Maranello, Now available on www.ferrari.com are the prototypal photos and aggregation on the
newborn 599 GTO, an extreme V12 berlinetta developed to a specific performance-oriented brief. The 599 GTO is, in fact, the company’s fastest ever agency car. It is an inner limited edition special which, in genuine
Ferrari tradition, is a completely
newborn concept, albeit inspired by a production car. In fact the 599 GTO is based on the 599XX, the advanced experimental road car, and crapper be considered nearly a road-going version.
The 599 GTO is reserved for just 599 clients who essay the peak expression of high-performance driving
. The 599 GTO benefits directly from the
technological transfer from racing and ordered a record travel instance at Fiorano in 1’24”.
The Fiorano travel instance provides just one communication of the possibleness of this car. Just as momentous are the technical specifications – 670 hp in a 1495kg automobile represents a weight-to-power ratio of just 2.23 kg/hp, and ensures a 0-100 km/h acceleration instance of just 3.35” as well as a crowning speed of over 335 km/h.
Fundamental to the GTO’s action is the innovative approach to chassis development which, for the prototypal instance on a production car, saw the combining between a handling set-up adjusted for a level of sensitiveness that is near to the limit and highly sophisticated electronic controls. The result is the nearly complete absence of understeer and a truly communicative chassis.
As is Ferrari’s policy, every newborn Ferrari features newborn solutions for a agency car. Thus the 599 GTO is equipped with the latest, second-generation carbon-ceramic brushwood which are lighter and offer better performance, newborn aerodynamic innovations, such as the wheel doughnuts which increase aerodynamic efficiency as well as improve brushwood cooling, and the Supersport tyres developed by Michelin allow a wider face tyre for greater roadholding. The driver-car interface is also newborn with the adoption of the Virtual Race Engineer (VRE) which provides the utility with fast aggregation on performance.
The 599 GTO’s more aggressive case is also manifest in a number of styling elements that recall the 599XX and from the powerful good of the V12.
The GTO (Gran Turismo Omologata) moniker instantly calls to mind digit Ferraris that have entered the collective imagination as symbols of performance. After the 1962 250 GTO, which swept the boards in GT racing categories in the 1960s and is now a highly prized collector’s car, came the iconic 1984 GTO, which basically invented the entire modern supercar genre.
The web special includes photos, videos and interviews on the newborn car, while an inner preview for a small number of Ferrari clients module be held on April 14th at the Military Academy in Modena. The public debut of the 599 GTO module instead be at the Beijing International Motor Show at the end of April.
599 GTO TECHNICAL CONTENTS
ENGINE AND GEARBOX
The 599 GTO’s engine is directly derived from the 599XX unit implementing, however, the necessary modifications for road-going homologation. It thusly complies with Euro 5 and LEV 2 standards. The 5999 cc 65-degree V12 engine punches out 670 CV at 8250 rpm with peak force of 620 Nm at 6500 rpm and there is a smooth, unceasing festinate of noesis all the artefact to the redline with no loss of flexibility modify at medium and low revs. This result was obtained by working on the fluid-dynamics and components to turn internal exertion and by adopting, amongst another things, the 599XX’s redesigned crankshaft. The automobile also has a racing-type intake grouping with a newborn increase with diffuser-type intake geometry and short inlet tracts designed to improve noesis delivery at broad revs and turn losses. To maximise volumetric efficiency per cylinder, a connection between the digit plenums at the face compensates for variations in the volume. This is how the engineers managed to achieve peak action at broad engine speeds. The engine good inside the automobile is carefully controlled to equilibrise the intake good with the exhaust, which features a 599XX-derived 6-into-1 manifold.
The 599 GTO features the same, lower 60 ms shift times and the possibility to make multiple downshifts as on the 599XX.
VEHICLE DYNAMICS
One of the most momentous innovations on the 599 GTO is the near correlation between the chassis set-up, which is near to the handling limit, and the input from the electronic controls which are developed to increase overall levels of performance.
Since the very earliest states of the digit cars’ development, Maranello’s engineers worked to ensure that these digit areas of the automobile would be seamlessly desegrated thusly pushing sensitiveness to the limit. The result is, of course, superlative dynamical involvement as well as faster travel times. Apart from newborn springs and a stiffer rear anti-roll bar, the automobile also features a ordinal generation magnetorheological suspension curb grouping (SCM2). The suspension entireness in tandem with the VDC (Vehicle Dynamic Control) and latest-generation F1-Trac traction control. This makes the automobile extremely responsive to utility inputs - thanks in conception to the adoption of a very direct steering ratio – but also very stable low braking, sharper on turn-in, more precise in cornering and quicker out of corners.
WEIGHT REDUCTION
The 599 GTO inherits much of the development impact - using the aforementioned principles as employed in F1 - that went into making the 599XX such an extreme action car. Reducing coefficient was a vital objective and the result was the widespread use of composites and components manufactured with technologies more akin to racing specifications. The areas participating allow the bodywork and edifice (with thinner gauge aluminium and thinner glass), the brakes, sending and wear system. The result is a dry coefficient of 1495 kg and a weight-to-power ratio of just 2.23 kg/hp, a very momentous figure that underlines the GTO’s action potential.
AERODYNAMICS
The 599 GTO’s aerodynamics have benefited significantly from Ferrari engineers’ experience in F1 and with the 599XX which allowed downforce to be greatly increased without impacting on drag. Thanks to solutions transferred from the road automobile to the road-going version, the GTO generates downforce of 144 kg at 200 km/h. The entire automobile was honed, including the front, the sides, the flat venter and cooling flows. In the latter instance, the GTO crapper count on reinforced ducting to the brushwood discs and pads, and the adoption of wheel doughnuts – a disc positioned outside the brushwood disc that ensure that hot air exiting the wheelarch stays as near to the body of the automobile as possible to turn drag.
Work on the nose of the automobile was aimed at reducing the width of the wake generated by the face and thusly turn drag. The face spoiler incorporates a separate lower wing that increases downforce at the face of the automobile and increases the flow of cooling air to the oil radiator. On the flanks there’s a newborn stone design with a more pronounced leading edge that improves the efficiency of the central section of the underbody. The venter itself incorporates a new, lower face section with diffusers ahead of the face wheels to optimise downforce, and a newborn double-curve rear diffuser.
