As promised! details of the Ferrari 599XX ...
Ferrari has released a whole bunch of shiny photos and new details on its unhinged 599XX, the hypertech track-focused edition of its front-engined supercar. And, quite frankly, that's all the excuse I need to treat you with the new photos they've released.
Just in case you've forgotten, here's the big news on the 599XX: Ferrari has revised the 6.0-litre V12 to put out a massive 700bhp at 9,000rpm. It weighs just 1,330kg, thanks to obsessive use of carbon fibre. It is, essentially, a track-only racer, armed with slick racing tyres, carbon ceramic brakes and a whole bunch of bewildering tech to improve downforce and air flow over and around the car.
Bewildering tech that includes the use of a porous material in the diffuser, and a pair of fans in the boot which channel air flowing beneath the car out through 2 grilles by the taillights. Oh, and ‘synthetic jets' (an excellent name for an indie-electronica band, no?) incorporated into the rear which, along with those mad buttresses, smooth airflow over the surface of the car. It all combines to produce 280kg of real down force at 120mph, and a massive 630kg at 185mph.
If you're muttering to yourself about feckless rip-off merchants, here's one last stat for you: the 599XX lapped Ferrari's Fiorano circuit in 1m17s, just a second slower than the FXX and quicker than, well, just about everything else bar the Scuderia's F1 cars. 
Click here for my previous blog about the 599XX
Video of the 599XX as it broke the lap record of the Nurburgring
2 comments:
Informative. Thanks
They have not released many facts about this car when they launched it during the Geneva Motor Show 2009... But they promised to release details about it. So I got the chance to get some of it just now :) ... Thanks for the comment :D
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