Finali Mondiali returns to Mugello

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This year the Ferrari Finali Mondiali will return to Mugello, where the 2017 edition was held. The event for all Prancing Horse fans and enthusiasts from 24 to 27 October, will see the last races of the three series of the Ferrari Challenge in addition to the sessions of the special XX and F1 Clienti Programmes.

Intense year. The Mugello event will be the final act of a year packed with meetings that kicks off on 15 to 17 February with the Ferrari Challenge Europe, which makes its debut in Bahrain, with exciting night races on the Sakhir track. The North American series starts in Austin on the weekend of 8-10 March, while the Ferrari Challenge Asia-Pacific gets going the following week in Melbourne, alongside the season’s opening Formula 1 Grand Prix. Each championship consists of seven rounds of two races each. In 2019, the new local series, the Ferrari Challenge UK, has a calendar of four meetings with Race-1 on Saturday and Race-2 on Sunday.

F1 Clienti and XX Programmes. The other two Corse Clienti activities, F1 Clienti and XX Programmes, like the Ferrari Challenge Europe, will open their year in Bahrain from 14 to 17 February and will then wend their way around some of the world’s most beautiful tracks, such as Laguna Seca, venue of the North American Ferrari Racing Days, Suzuka and the Nürburgring. The legendary German circuit will host a very special activity for XX Programmes customers who, on Monday 8 July, will have a chance to drive their own laboratory cars on the so-called Green Hell of the Nordschleife, the 20 km plus track that hosted the German Formula 1 Grand Prix until 1976.

2001 Ferrari 360 N-GT for sale by Jan B. Lühn

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One of the most important 360 GT
Chassis No 001
 
Direct link to the sale Jan B. Lühn
 
Model history:
The Ferrari 360 N-GT was based on 360 Challenge car and tuned by Michellotto for the newly developed N-GT category of the FIA GT Championship. At that time it was the fastest version of the Ferrari 360 with over 540 bhp when derestricted. The 360 N-GT was capable of a top speed of around 310 km/h and on many occasions it outperformed the newer F430 GT cars of its time.In the first year Ferrari authorized Michelotto to built three cars (000, 001 and 002). The success of these cars later led to the 360 GT.

Specific history of this car:

This car, Ferrari 360 N-GT #001 was ordered by Peter Kutemann in October 1999 at Ferrari Monaco and was delivered in February 2000. All invoices for this are still on file. The car then immediately went to Michelotto in Padua where it was then modified and developed by Michelotto to N-GT spec. 

2000 FIA GT:

• 2000/apr/28, dnf, Spa Ferrari Days, Kutemann, #71
• 2000/may/13, 24th OA/13th N-GT, Silverstone, Alliot/Kutemann, #71

The team JMB was asked by Michelotto on the end of the 1999 season to race and develop together with Michelotto a GT on the basis of the F360 Modena Challenge and homologate for the FIA-N-GT series during the season 2000. Michelotto started the development.

• 2000/jul/23, 20th OA/9th N-GT, Zolder, Alliot/Kutemann, #71
• 2000/oct/22, 24th OA/11th N-GT, Magny Cours, Alliot/Kutemann, #71
• 2000/oct/22, 2nd N-GT, Vallelunga, Capelli/Kutemann/Terrien, #71

2001 FIA GT:

• 2001/apr/25, 19th OA/7th FFSA, Le Mans Race 1, Alexander/Kutemann, #37
• 2001/apr/25, 13th OA/4th FFSA, Le Mans Race 2, Alexander/Kutemann, #37
• 2001/may/1, 21st OA/9th FFSA, Magny Cours Race 1, Alexander/Kutemann, #37
• 2001/may/1, 43rd OA/11th FFSA Magny Cours Race 2, Alexander/Kutemann, #37
• 2001/jun/3, 14th OA/9th FFSA, Pau, Alexander/Terrien, #37
• 2001/jul/15, 12th OA/4th FFSA, Monza Race 1, Alexander/Kutemann, #37
• 2001/jul/15, 9th OA/2nd FFSAMonza Race 2, Alexander/Kutemann, #37
• 2001/oct/21, 14th OA/7th N-GT, Estoril, Alexander/Kutemann, #99

2002 FIA GT:

• 2002/apr/21, 13th OA/6th N-GT, Magny Cours, Alexander/Kutemann/Pregliasco, #53
• 2003/may/4, 17th OA/6th N-GT, Silverstone, Alexander/Lambertini /Pregliasco, #53
• 2002/may/19, 11th OA/5th N-GT, BrnoAlexander/Lambertini/Pregliasco, #53
• 2002/jun/2 ,23rd OA/12th N-GTJaramaAlexander/Lambertini /Pregliasco, #53
• 2002/jun/30, 22nd OA/12th N-GT, Anderstorp, Alexander/Kutemann/Pregliasco, #53
• 2002/jul/17, 16th OA/8th N-GT, Oschersleben, Alexander/Kutemann/Pregliasco, #53

2003 FIA GT:

• 2003/apr/6, 20th OA/ 10th GT, Barcelona, Kutemann/Gosse, #53
• 2003/apr/27, 18th OA/ 11th GT, Magny Cours, Kutemann/Gosse, #53
• 2003/may/11, 14th OA/ 6th GT, Pergusa, Kutemann/Gosse, #53
• 2003/may/25, 20th OA / 11th GT, Brno, Kutemann/Gosse, #53
• 2003/jun/29, 17th OA / 8th GT, Donington, Kutemann/Gosse, #53
• 2003/jul/6, acc, 24h Spa, Kutemann/Gosse/Earle/Pregliasco, #68
• 2003/sep/7, 18th OA / 11th GT, Anderstorp, Kutemann/Gosse, #53
• 2003/sep/21, dnf, Oschersleben, Kutemann/Gosse, #53
• 2003/oct/5, 19th OA/11th N-GT, Estoril, Kutemann/Gosse, #53
• 2003/oct/19, 15th OA/7th GT, Monza, Kutemann/Gosse, #53

After the 2003 season the car retired from the bigger races and was only used for two races in 2005 for the Italian GT championship.

After that the car remained only in private hands. It is presented now in perfect running condition and will be sold as one of the most original N-GTs in existence. The car comes with an impressive history folder which not only includes all original sales contracts and invoices, but also a lot of original period photos.

This is an ideal car for the new championships by Peter Auto (Global Endurance Legends, the Masters series or the newly created Ferrari Club Competizioni GT.

Sources: 
• Ferrari SpA
• Michelotto SpA
• JMB
• barchetta.cc
• Michael Jurtin (photos)

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‘Not all clubs are the same’ Ferrari states on the presentation brochure for its new Club Competizione GT, a new non-competitive factory programme for Ferrari GT racing cars built between 1993 and today, poised to take place at five circuits around the world in 2019. And it’s got a point – the thought alone of 348 GT Competiziones and F40 GTEs sharing the asphalt of Mugello and Indianapolis with 575 GTCs and 458 Italia GT2s is enough to send your pulse racing. And the new initiative is one that Jan Lühn, a strong advocate and collector of these special Ferrari racers, believes will only heighten interest and, ultimately, values moving forward. 

“Ferrari was well aware of the increased values of its modern racing cars and believed there was enough interest and were enough cars to run such a programme,” he comments. “And even if values of the most significant Works cars have doubled or even tripled in the last two years, I still believe they’re undervalued. Club Competizione GT will only serve to lend them more credibility.” He cites their rarity, straightforwardness to run, safety in comparison to 1950s and ’60s cars, and approachability as just some of the factors that make them so attractive to new collectors. Plus, with the emergence of not only Club Competizione but also the Masters and Global Endurance Legends series’, there are myriad opportunities to actually get out and use the cars as intended. Jean Guikas of GTC Guikas is of the same opinion, having seen younger customers less motivated by older historic Ferraris. “We had three Ferrari 575 GTCs for sale,” he comments. “We sold two very easily, the second of which for twice the price of the first, and we’ve had very high bids for the third, which has Le Mans history. But we’re going to keep that and I’m going to drive it in the series myself.” 

Looking for the right car with which to enter Club Competizione and really make a statement with the big boys in the XX and F1 Clienti programmes? You’re in luck: RM Sotheby’s has just consigned the most successful F40 LM – a car James Cottingham described to us as the F40 – to its Paris sale in February. 

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