LOT 50

2002 Picchio SRP II Chassis no. 1-02 D USA

Sold for US$61,600 inc. premiumLot to be sold without reserve

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2002 Picchio SRP II

The Laguna Seca Auction|13 August 2026, 10:00 PDT|WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca

2002 Picchio SRP II
Chassis no. 1-02 D USA

2,979cc Inline 6-Cylinder Engine
Multi Point Fuel Injection
340bhp at 7,500rpm
Hewland 5-Speed Racing Transmission
Independent Front and Rear Suspension
4-Wheel Disc Brakes
Rear-Wheel Drive

* One of the earliest American-market Picchio sports racing prototypes
* Developed for competition in the Rolex Grand American Sports Car Series SRP II category
* Competed in the Rolex Grand-Am series during the 2002 & 2003 seasons
* Campaigned by G&W Motorsports
* Driven by notable sports car racers Andy Lally, Darren Law, Steve Marshall and Shawn Bayliff
* Restored in 2013 and eligible for historic racing and vintage motorsport events

THE PICCHIO

Picchio is a small but highly respected Italian constructor specializing in sports-racing prototypes. Based in Ancarano, Italy, the company was founded in 1989 with the involvement of legendary engineer Giotto Bizzarrini, the man famous for helping create icons such as the Ferrari 250 GTO and Bizzarrini sports cars. The company was established to design and build lightweight racing prototypes, and its first major success came with the Picchio SR2, a carbon-fiber sports racer powered by BMW inline-six engines. These cars competed successfully in European prototype racing before Picchio expanded into North America. For American enthusiasts, Picchio is best known for the D-USA/SRP II program. In 2002, working with North American distributor Armando Trentini and G&W Motorsports, Picchio developed the D-USA prototype for Grand-Am's SRP II category. The BMW-powered cars earned victories and championship success, with drivers including Darren Law and Andy Lally.

What makes Picchio notable is that it belongs to the tradition of specialist Italian racing constructors such as Dallara, Lola Cars, and Osella—small engineering-focused firms that build purpose-designed competition machines rather than production road cars. Despite its modest size, Picchio developed carbon-fiber prototypes, Daytona Prototypes, hill-climb specials, and experimental road-car projects over more than three decades.

THE CAR OFFERED

The Picchio D-USA represents one of the more remarkable entries in American sports car racing history — an Italian-built, BMW-powered prototype introduced into the Rolex Grand Am Sports Car Series by a small, determined team, which proceeded to challenge the class establishment with a consistency and pace few anticipated. Chassis 1-02 D USA is the original car of that program, the first Picchio built specifically to Grand-Am SRP II regulations and homologated for the United States market.
In 2002, Bizzarrini and Picchio gave Armando Trentini exclusivity to introduce the D-USA variant — a closed-cockpit configuration designed around Grand-Am's SRP II category — and entrusted its campaign to G&W Motorsports, managed by 1990 Le Mans winner Price Cobb.

The car was powered by a race-prepared BMW inline-six of 3.0 liters, mated to a Hewland sequential gearbox. The chassis, as with all Picchio prototypes of the era, was a reinforced steel tube frame clad in fiberglass and kevlar bodywork, with pushrod suspension at both ends and AP Racing braking. At roughly 750 kilograms in race trim, it was a genuinely formidable SRP II weapon — light, responsive, and purpose-built for the circuits of the American championship calendar.

The driving program assembled by G&W for 2002 was of serious caliber. Darren Law, already a proven Rolex Series competitor and recent GT class champion, led the effort alongside Andy Lally — one of American sports car racing's most naturally gifted and versatile pilots. Together, Law and Lally extracted the maximum from the D-USA across the full season, recording multiple podium finishes including second-place results at Miami Homestead, California Speedway at Fontana, and Phoenix International Raceway. The car also ran in the Rolex 24 at Daytona, finishing sixth in class. At season's end, Law stood second in the SRP II driver's championship — the highest result any Picchio chassis had achieved in North America to that point. In addition to Darren Law's overall 2nd place season result the car also placed second in the SRP II class.

Armando Trentini also shared the car on selected rounds, and the trio combined for an outright class victory at the Six Hours of Circuit Mont-Tremblant, the first international race win for the D-USA program.

The 2002 season established Picchio's credibility in American prototype racing and laid the foundation for the DP2, which followed in 2003 and made Picchio the first foreign manufacturer approved by Grand-Am to construct a Daytona Prototype. Chassis 1-02 D USA is therefore not merely a successful race car — it is the proof-of-concept from which that entire chapter was built.

G&W Motorsports dominated the 2003 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series in the Sports Racing Prototype II (SRP II) class. Steve Marshall won the SRP II Drivers' Championship. The car was a frequent front-runner, racking up class wins and podiums across the 12-race season finishing first in the SRP II Class.
Restored in 2013 by Shawn Bayliff's race shop and presented in a striking yellow and blue livery, Chassis 1-02 D USA has received over $30,000 in updates and service under current ownership to ensure it remains in great running order and eligible for a growing calendar of prestigious historic events in both North America and Europe — among them the Classic 24 Hours at Daytona and the Velocity Invitational. As one of only a handful of D-USA examples ever produced, and the original chassis of the program, it holds a singular and distinguished place in the history of Picchio in America.

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