The stars are beginning to align in preparation for the 2012 Donington Historic Festival on May 5–6, with early entrants including the Le Mans and Daytona 24 Hours winner and ex-Formula One driver Jackie Oliver, who will share a 1961 250 GT SWB with Rohan Fernando in the Pre-’63 GT race. This early aluminum-bodied competition Ferrari had a brief hillclimb career half a century ago, but has never been raced, so will be making its circuit debut at Donington.
Racing against them will be Lukas Hüni and Gary Pearson, driving Hüni’s SEFAC Ferrari 250 GT SWB, the last SEFAC competition car ever built, and the machine that Ricardo and Pedro Rodriguez took to victory in the 1000km of Paris in 1961. Coincidentally, a decade later Pedro and Oliver partnered to win the Monza 1000km for Porsche.
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