The Coys International
Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1997 featured an extensive
display of Ferraris, some of which took part in demonstration runs round the
circuit during the two-day meeting. Here are two of the cars that were on
display that day.
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On the left is the 2,992cc
flat-12 Ferrari 312 T4 (chassis #040) with which Jody Scheckter won the World
Championship in 1979. Jody Scheckter won 3 of the 15 races finishing ahead of
his team-mate Gilles Villeneuve, who also won 3 races, in the final table. Alan
Jones in the Williams FW07 won 4 races, but the only other points he scored
were for a 3rd and a 4th place so he only managed to finish the season in 3rd
place in the Championship. The car on the right is a
Vignale-bodied 1953 Ferrari 166MM Spyder. serial number 0314M, that originally
had a 2 litre engine which was replaced with a 3 litre unit in 1955.
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