Ferrari’s new hypercar prototype has completed some 5,000 kilometers of testing during the three test sessions that the brand has completed during the summer. Fiorano, Mugello and Barcelona have been the settings for these tests.
The convergence between LMH and LMDh prototypes, between WEC and IMSA, has allowed a large number of manufacturers to decide to compete in the new queen class of resistance worldwide. Toyota and Peugeot have their hypercar prototypes in competition, while on the way to the LMDh Porsche, Cadillac, Acura and BMW are getting closer to debuting. Nevertheless, nobody has aroused as much expectation as Ferrari.
The Italian firm decided to take advantage of the budget ‘surplus’ generated by Formula 1’s cost caps to back to the pinnacle of endurance five decades later. And he will do it the most ‘complex’ way, with a hypercar prototype that he has developed from scratch. A process that had its first turning point last July with the track debut of Ferrari’s LMH prototype with its shakedown.
«We have done many kilometers and for the moment we are happy, but we know that the road is long»
Almost two months have passed since this premiere on the track of the Ferrari hypercar at Fiorano. And since then, the work within the Italian brand has not been lacking. In fact, the LMH prototype of the ‘Cavallino Prancing’ has completed two more test sessions after shooting for several days in Mugello and in Barcelona.
Antonello Colettaresponsible for the Ferrari endurance project, has confirmed in this regard that the structure in charge of the Italian LMH tests is meeting all the objectives set and that the brand’s hypercar prototype has already completed some 5,000 kilometers of tests if you take into account the 250 kilometers he already covered during his launch at Fiorano.
Ferrari published a small video after the shakedown of its hypercar at the Fiorano circuit.
progress at a good pace
«We have done many kilometers and for the moment we are happy, but we know that the road is long. One day we have problems, the next day there are none. We know we still need more consistency, but we are just at the beginning of the development program» has assured Antonello Coletta as a balance of the first weeks of development of the Ferrari LMH.
In this sense, Coletta has defined the plans of the brand: «The goal is to test every two weeks., but there are things that are changing a lot. We are developing the car in a traditional way. We test it, go back to the factory, look at the data and work on the car before going back out on the track.”
home pilots
In these first tests of the Ferrari LMH prototype the eight factory drivers that Ferrari has in its GT project have participated. This means that James Calado, Davide Rigon, Antonio Fuoco, Nicklas Nielsen, Daniel Serra, Alessio Rovera, Michael Molina and Alessandro Pier Guidi have shot with the prototype, in addition to Andrea Bertolini as a test driver for the brand.
Nine pilots who are playing the six theoretical places that will be available to fight with the Ferrari hypercar in the WEC, since Antonio Coletta has remarked that the project drivers will be from the house: «I’m happy with the drivers we haveI don’t think any change needs to be made.”
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