If it’s more one-make Ferrari racing you are into, then it’s the 488 Challenge Evo you’ll be needing. The Evo package – also available as a kit to fit to existing cars – comprises all sorts of goodies but again it’s chiefly the aero that benefits. Ferrari says the new car has 50 per cent more overall downforce than the current 488 Challenge car.
Like the GT3, there’s a new front end design with longer overhang, reprofiled radiator intakes, a new U-shaped intake to feed the front brakes, a large splitter with turning vanes at the ends and the adoption of a second side flick. It all comes together for better control of the airflow and, for the first time in a Challenge car, the option to modify the front downforce independently of the rear.
The driver can thus select a high or low downforce configuration before each race, depending on the circuit's characteristics and the weather. Tailoring aero balance to the car’s dynamics, and its new Pirelli tyres, in this way was a chief consideration in developing the Evo and a big part of the reason why it turns in quicker and understeers less.