Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2. Unleash The Racing Driver In You.

23 October 2019 Redazione News, Techniques and Driving

Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2. Unleash The Racing Driver In You.

You know, today there are so many possibilities to safely unleash your sports car’s mighty power. Among driving courses, driving experiences in contact with realities often far from weekly routine and followed by expert tutors, there are the increasingly wide chances to bring your car on a racing track and exploit it properly as they were designed. There will surely come to mind the most traditional lightweight and roofless barchettas, but find us a car more suited to this context, if not a Ferrari that in its very name sets the record straight: 488 Pista. The most extreme variation of the prancing horse’s berlinetta appropriates the forms of the 488 GTB and brings aerodynamics to the extreme, accommodating in the engine compartment a twin-turbo V8 derived from the version deployed in the racing series.

It seems logical to imagine that to unleash 720 horses and 770 Nm of torque a marvelous job was done by Maranello engineers, where every small detail covers a very precise function, in order to keep this € 300,000 supercar glued on the ground and at the same time allow it to be exploited on the road In the same way as Ferrari has opted to equip the Pista with the workhorse of Michelin, the Pilot Sport Cup 2, innovative tires that can ground even the most exasperated powers to the asphalt below. Among the highlights we really have to emphasize the use of Michelin Bi-Compound Technology, which is the use of differentiated elements between internal and external tread. The maximum grip ensured during cornering is then made possible by the structure inside the very tires, with a pair of steel belts reinforced with polyamide ropes. In short, not just a performance rubber, but the top-dog in terms of design and development, a tire that a car like the 488 Pista needs to dominate the road and – guess what – the Pista!