You Can Buy This Road-Legal Ferrari 360 Challenge Race Car

You often hear about race cars for the road, but track-focused stuff still tends to have a bit of luxury to make them liveable. If you want the full bonafide, stripped-back motorsport weapon with licence plates though, this Ferrari 360 Challenge could be the thing for you.

Ferrari did make its own stripped-down version of the 360 for the road, the Challenge Stradale, but this is the proper thing. Built for its own one-make series, the 360 Challenge was only ever meant to be used on the track.

Based on the Modena, pretty much every inch of the car was overhauled. Starting with its 3.6-litre V8 producing 410bhp in race trim, up from 395bhp in its original form. Changes included uprated engine mounts, a reworked ECU and a racing clutch with a lightened flywheel. A stock suspension setup is swapped out for multi-way adjustable dampers with a configurable ride height, too.

Inside, everything non-essential was removed from the Modena’s interior - including the door panels and all sound-deadening material, while glass windows were replaced with Lexan alternatives. These don’t open fully, instead coming with a small slideable cutout. Might be a tricky one to use at the drive-through, mind.

A set of proper Recaro bucket seats with harnesses in place of belts are fitted, along with a flat-bottomed steering that’s refreshingly buttonless. Driving info is fed to you through a pared-back digital gauge cluster, separated shift lights and a telemetry screen mounted centrally.

We can’t not mention the visual changes. Of course, the reworked body kit is all functional - including the gigantic rear wing. The roof scoop is a nice touch too, replacing the air-con as a way to feed air into the cabin and giving us Subaru Impreza Spec-C vibes. There’s no hiding the gigantic aftermarket twin exhausts on this example, either.

It’s worth pointing out that this Giallo Modena example isn’t an official Ferrari conversion, rather, originally owned and converted by Nakumara Engineering in Japan. That’d explain the TE37s, then.

Having been in the UK since 2021, it’s said the car has covered under 5,000 miles in total with ‘approximately 70 per cent clutch remaining’. It does need a fresh MOT, mind you, and has a cracked rear bumper, but did pass with no advisories when it was last tested in 2020.

The auction is live now on Collecting Cars and, at the time of writing, bidding sits at £36,000 with four days to go. Expect that to rise sharply. Coincidentally, a similar 360 Challenge owned by well-known automotive photographer Mark Riccioni is currently up for sale at £109,950.