Friday's Ferrari

Three cars here in the pit lane during practice for a round of the Shell Ferrari Maserati Historic Challenge race at the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2004.

Number 90 on the left is the 1966 Ferrari 412P of Harry Leventis, chassis #0844, which was driven in the race by Peter Hardman. It has a 3,967cc V12 engine and started off in 1966 as a Ferrari 330 P3, but in 1967 was converted to a 412P which is the customer equivalent of the 330 P3 works car. It seems the only difference between the two cars is that the works car has Lucas fuel injection and the customer car Weber carburettors - the primary reason  for this was allegedly to make it more difficult for the customer cars to beat the team cars. The car on the right is another of Harry Leventis's cars, the 1965 Ferrari Dino 206SP, chassis #0834, that he drove in the race himself. This car was originally built as a Dino 166P with a 1,593cc V6 engine, but was given a 1,987cc V6 engine later in 1965 and converted to a 206SP. Behind that is the 1966 Ferrari Dino 206S of Lars Wramell with the 1,987cc V6 engine, chassis #006 66, that was originally campaigned by Maranello Concessionaires in 1966 when its first race was in the Tourist Trophy race at Oulton Park in April of that year.