2024 Ferrati 296 GT LM
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Chassis no. F171 GT3 5144
Engine no. 555961
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Campaigned in the full 2024 World Endurance Championship by the Works Ferrari team AF Corse
Won the final round of the 2024 FIA World Endurance Championship: the 8 Hours of Bahrain
Untouched since its victorious final outing in Bahrain, complete with desert race grime and dried champagne stains
Finished third in the 2024 LMGT3 Drivers’ and Teams’ FIA Endurance Trophies
Raced by Works driver Alessio Rovera supported by Simon Mann and François Heriau throughout the entire 2024 season, including in the 24 Hours of Le Mans
Pole position for the 6 Hours of Fuji, the penultimate round of the 2024 season
A World Championship race-winning example of Ferrari’s latest GT endurance racing challenger
A guaranteed entry to Ferrari’s Club Competizione GT, a private events programme in its exclusive Corse Clienti department
Powered by the same twin-turbocharged V6 as found in the double Le Mans-winning 499P Hypercar
Accompanied by a set of spare wheels, its 2024 World Endurance Championship trophies and a driver’s race suit
The Ferrari 296 LMGT3
The latest in the Prancing Horse’s illustrious line of GT weapons, the 296 LMGT3 is the car with which Ferrari will embark on the next generation of GT motorsport. In the top-tier World Endurance Championship, it’s bolstering the marque’s arsenal of front-running 499P Hypercars, flying the Ferrari flag in the new singular LMGT3 category. Conceived to level the playing field between factory and privateer teams, LMGT3 heralds a conceptual return to the egalitarian roots of GT motorsport. And greater competition can only be a good thing for everyone.
With LMGT3’s regulations mandating ‘amateur’ Bronze drivers, Ferrari arguably had more to gain by making the 296 approachable to less experienced gentlemen drivers than razor-sharp for the pros. Ferrari reckons it’s its fastest, most aerodynamically efficient and most technologically advanced GT racer yet, though also the easiest, safest and most enjoyable to drive. Versatility is king.
The 296 differs from its forebears in that it’s not powered by a 90-degree naturally aspirated V8 but rather a 120-degree twin-turbocharged V6 engine, just like that found in the double Le Mans-winning 499P.
“Ferrari reckons it’s its fastest, most aerodynamically efficient and most technologically advanced GT racer yet, though also the easiest, safest and most enjoyable to drive.”
The similarities with its Hypercar big brother don’t end there. In designing the car from the ground up and specifically with the hard-fought door-to-door competition of GT3 racing in mind, the 296 LMGT3 is packaged like a prototype. That means entirely removeable front and rear bodywork, facilitating easier access to the car’s vitals and, in turn, much quicker pit stops.
Extensively developed by Ferrari’s elite squadron of Competizione GT drivers, the 296 LMGT3 debuted in the 2023 Daytona 24 Hours. In the two years since, it’s chalked a stunning record-setting outright victory in the 24 Hours of Nürburgring, class victory in the Daytona 24 Hours, two GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup championships and two FIA World Endurance Championship race wins.
Chassis number 5144
One of the two Ferrari 296 LMGT3s prepared for Vista AF Corse to campaign in the full 2024 FIA World Endurance Championship, chassis number 5144 was an ‘all-boxes-ticked’ example. As such, it benefitted from a raft of features enhancing its potential as an endurance sports-racing car. These included the additional 24-hour high-beam lights (10,000 euros on their own), two-step data acquisition system, carbon clutch and rear camera.