Dallara built this wild one-off single seater during Covid, now you can buy it

All your mates constantly badgering you for passenger rides in your Dallara Stradale? We’ve got just the thing for you…

This is the Dallara MPS ‘Macchina Posto Singolo’, and up until now it was a bit of a secret skunkworks project that kept a small team of Dallara employees busy through the Covid-enforced lockdowns in Italy.

Now though, Dallara is auctioning off this unique creation at RM Sotheby’s Monaco sale, and all of the proceeds will go to The Caterina Dallara Foundation (named after founder Giampaolo’s late daughter) to “foster the social and cultural development of the Val Ceno area”. Wonderful.

The car should be pretty special too, because it uses plenty of bits from Dallara’s first road car – the aforementioned Stradale – and as such features a carbon monocoque chassis and a 400bhp version of Ford’s 2.3-litre turbocharged EcoBoost engine. Should only weigh around 850kg, too.

The central driving position and styling are inspired by Dallara’s first ever racecar – the SP1000 from the early 1970s – and while it does look snug in the cabin, the fit and finish on the MPS is supremely impressive for a one-off. And there we were failing at online pub quizzes during the pandemic…

Anyway, we’re told by the auctioneers that the MPS has a value “in excess of £600,000”. So, how much do we reckon it’ll go for?