Hold your Prancing Horses, Bizzarrini’s back...

Some 57 years after its crowning sporting glory, the revived Bizzarrini marque has shown off its first finished 5300 GT Corsa Revival model. Following news that the company would painstakingly create a run of 24 cars paying homage to the original 5300 GT of 1965, the first complete car has rolled out of its UK production facility.

The Revival is an exacting recreation of 5300 GT Corsa chassis 0222, which scored a historic endurance racing success for Giotto Bizzarrini’s marque when French drivers Régis Fraissinet and Jean de Mortemart drove it to class victory at the 1965 Le Mans 24 Hours. Not only did the car run at an average speed of 105mph across the 24 hours, Bizzarrini himself then drove the car back home to northern Italy after the race.

To recreate the car the firm has used original blueprints and components from original suppliers and has sought out members of the crew involved with the project in period. Bizzarrini has even gone so far as stripping back several paint layers on chassis 0222 to uncover what remained of the original paintwork from Le Mans that year before colour matching it for the Revival.

Each hand-built vehicle weighs in at 1230kg, with a single-piece composite body mounted over a steel frame chassis, fitted with the safety requirements to match FIA Appendix K regulations. At its heart, the car has a 5300cc V8 with Weber carbs developing over 400bhp. Each car costs £1.65m.

Bizzarrini’s chief marketing officer, Simon Busby, commented: “The team are incredibly proud to see the first 5300 GT Corsa Revival leave the factory for its new owner. We relaunched earlier this year as the start of a long-term vision, and this first delivery is an important step.”