Ferrari has unveiled a brand new retro livery for the 2 manufacturing unit 499P Le Mans Hypercars forward of its 2025 World Endurance Championship marketing campaign.
The Italian producer has adopted blood purple for the 2 AF Corse-run works automobiles in what Ferrari sportscar racing boss Antonello Coletta labelled a “reminder of the previous”.
It said on the launch of its 2025 programme on Friday that the darker shade of purple that earlier than “reinterprets the colors seen on Ferrari race automobiles from previous a long time”.
Coletta identified that the brand new purple mimicked that used on on its works 488 GTE contenders in 2019 when Ferrari was celebrating the seventieth anniversary of its 1949 victory on the Le Mans 24 Hours with Luigi Chinetti and Lord Selsdon (Peter Mitchell-Thomson) driving a 166MM.
However he confused that Ferrari will not be celebrating a specific anniversary this time.
#50 Ferrari AF Corse Ferrari 499P: Antonio Fuoco, Miguel Molina, Nicklas Nielsen, #51 Ferrari AF Corse Ferrari 499P: Alessandro Pier Guidi, James Calado, Antonio Giovinazzi
Picture by: Ferrari
Ferrari’s livery modifications for the third season of competitors for the 499P embrace new stripes within the Modena yellow of its residence city.
These now run alongside the highest floor of the sidepods reasonably than down their sides.
A requirement to run a brand new LED gentle panel, which is able to have the ability to present the race place of every automotive, was the catalyst for the change.
They’re situated on the entrance of every sidepod, which has meant transferring the race numbers again to the place the stripes ran down the automotive in 2024.
The yellow harks again to the 312PB Group 6 racer of the early Nineteen Seventies, Ferrari’s final manufacturing unit prototype racer previous to the 50-year hiatus that ended with the arrival of the 499P LMH in 2023.
A 312PB bearing the Modena yellow received the Sebring 12 Hours in 1972 with Mario Andretti and Jacky Ickx driving, earlier than Ickx and Brian Redman received on the Monza and Nurburgring World Championship for Makes occasions the next 12 months in the identical colors.
The brand new 499P color scheme additionally incorporates matte accents that align with the livery run on its System 1 automobiles, which shall be unveiled in its newest type on the F1 75 Stay occasion on the 02 Enviornment on 18 February.
Ferrari goes into the 2025 season with an unchanged driver line-up: the 2 crews of Nicklas Nielsen, Antonio Fuoco and Miguel Molina in #50 and Antonio Giovinazzi, James Calado and Alessandro Pier Guidi in #51 will race collectively for a 3rd consecutive season.
Phil Hanson has joined Kubica and Ye within the buyer AF entry instead of Shwartzman, who has moved to IndyCar with Prema Racing.
The WEC season kicks off with the Qatar 1812Km on the Lusail Worldwide Circuit on 28 February, with the official pre-season prologue take a look at going down on the identical venue on 21/22 February.
Images from the Ferrari AF Corse launch
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