{"id":29218,"date":"2022-07-29T13:14:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T13:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ferrari-launches-296-gt3-car-inspired-by-f1-technology\/"},"modified":"2022-07-29T13:14:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T13:14:49","slug":"ferrari-launches-296-gt3-car-inspired-by-f1-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ferrari-launches-296-gt3-car-inspired-by-f1-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferrari launches 296 GT3 car inspired by F1 technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-autoplay=\"0\" data-mute=\"0\" data-position=\"embed\" data-series=\"gt\">\n<p>The new customer racing car that will replace the 488 GT3 Evo for 2023 has fully detachable front and rears ends in the name of increased serviceability, Ferrari revealed on the unveiling of the car ahead of this weekend&#8217;s Spa 24 Hours round of the GT World Challenge Europe .<\/p>\n<p>The bodywork sections at the front and rear can be removed in one piece, while both ends of the car are built up on detachable subframes for further ease of maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>Ferdinando Cannizzo, head of GT racing car design at Ferrari, said: \u201cWe looked at how they are doing things in Formula 1 and prototypes, and copied that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have exchanged some ideas and concepts with the F1 team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that there had been a lot of interaction with \u201call departments at Ferrari\u201d, including the Scuderia F1 operation, during development of the 296 GT3.<\/p>\n<section class=\"trinity-skip-it\" contenteditable=\"false\" draggable=\"true\" data-widget=\"video\" data-autoplay=\"default\"> <\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/v\/578202\/?mute\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>Cannizzo explained that making the Ferrari&#8217;s GT3 racer easier to run and work on had been one of the guiding principles during the new car&#8217;s design and development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe thought about this from the concept stage, because we wanted to simplify the assembly and the make the track operation much easier,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you remove the front or rear bodywork there is just one electrical connector [at each end]not lots of cables everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ease of running the car and how fast you can change components is a key part of performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe front and rear bodywork can be changed really fast, in seconds, although there is still some investigation to do to see really how fast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The full specification of the 296 GT3 was revealed on the launch, which followed the release of the first photographs of the car undertaking a shakedown at Ferrari&#8217;s Fiorano test track back in April.<\/p>\n<p>The new race car&#8217;s engine retains the architecture and capacity of the road-going 296 GTB launched in 2021, which means it is a three-liter V6 twin-turbo with a 120-degree vee angle.<\/p>\n<p>Cannizzo revealed that Ferrari&#8217;s Attivita Sportive GT department had been involved in the 296 road car program from the start of its development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe started with them from the very beginning looking at the requirements for the racing car,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that this played a big part in the decision to go for the wide-angle configuration of the engine, which has allowed the turbos to be housed inside the vee for more effective packaging.<\/p>\n<p>The engine has been tilted up front to rear by two degrees in the name of aerodynamic efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo degrees doesn&#8217;t sound a lot, but it is enough to have the diffuser properly shaped and sized to increase efficiency and to have better rideheight sensitivity at the rear,\u201d said Cannizzo.<\/p>\n<section class=\"trinity-skip-it \" contenteditable=\"false\" draggable=\"true\" data-widget=\"image\" data-width=\"1200\" data-height=\"800\" data-link=\"\" data-id=\"63955070\" data-title=\"Ferrari 296 GT3\" data-author=\"Ferrari\" data-custom=\"false\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn-6.motorsport.com\/images\/mgl\/6xEn9rJ0\/s8\/ferrari-296-gt3-1.jpg\"><img draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn-6.motorsport.com\/images\/mgl\/6xEn9rJ0\/s8\/ferrari-296-gt3-1.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"Ferrari 296 GT3\" loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/> <\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">Ferrari 296 GT3<\/p>\n<p class=\"photographer\">Photo by: Ferrari<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>The wheelbase of the road car has been increased by 60mm over the road version as allowed in the 2022 GT2 rules, to help make it more user-friendly, particularly for amateur drivers.<\/p>\n<p>The racer has a different gearbox casing to road car because it does away with the hybrid system, which is not permitted in GT3.<\/p>\n<p>The new car is the first Ferrari GT3 to be designed exclusively with Attivita Sportive GT;  the three previous generations of Ferrari built to the GT3 rules were developed in conjunction with out-of-house tuner Michelotto.<\/p>\n<p>French constructor Oreca has taken over assembly of Ferrari&#8217;s GT3 from Michelotto for the new project.<\/p>\n<p>The first 296 GT3 has completed in the region of 8000km of testing and deliveries to customers will begin at the end of this year ahead of its race debut in next January&#8217;s Daytona 24 Hours, the opening round of the 2023 IMSA SportsCar Championship.<\/p>\n<p>No price has been released for the new car, but Ferrari has promised there will not be a significant increase on the 488 GT3 Evo.<\/p>\n<p>Ferrari policy is not to publish prices of its racing cars, but it is believed the 488 is close to $500,000 less taxes.<\/p>\n<section class=\"trinity-skip-it \" contenteditable=\"false\" draggable=\"true\" data-widget=\"image\" data-width=\"1200\" data-height=\"800\" data-link=\"\" data-id=\"63955066\" data-title=\"Ferrari 296 GT3 cockpit\" data-author=\"Ferrari\" data-custom=\"false\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn-1.motorsport.com\/images\/mgl\/0mbnwkM2\/s8\/ferrari-296-gt3-cockpit-1.jpg\"><img draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn-1.motorsport.com\/images\/mgl\/0mbnwkM2\/s8\/ferrari-296-gt3-cockpit-1.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"Ferrari 296 GT3 cockpit\" loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/> <\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">Ferrari 296 GT3 cockpit<\/p>\n<p class=\"photographer\">Photo by: Ferrari<\/p>\n<\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new customer racing car that will replace the 488 GT3 Evo for 2023 has fully detachable front and rears ends in the name of increased serviceability, Ferrari revealed on the unveiling of the car ahead of this weekend&#8217;s Spa 24 Hours round of the GT World Challenge Europe . The bodywork sections at the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ferrari-launches-296-gt3-car-inspired-by-f1-technology\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ferrari launches 296 GT3 car inspired by F1 technology<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29350,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ferrari-unveils-296-gt3-car-sportscar365\/","url_meta":{"origin":29218,"position":0},"title":"Ferrari Unveils 296 GT3 Car \u2013 Sportscar365","date":"July 29, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Photo: Ferrari Ferrari has officially taken the wraps off its new-for-2023 contender, the 296 GT3, during a presentation Friday at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps ahead of this weekend's TotalEnergies 24 Hours of Spa. 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