Friday's Ferrari

This is one of several Ferrari Grand Prix cars, dating from 1980 to 2002, that took part in track demonstration runs during the Vintage Sports Car Club's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2005.

It's the 1997 Ferrari F310B of Uwe Meissner, a car that was driven by Michael Schumacher and Eddie Irvine in the 1997 season, and is pictured here at McLeans Corner during one of the demonstration runs. The 310B was developed by Rory Byrne and Ross Brawn from the 1996 Ferrari 310 which was designed by John Barnard and has a 2,998cc V10 engine. In the 1997 season Ferrari finished second to Williams in the Constructors' Championship and Schumacher finished second in the Drivers' Championship, but his record for the season was expunged because he deliberately drove into Jacques Villeneuve's car as the Williams driver was overtaking him in the final race of the season, the European Grand Prix in Jerez. Eddie Irvine finished in seventh place in the Drivers' Championship which was won by Jacques Villeneuve. Uwe Meissner's car is chassis number 172.

The cloud behind the car isn't a sign of an engine malfunction - it's cement dust that had been laid on an oil spill left by another car.

Friday's Ferrari

This is one of several Ferrari Grand Prix cars, dating from 1980 to 2002, that took part in track demonstration runs during the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2005.

It's the 1997 Ferrari F310B of Uwe Meissner, a car that was driven by Michael Schumacher and Eddie Irvine in the 1997 season, and is pictured here at McLeans Corner during one of the demonstration runs. The 310B was developed by Rory Byrne and Ross Brawn from the 1996 Ferrari 310 which was designed by John Barnard and has a 2,998cc V10 engine with twin overhead camshafts and four valves per cylinder. In the 1997 season Ferrari finished second to Williams in the Constructors' Championship and Schumacher finished second in the Drivers' Championship, but his record for the season was expunged because he deliberately drove into Jacques Villeneuve's car as the Williams driver was overtaking him in the final race of the season, the European Grand Prix in Jerez. Eddie Irvine finished in seventh place in the Drivers' Championship which was won by Jacques Villeneuve. Uwe Meissner's car is chassis number 172.

Friday's Ferrari

This is one of several Ferrari Grand Prix cars, dating from 1980 to 2002, that took part in track demonstration runs during the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2005.

It's the 1997 Ferrari 310B of Uwe Meissner, pictured here at McLeans Corner during one of the demonstration runs. It was driven by Michael Schumacher and Eddie Irvine during the 1997 season and has a 2,998cc V10 engine with twin overhead camshafts and four valves per cylinder. The 310B was developed by Rory Byrne and Ross Brawn from the 1996 Ferrari 310 which was designed by John Barnard.

On 30 September 2016 I showed a photograph of the car in the pit lane at this meeting.

Friday's Ferrari

Here in the pit garage are two of the cars that took part in the Ferrari F1 demonstration at the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2005.

On the left is the 1997 Ferrari F310B of Uwe Meissner. It's a car that was driven in the 1997 season by Michael Schumacher and Eddie Irvine, Schumacher finishing second in the Drivers' World Championship, but being stripped of his place after causing an accident with eventual Championship winner Jacques Villeneuve in the last race of the season. Eddie Irvine finished the season in seventh place.

The car on the right is Shigeru Hoshino's 1995 Ferrari 412T2. This car was campaigned in the 1995 season by Jean Alesi and Gerhard Berger, who ended the season in fifth and sixth places respectively in the Championship.

Friday's Ferrari

The SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2005 included a 'Demonstration of Italian Racing Cars' and included amongst them was the car pictured below.

It's Uwe Meissner's 1997 Ferrari F310B, a car that was driven by Michael Schumacher and Eddie Irvine in the 1997 season. Ferrari finished second to Williams in the Constructors' Championship and Schumacher finished second in the Drivers' Championship, but his record for the season was expunged because he deliberately drove into Jacques Villeneuve's car as the Williams driver was overtaking him in the final race of the season, the European Grand Prix in Jerez. Eddie Irvine finished in seventh place in the Drivers' Championship which was won by Jacques Villeneuve. Uwe Meissner's car is chassis number 172.