The 2023 Ferrari World Finals will be held at the Mugello Circuit. The announcement was made on the occasion of the gala dinner staged on Saturday evening in Imola, where this year’s World Finals take place.
In the presence of President John Elkann, CEO Benedetto Vigna and all the leaders of the Scuderia di Maranello, as well as drivers, team representatives and sponsors, the event began by celebrating the Ferrari Challenge Champions.
On the catwalk in the center of the show where the historic cars of the Prancing Horse are exhibited this weekend, reorganized with all the tables for the guests, the first three of each category of the Europe, North America and United Kingdom series paraded, with the respective trophies in the hands.
Gala dinner atmosphere
Photo by: Francesco Corghi
Subsequently, a special cup was awarded to Fons Scheltema, the longest-lived protagonist in these 30 years of the Ferrari Challenge, with 18 seasons behind him at the wheel of the Emilian cars.
Historical images of the GT Competitions and the single-make Prancing Horse, which at the end of next season will crown the World Champions again at Mugello, were projected on the big screens surrounding the walls of the show.
The Scarperia circuit therefore returns to host the hosts after the edition of the Finals held in 2021, in what is the usual alternation between the Tuscan track and an alternative venue in Italy or the rest of the world, as happened in the past with the editions of Abu Dhabi and Daytona.
Gala dinner atmosphere
Photo by: Francesco Corghi
The date to be marked on the calendar is the week from 24 to 30 October, where the actors of the Ferrari Challenge and the GT Competitions will be celebrated as always, as well as all the customers of the F1 customer Clubs, FXX and GT. On the other hand, the Formula 1 team, engaged in the Mexican Grand Prix that weekend, will not be present.
Finally, the conclusion of the evening was the highly anticipated presentation of the Ferrari Hypercar: after the brand new 499P it was besieged by cameras and mobile phones from the first meters along the catwalk, arriving in a riot of applause on the stage where it did beautiful show of itself flanked by two 312Ps, the last model to have raced the 24h of Le Mans 50 years ago.
Gala dinner atmosphere
Photo by: Francesco Corghi
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