To Be OFFERED AT AUCTION at RM Sothebys' The Petersen Automotive
Museum Auction event, 8 December 2018.
Estimate:
$300,000 - $350,000
- One of only 20 360 GTs built
- Delivered new to Risi Competizione
- Campaigned at the 2003 12 Hours of Sebring
- Multiple FCA Platinum Award-winner
- The only Ferrari Classiche-certified 360 GT
Please note that this lot is offered on a Bill of Sale.
Throughout its history, Ferrari has enjoyed a strong record of
success in GT racing through both factory entries and privateer
racing teams. At the introduction of the 360 Modena in 1999, it was
clear that this car was a quantum leap in performance over the
outgoing F355. A number of teams expressed interest in taking the
360 Modena racing.
With factory support, three race cars were built for JMB Racing and
the 2000 FIA GT season. When the team won the FIA N-GT driver's and
team championship in 2001, Ferrari decided to offer a full
competition-variant of the 360 Modena to racing teams. Produced in
conjunction with Michelotto, the 360 GT was specifically engineered
to compete in the FIA's N-GT and A.C.O. Championship series for the
2002 and 2003 seasons. Only 20 cars were produced, numbered in an
even-number range from chassis no. 2002 to 2040.
Of those 20 cars, three were delivered to the Houston-based race
team, Risi Competizione, and chassis no. 2022 was the second
example they received. Arriving in early 2003, the car's first
event was the 12 Hours of Sebring that year. Driven by Marino
Franchetti and Kevin McGarrity, the car qualified 36th on the grid.
Making it through 243 laps of the race, it was eventually sidelined
after an accident. To complete repairs, the car was returned to
Italy to be rebuilt.
Returning to North America in 2004, the 360 GT was sold to Remo
Ferri of Ferrari of Ontario and subsequently Dan Heard of Baton
Rouge, Louisiana, in 2005. In Heard's ownership, the car made two
trips to the track in 2006 and 2007 but remained mostly in storage
during this time. A major service that included new cam belts was
completed in April 2012, and it was sold to Bruce Banyo in 2012.
Banyo showed the car at the Cavallino Classic in 2014, winning a
Silver award, and the car was sold to the current owner this year.
In his care, chassis no. 2022 was shown at the Classiche Concorso
d'Eleganza at Daytona Raceway as part of the Ferrari Finali
Mondiali in 2016. The car also scored Platinum Awards at the
Concorso Italiano, the International Ferrari FCA event in Pasadena,
as well as at the National Meet.
An exciting piece of modern motorsport, this rare 360 GT would
surely provide loads of thrills on the track and garner further
accolades off the track.To view this car and others currently
consigned to this auction, please visit the RM website at
rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/ca18.