“Now it is easier to make the decision to come back than it would have been in the past with LMP1.”Ĭoletta, second left, has led development on the Ferrari 499P LMH that was formally unveiled in Imola last week “Now the budget is much less,” explains Coletta. The Le Mans Hypercar rules to which the 499P has been developed have slashed the cost of entry to Le Mans and the WEC from the LMP1 era.
It is about some much bigger numbers with many more noughts: the budget involved.įerrari’s long-awaited comeback owes much to the regulations that it helped write. “When we made some discussions in the last years, our vision was open, but when we understood that the occasion was great, we took the final decision.”īut Ferrari’s return to the top of the sportscar tree next year with a two-car attack on the World Endurance Championship is not just about the numbers 50 and 100. “All the numbers have come in a magic moment,” says Antonello Coletta, Ferrari’s sportscar racing boss and the architect of its return to the prototype ranks as a factory with a hybrid prototype that since its launch at the weekend we are now calling the 499P.
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