2011 Ferrari 458 Challenge

2010-07-25

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2011 Ferrari 458 Challenge, like the 430 Challenge afore it, is the prancing stallion’s branch alms for its one-make Challenge chase series. And additionally like the car afore it, the 458 Challenge is carefully accompanying to its roadgoing sibling, in this case, the 458 Italia. Ferrari says that the Italia's 4.5-liter V-8 agent will abide in assembly tune, bearing 562 hp back anguish to a shrieking 9000 rpm. The torque curve, however, will attending a bit different; Ferrari has tweaked the accessory ratios and arrangement of the seven-speed dual-clutch manual to favor torque at lower agent speeds.

As is usually the case with any new Ferrari, whether it's a cast new archetypal or a appropriate edition, the 458 Challenge abundance on the technology. The cyberbanking "E-Diff" differential, already in abode on approved 458s, makes its admission in a Ferrari clue car. A appropriate race-oriented abeyance is installed, wherein ride acme is bargain by 1.2 inches, and Ferrari has cut weight by deploying carbon cilia and Lexan throughout the car. The 458 Challenge additionally adds new-generation Brembo brakes, which debuted on the 599XX, and Ferrari's ambush F1-Trac traction-control arrangement that allows drivers to baddest two specific track-biased settings for dry to wet conditions. According to Ferrari, these enhancements construe into a two-second advance over the 430 Challenge back lapping its Fiorano analysis track.