Consigned to RM Sotheby’s Online Only auction directly by the Ferrari 550 GT1 Prodrive program promoter,
Care Racing Development, single owner of the car since its race preparation in 2001, the Ferrari 550 GT1
Prodrive, serial number CRD 002/2001, is the second of ten Ferrari 550 GT1 examples built by
Prodrive and it competed in 49 races, taking 15 pole positions, 14 outright race wins including The 24 Hours
of Spa in 2004. It is the last V-12 engined Ferrari to win a 24-hour race overall and the car finished on the
podium some 29 times. Impeccably presented and in fully rebuilt, race-ready condition, this Classiche
certified Ferrari racing car was the undoubted star of the sale.
With Ferraris filling four of the top ten sales, it was the highly desirable first-generation ‘short-nose’ 1965
Ferrari 275 GTB by Scaglietti that achieved the second highest price in the sale. One of the best
examples in existence of arguably one of the finest road going V-12 Ferrari sports cars built, this fully
restored and Classiche certified car brought a deserved $1,980,000. Rounding off the top three sellers and
splitting an all-Ferrari ‘top five’ in the Online Only: SHIFT/MONTEREY sale, was a low-mileage, highly
optioned 2014 Pagani Huayra, which brought $1,848,000. The 56th of just 100 bespoke examples
produced and powered by a 730 bhp, 6.0-liter twin-turbocharged V-12 engine hand-assembled by
Mercedes-AMG engine, this ultimate modern-era hypercar is one of the highest specification examples
created.
The appeal of the Maranello marque continues unabated within the market, and the top five results were
completed by the 1964 Ferrari 250 GT/L Berlinetta Lusso by Scaglietti, offered from the Boniface Collection,
which surpassed its pre-sale estimate following a flurry of last-minute bids and sold for $1,496,000; and a
low-mileage, Classiche certified 1994 Ferrari F40, which sold for $1,386,000.
Gord Duff, Global Head of Auctions, RM Sotheby’s, said
“The SHIFT/MONTEREY auction has been a phenomenal success for us. We’re proud to have grossed
more than the combined sales totals achieved by our two nearest competitors during what would have been
the Monterey Car Week, and to have set some amazing records along the way. It’s also fantastic to see
cars from all eras featuring in the top ten results of this sale, proving that there is still robust demand across
a broad cross-section of the market.”
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