Race car for the road, you say? We've got just the thing...
Marketable motorsport is a big thing when it comes to selling new performance cars in 2022. Not so long ago a motorsport link was a racing stripe or silly spoiler; nowadays there’s some proper expertise making it from circuit to street. And it’s made for some superb cars in the process, too - think of the new GT3 RS and its near-tonne of downforce, the 10-stage traction control in an M3 CSL and regenerative braking power of a 296 GTB.
Which is where the Ferrari comes in. Because, yes, it is a road legal race car, and that should make it unbearable on the public highway. Or too crazy fast to use. But don’t forget that the Challenge was an upgrade kit back in the day, rather than a ground-up race car. You tend to see a few road-converted Challenges around because, presumably, it wasn’t that far removed from the road car. The 380hp, five-valve V8 was unchanged, for starters.
Anyway, to the Challenge in question. Delivered new to Australia in 1997 - yep, 25 years ago - it came to the UK just a couple of years later, where its right-hand drive would of course have been an advantage. Over here it was owned by a Mr A. Davies, who spent the next decade and a bit driving it 23,000 miles to, from and around tracks in the UK in his job as a race instructor. Which is pretty cool.
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