BBR BG274 1/43 Ferrari 360 N/GT #10 Jim Gainer JGTC GT300 2004 Resin

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BBR BG274 | 1:43 Ferrari 360 N/GT | #10 Jim Gainer Racing | GT300 | JGTC Japan 2004 | Round 1 Class Winner — A Ferrari Racing Story Told Only in Japan

This is not a car that appears often in the Western collector market. The Ferrari 360 N/GT of Team Jim Gainer Racing is a piece of specifically Japanese motorsport history — a chapter in Ferrari's global racing story that was written not at Le Mans or Monza, but at the circuits of Okayama, Sportsland SUGO, the Sepang circuit in Malaysia, and the legendary Suzuka. For collectors of Ferrari racing history, Japanese GT, or the JGTC era, this BBR Serie ORO model represents a subject of genuine rarity in 1:43 form.

The JGTC — the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship — was Japan's premier GT racing series from 1993 until 2004, when it was renamed Super GT and became one of the most technically sophisticated and commercially prominent national GT championships in the world. The 2004 season was the last under the JGTC name, giving it a historical finality that collectors and racing historians recognise. Within that final season, Team Jim Gainer Racing ran two Ferrari 360 race cars in the GT300 class — the No. 10 shared by Tetsuya Tanaka and Atsushi Yogo, and the No. 11 of Hideshi Matsuda and Ichijo Suga.

The No. 10 car delivered a result that placed it permanently in the record books of that final JGTC season: a GT300 class victory at the opening round at TI Circuit on April 4, 2004 — the only team in that race to take the class win in a Ferrari. The car went on to complete the full seven-round season, finishing third in the GT300 class championship standings with 78 points, taking additional podium finishes at Twin Ring Motegi (3rd) and Autopolis (3rd). It was a season that represented the peak of Jim Gainer Racing's Ferrari 360 programme, in the last year before the JGTC era gave way to Super GT.

The story of Gainer and Ferrari begins in 1999, when the Kyoto-based team made its JGTC debut with a Ferrari F355, moving to the 360 as the programme matured. For 2003, the team rebranded as Jim Gainer Racing with the explicit goal of challenging for the championship. The 360 N/GT — the naturally aspirated GT class variant of Ferrari's mid-engine V8 sports car, with its 3.6-litre F131B engine producing around 436 PS in racing specification — proved a competitive weapon in the hands of drivers who knew the Japanese circuits intimately.

The engine at the heart of the 360 N/GT is one of Ferrari's most celebrated V8 units: a 3.6-litre naturally aspirated flat-plane-crank unit with 40 valves, twin overhead camshafts per bank, dry-sump lubrication, and titanium connecting rods. In road form it produced 400 PS; in the N/GT racing specification with tuned engine mapping and weight reduction programme bringing the car to the 1,100 kg GT300 minimum, the output was pushed further, delivering a car that could genuinely fight for podiums in one of the world's most demanding GT championships.

BBR Models of Saronno renders this specific car — this team, this number, this season, this livery — in their Serie ORO format. Built by hand in Italy by the official model manufacturer of Ferrari, it captures every detail of the red Jim Gainer Racing livery and full sponsor graphics. In BBR's plexiglass showcase, brand new and factory sealed.

This is not a subject that receives wide coverage in the international model market. For the JGTC collector, the Japan Super GT historian, or the Ferrari racing enthusiast who wants something genuinely different from the familiar Le Mans and Maranello subjects, BG274 fills a gap that almost no other manufacturer has attempted in 1:43 form.

This piece ships direct from Japan, carefully double-boxed for safe international delivery.

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