# Ferrari 575 GTC

- Source: https://racingcarnetwork.com/wiki/ferrari-575-gtc/
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- Type: car · Brand: Ferrari
- Discipline: gt-cup
- Series: gt1
- Era: 2000s
- Last updated: 2026-07-06

The 575 GTC is Maranello's answer to Banbury: the factory-blessed GT1 built when Prodrive's 550 embarrassed the works — the small run's FIA GT campaigns — the era's other V12 at connoisseur-scarcity stakes.

## Specifications

| Spec | Value |
|---|---|
| Engine | 6.0 L V12 (GTC racing evolution) |
| Power | ~600 hp |
| Context | Factory answer to Prodrive's 550 |
| Ledger | FIA GT wins 2003-05 |
| Population | Small run (handful scholarship) |
| Diligence | Programme records + rivalry context |
| Years | 2003–2005 |
| Class | The works' V12 answer |

## History

The Prodrive 550's success forced Maranello's hand: the 575 GTC (2003) — the factory-blessed GT1 programme (the N-Technology-and-works development answering the independent's conquests) — took the 575M's V12 racing in the small run the response required: FIA GT championship campaigns (the works-adjacent teams' race wins against the Prodrive fleet's establishment), the Italian-and-European GT seasons, and the programme's brevity (the 430-era's redirection closing it) leaving the type's population in the handfuls the era's Ferrari GT efforts habitually produced.

The programme's structure explains the results: the works-blessed development running through the customer teams' seasons (the factory's arm's-length format against Prodrive's integrated operation), the 575's road-car mass against the 550's racing diet, and the FIA GT era's BoP arguments — the context the era's paddocks cite when the irony comes up.

The Banbury-rivalry context is the type's identity: the factory answer whose results never quite matched the independent's Le Mans crown — the historical irony the market prices with connoisseur affection — and the scholarship's usual per-car apparatus at handful scale.

The present is GT1-revival custody: Endurance-Legends-tier eligibility beside the 550s it fought, the V12 racing economics shared, and the scarcity-with-story positioning the connoisseur tier collects.

## Palmarès

FIA GT race wins and podiums through 2003-05, Italian-and-European GT campaigns — the factory answer's ledger beside the independent's crown.

## What to check before you buy

Handful-scholarship law: the small run's per-car identities through the programme records (works-adjacent build documentation, campaign biographies against the FIA GT seasons), the Banbury-rivalry context pricing the story (the factory answer's connoisseur positioning against the Prodrive fleet's blue-chip establishment), and V12 racing custody at the era's economics. GT1-revival eligibility structures the running life beside the 550s; the scarcity-with-story tier trades on documented completeness. The irony premium is real — the works' answer collecting affection the results sheet never quite earned.

## Did you know

- Banbury forced the factory's hand: the 575 GTC existing because an independent's Ferrari kept winning without permission.
- The results irony is the story: the works answer never matching the outsider's Le Mans crown — history's affection running contrarian.
- Handful production was the habit: the era's Ferrari GT efforts building by the fingers, scholarship inheriting accordingly.

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