Ferrari 312B

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Ferrari 312B

Constructor: ItalyItaly Scuderia Ferrari
Designer: Mauro Forghieri
Predecessor: Ferrari 312F1
Successor: Ferrari 312B2
Technical specifications
Chassis: Half-shell, steel tubes and aluminum plates, partially supporting engine.
Engine: Ferrari-V 12, 180 °, 2991 cm³
Length: 4020 mm
Width: 1740 mm
Height: 950 mm
Wheelbase: 2380 mm
Weight: 534 kg
Tires: Firestone
Petrol: Shell
statistics
Driver: BelgiumBelgium Jacky Ickx Ignazio Giunti Clay Regazzoni Mario Andretti
ItalyItaly 
SwitzerlandSwitzerland 
United StatesUnited States 
First start: 1970 South African Grand Prix
Last start: 1971 South African Grand Prix
Starts Victories Poles SR
19th 5 6th 11
World Cup points: -
Podiums: -
Leadership laps: k. A. / tba
Template: Infobox racing car / maintenance / old parameters

The Ferrari 312B was a Formula 1 car that Scuderia Ferrari built and used in 1970 and 1971.

Development history

In 1970 the Ferrari 312B ended a long period without a win for Scuderia in Formula 1. In 1969, the Italian car company Fiat joined Ferrari and created new structures. Above all, the new financial security ensured calm in the racing team. The 312B got a completely new chassis and a new engine. The twelve-cylinder engine in a 180 ° V arrangement made 460 hp at 2991 cm³. The engine was mounted in a rear extension of the chassis made of light metal sheets and pipes.

Racing history

Although the car was competitive from the start, it was not successful until the middle of the 1970 season . Jacky Ickx won the Austrian Grand Prix and at the end of the year the races in Canada and Mexico , but at the end of the season he finished second in the overall standings behind Jochen Rindt . The Austrian Lotus driver had a fatal accident in his Lotus 72 during training for the Italian Grand Prix in Monza and was posthumously world champion. Clay Regazzoni won the race in a 312B.

Mario Andretti won the South African Grand Prix with the 312B in 1971 , then the Scuderia brought the successor model, the 312B2 , to the racetracks from the race in Monaco .

literature

  • Mike Lang: Grand Prix! Race-by-race account of Formula 1. Haynes Publishing Group, Sparkford 1982, ISBN 0-85429-321-3 .
  • David Hodges: Racing cars from A to Z after 1945. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-613-01477-7 .
  • Pino Casamassima: Storia della Scuderia Ferrari. Nada Editore, Vimodrome 1998, ISBN 88-7911-179-5 .
  • Leonardo Acerbi: 60 years of Ferrari. Heel, Königswinter 2007, ISBN 978-3-89880-815-6 .

Web links

Commons : Ferrari 312 B  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files