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Showing posts with label Ferrari 308GTB. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ferrari 308GTB. Show all posts

Friday, 30 November 2018

Friday's Ferrari

This car contested the HSCC 70s Road Sports race at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2018.
It's John Dickson's 1976 Ferrari 308 GTB
The Ferrari 308 GTB was produced between 1975 and 1985 - it replaced the Dino 246 GT and was succeeded by the 328 GTB
The 308 GTB has a 2,926cc V8 engine with twin overhead camshafts per bank and two valves per cylinder.

Friday, 1 June 2018

Friday's Ferrari

More photos of Greg Thornton's 1979 Ferrari 308 GTB, taken on the stretch between Brittens chicane and Hilltop in the 70s Road Sports race at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2017.
Greg Thornton at Brittens chicane leading the 1973 Lotus Europa of Will Leverett
Just leaving Brittens where the track is joined by the link that cuts out the Shell Oils Corner loop
Going towards Hilltop
Just on the crest of Hilltop

Friday, 23 February 2018

Friday's Ferrari

This was one of the cars taking part in the 70s Road Sports race at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2017.
It's Greg Thornton's V8 engined 1979 Ferrari 308 GTB. This car replaced the Ferrari 246 GT, being produced from 1975 to 1985, and was in turn succeeded by the Ferrari 328 GTB which also had a V8 engine, but of 3.2 litres compared to the 308 GTB's 3 litre unit.

Friday, 5 October 2012

Friday's Ferrari

The Cheshire Cats' Trophy meeting organised by the Jaguar Drivers' Club at Oulton Park in April 1987 included, as was usual in this type of event, Inter-Marque races in which drivers of other makes of car were invited to participate. Several Ferrari 308GTBs took part and the photographs below show three of these cars.
Car entered and driven by Colin Lee - being unloaded from its trailer above, and below exiting the chicane which was then known as Foulstons and heading towards the Knicker Brook corner. The area where cars are gathered and prepared prior to racing is known as the paddock and the paddock at Oulton Park in 1987 suggests the original meaning of the word - 'a fenced area used chiefly for grazing horses'. The whole area is now completely covered in tarmac. In the background you can see the footbridge which used to cross the circuit near to the start/finish line, but which was removed some years ago.

Another 308GTB in the paddock, this one being entered by Trafford Brake and Hose Services Ltd and driven by Malcolm Little. This car contested the Gordon Russell Furniture Inter-Marque Championship race together with the above car of Colin Lee.

This car, entered by Huntington Antiques Ltd with the driving shared by Mike Golding and Tony Harvey and seen here rounding Lodge Corner, took part in the later 100 mile Cheshire Cars' Trophy race.