Ferrari in 2018 launched the brand new Icona collection aimed toward collectors trying to buy a one-off or low-volume Ferrari with styling unashamedly cribbed from previous classics.
The primary within the collection have been the 812-based Monza SP1 and Monza SP2 cars, impressed by early racing barchettas like the unique 750 Monza and 860 Monza of the Fifties.
The following member within the collection, code-named F251, will probably be revealed in mid-November, Benedetto Vigna, Ferrari’s new CEO, stated on Tuesday throughout his first earnings name with buyers. The reveal will possible coincide with Ferrari’s annual Finali Mondiali gathering which this yr runs Nov. 16-22 at Italy’s Mugello racetrack.
“I am actually proud to announce at the moment to all our loyal Ferrari relations that the brand new shock is coming quickly with the revealing in the course of this month of our second Icona mannequin,” he stated.
Based on discussion board chatter, the inspiration for the automobile is the 330 P4 from 1967. Backing up the rumors is the current sighting of a closely camouflaged prototype testing close to Ferrari’s Maranello headquarters.
A video of the prototype from YouTube channel Varryx reveals design traits shared with some variations of the 330 P4, just like the fender mounted facet mirrors, curvaceous physique, and huge, wedge-like tail.
It is potential that the F251 is the mystery car we spotted in March, which used a makeshift LaFerrari physique to cover its mechanicals. A number of the particulars of that earlier tester, just like the wheels and high-mounted exhaust suggestions, match up with the prototype proven right here.
Hopefully, the ensuing design for the F251 will probably be one thing just like the revived De Tomaso’s utterly gorgeous P72. Do not be stunned if there are additionally some similarities with James Glickenhaus’ Ferrari P4/5 by Pininfarina, whose design was additionally impressed by the 330 P4.
The unique 330 P4, of which simply three authentic examples have been constructed along with a fourth automobile primarily based on the chassis of the earlier P3, was a sports activities prototype constructed for endurance racing. Probably the most well-known victory was on the 1967 24 Hours of Daytona, the place a 330 P4 got here in first, second and third.
Keep tuned.
