Last week Ferrari revealed that its new SF90 XX Stradale had smashed the lap record for street-legal cars at the company’s Firoano track, but the hardcore hybrid can probably give up any hope of holding onto that record for more than a few months because the secret hypercar in these pictures is going to smash it to smithereens.
More than 10 years have passed since Ferrari released its last hypercar, but at some point in 2024 we should finally get to see the successor to LaFerrari. The final name is still a secret, so for now, it goes only by the internal codename F250. Also, don’t pay too much attention to the body bodywork; that’s mostly heavy camo hiding the real – and hopefully curvier – carbon panels from prying eyes.
For the most part, this Ferrari prototype looks much like the last one we saw back in the summer, but these newer images reveal some changes to the pylons holding up the huge active rear wing. Previous prototypes had motorsport-style pylons that looked like they could only be tweaked using hand tools, but this one could be fitted with a mechanism allowing it to adjust the height and angle of the wing from the cabin.
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Ferrari has an incredible ability to keep details of its cars secret until it’s ready to reveal them, so we can’t be sure what’s hiding behind the seats, but it’s rumored to be a hybridized V6 that will draw on tech from the company’s F1 and Le Mans cars. We’re expecting to see an all-wheel drive setup with the front axle drawing power exclusively from at least one, but probably two, electric motors, plus additional hybrid support at the rear axle.
The LaFerrari’s 950 hp (963 PS) seemed huge a decade ago, but today’s SF90 XX Stradale makes 1,016 hp (1,030 PS), so expect the F250 to put clear air between the pair, both on a dyno chart and the Fiorano lap time leader board. The SF90 XX recently recorded a time of 1:17.3, which was 2.4 seconds faster than the 1:19.7 achieved by the LaFerrari, so how much quicker do you think the F250 will go?
