It  has just been confirmed that the latest GT3 supercar from Ferrari, the 458 Italia will be joining the GT Trophy Endurance Series grid this season.Ferrari specialist team FF Corse will run the Mac Steel backed car, which will be driven by GT Cup regular Leon Price and professional GT driver Rob Barff.‘To be racing with Leon and FF Corse in the GT Trophy this season is great. I’m really looking forward to the arrival of the 458, we have an exciting year ahead of us.’ Commented pro driver Rob Barff.Leon Price has raced in the GT Trophy’s sister series The GT Cup Championship since 2009 and took his first race win at Snetterton that season. Rob Barff has extensive experience in both Le Mans Prototypes and all forms of GT racing. Both drivers competed separately in the inaugural GT Trophy night race at Snetterton in 2010 and the duo are looking forward to a competitive campaign in 2011.‘We have been in extensive contact with Michelotto and the factory, the car looks fantastic and will be an amazing package - ideally suited to the endurance style races of the GT Trophy.’ Said team Boss Anthony Cheshire ‘With so few Ferrari 458 GT3 being produced this year it is a real privilege and a bit of a coup for us to receive one of the first cars and we must now repay the faith shown in us by Ferrari.’He added ‘FF Corse have been a supporter of the GT Cup and Ferrari since our inception and we were pleased to win the GT Cup “Team of the year” award in our debut season. We are fully behind Marc’s new GT Trophy initiative and hope it will be a great success like the GT Cup.’The team is currently awaiting delivery of the car and until then it remains to be seen exactly what the performance of the latest thoroughbred from the prancing horse stable will be. As the first car to be built and engineered by Michelotto, expectations are high.Bute Motorsport Managing Director Marc Haynes commented ‘ We are hopeful to be the first UK race series to put this wonderful new supercar on the grid.  The Ferrari 458 joins a host of exotic GT machinery on the grid for the 2011 season of the GT Trophy Endurance Series and we eagerly await the first event at Donington Park on the 2nd/ 3rd April.’