Friday's Ferrari

This is a photograph that I took during practice for the Shell Ferrari Historical Challenge race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1998.

It's Christoph Stieger in Engelbert Stieger's 3 litre 1972 Ferrari 312P, chassis 0888. It has a 2,991cc flat-12 engine, often referred to as the 312PB (the ‘B’ for Boxer to differentiate it from the earlier V12-engined 1969 312P).

Friday's Ferrari

This car took part in the Shell Ferrari Historical Challenge race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1997.

According to the programme of the event car number 1 is Engelbert Stieger's 1963 Ferrari 250 GTO, which was due to be driven in the race by Christoph Stieger, but the number 1 above is Engelbert Stieger's 3 litre 1972 Ferrari 312P, chassis #0888. The 312P was introduced in 1971 and has a 2,991cc flat-12 engine, and it is sometimes referred to as a 312PB to differentiate it from the 1969 312P which had a 2,990cc V12 engine - the 'B' being a reference to the boxer engine of the later car.

Friday's Ferrari

This car competed in the Shell Historic Ferrari Maserati Challenge race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1999.

Car number 95 is the 1972 Ferrari 312P, serial number #0888, of Englebert Stieger. There's no number 95 in the programme of the event but Christoph Stieger was down to drive number 55, a Ferrari 250 GTO, and appears to have driven the 312P instead. The silver car behind it is Nicolaus Springer’s 1963 Ferrari 250 GTO, serial number #4153GT, which was driven in the race by Peter Bradfield and Andrew Hall with the race number 159.

Friday's Ferrari

This car took part in the Shell Ferrari Historical Challenge race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1998.

It's Engelbert Stieger's 3 litre 1972 Ferrari 312P with a 2,991cc flat-12 engine, often referred to as the 312PB (the ‘B’ for Boxer to differentiate it from the earlier V12-engined 1969 312P). The chassis number is 0888 and it was driven in the race by Christoph Stieger.

Friday's Ferrari

This car took part in the Shell Ferrari Historical Challenge race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1997.

According to the programme of the event car number 1 is Engelbert Stieger's 1963 Ferrari 250 GTO, which was due to be driven in the race by Christoph Stieger, but the number 1 above is Engelbert Stieger's 3 litre 1972 Ferrari 312P, chassis #0888. The 312P was introduced in 1971 and has a 2,991cc flat-12 engine, and is sometimes referred to as a 312PB to differentiate it from the 1969 312P which had a 2,990cc V12 engine - the 'B' being a reference to the boxer engine of the later car. The number 38 car at the side of the 312P is Ernst Schuster's 2 litre 1956 Ferrari 500 TRC, chassis #0660MDTR, which also took part in the Shell Ferrari Historical Challenge race. The 500 TRC has a 4-cylinder inline 1,985cc engine.

Friday's Ferrari

This car took part in the Shell Historic Ferrari Maserati Challenge race at the VSCC's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Donington Park in June 2003.

Officially designated by Ferrari as a 1971 Ferrari 312 P, it has a 2,991cc flat-12 engine and is generally known as a 312 PB (for 'boxer') to differentiate it from the earlier 1969 312 P that had a 3 litre V12 engine. Like the earlier 312 P the 312 PB was a Group 6 Prototype Sports Car, but was re-designated as a Group 5 Sports Car for the 1972 season. The car is chassis #0880 and at the time of this Donington Park meeting it was owned by the American William Binnie, who appears to be driving the car in this photograph taken in the pit lane during a practice session, although the programme of the event shows the driver as Ray Bellm.

On 26 February 2016 I showed a photograph of the car in the pit garage at this meeting.

Friday's Ferrari

I took this photograph in the pit lane at Silverstone during a practice session at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting in July 1999.

It's Christoph Stieger in Engelbert Stieger's 1972 Ferrari 312P, chassis number 0888, a car not listed in the programme of the event and Christoph Stieger was down to drive number 55, his Ferrari 250 GTO. The 312P was originally numbered 55 and on 26 June 2015 I showed a photograph of the car I had taken earlier in the day in the pit garage before it had been changed to 95. The car bears the names of Jackie Ickx and Brian Redman who had driven this car in one race in the 1972 World Sportscar Championship season, and in several races in the 1973 season.

Friday's Ferrari

The Shell Ferrari Historical Challenge race was a race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1998 that brought together a host of Ferraris ranging from the 1950s to the 1970s with a few Alfa Romeos (ex-Scuderia Ferrari cars) thrown in for good measure. This was one of the later model cars to take part.

It's Engelbert Stieger's 3 litre 1972 Ferrari 312P, often referred to as the 312PB to differentiate it from the earlier 1969 312P. The chassis number is 0888 and it was driven in the race by Christoph Stieger.

Friday's Ferrari

This car is pictured at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1999.

It's a 1972 Ferrari 312 P, usually (but unofficially) known as a PB to distinguish this car with a 3 litre flat-12 boxer engine from the 1969 Ferrari 312 P which had a 3 litre V12 engine. The programme of the event shows car 55 to be a Ferrari 250 GTO to be driven by Christoph Stieger, but it looks as if he drove Englebert Stieger's Ferrari 312 P instead. The car is serial number 0888.

Friday's Ferrari

This is a scene inside a pit garage at Silverstone in July 1999 at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting. All three of these cars took part in the Shell Historic Ferrari Maserati Challenge race.

Car number 95 is the 1972 Ferrari 312P, serial number 0888, of Englebert Stieger. There's no number 95 in the programme of the event but Christoph Stieger was down to drive number 55, a Ferrari 250 GTO, and appears to have driven the 312P instead. Car number 76 is a 1973 Ferrari 365 GTB/4, serial number 16363, owned and driven that day by Nicolaus Springer, who also owned the 1963 Ferrari 250 GTO behind it, serial number 4153GT which was driven in the race by Peter Bradfield and Andrew Hall.

Friday's Ferrari

This is another car seen at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1998. It's a 1972 Ferrari 312P, serial number 0882, which was driven (if only for a short time) by the German, Christian Glaesel.

This is the car in the paddock preparing to go out on a practice session.

Leaving the pit lane to take part in the practice session.

This is what it looked like when it was brought back into the paddock. Where it left the circuit and sustained the damage I don't know.