Car · Ferrari · 1978–1979
Ferrari 312T3
The 312T line ran for six seasons and five designations and is the most successful thing Ferrari built before the Schumacher era. The 312T2 is the car Lauda crashed at the Nürburgring in 1976 and the car he was back in six weeks later. By the 312T5 in 1980 the flat-12 was too wide for ground effect and the car was hopeless - Ferrari finished tenth in the championship, and went turbo.
- Seasons
- 1978–1979
- Entries
- 0
- Wins
- 0
- Poles
- 0
- Fastest laps
- 0
- Constructors' titles
- 4
- Drivers' titles
- 3
One of the design family that has a specified page of its own.
Why it mattered
The idea. Turn the gearbox sideways and put it ahead of the rear axle line: the mass moves forward and the car turns better
New on this car. The transverse gearbox - the T in the name is trasversale - which concentrated mass within the wheelbase
What it did. 89 races, 27 wins, 19 poles. Drivers' titles for Lauda (1975, 1977) and Scheckter (1979); constructors' in 1975, 1976, 1977 and 1979.
- Designers
- Mauro Forghieri
- Supersedes
- ferrari-312b
- Design life
- 1975–1980
- Confidence
- high
Specification
- Chassis
- Steel tube frame with aluminium shear panels
- Front suspension
- Double wishbone, inboard spring/damper
- Rear suspension
- Double wishbone suspension
- Brakes
- disc
- Gearbox
- Ferrari Type 015
- Gears
- 5-speed transverse gearbox
- Tyres
- 1975-77: Goodyear ; 1978-80: Michelin
- Fuel
- Agip
- Engine
- Ferrari Tipo 015
- Configuration
- flat 12
- Capacity
- 2,992 cc
- Aspiration
- naturally aspirated
- Power
- 515 bhp
- Power note
- 500-515 hp @ 12,500 rpm; 236 lbft
- Weight
- —
- Wheelbase
- —
- Track, front
- —
- Track, rear
- —
A blank is a figure nobody published for this car. Where several teams quote the same number in a season it is usually the rule they were all built to rather than a measurement, so it is kept with the regulation limits instead of here.
Seasons that cannot be attributed 1
| Season | Also entered by this constructor |
|---|---|
| 1975 | ferrari-312b3-74 |
Every entry 0 entries
No race entry in this database resolves here. That is usually a constructor that ran several designs in a season and no source saying which raced when, not a car that never raced.
Where this comes from
- Constructor
- Ferrari
- Predecessor
- 312B3
- Successor
- 126C
- Races (published)
- 89
- Wins (published)
- 27
- Poles (published)
- 19
- Confidence
- reference
- Specification source
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari_312T
- Register source
- https://github.com/f1db/f1db