Ferrari has shared a teaser pic previewing its endurance racing hypercar for the next year’s season. Antonello Coletta, the leader of the company’s motorsports division, said the company intended to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans next year.
The company also posted some test footage of the car and pointed out that it might later get a street-legal version. Despite the confusing wrap, you can easily see that the new racer has the signature Prancing Horse body kit with a prominent rear end and plenty of air intakes of all shapes and sizes.
The car will compete in the LMH category of the Le Mans, which allows engineers to design their own chassis. Another popular category, LMDh, requires automakers to outsource chassis creation to third parties (examples of companies using this approach include BMW and Porsche).
Coletta believes that letting Ferrari have full control over the body design will play the key role in winning Le Mans gold in 2023. According to him, everything from chassis and suspension to the engine and electronics will be purpose-designed and unique, as it should be if a company is serious about participating in an endurance race.
Maranello HQ echoed this sentiment, emphasizing that the company did not intend to recycle any of the technologies already in use in its road-legal cars. It does work in reverse, though: some of the tech developed for the Ferrari LMH Prototype may later find use in production hypercars.