{"id":13220,"date":"2022-02-25T07:55:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T10:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/?page_id=13220"},"modified":"2022-02-18T12:05:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T15:05:07","slug":"ferrari-312-p-1-pw","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/ferrari-312-p-1-pw\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferrari 312 P #1 – pw"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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1969 Ferrari 312 P #1<\/strong>\nPilots: T. Zeccoli, J-C. Andruet \nTeam: N.A.R.T.<\/em>\nRace: 9th overall (S 3.0 class) at Le Mans in 1974<\/strong>\nHachette (pw) - ? (diecast)<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Published 02\/25\/22<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 1967, FIA changed the rules for Group 6. For the 1968 season, sport prototypes could only use 3-liter engines. With that, Ferrari\u2019s 4-liter 330 P4<\/a> became illegal, and old man Enzo was furious. Consequently, Ferrari boycotted the 1968 World Sportscar Championship. Eventually however, things cooled down at Maranello and work began on a new car for 1969. To keep things cheap, this new car received the engine and gearbox from the 312 F1<\/a> and the chassis from the 612 P<\/a> (1968 CanAm car). The engine, a 2990 cm\u00b3 DOHC V12 with 48 valves, was cutting edge for the time. The chassis was a steel tubular space frame with stressed sheet aluminum panels for a body. This new car was the 312 P<\/strong>, and in essence was an F1 with a sportscar body. Built initially as a barchetta<\/a>, to reduce drag engineers later transformed the car into a berlinetta<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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On it\u2019s first race at Le Mans, the 312 P disappointed – one crashed, the other broke down.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
From the start, Ferrari planned only limited racing for the 312 P. With the high expenses in F1, they couldn\u2019t afford much in terms of sportscar racing. Therefore, Maranello only built three 312 P chassis. This one here is chassis #0872, built as a berlinetta in 1969. That year it only raced at La Sarthe, where it crashed and burned. Ferrari sold it to Luigi Chinetti\u2019s N.A.R.T. (North American Racing Team), racing it at Sebring, Daytona and Le Mans<\/a> in 1970. The following year they converted it to a barchetta, and only raced the car three times in 1970 and 1971. In 1974, however, N.A.R.T. came back to La Sarthe, with a four-car strong team. N.A.R.T.\u2019s 312 P #1 came in ninth place<\/a> overall, 39 laps behind the winning Matra<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Partwork model – with magazine, no acrylic case and the damn TA screws (2 mm).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
This is a partwork model, from Hachette\u2019s \u201cFerrari F1 and Racing Collection\u201d<\/em>, issued in Japan. As most pw series it comes in a blister (no acrylic case) and with a magazine. The magazine brings photos and information on the car, however being in Japanese, I can\u2019t say how good the info is. And this being issue #98, the series seems to be pretty popular in Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The 312 P, if found for CHEAP, may be a nice buy – just maybe.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Sooooo<\/em>, a pw model \ud83e\udd28? In general terms, I\u2019m actively avoiding partworks, focusing instead on \u201cgood\u201d models. However, the 1974 312 P #1 is, as far as I know, only available as a pw. Besides, I have a soft spot for my 312 PB #16<\/a>, one of the best pw I\u2019ve seen so far. Even so, this 312 P is definitively <\/em>not as good. I say that mainly because the tires are not marked, and in my eyes marked tires do a lot for a model. In addition, the paint job is not as good and cockpit details are much worse. Nonetheless, it was cheap, though I only found it on sale about a month ago. In the end, do I recommend it? Only if found for cheap, and even so, then maybe<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
1969 Ferrari 312 P #1 Pilots: T. Zeccoli, J-C. Andruet Team: N.A.R.T. Race: 9th overall (S 3.0 class) at Le Mans in 1974 Hachette (pw) – ? (diecast) Published 02\/25\/22 In 1967, FIA changed the rules for Group 6. For the 1968 season, sport prototypes could only use 3-liter engines. With that, Ferrari\u2019s 4-liter 330 … Continue reading “Ferrari 312 P #1 – pw”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13220","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13220"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13515,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13220\/revisions\/13515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}