This was once inevitable, wasn’t it? After nabbing its first outright victory on the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Ferrari has introduced a buyer model of its victorious 499P prototype for its mega-rich Clienti to rag round one of the most global’s biggest and maximum storied race tracks.

Introduced on the end-of-term Finali Mondiali Ferrari fest, the 499P Modificata is largely a carbon reproduction of the Le Mans-winning prototype, proper right down to the outlandish aero bundle and minuscule cockpit with simply enough room for the motive force. It does, on the other hand, have much more energy than the Le Mans automobile. Much more, if truth be told. Whilst the racing model is specific to a most blended energy output of 671hp, the Modificata is unfastened to run at flat chat. That appears like a blended 707hp from the 296 GTB-derived 2.9-litre twin-turbo V6 engine and a 272hp front-mounted hybrid machine. That’s proper – it’s quicker than the Le Mans automobile.

And it will get even quicker, since the 499P Modificata has a trick up its sleeve. Ferrari has evolved an F1-style push-to-pass machine, which unlocks an additional 163hp from the hybrid machine for a seven-second spice up in keeping with activation. That brings the whole output as much as 870hp for a just right chew of any given lap. After all, you wish to have sufficient juice within the battery to free up the additional grunt, and the throttle must be totally compressed for the machine to energetic. However pass exhausting or pass house, proper?

What’s particularly psychological is that each one that energy may also be accessed from the instant you hit the accelerator, while the Le Mans automobile can handiest deploy its hybrid power above 123mph beneath the present hypercar regs. Actually, the Modificata is so speedy that Ferrari has created a brand new class in its Corse Clienti programme for it. Neatly, form of. For the reason that it’s recently the one automobile within the ‘Recreation Prototype’ magnificence, the Modificata will probably be lumped in with the Method 1 automobiles on its unique observe days. It’s a non-competitive class, technically talking – despite the fact that house owners indisputably examine occasions on the finish of the consultation. Who wouldn’t?

Talking of householders, Ferrari says it’s tweaked the 499P’s cockpit design to make it slightly more straightforward for drivers to get out and in of, despite the fact that in truth it seems to be simply as cramped because the staying power racer. Many of the design has been carried over from the racing automobile, together with the space-age guidance wheel and virtual rear-view reflect, at the side of the mounted seating place with its adjustable pedal field. In the meantime, the competition-spec Michelin tyres had been dropped for a collection of bespoke Pirellis. Sure, Ferrari is very best buds with the Italian tyre company, however the brand new compound is designed to be more straightforward to carry as much as temperature and last more. As a result of not anything kills the temper relatively like over the top tyre control.

Onto the topic of cost. The make a choice few who’ve been invited to buy a 499P Modificata will probably be met with a invoice of – look forward to it – €5,100,000 (or kind of £4,400,000). And that’s prior to taxes, too. Clearly, it’s for Ferrari’s maximum unswerving and absurdly loaded clienti, and that determine does come with a two-year access into Corsa Clienti with tyres and servicing thrown in. Simply don’t pass attempting to go into it as a privateer at subsequent yr’s Le Mans; Ferrari says it could possibly’t be carried out. Didn’t say the rest a few street conversion, despite the fact that…