Vicki's review of the ferrari f430 challenge

[ferrari550]

http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,26569-2123586,00.html

[Everlasting]

fuck yeah!!
too bad the carbon ceramic brakes are optional :wink:

i can't wait the video review

[No.1]

too bad the carbon ceramic brakes are optional :wink:



.... on the road car :wink:

She isn't a great writer - not very entertaining, but it was an interesting read nonetheless.

Thanks for posting

[1zippo1]

She isn't a great writer - not very entertaining, but it was an interesting read nonetheless.

Indeed, a first review of a 430 challenge is allways welcome but you're right. She isn't a writer and to be honest the whole interview is more a tribute to herself then to the car.

Maybe she tried JC's approach, first tell something that happend to you and then relate it to the car. But this sounded more like a: look at how great I am.

[No.1]

I've been wondering for a while now tho, why the decided to remove the e-diff from the racing version?

My 2 cents - i think the e-diff is only really a way to let you drive in a variety of conditions on the roads with different set-ups, whilst also allowing for track use.

The race car will never have to encounter snow nor ice. The car will be set up mechanically and electrically different before each race - 4 settings really isn't enough on a techy-race car, and so the e-diff is more of a safet net for the (ultimately) less adjustable road-car

[Fleischmann]

Not bad to read, but as already pointed out, she just writes facts about the car, plain information about ttechnological aspects and nothing about the steering etc.

[robruf]

But no one has mentioned that 5th Gear starts tonight, woohoo, cannot wait. I will see some of these new cars at the Montreal GP this year

[RC45]

Ferrari’s engineers have been to work on the car to boost performance and reduce weight so that the Challenge slashes 8sec off the road version’s lap time. The glass has been turned into plastic, metal into carbon fibre, and leather into cloth to save precious ounces. As for creature comforts, well, put it this way: if you want air-conditioning you open the window, and if you want to increase the car’s sound system you press the loud pedal.

The suspension, too, is stiffer and the car sits lower to the ground than the street-legal motor, while the state-of-the-art electronic differential has been replaced by a more traditional bomb-proof mechanical one, which is rewarding for the racers. With the traction control off and the best part of 500bhp on tap, I was in car heaven.


Interesting, and people would have us believe there is not significant engineering and effort to turn the street Ferrari into a Race Ferrari... ;) :P

I wonder why the car doesn't race against other cars? ;)

[mindgam3]

I'm pretty sure the e diff wouldnt live long on a track which is why they've replaced it with a straight forward mechnical one - much more reliable