BDRC Classic 2007

At the BRDC Classic event last July I caught up with a car that impressed me the first time I saw it race, Mike Sparken’s Ferrari 750 Monza (Chassis 0504M). Mike, who was born in Paris as Michael Poberejsky, changed his name to Mike Sparken when he was racing. He bought the car in 1955 straight from the factory having formerly raced a special-bodied Aston Martin. He immediately went out and won his first race with it at Dakar. He raced the car all over and often brought it to Britain. I saw him with it at the British Empire Trophy at Oulton Park a year later. The car had a successful racing life and went to America.

When it came back to Britain it went through various hands and at one stage Sparken bought the car back again but today it is raced by Richard and Andrew Frankel.

Mike Sparken on the grid at Oulton Park with the 750 Monza fifty two years ago !	The Frankel 750 Monza Ferrari once raced by Mike Sparken.

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