| | Total | Blancpain Endurance Series | Blancpain GT World Challenge Europe | Australian GT Championship | 24H | Asian Le Mans Series | Blancpain GT World Challenge America | GT3 Brasil Championship | British GT Championship |
| 2011 | 14 | 7 | 0 | 0 | ? | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 2012 | 23 | 16 | 0 | 3 | ? | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2013 | 50 | 30 | 2 | 3 | ? | 2 | 0 | 2 | 11 |
| 2014 | 43 | 21 | 4 | 5 | ? | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 2015 | 44 | 24 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 2 |
| 2016 | 20 | 7 | 1 | 5 | ? | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
I have expanded the analysis on the Ferrari 458 GT3 and its clear that the main series like the Endurance series and British GT peak with the max number of 458 GT3's in 2013 and then one can see 458 GT3's starting to appear in greater numbers in the likes of the Asian and Australian GT Series.
This analysis is still not 100% complete, as I am missing out a few GT3 series, but I think that I have captured the vast majority of 458 GT3's (say 80%? - would those in the know agree, or not?). Also I'm sure that there is some double counting in my analysis, where I am likley counting the same car being driven by different drivers in different rounds twice. Hence the numbers in the table might be closer to 90% accurate - I will in time expand the analysis and we will see.
But in the interim:
It looks that Ferrari must have made about 50 or so 458 GT3's by the end of 2013 - and then the total number that I can track seems to decline down to 44 cars by 2015 (the last year before the 488 GT3 was released).
From the data it looks like that the annual production numbers were something like this:
2011: 14 cars built
2012: 9 cars built (increase from 14 to 23 458 GT3's)
2013: 22 cars built (increase from 23 to 50 458 GT3's)
2014 and 2015: 0 cars built (no increase in numbers of 458 GT3;s)
So the two questions are:
1) Did Ferrari (or rather Michelotto) largely cease building new 458 GT3's around 2014/5 as their popularity declined - otherwise surely we would keep seeing their numbers increasing as more were built
2) Were 458 GT3's being written off and not rebuilt (with numbers racing dropping from 50 in 2013 to 44 in 2015), or were they just being mothballed and/or going into "club-type" racing?
Really interested in understanding Michelotto's production number year by year...