July 21, 1987 is the date that Ferrari unleashed the last car built under il Commendatore himself, Enzo Ferrari: the F40. An exercise in improving the already unholy 288GTO, a Ferrari meant for Group B Rally racing (think about that for a second!), the F40 was an absolute jaw-dropper in many aspects: It looked psychotic, it sounded like Cerebrus howling at the moon, and it ate pavement with the voracity of a starved Tyrannosaurus. Ferrari followed it up in 1995 with the F50, which was, quite literally, an F1 engine in a road car. Both are insane, both are movers, and the concept of driving either one of them in my lifetime ranks up there with winning a Lottery ticket. Or being hit by lightning.
Chris Harris from /DRIVE got the opportunity to wring both out at the absolutely stunning seaside track of Anglesey in Wales. Both cars are owned by the same man, who offered Harris the chance to wring them out, and is quoted as saying that he’d “be disappointed if you didn’t”. My kind of supercar owner. During the extent of the driving, Harris’s face shifts between giddy happiness, the occasional wide-eyed moment and an expression that borders on sexual satisfaction. How he made a video that involves drifting someone else’s F40 without dropping one F-bomb is beyond me. Watch the video below, enjoy the noise two screaming Ferraris make when driven as Enzo intended all of his cars to be driven, and Harris, if for some reason you’re reading this: You lucky, magnificent bastard.
Nice to see somebody is driving these as they were meant to be driven.
The F40 . Two thumbs up and one of the few cars I’ve driven that had me convinced it wanted to kill me [ as one tried to do to WRC driver Francois Delecour ] the entire time I was behind the wheel
The F50 though ? A pretentious F1 Wanna Be for the more money than brains set unable and incapable of handling the F40 or a McLaren F1 !
It is a shame that the F40 didn’t succeed, then us Bangshifters wouldn’t have to put up with you and your shit.
Great vid, I love everything that Chris puts out …
He is one lucky guy! I would let him smoke the tires on my GTO and sling mud in the Nissan Patrol. Only if he buys the beer?