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FERRARI 348 CHALLENGE; WHERE IT ALL BEGAN

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(So proud that Ferrari is featuring my little, but very important 348 Challenge – Mille Grazie Ferrari and Ferrari Races)
 
If there had been an award for Best Supporting Actress award at Portimão this weekend, the 348 Challenge would have won it. She was undoubtedly the most sought after and admired. On display at the Autodromo do Algarve during the first round of the thirtieth season of the Ferrari Challenge Europe, this historic car preceded the first Trofeo Pirelli race over the ups and downs of the Portuguese circuit, taking a step back in time to the early days of the Prancing Horse one-make series.
 
From 1993 to 1996, the first editions of the Ferrari Challenge featured the 348 Challenge in TB and TS versions. The car’s special feature was the conversion kit, which once disassembled allows the vehicle to return to its road-going configuration. The kit included direct exhaust, carbon seats, roll cage, lowered suspension, 18″ magnesium wheels, onboard fire extinguisher and other details to boost engine performance in addition to technical support on the track. The 348 Challenge’s V8 engine unleashed 320 bhp, 20 or so more than the road version. The brakes, too, were boosted.
 
Paolo Rossi was the first winner in the Prancing Horse’s flagship car at Monza in 1993. At the end of that first Ferrari one-make series season, Roberto Ragazzi took the title at the wheel of the 348 Challenge that lit up the Portimão circuit.
 
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For sale – Ferrari F430 GT3

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All details about the Ferrari HERE

The Ferrari F 430 Challenge Trasformata GT3 has been delivered by Ferrari to

the Ferrari dealership Loris Kessel located in Lugano/Switzerland on the

25.10.2007. The Ferrari invoice shows a selling price at 400.000,-  CHF. Out of

unknown reasons the car was never used in the next few years until it was sold

to its second and last private German based owner in 2012. The contract of

sale in that time is showing a mere 100 km as an odometer mileage. It is

reported by the only and  last owner that it never had participated in any serious

race. It was more a backup testing car which was frequently driven on private

events. The overall mileage today shows not more than 3000 km. It will be delivered

with a new engine having only 300 km on the clock plus the original engine. It

received a last service at the well known and very experienced and specialized

Ferrari Service workshop of StileF in San Marino/Italy before delivery on the 30th

of March 2017 at near to 6000,-  Euros. The car is in absolutely race ready condition.

 

The limited version of the F 430 GT3 has a radically reduced  weight of only

1.219 kg compared to 1.350 kg of a normal F 430 and the 1250 kg of the 430

Scuderia. This was the result of an exhaustive schedule of removing all

unnecessary items. The GT3 has been developed by Kessel Racing under the

supervision of Ferrari. Only 100 of these cars were produced. The rersulting car,

designated the F 430 GT3, was superior to the F 430 Challenge in terms of more

highly developed aerodynamics and increased output, even through both

utilised the same 4.3 litre, V8 engine.

 

Following extensive tuning, the GT3 unit developed 550 bhp, which surpassed

the 483 bhp from the F 430 Challenge and as well the 445 bhp from the GT2

stable mate, the 430 GTC.

 

The F 430 Challenge Trasformata GT3 received the best F1 knowledge Ferrari

could have implanted into a Ferrari registered for the road.