Current Price: USD $10,257 – Source
Auction Ends: Friday, July 17 at 1:08pm PT
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This MR400 sports prototype is one of a reported 10 examples designed by Nogaro Technologie’s Claude Fior and manufactured by Belgian firm Scuderia Maranello for a single-make racing series that never materialized. Chassis 005 was completed on April 4, 2000, and is believed to have spent approximately 15 years with a Scuderia Maranello accountant before being purchased by its previous owner in 2022. The car was subsequently driven in events including the 2024 Sport & Collection 500 Ferraris Against Cancer. Its barchetta-style fiberglass bodywork has a red finish with white accents, and the car is powered by a 3.4-liter Ferrari Tipo F119H V8 that is mated to a five-speed manual transaxle. Additional features include a three-part chassis with an aluminum center cell, slotted and ventilated AP Racing disc brakes, adjustable shock absorbers that are mounted inboard up front, 18” Speedline Corse center-lock wheels, a four-point roll bar, a rear wing, and a single driver’s seat equipped with a four-point harness. This MR400 prototype was purchased by the selling dealer, a BaT Local Partner, one year ago and is now offered in Springfield, Vermont, with a Certificate of Manufacture from Scuderia Maranello and a bill of sale.
Nogaro-born Claude Fior began his career as a Renault Formula engineer and by the late 1970s began building and racing his own motorcycles, eventually pioneering his own aluminum motorcycle frames and wishbone suspension setups. Fior also forayed into the construction of go-karts, aircraft, and automobiles, including collaboration on the design of the Renault Sport Spyder and a Renault-powered single seater. Through his company Nogaro Technique, Fior also designed the Scuderia Maranello MR400 prototype’s three-piece chassis, which incorporates an aluminum center cell and steel front and rear subframes.
Fiberglass barchetta bodywork is finished in a red number-33 livery with white accents. Features include a carbon-fiber front splitter, carbon-fiber headlight covers, bumper-mounted driving lights, vented front fenders, dual side mirrors, an intake snorkel with an integrated NACA duct, an adjustable carbon-fiber rear wing, an adjustable rear diffuser, and a rear rain light.
Center-lock Speedline Corse wheels are wrapped in 27/65-18 Michelin Pilot Sport slicks. Stopping is handled by disc brakes with slotted and ventilated rotors, AP Racing four-pistons calipers, cooling ducts, and dual master cylinders with a balance bar.
The cockpit houses a single black seat equipped with a red Sabelt four-point harness, while an additional harness is in place in the passenger’s position. Additional features a forward-braced roll hoop, a gated shifter, an aluminum pedal box, an electrical cutoff, and a fire-suppression system. The selling dealer notes that the safety equipment is out of date.
The three-spoke steering wheel features a Ferrari-logo center cap and a yellow centering stripe, and controls and toggles are mounted on the carbon-look dashboard. Instruments include a configurable digital display, a fuel-level gauge, and a Hobbs meter, the latter of which shows 157 hours of use. Approximately 10 hours have been added under current ownership.
The longitudinally mid-mounted 3.4-liter Ferrari Tipo F119H features an aluminum cylinder block and heads, quad camshafts, dry-sump lubrication, and electronic fuel injection. The Tipo F119H engine variant was introduced by Ferrari for the 348 GTB and GTS models and was factory rated at 316 horsepower, a 20 horsepower increase over the engine used in the 348 tb/ts models. A horizontally mounted aluminum radiator is situated in the car’s nose overtop dual electric cooling fans. Service six months ago included an oil and filter change and a fuel-system check. The seller believes a timing belt service was performed by the previous owner in 2022.
Power is sent to the rear wheels via a Ferrari five-speed manual transaxle. Suspension incorporates adjustable Fornales shock absorbers that are mounted inboard up front along with adjustable blade-style anti-roll bars at each end.
An uninstalled Scuderia Maranello chassis tag is marked with chassis number MR400-005 and lists the Ferrari F119 V8 engine. A Scuderia Maranello Certificate of Manufacture is viewable in the photo gallery below and lists the completion date of April 4, 2000.
