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

I took this photograph during the traditional 'Demonstration of Italian Racing Cars' at the VSCC's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2005.

It's Mike Littlewood driving John Fenning's 1980 Ferrari 312 T5, chassis 048 at McLean's Corner. The car has a 2,992cc flat 12 engine and was driven by Jody Scheckter and Gilles Villeneuve in the 1980 season, but the results were very poor, Jody Scheckter winning only 2 points in the World Drivers' Championship and finishing in 19th place, and Gilles Villeneuve finishing in 14th place with 6 points.

Friday's Ferrari

This is one of the cars taking part in 'A Demonstration of Italian Racing Cars' at the VSCC's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2005, and it's seen at McLeans Corner.

It's John Fenning's 1980 Ferrari 312 T5, chassis 048 being driven by Mike Littlewood, and the car has the same 2,992cc flat-12 Ferrari 015 engine that powered all the 312T cars. Jody Scheckter and Gilles Villeneuve drove the T5 in the 1980 season, but didn't manage to win a single Grand Prix, their best efforts being three fifth place finishes, two for Villeneuve and one for Scheckter. Jody Scheckter retired from racing at the end of that season.

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.