Ferrari F430 GTC Review

Right from the start, the Ferrari Challenge has featured a car chosen from its road-going range, safe in the knowledge that the GT cars produced in Maranello have a sporting soul and are great to race. The current F430 certainly fits this profile: the 490 cv V8 engine is strictly standard as is the general structure of the car.
GT Competitions
Ferrari has a great tradition in Gran Turismo competitions through official participation with its drivers, especially during the 50s and 60s, and through the engagement of numerous clients, winning with the cars from the Prancing Horse on tracks and roads all over the world. Taking part in Gran Turismo competitions has a double function for Ferrari. On the one hand there is the goal of using racing as the environment to develop new solutions for the serial production, as it happens in Formula One; on the other hand there is the desire to nourish the legend of a brand, which became universally known also due to its clients’ successes in motor sports.

Technical specifications
The 2006 season brought the debut of the stunning Ferrari F430 GTC which was developed by the Corse Clienti department in Maranello in collaboration with Michelotto Automobili. Derived from the excellent F430 road-going berlinetta, the car continues has dominated its category since its debut. Its major wins have included the FIA GT2 Manufacturers’ Cup and Drivers’ titles in both 2006 and 2007, the Drivers’ title again in 2008 in the same championship, the Manufacturers’ title in the American Le Mans GT2 Series in 2007, and the GT category in the 2008 Le Mans 24 Hour Race.

Engine
Type     90° V8
Bore/Stroke     3.62 X 2.96 in
Total displacement     243.8 cu in
Compression ratio     0:00
Engine intake with twin Ø     1.126 ” Restrictors in compliance with FIA-ACO regulations
Maximum power     335 Kw (450 cv) at 7000 rpm.
Maximum torque     490 Nm at 5500 rpm.

Chassis
Chassis     Aluminium alloy engine block

Tyres
Front     325/650 18” PIRELLI
Front     30/65 18” MICHELIN
Rear     325/705 18” PIRELLI
Rear     31/71 18” MICHELIN

Brakes
Front     15.0 X 1.34 in
Rear     13.1 X 1.26 in

Dimensions and weight
Overall lenght     177.6 in
Overall width     78.75 in
Height     46.26 in
Wheelbase     102.7 in
Front track     66,78 in
Rear track     64,57 in
Dry weight     2745 lb

Both the Ferrari F430 GTC and the Ferrari F430 Challenge (competition versions) will race this weekend at the Silverstone circuit in England. Fifty Ferrari F430 Challenge race cars will take part in the second round of this season’s European Ferrari Challenge Pirelli Trophy. The Ferrari F430 GTC will make its debut in the FIA GT Championship with 10 cars split between six teams. Ferrari Press Release: The “competition” versions (Challenge and GTC) of the F430 will be competing this coming weekend at the Silverstone circuit in England.

The F430 Challenge cars will be taking part in the second round of this season’s European Ferrari Challenge Pirelli Trophy, while the F430 GTC will be making their debut in the FIA GT Championship, where they will be going for a repeat of the clean sweep they achieved over the past two years, when they took the Drivers’, Constructors’ and Teams’ titles, thanks to AF Corse. More than 50 cars will take part in the English leg of the Prancing Horse one-make series, representing no less than 23 countries. After doing the double in Monza, Austria’s Philipp Baron

(Baron Service) comes to Silverstone as favourite, thanks to a 14 point lead over Frenchman Ange Barde in the Pirelli Trophy classification. Heading the Shell Cup is an Italian driver, in the shape of Walter Forer (Rossocorsa/Pellin), ahead of fellow countryman Gianluca Carboni (Kessel) and Englishman Michael Cantillon (Ferrari GB Dealer Team). Ten F430 GTC will line up for the start of the first FIA GT race, split between six teams. Among the drivers, worthy of note the presence of reigning champion, Toni Vilander: the Finn races as part of a pairing with Italy’s Gimmi Bruni,

who finished second in 2007. In fact, Bruni, along with Robert Bell, won the first race of the LMS series in a GTC, held at Barcelona back on 6th April. On the same day, Dirk Mueller and Dominik Farnbacher took victory at St. Petersburg (USA) in the second round of the ALMS series. Clearly, the work of the Corse Clienti department moves on at quite a pace. Apart from the racing activity, there is also the FXX programme and that linked to the historic Formula 1 cars, which got underway last weekend in Shanghai, as part of the second running of the Ferrari Festival,

which saw over 60 Cavallino cars take part in an event aimed at owners and fans of the marque, in the Far East. Several FXX cars and three Formula 1 single-seaters were on track, all part of the past 15 years of Scuderia history: the F310, the model Michael Schumacher took to his first Grand Prix victory for Ferrari back in 1996 and the title winning F2003-GA and the F2004, which were world champions in 2003 and 2004, as used by Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello.

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