti, Lorenzo Bandini, Mike Parkes, Umberto Maglioli, Jean Guichet, Nino Vaccarella, Willy Mairesse, Mauro Bianchi, Major William ‘Bill’ Cooper, Charlie Kolb, Dick Drexler, Pedro Rodríguez, Charles ‘Chuck’ Parsons
• One-off, large-format, art-style book featuring much period photography and a creative modern-day photoshoot that highlights the car’s profile, details, and originality

This exclusive, art-style book provides a comprehensive history of this truly iconic and historic Ferrari. Its three wins as a works car in 1963/64 are detailed, as is its subsequent career racing in America throughout the mid-to-late 1960s. 

The book also follows 0816’s later story, from nearly five decades of ownership by renowned Ferrari collector Pierre Bardinon for his Collection Mas du Clos to its current ownership, with whom it went on something of a renaissance tour, travelling around Europe, the UK and the USA.

More about this book

In 1963, Ferrari introduced its first mid/rear-engined car with a V12 engine, the 250 P sports racing car. Four examples of the 250 P were built for the 1963 season, including the subject of this book, chassis 0816, and they immediately proved to be a force to be reckoned with in the races in which they competed.

Along with the 275 Ps and 330 Ps, these cars were built to run in the prototype (initially called experimental) category of the FIA Manufacturers’ World Championship. Over the two years that they were Ferrari works entries, they competed in a total of seven races in the Challenge Mondiale/Prototypes Trophy divisions.

They took victory in six of them, with three of these wins being recorded by chassis 0816 – the only races the car participated in. Of these three wins, two were at Le Mans, making this the only Ferrari to have won Le Mans twice!

Specification

• Numbered limited edition of 750 copies
• Size: 295mm x 400mm landscape
• 240 pages
• Over 300 images
• Price: £125.00
• ISBN: 978-1-913089-67-2
• Publisher: Porter Press International
• Publication date: May 2025
• Author: Keith Bluemel

The author – Keith Bluemel

Keith Bluemel started writing about Ferrari in 1980, initially as a contributor to the Ferrari Owners’ Club magazine Ferrari, for which he still writes regularly. He then broadened out to work for many Ferrari-specific magazines around the world.

He is a long-time contributing editor to the respected American Ferrari magazine Cavallino and has been its competition editor since 2004. He also contributes to Ferrari Magazine (the official magazine produced for the factory by Condé Nast), Prancing Horse (the official magazine of the Ferrari Club of America) and Ferrari Club (the official magazine of Club Ferrari France). He is also a regular contributing editor/photographer to two Ferrari-themed websites: www.barchetta.cc and www.anamera.com.

Prior to his ‘Great Cars’ GTO book for Porter Press, Keith co-authored (with Jess G. Pourret) Ferrari 250 GTO (Bay View, 1998) and was a contributing editor to GTO Book (Fink Presse France, 2009). He has also written four titles about other models of Ferrari: Original Ferrari V8 (Bay View), Ferrari: The Road Cars (Sutton), Original Ferrari V12, 1965–73 (Bay View) and Ferrari: The Racing Cars (Sutton). He was the technical editor for Jeremy Clarkson on Ferrari (Lancaster Publishing, 2000) and co-author of a book on the Ferrari 250 GT ‘Breadvan’ (Parker House Publishing, 2010).

Keith is a life member of the Ferrari Owners’ Club and a Ferrari Club of America concours judge. He has been a Ferrari class judge at Concorso Italiano, the Winter Park Concours, Concours on the Avenue (Carmel), Pebble Beach, Salon Privé and the Ferrari factory’s 60th Anniversary Concorso d’Eleganza in 2007.