Ferrari’s assist for its older fashions continues with bespoke tyres for the Enzo and different traditional supercars
Ferrari has introduced that it has completed growing a ‘completely new’ tyre in collaboration with Pirelli particularly designed for the Ferrari Enzo, the modern-classic supercar that first arrived in 2002.
Ferrari says the new Pirelli P Zero Corsa System tyre has been made to authentic dimensions – 245/35 R19 entrance, 345/35 R19 rear – however makes use of ‘state-of-the-art materials, compounds and technology’ to carry efficiency up to modern-day ranges, together with uneven directional tread to fight aquaplaning.
The Italian agency’s give attention to tyres for older fashions continues with the F40 and F50, each of which now have official approval for using P Zero and P Zero Corsa System tyres from Pirelli’s aftermarket Collezione vary. The Ferrari F40 was, in accordance to Ferrari, the primary high-performance automotive to be fitted with the now ubiquitous Pirelli P Zero; its new and improved model is out there within the authentic sizing and even options period-correct lettering.
The Ferrari 288 GTO will quickly get the identical particular therapy, with improvement of a bespoke Pirelli P7 Cinturato underway. Modern efficiency is promised alongside a period-correct design.
Reissued tyres aren’t unusual within the traditional automotive world. Michelin nonetheless makes its skinny bespoke gadgets for the Citroen 2CV, whereas the Avon Turbospeed CR27 is the one tyre made within the appropriate dimensions and specs for early Bentley Turbo R fashions, whose authentic Pirelli Cinturato P7s are now not made within the requisite 255/65 R15 dimension.
Back on this planet of supercars, the Jaguar XJ220 famously went with out tyre assist for round a decade earlier than specialist Don Law labored with Bridgestone to launch new rubber in 2017.
