
A 1964 Ferrari 250LM won the Best of the Best Award 2024 last night (3 February 2025) in Paris.
The annual Peninsula Classics Best of the Best Award was established in 2015 as the ultimate concours prize and draws its shortlist from the Best in Show cars at the world’s most prestigious concours d’elegance events.
This Ferrari was one of nine classic cars revealed last month to be in contention, each of which had claimed a major concours prize in 2024 – in the 250LM’s case, this was at the Palm Beach Cavallino Classic in January last year.

Inside the Ferrari 250LM that’s won the biggest concours gong
The Ferrari 250LM made its debut in Paris in 1963 and lived up to its name by winning the 1965 Le Mans 24 Hours, as well as the International Trophy for GT Prototypes in the same year.
Just 32 examples were built, and it is chassis 6053 that’s just been crowned Best of the Best 2024.
Chassis 6053 was campaigned between 1965 and 1968, and was victorious at British tracks Brands Hatch, Silverstone and Snetterton in ’66.
That same year it was raced at the 24 Hours of Daytona, plus it took on the Le Mans round-the-clock challenge in 1968.

The Ferrari 250LM’s V12 engine has 315bhp