Coletta, talking on the finish of the 2023 Ferrari Finali Mondiali at Mugello, stated the assist for a 3rd top-class 499P may come as early as subsequent season, if not then 2025.

“We thought of the chance after Le Mans and while our main focus is on higher performances and extra wins within the FIA WEC, we now really feel able to say that we might be capable to assist, with the required technical bundle, a program for a 3rd automobile,” he stated.

Ferrari has repeatedly made it clear that the complexities of the 499P would require important manufacturing facility technical enter for any buyer crew wishing to run the automobile.

Ferrari sources later advised RACER that this assist wouldn’t be for a 3rd manufacturing facility automobile, however as a substitute for a privately-entered effort. This could be a chance solely within the FIA WEC at current, although it may very well be for a full-season entry slightly than a Le Mans-only automobile.

What about IMSA, the place presently no LMH-spec vehicles are competing in GTP. The reply was fairly unequivocal. There can be no Ferrari GTP effort in IMSA, or in one-off races, in 2024.

Stateside Ferrari followers must be inspired by this improvement, although. By supporting a automobile past its two-pronged manufacturing facility effort, this represents a change in course for future seasons and comes within the wake of the complete reveal of the 499P Modificata, a track-only unrestricted hypercar primarily based off the Le Mans-winning race automobile.

As for which crew or groups are within the fray to run a 3rd 499P within the WEC, no agency plans are often called but, although it appears unlikely that such an announcement would have been made if there was no prospect of a program.

Rumours have been circulating for a while of the potential for the present AF Corse-Richard Mille Racing GTE AM effort to ‘graduate’ to Hypercar. It’s subsequently significantly intriguing that official Ferrari manufacturing facility driver Lilou Wadoux (who presently competes within the Richard Mille 488 GTE) is testing the manufacturing facility 499P on the Bahrain ‘Rookie’ take a look at on Sunday.