Pininfarina Ferrari P4/5 Competizione
It’s been almost four years since James Glickenhaus commissioned his custom Pininfarina Ferrari P4/5. He says now that he is looking into building a race version of the car to compete in endurance racing.
The P4/5, which was revealed for the first time at the 2006 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, is a one-off rebodied Ferrari Enzo, built by the Pininfarina design house to look like the famous 1967 Ferrari P4 race car. It is reported to have cost Glickenhaus $4 million.
Now it looks as though Glickenhaus is planning a sibling for his custom creation. Posting under the screen name Napoli on FerrariChat in late September, the prolific poster writes “There may be an act 2 here. I am seriously investigating a proposal to make P4/5 Competizione and enter her in a major 24 hour race. There are a LOT of stars that would have to align for this to happen but it’s not impossible…”
That teaser was then followed up by a hint that the car could show up with a “serious effort at a major race” with a “chance to do well.”
The P4/5 Competizione would be based on an entirely new car and would not be a conversion of the P4/5 road car. Glickenhaus hasn’t given specifics about exactly which car would be used as the platform, but he did hint that it will “have a Ferrari chassis/vin#/engine and gearbox.”
If the project does go ahead, the 2010 Nurburgring 24 hr. race from May 13 – 16, is the most likely venue at which the car would race.
According to Glickenhaus, the leading factor preventing the proposal from coming to fruition is finding a major sponsor. Our guess is that time might become an issue as well, as eight months is a relatively short time to develop, build, and test a competitive racecar. Still, we wish Glickenhaus the best of luck, and hope to see another one of his dream cars on track in the near future.
Featured in the thread is a rendering of what a racing P4/5 might look like, also created by Michiel Van Den Brink, a small version of which is included here. The blue livery on the car in that image is a homage to the legendary North American Racing Team, or NART, used to promote Ferrari endurance racing in the U.S. between 1958 and 1982.
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Pininfarina Ferrari P4/5
Source: autoguide.com, autoblog.com and motorauthority.com
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