The Ferrari Challenge series was initiated in 1993 as a result of a number of Ferrari owners expressing a wish to be involved in racing their cars. The Ferrari 348 was the first car to be chosen and modified to make it suitable for track racing, being designated as the Ferrari 348 Challenge model. As new Ferrari models are introduced the car used in the Challenge series is changed every few years. At the Ferrari Racing Days meeting at Silverstone in September 2017 one of each of the five Challenge cars to have competed in the series up to 2017 was on display in the International Paddock.
This is the original Challenge car, the Ferrari 348 Challenge that was used between 1993 and 1995 and has a 3,405cc Ferrari F119 V8 engine.
From 1995 to 2000 the Ferrari F355 Challenge contested the series and is powered by the 3,496cc Ferrari F129 V8 engine.
In 2000 the Ferrari 360 Modena Challenge took over till 2006 and has the 3,596cc F131 V8 engine.
The next car, featuring from 2006 to 2011 was the Ferrari F430 Challenge, and this car has the 4,308cc Ferrari F136E V8 engine.
The car used from 2011 to 2017 is the Ferrari 458 Challenge and this is powered by the 4,497cc Ferrari F136 V8 engine.
I took all these photographs early in the morning after what had been a very chilly night and the windows of all the cars were all still frozen. Since 2017 two further challenge models have been introduced, the Ferrari 488 Challenge and the 488 Challenge Evo.
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