The execution
The lighter Michelotto development car, built for competition routes that disappeared before it could start.
Pininfarina and Michelotto developed the fibreglass-and-Kevlar body, carbon-fibre rear wing, enlarged turbos and two engine directions. Ferrari counts six cars; RM Sotheby’s and Tom Hartley describe five, and the surviving chassis record does not reconcile them.
On the record
- High-output circuit and lower-output rally specifications
- ~650 hp applies to the high-output circuit specification, not every car
- Planned circuit and privateer tarmac-rally routes both disappeared
- Public price for chassis 79888 remains undisclosed
As separated
- Years
- 1985–1988 completion history
- Built
- 6
- Engine
- Twin-turbo V8 · enlarged turbos · two development specifications
- Power
- ~650 hp · high-output spec
- Weight
- ~940 kg · Ferrari claim
Against the Ferrari 288 GTO
- Years
- 1985–1988 completion history · Ferrari 288 GTO 1984–1987 convention
- Built
- 6 · Ferrari 288 GTO 272
- Engine
- Twin-turbo V8 · enlarged turbos · two development specifications · Ferrari 288 GTO 2'855 cc twin-IHI-turbo V8 · longitudinal, rear-mid
- Power
- ~650 hp · high-output spec · Ferrari 288 GTO 400 hp
- Weight
- ~940 kg · Ferrari claim · Ferrari 288 GTO 1'160 kg · source mass convention varies