{"id":89400,"date":"2022-01-21T11:32:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T11:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/?p=89400"},"modified":"2022-02-01T08:06:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T08:06:04","slug":"ferrari-288-gto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/ferrari-288-gto\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferrari 288 GTO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today, every sports car fan knows Ferrari’s “Big Five”. This refers to the supercars produced in limited numbers, with which the brand from Maranello crowned its model range in loose order. It all began with the 288 GTO and continued with the F40<\/a><\/strong> and F50<\/a><\/strong>. Enzo and LaFerrari finally formed the only other representatives of the genre to date. But how did this cherry on the cream came about in the first place? Weren’t the normal sports cars exciting enough already? Let’s look back to the beginning of the 1980s. The motorsport authority FIA had recently created a new racing class called Group B. The rule-makers wanted this class to be the most competitive in the world. The rule-makers wanted it to include both rally racing and sports car racing. With a relatively low homologation number of only 200 production cars – previously, up to 2,500 were common in some categories – smaller manufacturers were also to take the step into this class. Ferrari was directly interested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Ferrari for Group B?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Of course, no one in Maranello could seriously imagine entering rallying with a supercar. That’s what Lancia and Fiat were for. There were short considerations to make the 308 GTB suitable for rallying. This failed however to the regulations, which permitted only small deviations between series and racing cars. However, the Group B sports car series with production-based racing cars, which was also being considered by the FIA, sounded good to Ferrari. Porsche, by the way, was thinking along similar lines at the same time, producing the 959 and the 961 based on it. So Ferrari created a completely new mid-engine sports car with a tubular frame, but with a few optical borrowings from the 308. However, the newcomer had eleven centimeters more wheelbase. In addition, the bodyshell was made of a Kevlar-Nomex material mix. Ferrari made the front hood from a fiberglass-Nomex material and the remaining body parts from fiberglass-reinforced plastic. Similar materials were otherwise only known from Formula 1.<\/p>\n\n\n

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