333SP- Could a privateer run a new one today in Le Mans?

No.

No.

Someone else can explain.

 

Simple answer, nope!

The 333 is nearly 15 years old and was built to ACO (LeMans sanctioning body) rules that don't exist anymore. Weight, width height, side impact and overhang, not to mention engine capacity don't meet those rules.

While "non-factory" teams can and have assembled cars for the current LMP1 and LMP2 prototype classes, no company other than Ferrari can assemble a car even using Ferrari components and call it a Ferrari.

Creation, Dome, Zytek and Pescarolo are all examples of "independents" that have assembled cars, albeit without F-car components and have run them with varying degrees of success.

As far as adding an F car motor, not sure any are competitive at the moment, as all of Ferraris efforts are focused on the GT (430) efforts. The factory has expressed no interest in building or supplying constructors for a prototype effort. The downside is too great.

Jim's car is really cool, but it ain't no racecar!

 

This is the real answer, as explained to me by one of those slide rule types. Believe it or not, the Enzo subframe is not stiff enough to be competitive at Le Mans. Even a full on production car such as Jim's P 4/5 is full of compromises. A race car is not. It only has to last 24 hours and 1 minute of the full tilt boogie. Such is the way of the world.

Dale