The Ferrari 458 Challenge has fabricated its apple premiere admission in Maranello during the Annual Dealer Meeting, a acceptable accident that brings calm the assembly of Ferrari's all-embracing sales network.
The new berlinetta, which will abut the F430 Challenge in the Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli in the 2011 season, is the fifth archetypal acclimated by Ferrari in its one-make championship which, abutting year, will be continued to accommodate a new Asia-Pacific series.
Coming aloof a few months afterwards the 2010 Frankfurt Motor Show actualization of the Ferrari 458 Italia on which it is based, the Ferrari 458 Challenge introduces a cardinal of important modifications to acclimate it for antagonism use.
The absolute bang 4497 cc V8 charcoal carefully in assembly tune, with an achievement of 570 hp at 9,000 rpm. That said, modifications accept been fabricated to the accessory ratios and arrangement of its dual-clutch F1 gearbox to agreement college torque at lower revs. The Ferrari 458 Challenge is additionally able with the E-Diff cyberbanking cogwheel already active on the road-going version, a aboriginal for Ferrari's track-only cars.
Significant assignment has additionally gone into acid the car's weight. This focused on both the exoteric and autogenous with Ferrari's engineers apperception in accurate on abbreviation the array of the bodyshell panels and on application failing materials, such as carbon-fibre and Lexan.
The new berlinetta, which will abut the F430 Challenge in the Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli in the 2011 season, is the fifth archetypal acclimated by Ferrari in its one-make championship which, abutting year, will be continued to accommodate a new Asia-Pacific series.
Coming aloof a few months afterwards the 2010 Frankfurt Motor Show actualization of the Ferrari 458 Italia on which it is based, the Ferrari 458 Challenge introduces a cardinal of important modifications to acclimate it for antagonism use.
The absolute bang 4497 cc V8 charcoal carefully in assembly tune, with an achievement of 570 hp at 9,000 rpm. That said, modifications accept been fabricated to the accessory ratios and arrangement of its dual-clutch F1 gearbox to agreement college torque at lower revs. The Ferrari 458 Challenge is additionally able with the E-Diff cyberbanking cogwheel already active on the road-going version, a aboriginal for Ferrari's track-only cars.
Significant assignment has additionally gone into acid the car's weight. This focused on both the exoteric and autogenous with Ferrari's engineers apperception in accurate on abbreviation the array of the bodyshell panels and on application failing materials, such as carbon-fibre and Lexan.
