Celebrating Ferrari’s Historic Win At Le Mans
With Robert Kubica crossing the finishing line at the Circuit de la Sarthe, Ferrari clinched victory at the 2025 24 Hours of Le Mans, marking an impressive three-peat for the Prancing Horse. Following consecutive wins in 2023 and 2024, the Italian marque won the Hypercar category with its 499P, awash in its signature red and yellow livery.
Primarily made to honor the initial back-to-back win, but perfectly time after last weekend’s victory, Ferrari has introduced a special version of the 296 Speciale. Dubbed the 296 Speciale with Piloti Ferrari configuration, this model is the latest showcase of Ferrari’s Tailor Made personalization program, and it’s not intended for your average Ferrari customer. This one’s for racers – specifically, Ferrari’s community of client-drivers involved in official motorsport activities, both competitive and non-competitive.
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A Tribute to Ferrari’s Historic Return to Top-Level Endurance Racing
Visually, the car is a tribute to Ferrari’s racing success. Buyers can choose from four motorsport-inspired paint finishes: Rosso Scuderia, Blu Tour De France, Nero Daytona, and Argento Nürburgring. The livery – drawn directly from the 499P – features Giallo Modena accents, a hand-painted WEC logo, Italian flag detailing on the front bumper, and a customer-selected racing number.
The show car, which was revealed on the eve of this year’s Le Mans, bore number 51, honoring the trio of Pier Guidi, Calado, and Giovinazzi’s 2023 win during Ferrari’s historic return to top-level endurance racing.
Inside, the cabin carries over the motorsport theme. It features racing seats trimmed in black Alcantara and fire-retardant materials used in official driver suits. The racing number appears again on interior carbon-fiber trim, while details like a metal footwell and carbon-fiber sill plates are customizable. A carbon plaque finalizes the car’s identity, reinforcing its exclusivity.
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Untouched Underneath The Skin
Ferrari didn’t touch the 296 Speciale’s mechanicals for the Piloti Ferrari configuration, nor does it need to. The 296 Speciale is a sharpened, more focused evolution of the already potent 296 GTB. Its hybrid powertrain, combining a 120-degree twin-turbo V6 with an electric motor, puts out 868 horsepower.
The Speciale benefits from some upgrades from the GTB, though, including a lighter combustion engine with F1-derived components, a reworked DCT gearbox with quicker shifts, revised chassis geometry, and an advanced “extra boost” software system that delivers peak power during flat-out laps. Aero has been amped up by 20% compared to the GTB.
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About the author
Jacob Oliva
Senior Editor, Autoblog