Tag Archives: Jody Scheckter
What a Difference a Year Makes
This is Gilles Villeneuve hard at work trying everything he can to find the success he had had a year before. Villeneuve had won the Long Beach Grand Prix (more correctly known as the U.S. Grand Prix West) in 1979 with the Ferrari 312T4 and with his teammate and eventual Championship winner Jody Scheckter second. […]
Ferrari’s 312T5
Here we see a clear view of the Ferrari 312T5 as driven by Gilles Villeneuve at the Monaco Grand Prix on May 18, 1980. Note the low, wide and very flat bodywork, trying to get clean air to the rear wing. The T5 was the final development of the combination of Ferrari’s well-known flat 12 […]
A Run on The Streets
Two lovely Ferrari 312/T5s on the streets of Long Beach on March 30, 1980 during the USGP West. Nevertheless, beauty does not finish first every time. Ferrari, which had won the Championship for Jody Scheckter in 1979 with the 312/T4, found that their already rather ancient design would be out of the running with its […]
The Rush of Speed
For years Watkins Glen has been known as The Blue Monster because of its sky blue guard rails which still closely surround the circuit. The top of The Esses was always a very challenging section, flat out with a quick car getting light when the road bends left as it tops the crest of the hill. This […]
The Red Tide Runs Out
What a difference a year makes. 1979 had been a real Ferrari benefit with Jody Scheckter winning the World Championship and his young teammate Gilles Villeneuve as runner-up with Ferrari’s 312T4. Ingenere Mauro Forghieri had got the aero right. But 1980 was something else entirely. Here are Scheckter and Gilles Villeneuve in line at the U. S. Grand Prix […]
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