Skids ahoy: the new e-Vortex is Ferrari’s brand new 1.9km test track

Ferrari has spent the last four months working furiously on a new project. This project is not a highly-strung V12 hypercar capable of bending the very matter around it, but a 1.9km long test track… right next to its 3km long Fiorano test track.

Welcome then, to the new Ferrari ‘e-Vortex’. Not as romantic as ‘Fiorano’, and perhaps a discarded moniker for a time machine Ferrari might have been working on. This new track of course looks very far into the future.

It’s apparently been designed “to meet the most advanced development and validation requirements” that allow Ferrari’s hotshoes the opportunity for “precise and repeatable testing in compliance with the highest safety standards”. For that, read: being able to safely and comprehensively send it night and day.

Ferrari said the track has been sectioned off with different bits offering different levels of send: two wide curves with – woohoo! – actual banking and a longitudinal slope, a central straight, and some handling curves “dedicated to the study of dynamic behaviour”. Yeah, ‘study’. Ferrari ‘studies’ really hard.

There’s a massive new workshop too that’ll help service the sent cars so that they may be resent in a fluid manner.

The e-Vortex which definitely doesn’t now sound like a terrifying villain in a disaster movie, will bestow a handy boon to the residents of Maranello: “concentrating testing within the new testing area will help reduce the impact on traffic in the surrounding area,” said Ferrari.