Ford and Ferrari could roll out with ‘Evo’ kits for its existing GTE machinery next year, amid the arrival of at least two new cars to the GTE-Pro class in both the FIA World Endurance Championship and at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
GTE regulations allow each manufacturer to submit an upgrade kit within a three-year homologation period, with both the Ford GT and Ferrari 488 GTE currently in year two, and the window closing on a potential update.
“It’s logical people could come to the assumption that we might do an evo kit,” Ford GT Program Manager George Howard-Chappell told Sportscar365. “We might, but there’s no confirmation or otherwise what we’re doing or if we’ll even do it.”
Per the category’s technical regulations, manufacturers are allowed to make a one-time permitted performance or reliability update, in what’s otherwise a class-wide freeze in development.
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