One to Buy: ex-Scandia Motorsport two-time Sebring 12 Hour-winning 1994 Ferrari 333 SP
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21 years after the company had last created a purpose-built competition Prototype, Ferrari produced the sensational 333 SP for its customers to mount an attack on the 1994 IMSA World Sports Car Championship.
The ‘94 season would see a new era of open-cockpit WSC-class machinery replace the closed-cockpit GTP models of old and, following requests from several wealthy customers, Ferrari boss Luca di Montezemolo sanctioned a return to the kind of top flight sports car racing that had done so much to cultivate the legend of the Prancing Horse.
With its state-of-art specification that included an F1-derived four-litre V12 engine, the 333 SP went on to become the single most dominant sports racing car of the mid 1990s / early 2000s; following much IMSA success across the Atlantic, the 333 SP continued its good form when a new-for-1998 International Sports Racing Series was established (which later became the FIA Sportscar Championship).
Currently on offer at the Girardo & Co. showroom in Oxfordshire is one of the most decorated examples of the 333 SP ever: chassis 003.
Originally supplied to Scandia Motorsport patron, Andy Evans, chassis 003’s first public appearance was made at the Geneva Motor Show in March 1994 where it went on display alongside the rest of the company’s range.
003 subsequently departed for the US and, between 1994 and 1997, collected four outright IMSA victories to include wins at the Sebring 12 Hours in 1995 and 1997. The car subsequently recorded a brace of European victories with the GLV Brums team of Giuseppe Prevosti and was finally retired from racing at the end of 2003.
Today, this most significant Classiche-certified 333 SP is presented in superb restored condition having been reverted to its 1995 Sebring trim.
