How fast can you make a car go around a track before you’re satisfied and move on to the next thing? Most carmakers, those serious about lap times, believe in the unending pursuit, which is fair enough, and Ferrari again proves itself to be one of the high priest of that cult with the FXX-K Evo.
As far as super rare cars go - new ones - there’s certainly a lot of brands that can come to mind. In the grander scheme of the automotive world, any Ferrari is regarded by ratio to be already a rare car. Like its predecessors, the LaFerrari, their 2013 hybrid hypercar and FXX-K Evo’s progenitor, required you to be selected by the Maranello outfit themselves for the privilege of even buying one.
Then came the LaFerrari FXX-K (non Evo) that took that high baseline and made sure no stone was unturned in making sure it was as lightweight (sub-1,500kg kerb) and as aerodynamically optimised as possible. Now, they’re back, unsatisfied with their previous work.
The FXX-K Evo is so rare that any of us would be considered lucky if it came within sniffing distance of it. Needless to say, Ferrari will not be many making examples. The Evo, as we’re calling it, takes the aero wizardry of the prior car and injects it with super soldier formula. It’s quite a comprehensive upgrade in that department, producing 23% more downforce than the FXX.
This translate to roughly 830kg of air pressure forcing the car down to the surface at its top speed. Because occasions are scarce where it would actually reach that, Ferrari also optimised it to generate as much as 640kg of downforce at more reasonable average track speed of 200km/h. Speaking of which, that’s the only place where the FXX-K Evo is allowed since it isn’t road legal.
Changes to the airflow package are clearly visible, especially when contrasted against the white body colour. A revised front end now features more aggressive dive planes and intakes to allow channel more air to the underbody, while at the rear there’s tweaks to the diffuser and new fixed rear wing.
The car’s under tray is particularly important to additional downforce generation as the newly incorporated vortex generators help create a more intense vacuum between it and the road and diverting air over the rear wing via a central fin, claimed to be responsible for a 30% improvement.
With that covered, there’s not all that much else Ferrari could do with the interior as they’ve pretty much taken out everything they can to save weight. However, there are still some changes such as a slightly different steering wheel and an updated infotainment display (really?) that does displays a newer telemetry system.
Alterations to the powertrain itself have not been mentioned, so we’ll have to assume the naturally aspirated 6.3-litre V12 and electric motor combination are untouched, meaning 772kW and well in excess of 1,000Nm of torque at maximum.
The number of FXX-K Evo that will exist in the hands of customers will largely depend on how many FXX-Ks are out there - and that’s already limited to just 40 units. This is due to Ferrari also offering the FXX-K owners the chance to upgrade their existing car to one that’s had the ‘Evo’ treatment done to it. Indeed, there will be newly built Evos, but we’re figuring that that production count can be done on two hands.
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