Friday's Ferrari

The Vintage Sports Car Club's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2005 included 'A Demonstration of Italian Racing Cars' and here, if you look closely, are two of the cars that took part.

The leading car is the 2.992cc flat-12 1980 Ferrari 312 T5 of John Fenning, being driven here by Mike Littlewood. Immediately behind him (you can just see the tops of his rear wheels and roll bar) is what appears to be the 1978 Ferrari 312 T3 of Nick Mason. The T5 was driven in the 1980 season by Gilles Villeneuve and Jody Scheckter, neither of them having a successful year and finishing in fourteenth and nineteenth places respectively in the Drivers' World Championship.

On 15 February 2019 I showed a photograph on another lap of the demonstration run with the cars almost side by side.

Friday's Ferrari

Two cars here that took part in 'A Demonstration of Italian Racing Cars' at the VSCC's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2005.

On the left is the 2,992cc flat-12 1978 Ferrari 312 T3 that was driven by Gilles Villeneuve in the 1978 F1 season. It's not listed in the programme of the event as one of the cars taking part in the demonstration runs, but it's chassis 034 and was owned at the time by Nick Mason, the driver here being Mark Hales. I've shown photographs of this car previously, the last occasion being 13 October 2017. The car on the right is a later version of the Ferrari 312, the 1980 T5, with the same flat-12 engine. It's John Fenning's car, chassis 048, and was driven here by Mike Littlewood. On 22 June 2012 I showed a photograph of the car in the pit lane at this meeting.

Friday's Ferrari

This is one of the cars that took part in the 'Demonstration of Italian Racing Cars' at the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2005.

It's the 1978 3-litre Flat-12 Ferrari 312T3 of Nick Mason, chassis 034 that was driven by Gilles Villeneuve during the 1978 season. On 17 June 2016 I showed two more photographs of the car at this meeting, and on 6 February 2015 I showed photographs of the car at Silverstone in 1992.

Ferrari 312 T3

The SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2005 included 'A Demonstration of Italian Racing Cars' which consisted some laps of the track by a variety of Maseratis, Ferraris and a Lancia D50. This is one of the Ferraris that took part in the demonstration.

It's Nick Mason's 1978 Ferrari 312 T3, chassis number 034 and the car Gilles Villeneuve drove for most of the 1978 racing season.

Here's the car at McLean's Corner during the demonstration run.

Friday's Ferrari

One of the cars in the Ferrari Feature at the Christie's International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992 was Nick Mason's 1978 Ferrari 312 T3.

The programme of the event had this to say about the car:

3     312 T3

Mid-engined flat-12; 3 litres; 510bhp at 12,000rpm; four

valves per cylinder; twin ohc; fuel injection; all-round

independent suspension, introduced 1978 as further

development of 312T; transverse gearbox car introduced

1975. Driven by Gilles Villeneuve in many grands prix in

1978; winner Canadian GP.

Here's the car (serial number 034) at Luffield Corner, being driven in a demonstration run by Jody Scheckter. The car behind it is the 1969 Ferrari 246 FL Tasman (serial number 010) being driven by John Surtees.