Friday's Ferrari

This car competed in two rounds of the Shell Historic Ferrari Maserati Challenge series of races at the Vintage Sports Car Club's meeting at Donington Park in June 2003.

This is the 1981 Ferrari 512 BB LM of Jean Guikas, chassis 35525, which was originally owned by Robert Donner of Rennod Racing in the USA. Rennod Racing entered the car in the 1981 Le Mans 24 Hour race where it was driven by Pierre Dieudonne, Jean Xhenceval and Jean-Paul Libert, finishing in ninth place overall and third-placed in the IMSA GTX class. This is the only contemporary event in which the car competed. Three series of the 512 BB LM were built, a total of 25 cars, and were powered by the 4,943cc flat-12 engine with 24 twin camshafts for each bank and 24 valves. The car is seen here in the pit lane at Donington Park during a practice session.

Friday's Ferrari

This is a car photographed at the Christie's International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992 which featured a special Ferrari display.

It's a 1979 Ferrari 512 BB/LM and the programme of the event had this to say about the car:

'512 BB/LM

Mid-engined flat 12; 4.9 litre; 480bhp at 7200rpm; twin

ohc per bank; fuel injected; all-round independent

suspension by A-arms/coil springs. A number of these

were built in mainly 1979 and to meet the 'Silhouette'

regs which required cars to have some resemblance to

the production versions in the windshield, doors and roof

areas.'

The car is serial number 27577, originally an Ecurie Francorchamps car and owned by Nick Mason in 1992.

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.