Friday's Ferrari

I took this photograph in the pit lane at the Richard Seaman memorial Trophies meeting at Donington Park in June 2003.

It's the engine of one of the Ferraris involved in a series of track demonstration runs by Ferrari F1 cars, and it's the 1,496cc V6 turbocharged Tipo 033A engine that powered the 1988 Ferrari F1/87/88C. The F1/87/88C was an updated version of the 1987 Ferrari F1/87, and with this car in 1988 Gerhard Berger won the Italian Grand Prix, had two second and two third place finishes, and this together with five more points-scoring efforts gave him third place in that season's Drivers' World Championship. Team mate Michele Alboreto had a second and two third place finishes and points for a series of minor place finishes enabled him to end up in fifth place in the Championship. Ferrari finished in second place in the Constructors' World Championship which was won convincingly by the McLaren Honda team, with their drivers Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost in the MP4/4 finishing first and second respectively in the Drivers' World Championship, way ahead of the rest of the field.