The engine is sourced from a 550 Maranello, and the entire project actually got what amounts to a thumbs-up from Ferrari itself. The Simpson-Ferrari V12 GTR started its life as a test car for the ...

What Ratel and his investors really wanted, though, was a Ferrari towards the front of the grid, and the firm’s flagship of the time, the 550 Maranello, fitted the big GT car template perfectly.