# Ferrari 488 GTE

- Source: https://racingcarnetwork.com/wiki/ferrari-488-gte/
- Publisher: Racing Car Network (racingcarnetwork.com), the race car marketplace
- Type: car · Brand: Ferrari
- Discipline: gt-cup
- Series: le-mans
- Era: 2010s
- Last updated: 2026-07-06

The 488 GTE is the turbo era's works conqueror: the AF Corse machine of Le Mans crowns and WEC titles — the Evo step's 2018 sharpening — the professional class's Ferrari through the GTE category's closing act.

## Specifications

| Spec | Value |
|---|---|
| Engine | 3.9 L twin-turbo V8 (endurance calibration) |
| Power | ~500 hp (BoP-governed) |
| Step | Evo package 2018 |
| Ledger | Le Mans 2019, WEC titles, IMSA GTLM |
| Status | Category-sunset machinery |
| Diligence | Eligibility horizon + campaign forensics |
| Years | 2016–2022 |
| Class | Turbo works-tier conqueror |

## History

Ferrari's 488 GTE (2016) carried the works-tier fight through the GTE category's final era: the twin-turbo V8's endurance calibration, the Michelotto-construction lineage's professional build, and the AF Corse partnership's continuing conquests — Le Mans GTE-Pro class wins (2019's crown among them), the WEC manufacturers'-and-drivers' titles the programme collected across the seasons, IMSA's GTLM class campaigns — with the Evo 2018 package (the aero-and-engine step) sharpening the platform until the category's sunset (GTE-Pro's 2022 end, the Am class's 2023 finale) closed the class the type had conquered, the Hypercar-and-GT3 era's rules succession retiring the formula.

The Evo step's substance rewards precision: the 2018 package's revised aero surfaces and engine-side updates arriving mid-campaign, the works-and-customer fleets adopting on different schedules — the specification archaeology (which car wears which season's package) that the class's documentation culture preserved and the scholarship now reads.

The category-sunset identity structures the market: GTE machinery without a current class (the Endurance-Legends horizon its racing future), works-tier provenance at conquest stakes, and the closed-category arithmetic (no successor fleet diluting the era's cars) the collectors read.

The custody is works-tier: professional-parts economics, factory-adjacent relationships, and the campaign-forensics scholarship the class's documentation culture left.

## Palmarès

Le Mans GTE-Pro crowns (2019's headline), WEC manufacturers' and drivers' titles across the seasons, IMSA GTLM campaigns — the turbo works-tier's conquest ledger through the category's closing act.

## What to check before you buy

Category-sunset law: the GTE class's end makes eligibility the first question (Endurance-Legends-horizon revival tiers the racing future — current-grid life closed with the category), works-tier campaign provenance at conquest stakes (the Le Mans-and-title chassis' biographies pricing the summit), Evo-step identity per the 2018 package's documentation, and Pro-versus-Am fleet stratification as the era's records preserve. The closed-category arithmetic is the collector current — no successor GTE fleet arriving, the era's cars finite by rulebook. Professional custody economics assumed throughout.

## Did you know

- The category closed under it: GTE-Pro's 2022 sunset making the 488 the class's final Ferrari conqueror by calendar.
- Closed-category arithmetic is the collector's read: no successor fleet diluting an era the rulebook itself ended.
- Le Mans 2019's crown capped the AF Corse continuities — the partnership's conquests spanning the aspirated and turbo summits alike.

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