The Ferrari 430 was in race winning action around the globe over the weekend with the 430GT claiming podium lock-outs in both the Italian and Spanish GT Championships' while the 430 Challenge supported the Canadian Grand Prix.

The second round of the Spanish GT Championship, held at the Jerez de la Frontera circuit (Spain) ended with an all-Ferrari podium in Race 1: the victory went to the duo of Peter Sundberg-Domingo Romero, at the wheel of a Scuderia RSV Motorsport F430 GTA, followed home by Luis Perez Sala-Manuel Cerqueda (Automobil Club D'Andorra) and Josep Mayola-Marc Carol (V-Line.) In Race 2, only the third step of the podium escaped Ferrari. At the end of an exciting final dice, victory went to the ASM Team crew of Miguel Cristova and Ricardo Bravo, ahead of Mayola-Carol and Miguel Amaral-Miguel Amarel de Castro in a Detector Drivex Porsche.

The GT2 class also saw a Ferrari lock-out on the podium in the third round of the Sara GT Italian Gran Turismo Championship, which was back in action this weekend at the Magione Circuit. Taking top honours in Race 1 was the GPC Sport F430 of Raffaele Giammaria-Alex Frassineti, ahead of Massiiliano Busnelli-Gabriele Lancieri (Playteam Sarafree) and Alessandro Balzan-Massimiliano Mugelli (Edilcriss Racing Team.) In Race 2, Porsche got its revenge thanks to Martins Cruz-Lietz (Autorlando Sport) who came home in front of the Villorba Corse F430, driven by Alex Caffi-Emanuele Moncini and the duo of Busnelli-Lancieri. In GT3, Loris Kessel and Steven Earle of Team Kessel Racing made it to the second step of the podium in Race 1, behind the Team Crinelli Corvette of Zonca-Cerrai and ahead of Antonelli-Passuti in a Team Antonelli Porsche.

The next round of the Spanish GT and Sara GT Italian Gran Turismo Championships will both take place over the weekend of 29th June at the Albacete and Valencia circuits respectively.

On the same card as the Canadian Formula 1 GP, the Gilles Villeneuve Circuit in Montreal, Quebec hosted the fourth round of the North American Ferrari Challenge Pirelli Trophy. There was just one race in the one-make series and out of 34 F430 that took to the track, the first one past the flag was that of Zak Brown (Scottsdale Ferrari) ahead of Jay Lee (Ferrari of Beverley Hills) and Jeff Soffer (The Collection). Alongside the Ferrari Challenge Pirelli Trophy races at the next round at Mont Tremblant (Quebec) will be the cars entered in the North American Shell Historic Challenge series, the F1 Clienti and FXX programmes.

Recently, Mugello Circuit has been announced as the venue for this year's traditional end of season meeting for the Prancing Horse. The circuit has undergone extensive renovation that has further improved the facilities. The event which brings the racing season to a close gets underway on Wednesday 5th November: on the card the final and possibly decisive rounds of the Italian, European and North American Ferrari Challenge Pirelli Trophy, the Shell Ferrari Historic Challenge, demonstrations of the single-seaters prepared by the F1 Clienti department, as well as the laboratory cars that are par of the exclusive FXX Programme. An appearance by the entire Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro team brings the curtain down on Sunday 9th November, preceded by an on-track run for the F430 GT.