FERRARI RACKS UP TEST MILES IN SPORTSCAR CHALLENGER
Ferrari bosses have said that its new Le Mans Hypercar has completed more than 3000 miles of testing ahead of its introduction next season.
The Italian giant began work with its new LMH in July at Fiorano and has since run the car at Mugello and Barcelona. The firm’s sportscar boss Antonello Coletta told autosport.com that the preparations ahead of the car’s introduction had not gone completely smoothly.
“We have done a lot of kilometres and at the moment we are happy, but we know the road is long,” Coletta told Autosport. “One day we have problems, the next day no problems, so we know we need consistency. We are just at the start of the programme. The plan is to test every two weeks. We are developing the car in the normal way: we test, go back to the factory, look at the data and work on the car.”
All of Ferrari’s LMH driver roster – Andrea Bertolini, Alessandro Pier Guidi, James Calado, Miguel Molina, Antonio Fuoco, Davide Rigon, Nicklas Nielsen, Daniel Serra and Alessio Rovera – have sampled the machine.
The car, which has yet to be given a name, will make its debut at the 1000 Miles of Sebring 1000 early next year.