Friday's Ferrari

This car competed in the Shell Historic Ferrari Maserati Challenge race at the VSCC's meeting at Donington Park in June 2003.

It's a 1971 Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona Competizione, here leaving the pit lane during a practice session. The driver is shown in the programme of the event as Diego Meier, but the barchetta.cc record shows that the owner of the car, Arnold Meier, drove the car at this meeting. The serial number of the car is 14429.

Lotus 97T & 98T

As part of the Donington Park 'Tribute to Ayrton Senna' at the VSCC's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting in June 2003 there was a demonstration run by some of the F1 cars Ayrton Senna drove in his career, including the two pictured below.

This is the Lotus 97T driven by Ayrton Senna in the 1985 season, winning two of the races whilst his team-mate Elio de Angelis won one.

Here's the 97T passing the pits during a morning warm-up session.

This is the Lotus 98T, a development of the 97T, which the team ran in the 1986 season. Senna again took two victories with this car whilst his team-mate Johnny Dumfries didn't manage to finish above fifth place in any race.

These photographs of the 98T were taken in the pits during the morning warm-up session.

The 98T returning to its pit. The two Ferraris in the background are the 1972 712 Can-Am Spyder of Carlos Monteverde  (serial number 1010), driven that day by David Franklin, and the 1972 365 GTB/4 Daytona Competizione of John Bosch (serial number 14407).

Friday's Ferrari

The Ferrari & Maserati Festival of Racing meeting at Donington Park in May 2003 included a race for older Ferraris. The programme of the event says this about this race:

'Designed to be a couple of pilot races for 2003, the initiative is already a hit and more than 20 classic models will be racing at Donington in the first of the series of races. Generally aimed at pre-1990 cars, the class has drawn into action several stunning 1960s cars including two 250s, the 275 GTB of David Cottingham and the 365GTB4 of Grahame Bryant in the class for the oldest cars. The more developed 308s and 328s that used to rule the roost in the Pirelli Maranello Ferrari Challenge have been given a new home in the Classic series and they have supported the event with enthusiasm. Graham Reeder (328), Duncan McKay (308) and Mike Furness (328) have all taken the chance to race their older cars as well as current cars in the PMFC races. With wonderful models like the Dino 246GT of Colin Campbell and the Testarossa of Ray Hanson also due on the grid, it seems that the Ferrari Formula Classic has really captured the imagination of Ferrari owners!'

The photograph below, taken in the pit garage, is of the 1971 Ferrari 365GTB/4C Daytona of Grahame Bryant referred to above.

This car is serial number 13971 and you can read about it here

There was another Ferrari 365GTB/4 Daytona in the Ferrari Owners Club car park on the inside of Redgate Corner and this one is serial number 14517.