Ferrari 458 Challenge On Track (And The Street)

458 racer filmed in Maranello and at Fiorano

By Riggers / Wednesday, 5 January 2011 / Loading comments

God bless the Italians. It's hard to imagine any other country on earth allowing a racing car to trundle around city streets on the way to the test track, but that's exactly what's happening in this video of the new Ferrari 458 Challenge racer.

Okay, so there are numberplates taped to the rumps of these 458 Challenge cars, but we would guess they're road legal only in the loosest sense of the phrase. Put it this way - it's hard to imagine Aston Martin or McLaren being allowed to let a racing car loose around the roads of Warwickshire or Woking.

But this is Ferrari, and Maranello, and things are simply different there...

You can read more about the spec of Ferrari's one-make racer in our previous story on the 458 Challenge, but for now we'll shut up and let you enjoy the sound of the 458 racer grumbling around the streets of Maranello and howling around the track at Fiorano. Lovely.