F430 scuderia

The folks at Ferrari asked this bloke, who apparently has had some experience driving fast cars, Michael Schumacher to help them build a super sexy sports car. The result is Ferrari’s lighter, harder, faster 430 Scuderia, which is also, apparently, the company’s most rapid road car, ever. The 430 Scuderia with its 4.3-litre V8 pumping out 375kW the V8 only makes another 15kW and 5Nm over the F430, from which it is derived.Aerodynamic advances to the underbody, carbon ceramic brakes and specific Pirelli tyres all help but credit really belongs to two key areas: incredible traction and reduced weight.The Scuderia marries the F430’s E-Diff and the 599’s F1-Trac systems, merging them into a single technology called E-Diff2. The Scuderia has about 40 percent better traction out of corners than the F430 and its other secret is a loss of 100kg.To reduce weight, the engineers left out the sound system and carpets - exposing the bare alloy floor and the weld points on the sills. Carbonfibre was used for the door panels, bulkhead, seat frames, central tunnel and also the mirrors, which you need to ba able to see all the competition. The rear window that also covers the sexily exposed V8 is now plasticIt has howitzer tailpipes, which repositioned higher to keep them out of the revised diffuser’s airflow. The search for weight loss includes using titanium for the suspension springs and even titanium wheel nuts, which save a surprising 1.5kg. The result is a kerb mass of 1350kg.The gearbox is magnificent helping you get gear changes in 60 milliseconds or, as quick as a 2004 F1 car!!! This is 90 milliseconds quicker than the F430 and in fact shifts faster than any production car out there and it’s the only gearbox on offer for the 430 Scuderia.The manettino, situated on the right-hand side of the leather and carbon steering wheel offers five positions - wet, sport (default), race, CT off (turns off the traction control but leaves ESP active) and CST off, which eliminates all but the ABS function. Each delivers different strategies, which allow the driver to change the parameters of the suspension, differential, gear change, and traction and stability controls.So far 40 Australians have ordered the Scuderia and will obviously be cruising around places, such as Chapel street in Melbourne, demonstrating a fine example of what Ferrari and the inimitable Michael Schumacher can do when they put their minds to it.

Just in case you wanted some little snippets of how sexy and quick this car is, here are some boring details J.

4308cc V8

375kW @ 8500rpm

470Nm @ 5250rpm

0-100km/h 3.6sec
Good on ya Ferrari, now all I need is a big deposit, $550k and the patience to wait the 30 months it will take to get one.