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Showing posts with label Ferrari 412P. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ferrari 412P. Show all posts

Friday, 1 March 2024

Friday's Ferrari

This is a photograph I took at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1997.
It's Paul Pappalardo's 1967 Ferrari 412 P, also known as a P3/P4, which was a customer version of the Ferrari 330 P3. Both cars have a 3,967cc V12 engine, but the 330 P3 has Lucas fuel injection whilst the 412 P has six Weber carburettors - which gives it slightly less power than the fuel injection cars and made the private entries less likely to beat the works cars. Paul Pappalardo's car is chassis #0850 and was originally built for the Belgian Ecurie Francorchamps team. hence the yellow Belgian racing colour. Only two cars were originally built as 412 Ps, #0850 and #0854. Two cars were built as 330 P3s, #0844 and #0848, but were later converted to 412 P specification.

Friday, 29 July 2022

Friday's Ferrari

This is one of the cars that took part in the Shell Historic Ferrari Maserati Challenge race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1999.
It's Paul Pappalardo's 1967 Ferrari 412 P, also known as a P3/P4, which was a customer version of the Ferrari 330 P3. Both cars have a 3,967cc V12 engine, but the 330 P3 has Lucas fuel injection whilst the 412 P has six Weber carburettors - which gives it slightly less power than the fuel injection cars and made the private entries less likely to beat the works cars. Paul Pappalardo's car is chassis #0850 and was originally built for the Belgian Ecurie Francorchamps team. hence the yellow Belgian racing colour. Only two cars were originally built as 412 Ps, #0850 and #0854. Two cars were built as 330 P3s, #0844 and #0848, but were later converted to 412 P specification. The car was driven in the race by Gary Pearson.

Friday, 13 March 2020

Friday's Ferrari

Three cars here in the pit lane during practice for a round of the Shell Ferrari Maserati Historic Challenge race at the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2004.
Number 90 on the left is the 1966 Ferrari 412P of Harry Leventis, chassis #0844, which was driven in the race by Peter Hardman. It has a 3,967cc V12 engine and started off in 1966 as a Ferrari 330 P3, but in 1967 was converted to a 412P which is the customer equivalent of the 330 P3 works car. It seems the only difference between the two cars is that the works car has Lucas fuel injection and the customer car Weber carburettors - the primary reason  for this was allegedly to make it more difficult for the customer cars to beat the team cars. The car on the right is another of Harry Leventis's cars, the 1965 Ferrari Dino 206SP, chassis #0834, that he drove in the race himself. This car was originally built as a Dino 166P with a 1,593cc V6 engine, but was given a 1,987cc V6 engine later in 1965 and converted to a 206SP. Behind that is the 1966 Ferrari Dino 206S of Lars Wramell with the 1,987cc V6 engine, chassis #006 66, that was originally campaigned by Maranello Concessionaires in 1966 when its first race was in the Tourist Trophy race at Oulton Park in April of that year.

Friday, 8 February 2019

Friday's Ferrari

I took this photograph at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1997.
It's Paul Pappalardo's 1967 Ferrari 412 P, also known as a P3/P4, which was a customer version of the Ferrari 330 P3. Both cars have a 3,967cc V12 engine, but the 330 P3 has Lucas fuel injection whilst the 412 P has six Weber carburettors - which gives it slightly less power than the fuel injection cars and made the private entries less likely to beat the works cars. Paul Pappalardo's car is chassis #0850 and was originally built for the Belgian Ecurie Francorchamps team. hence the yellow Belgian racing colour. Only two cars were originally built as 412 Ps, #0850 and #0854. Two cars were built as 330 P3s, #0844 and #0848, but were later converted to 412 P specification.

Friday, 25 November 2016

Friday's Ferrari

I took this photograph at McLean's Corner during a Shell Ferrari Maserati Historic Challenge race at the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2004.
Leading is Peter Hardman in the 1966 Ferrari 412P of Harry Leventis (#0844), followed by the 1959 Maserati Tipo 61 of Carlo Vögele (#2454) and the 1960 Ferrari 250GT SWB of Vincent Gaye (#2069GT).

Friday, 29 April 2016

Friday's Ferrari

This car took part in races for the Shell Ferrari Maserati Historic Challenge at the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2004.
It's the 1966 Ferrari 412P of Harry Leventis, driven at Donington Park by Peter Hardman. The car is serial number 0844 and although being shown as a 412P in the programme of the event it has a rather chequered history. According to its barchetta.cc record it started off life as a Ferrari 330 P3 before being converted to a 412P in 1967, and later that year into a CanAm Spyder Group 7 car. Sometime in 1997/98 it was converted back to 330 P3 Berlinetta specifications and there's no note of any further modifications. These are the official Ferrari overviews of the 412P and the 330 P3.

Friday, 22 March 2013

Friday's Ferrari

This is another of the cars in the special Ferrari display at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1997.

The board in front of the car reads:

1966
FERRARI 330 P3/4
DRIVEN BY
MAIRESSE & BEURLYS
IN THE 1967 DAYTONA 24 HOURS
& SPA 1000 KM FOR
ECURIE FRANCORCHAMPS

A website called trackthoughts.com has this to say about the Ferrari 330 P3/4:

Ferrari updated 330P3 Spyder s/n 0846 to P4 specifications. The chassis was modified to accept the Tipo 241 engine and the new Tipo 603 gearbox. The bodywork was also updated to accommodate the wider profile tires. This car was officially a 330 P3/4 or as Ing Forghieri described it, a Bastard Ferrari P3/4. The Ferrari factory would ultimately build three genuine 330P4 cars for the 1967 season. To provide additional support, Ferrari converted the older 330P3 series to customer cars and named them 412P. These cars had the 2-valve, 4-liter P3 engines converted to Weber carburetors. Initially the 412Ps used the ZF gearbox but were upgraded to Tipo 603 later in the season. The cars also had modified suspension and bodywork and were similar in appearance to the 330P4s.

Websites about the two races involved refer to the car as a Ferrari 412P and at that time, of course, the car would have been painted in the Belgian colour of yellow.

This car's serial number is 0854 and therefore isn't the car Mairesse and Beurlys drove in the 1967 Daytona race.