Friday's Ferrari

These cars were seen at the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2004. They are 1980 and 1981 Ferrari 512BB LMs, a car which was initially developed in 1974 by the North American Racing Team of Luigi Chinetti from the 365 GT4 BB. Ferrari began their own development of the car in 1978 and the final version, with the original pop-up headlights replaced by fixed units and the tail lengthened to the maximum allowed by the regulations, achieved a fifth place overall and first in the GTX class at the 1981 Le Mans 24 hour race.

The first three photographs were taken in the pit lane prior to a practice session

Massimo Sordi's 1981 car, serial number 38739.

These two photographs are of Francois Degand's 1980 car, serial number 28601.

The car driven by Massimo Sordi at McLean's Corner in the Shell Ferrari Maserati Historic Challenge race followed by a 1964 Ferrari Dino 206S (serial number 0834) driven by Harry Leventis.