Yesterday’s PlayStation Store update wasn’t as significant as last week’s but racing game fans should now finally be able to get some DLC for Ferrari Challenge.

For £4.49/€4.99 the Track and Car Pack includes the Nurburgring Grand Prix Circuit along with the 599 GTB, Enzo, 430 Scuderia, 612 Sessanta and the F330 P4. The track is available for £2.89/€2.99 on its own, while each car can also be purchased for £1.29/€1.49 individually.

PlayStation Store Update – 28 May [PlayStation.Blog EU]

Good news racing fans – Sony are just about to flick the switch on a major new Ferrari Challenge update. The patch fixes a huge number of bugs but most importantly it adds 46 PlayStation Network trophies to the game, giving everyone another reason to try to finish the game. 

PS3Trophies.org has a complete list of all of the trophies which of course are classified Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum. The update will be going live later today.

The time has come for another game to roll onto The Weigh Bridge as we look at its merits and failings. Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli is the much-delayed racer which features one manufacturer but plenty of tracks and which is possibly most famous for being released for every platform except Xbox 360. From the web of prancing horses:

IGN UK (83%) – “Race weekends encompass a qualifying session and two 15-minute endurance races – that, while plausibly faithful to the source, can prove infuriatingly time consuming. Whilst the option is present to reduce the races to more readily digestible five minute chunks, it remains a frustration throughout.”

Gameplanet (80%) – “Ferrari Challenge is a well-rounded driving package, and even though once again we find ourselves playing a modern racing simulator with inconsequential vehicular damage, the level of attention paid to the handling and overall accuracy more than makes up for it. Great fun, even if it is a bit anti-social.”

Eurogamer (70%) – “Overall though, Ferrari Challenge is a promising physics engine welded to a game that may be a little too anal for its own good. Dedicated followers of the brand will obviously find much to enjoy, as will those who like their racing dry and technical. It’s just a shame the game doesn’t do more to win over everyone else.”

System 3’s Ferrari Challenge has proved popular since it was eventually released for PS3. However, fans who had been following the game’s progress on its official website will note that some of the promised tracks there didn’t make it into the final release of the game.

The precise reason for this remains unclear but it seems they will eventually be hitting your PS3 as DLC. Brands Hatch, Hungaroring, Laguna Seca, Donnington, Suzuka, Catalunya and Monaco will all be coming to the game with a couple of others which the company isn’t prepared to announce yet.

More Ferrari Challenge tracks confirmed [Eurogamer]

System 3 has announced the details of the first pack of downloadable content for its single-manufacturer game, Ferrari Challenge: Trofeo Pirelli. According to Eurogamer, the pack will include the Nurburgring F1 circuit (but not the legendary Nordschleife) and five new cars which of course are all emblazoned with the prancing horse.

Among the new cars will be the Enzo Ferrari, a car which many may argue should have been included from the start. Alongside this there’s the recently released F430 Scuderia and a blast from the past with the P4. The bigger and heavier end of Ferrari’s line is also represented with the 612 Scaglietti and the more modern 599 Fiorano.

The pack is supposedly coming at the end of August and will be for the PlayStation 3 version of the game only.

While European gamers can expect to get their hands on Ferrari Challenge: Trofeo Pirelli in a matter of weeks, fans of the prancing horse in other places will have to wait a little longer. That wait was finally defined for North American players today when System 3 announced that it has teamed up with Activision to release the game there later this year.

If you’re lucky enough to be heading to the Canadian Grand Prix this weekend and can prise yourself away from the action on track, you’ll find that there are demo pods in a location known as the “fan zone”.

System 3 and Activision Set to Unleash Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli for PLAYSTATION(R)3 [Reuters]