Friday's Ferrari

The Christie's International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992 featured a special display of Ferraris in the paddock and some of these were driven in track demonstrations by former Scuderia Ferrari drivers. This is one of those cars at Luffield Corner during one of the demonstration runs.

It’s a 1978 Ferrari 312 T3 and is being driven by Jody Scheckter who drove the car in the first 2 races of the 1979 season alongside Gilles Villeneuve. In the 1978 season Gilles Villeneuve and Carlos Reutemann drove the car in all but the first 2 races, Villeneuve winning the last race of the season in Canada while Reutemann won the United States West Grand Prix at Long Beach, the British Grand Prix and the United States Grand Prix at Watkins Glen.

Friday's Ferrari

The Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1997 featured an extensive display of Ferraris, some of which took part in demonstration runs round the circuit during the two-day meeting. Here is one of the cars on display that day and which was driven by Jody Scheckter in those demonstrations.

It's the 2,992cc flat-12 Ferrari 312 T4 (chassis #040) with which Jody Scheckter won the World Championship in 1979. Jody Scheckter won 3 of the 15 races finishing ahead of his team-mate Gilles Villeneuve, who also won 3 races, in the final table. Alan Jones in the Williams FW07 won 4 races, but the only other points he scored were for a 3rd and a 4th place so he only managed to finish the season in 3rd place in the Championship.

Friday's Ferrari

The Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1997 featured an extensive display of Ferraris, some of which took part in demonstration runs round the circuit during the two-day meeting. Here is one of the cars that took part in those demonstrations.

It's the 2,992cc flat-12 Ferrari 312 T4 (chassis #040) with which Jody Scheckter, who is driving the car on this demonstration run, won the World Championship in 1979. Jody Scheckter won 3 of the 15 races finishing ahead of his team-mate Gilles Villeneuve, who also won 3 races, in the final table. Alan Jones in the Williams FW07 won 4 races, but the only other points he scored were for a 3rd and a 4th place so he only managed to finish the season in 3rd place in the Championship.

On 15 January 2016 I showed another photograph of this car at the Coys meeting at Silverstone in 2000.

Friday's Ferrari

The Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 2000 celebrated 50 years of the Formula 1 World Championship, which started with the British Grand Prix at Silverstone in 1950. There was a display of a representative selection of Formula 1 cars from those 50 years and here's one which saw action in 1979.

It's the Ferrari 312 T4 with which Jody Scheckter won the World Championship in 1979. Scheckter won three races, the Grands Prix of Belgium, Monaco and Italy, and his team mate Gilles Villeneuve won the South African, United States and United States West races, finishing in second place in the Drivers' Championship. Ferrari, naturally, won the Constructors' Championship.

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.