This season's adventure for the participants in the Italian, European and North American Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli series ended under the Spanish sun while historic sports cars and single-seaters as well as the FXX cars took to the track

With Fernando Alonso set to make his first public appearance for Ferrari and the recovering Felipe Massa also scheduled to take part, the Ferrari Challenge has crowned its first champions as the Finali Mondiali cranked up a gear yesterday

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: Ferrari Finali Mondiali, Valencia - Day 1

With a special free practice session which allowed the participants to gain confidence on the track, the Ferrari Finali Mondiali, the Prancing Horse’s traditional event at the end of the motorsport season, got underway in Valencia yesterday

On Wednesday at noon Valencia's Paseo de la Alameda was turned into a catwalk of road-and-racing-Ferraris providing a preview of what will happen during the next four days at the Finali Mondiali, the traditional end-of-the-season festivities

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: Ferrari Finali Mondiali parade - Paseo de la Alameda, Valencia

The Ferrari F430 GT has come off the back of a highly successful weekend and amongst the important results gained was a second Japanese Super GT win of the season for orange car of Team Daishin which completed a pole-to-flag victory

At this season's sixth and last race for the International GT Open and Spanish GT Championship, held at the weekend at the Parco Algarve track, two Ferrari F430 GTs won the titles in both series, racing together in separate classifications

Dodge Motorsports today revealed the Dodge Challenger as the “New Car” for the NASCAR Nationwide Series and announced an expansion of its partnership with Penske Racing beginning in 2010 with two a two car operation in the series

Certainly the most muscular and aggressive car set to go under the hammer this evening during RM Auction's sale in London this evening will be a perfect condition example of the wild Gp4 De Tomaso Pantera Competition Coupe

Overlooked in the racing order at Maranello, the Ferrari 430 Scuderia has taken the first win of its career as the Kessel-prepared car took full advantage of difficult conditions to claim victory in the final round of the FIA GT3 Championship

The Ferrari F430 GT's extraordinary and successful adventure in the FIA GT Championship ended with two of the cars on the podium at Zolder on Sunday, however AF Corse very narrowly missed out on retaining the drivers' title

Maserati's Andrea Bertolini and Michael Bartels have won the FIA GT Championship title for the third time; third place at Zolder giving them their second straight crown and third overall after topping the standings in 2006 and 2008

Jean Alesi has been back behind the wheel of a Ferrari on the Fiorano circuit once again, this time a test at the wheel of an F430 GT which was successful and looks set to see the Frenchman reunited with the Prancing Horse again

Ferrari is to test former F1 star Jean Alesi, an old hero of the Tifosi who is synonymous with the red grand prix racing cars, in a F430 GT with an eye to the Frenchman returning to the wheel of the Maranello cars in Gran Turismo racing

The unstoppable success of the Ferrari F430 GT in the international GT racing continued last weekend and at the Paul Ricard HTTT circuit Ferrari and AF Corse gained the FIA GT teams' and manufacturers' titles with one race still to go

Italian team Petri Corse secured all three titles of the inaugural Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo season at Paul Ricard HTTT, France, yesterday, after claiming three podium finishes during the final race weekend of the season

With second place for the Maserati MC12 of Alex Müller and Miguel Ramos at Paul Ricard and a fifth place for team mates Andrea Bertolini and Michael Bartels the Vitaphone Racing Team wins its fifth consecutive teams' title

Victory in a rain hit and shortened Petit Le Mans at the weekend tops an outstanding year for Risi Competizione in which the Ferrari-running team has taken victory laurels at the 12 Hours of Sebring and the 24 Hours of Le Mans

Maserati a sponsor of the Goodwood Revival which welcomed over 100,000 spectators over the course of the weekend and saw a record eighteen classic Maseratis being entered in this year’s competitions including four Maserati 250Fs

The weekend saw exceptional results for the GT2 class Ferrari F430 GT, which was a winning protagonist in two new rounds, the FIA GT Championship at Portimao in the Algarve and the International GT Open at Magny-Cours in France