MMy Ferrari Challenge Experience

[G.Irish]

Oof, I have never seen so much bent metal in one weekend for this amount of cars. There were about 30 or so 430's for the weekend and I'd say somewhere around 8 to 12 cars (maybe more) hit something over the course of the weekend. In a word, carnage. I didn't even bother to take a picture of all the cars running around with primered bumpers and bent quarter panels. Ferrari North America actually ran out of spare bumpers!

This guy had a rather amusing off (which was caught on video). He passed one of our guys going into the roller coaster, then started to slide on the exit of 17. He lifted, and in a big plume of smoke flew back across the track and hit the guardrail at pit in.





The guardrails at VIR rarely get a workout like they did this weekend...


This weekend I got put in charge of tires and gas. Not a bad job but I must admit I was a little bit jealous of Kevin who got to work on putting his car back together after his driver hit a guardrail.

Note my supreme 100 octane pumping skillz


I don't know if the 360, 355, and 348 had this feature but the 430 has a panel in the driver compartment that exposes the front of the engine. In the 355 (and I wanna say the 360) the whole engine and rear subframe comes out in one piece for you to service the engine.

What's wrong with this picture?


Time for an episode of the Ferrari Price is Right. Pictured below is a Ferrari diagnostic computer that only the dealerships can purchase, and even then, most dealerships are limited to one (unless you support 430 Challenge, in which case you can have more). How much does it cost?

A. $5000
B. $10000
C. $15000
D $25000
E. $30000
F. $50000



Here one of the Ferrari North America officials is reflashing the ECU. Apparently in 430 Challenge they randomly swap ECU's between cars in the series to reduce the chance that someone is cheating.



More to come...