There is a group of guys who sometimes show up to our local SAFE Motorsports events with an older 333SP. It sounds pretty sweet, but both times I've seen it out there, it wasn't running very well.
I view the Enzo as man's greatest creation. It is truly a work of art. The 333SP is also one of the best things that I have ever seen. I stopped by Ferrari of Washington a couple of months ago and while I was walking through the service department I heard this sound, the most beautiful sound I have ever heard. We walked out back and peeked into this little section of the shop where they keep the race cars and there it was, a 333SP. I guess they were doing some fine tuning because they kept revving the engine up over and over again. The sound of a race tuned Ferarri combined with leaded race fuel is nothing short of intoxicating. I could have stayed there all day. It's things like this give us real motivation whether we'll ever be able to have one or not.
There is a group of guys who sometimes show up to our local SAFE Motorsports events with an older 333SP. It sounds pretty sweet, but both times I've seen it out there, it wasn't running very well.
That's what one of the guys told me. I saw the Ferrari engine, and I thought the same thing -- didn't look much like a 333SP, but there aren't any other WSC Ferraris. Maybe it's a body they made or bought somewhere else, I dunno. They didn't speak English very well, so it was hard enough just asking him what kind of Ferrari it was. Plus they were pretty busy so I didn't want to waste his time (the same group had some Porsches there, too).
That's what one of the guys told me. I saw the Ferrari engine, and I thought the same thing -- didn't look much like a 333SP, but there aren't any other WSC Ferraris. Maybe it's a body they made or bought somewhere else, I dunno. They didn't speak English very well, so it was hard enough just asking him what kind of Ferrari it was. Plus they were pretty busy so I didn't want to waste his time (the same group had some Porsches there, too).
From what I see there, it looks like a Tiga C2 prototype with the top cut off to meet WSC specs. There was at least one Ferrari-powered Tiga that competed in IMSA GTP in the late '80's, and it was probably converted over when the WSC started--but it's not the 333SP we know and love:
I have to disagree with you, I don't see a resemblence to the Tiga C2 except at the very, very back end. I'll have to go dig up some photos from other angles. A chopped GTP is definitely an interesting possibility I hadn't considered. There was such a big gap between the death of GTP and the start of WSC, I frankly had forgotten about that brief round of conversion cars.
Dean -- agreed 100%. I'd watch every single broadcast if Speed TV would re-show those old races. But their NASCAR masters probably have them wrapped up in some kind of insidious legal contract to prevent exactly that.
Anyone who supports NASCAR supports litigation as a tool to control what motorsports you can -- and can't -- see in the US.
There is a group of guys who sometimes show up to our local SAFE Motorsports events with an older 333SP. It sounds pretty sweet, but both times I've seen it out there, it wasn't running very well.
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