360 Modena in GT Racing

 

 

Monza, April 16, 2000

Racing in the N-GT Category
Michelotto of Padova have prepared three 360 Modena for racing in the N-GT category of the FIA GT World Championship. They are basically 360 Challenge cars, it is unknown at present whether they sport additional modifications compared to the examples competing in the Ferrari Challenge.

The French team "JMB Competition" of Jean-Michel Bouresche, too, prepared a 360 Modena for GT-racing, and they presented their car in Paris on April 11^th.

Monza
The recent FIA GT race at Monza was the first outing of the cars. Former F1-pilot Loris Kessel and his teammates Andrea Garbagnati and Paolo Ligresti achieved the best result among the Ferrari entered in the event: Their 360 Challenge became 15^th OA and 7^th in class. The above mentioned car of JMB Competition ended up on 17^th; drivers were Batti Pregliasco and Marco Lambertini. Former Ferrari Formula One pilot Ivan Capelli had teamed-up with Eric Prinoth in the 360 Modena entered by the Supertech team. They became 18^th OA.

Bad start for the 550 Millennio
Swiss team First Racing with drivers Fabien Giroix and Jean-Dénis Déletraz entered a 550 Millennio – www.Barchetta.cc reported earlier on this project. After the car suffered a broken gearbox in qualifying, the team worked hard to fix the damage in time for the race. But after just nine laps it had to retire from the race.

 

Andreas Birner