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THE FERRARI MUSEUM in Maranello has been revamped and grown in size and this year hosts two new shows that celebrate the company’s 70 years. ‘Under the Skin’ recalls the career of Enzo himself and examines trends in innovation and style, while ‘Infinite Red’ charts the company’s history through its models. Under the Skin has been created in partnership with the London Design Museum and recounts the creative and engineering development of Ferrari down the years through a series of exceptional cars, beginning with Ferrari’s first, the 125 S. Technical drawings from the company archives and a selection of engines give insight into the design process through the years. There are also scale models showing the evolution of styles and technologies and they are linked to the life and times…

1964 Tour de France-winning 250 GTO model by CMC $520 | racingheroes.com We’re hardly in a position to be choosy, but there’s one 250 GTO that we’ve always coveted above all others: chassis 4153GT, which, in the hands of the wily Lucien Bianchi and Georges Berger, claimed victory in the 1964 Tour de France. The car’s brilliantly minimalist TdF livery has been accurately rendered on this 1:18-scale model, the beautiful sum of 1863 individual parts. Mr Motor Racing by Tim Layzell £POA | timlayzell.com Graham Hill mounted a serious challenge for the Formula 1 Drivers’ Championship in 1964, ultimately finishing second to John Surtees, but he found time to moonlight in sports cars, steering a 330 P to first place in the Tourist Trophy at Goodwood. Tim Layzell’s new painting…

'Do us a story on Enzo Ferrari,’ they said. Of course, the proposition is quite simple, but how can one adequately address the most significant single motor racing personality of the 20th century in just a few confined magazine pages? The sin will be omission – yet there’s too much to tell to avoid such sin. When the great man died – aged 90 – on August 14, 1988, it was pre-ordained that his passing should be attended by massive media outpourings – obituaries, tributes, potted biographies, the whole effusion of print, film, television and sound tape that today marks the passing of the great and famous. In essence, Enzo Anselmo Maria Ferrari came from a lowermiddle- class Modenese artisan family. He was a common man. He spoke Modenese dialect,…

When I started this job 30 years ago, the fastest Ferrari – indeed pretty much the fastest car on sale – was the Testarossa. Its naturally aspirated, 5-litre, 12-cylinder engine produced 390bhp. The engine of the new 812 Superfast still has 12 cylinders and atmospheric induction but it has grown a little in size, to 6.5 litres. And that 390bhp is now slightly less than the total amount of power dispensed to each driven wheel. Think about that for a moment. One single Pirelli, one lonely patch of rubber just 315mm across, charged with transmitting more power than an entire Ferrari flagship just three decades ago. The chief technology officer at Ferrari, Michael Leiters, says the company is becoming less and less interested in the power struggle and more and…

SEVENTY VERY SPECIAL FERRARIS from over 20 countries descended on northern Italy in May to take part in the Cavalcade Classiche regularity rally – an exclusive event to mark the start of Ferrari’s 70th birthday celebrations. The cars and their owners, all there by special invitation, met at the luxurious Augustus Hotel in the picturesque seaside town of Forte dei Marmi for three days of touring in the Tuscany countryside. As the cars assembled in the gardens of the hotel, Rosso Corsa was the predominant colour but cars in silver, blue and Giallo Fly looked equally stunning in the evening light. ‘The cars looked stunning in the evening light’ On Saturday morning, the Cavalcade crossed the start line in central Forte dei Marmi en route to the ancient walled city…

IN THIS CONFUSING time of change and ‘FAKE NEWS. SAD!!!’, it is fitting that messages about the strength of the Ferrari brand should be mixed. Analysts at UBS recently suggested that Ferrari shares could hit $100, their optimism based in part on an assumption that Maranello is secretly developing that long-rumoured SUV. On July 6, the price was $85.70 a share. On July 12, when this column was written, it stood at $92.88. That’s good news for those invested – financially or otherwise – in the health of the company, and, we suppose, for those who can’t wait to invest in a shopping trolley with a Ferrari badge. Counterintuitively, though, the appetite for classic Ferraris (and we should note that the term is being used more loosely than ever) appears…

‘The Lusso is a subtle but masterful reworking of the FF in so many ways’ You set yourself a difficult task if you decide you’re going to build a luxury four-seater but not follow the SUV trend that’s sweeping through the luxury, high-performance market like an avalanche. With big power and increasingly impressive dynamics, modern SUVs are fast and good to drive, as well as being roomy and having 365-day useability thanks to four-wheel drive. And you ramp up the challenge even more if you also rule out making a four-door car. But that’s what Ferrari has been doing for years. The Modenese company’s four-seaters have been mostly stylish, sometimes gorgeous: from the 330 GT 2+2 to the sleek and elegant 500 Superfast to the razoredged 365/400 GT series, now…

The marshal has to shout to be heard above the idling and revving race engines that surroundus,likeanautomotive orchestra tuning up. One of them, a 3.3-litre V12, is only inches behind my back. It was started from cold not many minutes ago, so I’m still exercising my right ankle, heeling and toeing as I hold the car on the brake but also try to stop the still-warming engine from petering out. It’s rather like those early minutes after lighting a barbecue when you’re coaxing the nascent flames, wanting to put on more charcoal but trying not to smother the firelighters. A balancing act. As I look up from the low-slung cockpit at my personal conductor in a white boiler suit, I think he’s saying ‘go and park in front of the…

This is an haute couture Ferrari. It’s the most glamorous of Ferraris, a Ferrari for the superrich, a Ferrari for those who occupy other worlds from almost all of the rest of us. Back in the mid-60s, owners included the Shah of Iran (who bought two), actor Peter Sellers, the Aga Khan, and Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. When new, the 500 Superfast was described as a ‘four-wheeled five-star hotel’ or the Royale Ferrari. You get no real indication of this, nor of the Superfast’s potentially glamorous clientele, from a period brochure. In an official 1965-66 leaflet produced for UK importer Maranello Concessionaires, the 500 Superfast earns the final page in a simple, six-sided, fold-out sheet. These days you’d be extraordinarily happy to own any one of the four models…

Of the many events seen so far to celebrate Ferrari’s 70th anniversary, perhaps the most ambitious was this one, dreamed up by Ferrari Jakarta in Indonesia. Inspired by the iconic Goodwood Festival of Speed, they took over a neighbourhood in BSD City and created their own Festival of Speed, with a glamorous ‘Red Gala’ dinner, a Concours d’Elegance and closed roads to create a 3.2kmlong temporary circuit for demonstration runs and a Time Attack challenge. Almost 200 Ferraris gathered for the festival, around 130 of them driven from central Jakarta to BSD City by their owners, members of the Ferrari Owners’ Club Indonesia, who arrived from all over the country. It was, at times, a rather speedy parade, helped along the 30km route by police motorcyle outriders, with others closing…

THERE’S NO BIG SIGN, NO GRAND ENTRANCE, but Little Green Street Farm on the outskirts of Chorleywood is a mind-blowing place if you’re a Ferrari fan. It’s the home of DK Engineering, well known for its dealings with the cars from Maranello and which this year celebrates 40 years in business. Inside, around the red-brick walls of this neatly restored Victorian farm is a mind-boggling array of rarities, and not all of them are Ferraris. On the day we visit, there’s a 250 LM shell being loaded into a transporter and we park next to a rare green 512 BB, which looks tiny next to our modern ‘small’ car: policemen get younger, iconic supercars get smaller… But also in the courtyard, alongside a stunning electric-blue Ferrari 488, is a Lamborghini…

IT’S NOT OFTEN a piece of Ferrari Formula 1 history from the ’60s comes up for sale. This 2.4-litre Dino V6 engine, a Tipo 228, bearing the engine number 228 N1, was fitted to the 246 F1-66 that scored strong results in early 1966 in the hands of Lorenzo Bandini and was also driven extensively by John Surtees. In fact, the V6 car was built to be raced by Surtees in early ’66 in the Tasman series with its 2.5-litre ceiling, but a crash in his Lola Can-Am car put him out of action. He did, however, ‘convalesce’ by practising in the V6-engined car, but when the F1 season started he was obliged as team leader to take on the 3-litre V12 car that Ferrari had been developing, even though…

THIS YEAR MAY mark a very significant milestone for Ferrari with its 70th birthday, but for the Ferrari Owners’ Club of Great Britain it’s an equally momentous year. The club, headquartered a stone’s throw from Silverstone, is celebrating half a century since it was formed. One of the most active of car clubs, the FOC puts on a raft of events for its members each year and it also operates two race series: the circuitbased Pirelli Ferrari formula classic and the Pirelli Ferrari Hillclimb Championship, both enthusiastically supported with a dozen or so rounds across the UK each season. Throughout the year, the FOC puts on numerous trackdays at venues such as Donington Park, Silverstone, Oulton Park and Goodwood. Open only to members, these provide the perfect opportunity to exercise…

If you’re the logical type that starts reading a magazine at the front and works their way through to the back, you’ll have just finished reading about the V12-engined, four-wheel-drive, four-wheel-steer GTC4 Lusso. What we have here is the GTC4 Lusso T, and that T at the end of its less-than-snappy name means it serves up something a little different. Less, in fact, despite the longer name – although that less provides some interesting shifts in the GTC4’s character. The Lusso T specification prompts the deletion of several sizeable chunk of hardware, including the front driveshafts and their differential, and the removal of four of the GTC4’s 12 cylinders. So in effect what was a four-wheel-drive V12 becomes a rear-wheel-drive V8. But a twin-turbo V8 whose substantial 603bhp is only…

‘Porsche stunned the racing world with the 917. Ferrari had no choice but to respond’ Today the only reason people remember the Sebring 12 Hours from 1970 is not for the Ferrari that won it, but the Porsche that did not. This is a travesty and on two counts: first, and for reasons we’ll get to in a minute, Ferrari’s win was a massively significant moment in the racing history of the Scuderia and one that came against all the odds; second, because of the credit taken by one of the drivers of the private Porsche for coming second. You will know his name: Terence Steven McQueen. This being a Ferrari magazine, I’m not going to dwell on the Steve McQueen angle other than to set the record straight, which…

The infamous Group B regulations for racing and rallying, introduced by the FIA in 1982, resulted in some of the most powerful, rapid and technically advanced competition cars ever seen. Apart from the requirement to construct a minimum of 200 cars for homologation, there were few other restrictions on what the manufacturers could build. High-tech materials such as carbonfibre were permitted so weight could be kept low, and turbochargers were allowed without any limits on boost. The engineers naturally embraced this new freedom, and the result was a group of exceptionally powerful cars, including the Ford RS200, Lancia 037, Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 and, of course, the mighty Porsche 959. By 1986, some of the Group B rally cars were producing upward of 500bhp and have since become the stuff…

LaFerrari/LaFerrari Aperta (2013-17) Ferrari poured everything it knew into creating a new ultimate road car in the shape of the extraordinary, hybrid LaFerrari, its 789bhp V12 boosted by a KERS unit to deliver up to 950bhp. Just 500 were built, with production switching in 2016 to the open-top Aperta, of which 209 were to be made. LaFerrari: 6262cc V12 plus KERS, up to 950bhp, 217mph 458 Speciale/Speciale A (2013-15) Successor to 360 Stradale and 430 Scuderia, so a hardcore version of the 458, with power up by 35bhp, weight reduced by 90kg and chassis tuned for even greater involvement. Also a last hoorah for the naturally aspirated V8. Speciale A (for Aperta, or ‘open’ in Italian) launched in 2014 equally thrilling. 458 Speciale: 4497cc V8, 597bhp, 202mph+ 488 GTB/Spider (2015-)…