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1953 Ferrari F2 3ds max, mental ray, Photoshop October 2007
A recent post by Machadoj reminded me that i had not yet submitted my final render of a Ferrari F2 that i completed last month.
It was mostly built using photographs as the blueprints i had were not very accurate.
The Ferrari F2 was driven to 2 successive World championships by Alberto Ascari in 1952/53. He also won 9 consecutive races in it, a record that still stands today.
This model is depicted in Ascari's race number (46) that he used at the 1953 Swiss GP, a race which he set the fastest lap, won the race and secured the Championship. It was also to be his last ever F1 race finish.
In 1954 he moved to Lancia but unreliability meant, despite several pole positions, he would never complete a race distance.
Tragically in 1955 he died testing a Ferrari sports car at Monza at the corner that now bears his name.