"Secret One-Off Prototype"

At around 2:30 of this very-interesting video (about a dude buying one of Schumacher's Ferrari F1 cars), an Enzo/FXX-like car appears (in bare carbon, sporting a rather large rear wing) identified only as a "secret one-off prototype" that "happens to be on sale as well." Anyone able to fill in the details?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1884087241108886619&q=5th+gear&total=4882&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

 

perhaps it's the test mule of the Maserati MC12

 

its an old vid - it was the Enzo / FXX / MC12 prototype that was often seen whizzing round the test track with Pirelli stickers on it a few years ago (2/3)

 

It's believed to be an MC12 testmule in Enzo clothes. There are a few posts and possible a topic about this very car on this same forum.

 

Here are two images of the 5th gear video. Is the prototype. the project called Masearti/Ferrari 6000GT!


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wow that car looks incredible. love the dry carbon.

 

In my eyes.... there is no more desirable car in the world. Everything about it is what I dream of in only the greatest dreams. what it means, what it can do, what it spawned, the color, everything is perfect. One day, it will be mine.



Wow, I have a problem.

 

Great look into the Corsa Clienti program....

Thanks for the link!

 

I wouldn't be surprised if it showed up at one of the Leggenda E Passione auctions in 10 or 15 years if not sooner. I would guess that it would bring no less than $3 million if sold in todays market and who knows what a decade from now.

 

I guess I'd have to agree with you, although it needs some black wheels as well

 

The driver's name stencilled on the car is "A Bertollini"- the Maserati factory driver who ended up driving the MC12 in the ALMS series, if I recall correctly.

He also attempted to set the Laguna Seca lap record in a Ferrari F1 Corse Clienti car a few years ago.

Gio P

 

My two laps around Laguna Seca were attempts to break the lap record.











































I fail miserably. A Ford Aerostar and my skills are not the best tools for such an attempt!

 

Well, you guys can't both have it... so I guess you're going to have to fight to the death.

Take pics!

 

HOw much do you think the F1 car sold for?

 

7 figures... doubt it would be much more. i have seen a few older "late 90's" f1 cars going or $800k ish... obviously this would be much more, but how much more i dont know.... $5mil? my only concern if i was to buy an f1 car. they are designed to last like 500km. what happens when he clocks that up? needs a new engine?

 

You have to send the car back to the factory for an engine refresh.

 

obviously these are going to be nowhere near a 2001 ferrari f1 car. but for example

1991 Benneton Schumacher car - 729,000 Euros
http://www.race-cars.com/carsales/other/1195306469/1195306469ss.htm

1994 Benetton Schumacher car - $850,000 USD
http://www.race-cars.com/carsales/other/1157661450/1157661450ss.htm

 

(bam sits back from his computer, downs the rest of his wine, and heads off to the kitchen for some aluminum foil and hockey tape.)


what must be done, must be done.


but yeah, I do agree, some black wheels would be nice.

 

geesh, that black one looks like an enzo on steriods

 

Another video with the car
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1452894492685902393&q=maserati+mc12&total=610&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

 

Not the same car.

 

Im of course not talking about the MC12. I was talking about the short bit of it going around the track at the very beginning. I cant review the video now because Im at work, but I thought it was featured at the beginning of that video.

 

Great video!

 

That is what you call a hard-core enthusiast. Drives his car to the track in the snow, wrecks it, and then drives it home. Incredible.

 

Hey, there is nothing wrong with dreaming!