BBR BBRC042L 1/43 Ferrari 599XX #97 Valencia 2010 Giallo Modena Grey Resin Rare
BBR BBRC042L 1/43 Ferrari 599XX #97 Valencia 2010 Giallo Modena Grey Resin Rare
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BBR BBRC042L | 1:43 Ferrari 599XX | #97 | Giallo Modena / Matte Grey | Valencia 2010 | Ferrari XX Programme — The Car That Broke Seven Minutes, in an Individual Client Livery
The Ferrari 599XX is not a car that was sold at a dealership. It is not a car that was homologated for racing, road use, or any series of competition. It is a car that Ferrari's engineers built for their inner circle — a physical laboratory for technologies and approaches that would eventually reach road and racing cars, entrusted to fewer than thirty clients worldwide who had already demonstrated their commitment to the brand at the highest level. The XX Programme was Ferrari's most exclusive offering, combining unrestricted engineering with a structured series of private events at circuits around the world. Valencia in 2010 — at Circuit Ricardo Tormo, venue for the Finali Mondiali that year — was one of those circuits, and car #97 in its striking Giallo Modena and Matte Grey two-tone livery was one of those cars.
The 599XX began with the architecture of the 599 GTB Fiorano — the same transaxle layout, the same front mid-mounted V12, the same fundamental proportion — and then Ferrari's engineers dismantled every assumption the road car made about comfort, compliance, and practicality, and rebuilt it as a pure track instrument. The combustion chambers were revised. The inlet and exhaust tracts were reworked. Internal friction was reduced throughout. The redline was raised from the GTB's 8,400 rpm to 9,000 rpm, and the target power output achieved was 700 hp — an increase of 80 hp over the production car, delivered at the very top of the rev range where the engine's character is most dramatic. The gearbox was equipped with multiple shift programmes, allowing the driver or Ferrari's engineers to tailor gear change speed and strategy to the demands of each specific circuit.
Aerodynamically, the 599XX was among the most sophisticated non-racing cars Ferrari had ever produced at the time of its 2009 introduction. Ferrari deployed the Actiflow system — a first for the brand — which uses synthetic jets at the rear of the car to manage and smooth airflow, reducing drag while maintaining downforce. F1-derived wheel doughnuts partly covering the brake discs served two functions simultaneously: improving the aerodynamic profile of the wheel arch area and improving brake cooling. Winglets added to the rear buttresses increased downforce further. The result was 280 kg of downforce at 200 km/h, rising to 630 kg at 300 km/h — figures that, combined with Pirelli-developed slick tyres, gave the 599XX a lateral acceleration capability well beyond anything derived from a grand touring car at that time.
In April 2010, Ferrari announced the result that placed the 599XX permanently in automotive history: a lap of the 20.832 km Nürburgring Nordschleife in 6 minutes 58.16 seconds, driven by factory test driver Raffaele De Simone. It was the first time any production-derived sports car had broken the seven-minute barrier at the circuit. That same month, Ferrari revealed the 599 GTO as the road-legal result of the XX Programme's development work — confirmation that the 599XX was not simply an expensive toy, but a functioning technological transfer mechanism between Ferrari's most extreme experiments and its road car programme.
At Valencia's Ricardo Tormo circuit in 2010 — a track that had already hosted the Finali Mondiali in 2009 and would do so again in 2012 — the XX Programme clients gathered for one of the exclusive events that formed the backbone of their experience. Car #97, in its individual Giallo Modena and Matte Grey two-tone livery, represents the personalisation that defined the XX Programme's appeal: each car was not simply a unit of a production run, but a specific machine with a specific owner, a specific livery, and a specific history at specific circuits. Giallo Modena — Ferrari's sharp, intense competition yellow — paired with matte grey is one of the most visually arresting combinations available in this specific BBR series, the brightness of the yellow reading with maximum intensity against the non-reflective grey of the secondary panels.
BBR Models of Saronno — the official model manufacturer of Ferrari — renders this specific car, this specific number, and this specific livery in their Concept series format. In BBR's plexiglass showcase, brand new and factory sealed.