FERRARI 448 RACE CALLENGE

The Challenge Series is Ferrari’s single-make championship that was set up in the early Nineties to benefit 348 owners who had an itch for racing but no way to scratch it. Since then, many gentleman racers have sniffed out the world’s gravel traps, but some pros and amateurs have gone on to graduate into Grand-Am, IMSA, WEC and even the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

The 488 Challenge is the sixth –  and most powerful – model to enter the series. And like the 488 road car, the race car has made the transition to turbocharging.It’s the first Challenge car to do so and is bringing quite the punch with it – a 660bhp haymaker from the 3.9-litre V8. Compared to the road car, its racing sibling features specific engine mapping for the track, lighter packaging and shorter gear ratios. 

Talking of transmissions, the F1 DCT ‘box features a new racing shift strategy which enables the car to accelerate from a standstill to maximum revs in 4th gear in just six seconds. What that equates to in MPH, we don’t know. But expect it to be a lot.

Ferrari 488GTB-specifaction and features