Innholdsfortegnelse for Issue 7 i Enzo

FERRARI USED THE autosport international show in January to confirm a uK series of Ferrari challenge races for 2019 and announce a new initiative to get competition cars from the last 30 years out on track, albeit non-competitively. The Ferrari challenge UK series for 488 racers is the first one-make Ferrari series dedicated to a single market outside italy and shows the value the company places in the uK market. The series will conform to the same rules and regulations as the other Ferrari challenge series around the world, in north america, the eu and aPac, but will be open to drivers with a national a licence, rather than an international c. The series kicks off with a non-scoring ‘prologue’ meeting in april before moving on to the series proper,…

1:8-scale 250 GT SWB model by Amalgam £8845 | amalgamcollection.com Given that we were recently defeated by a Meccano set aimed at ten-year-olds, we can only marvel at the skill and patience of the people behind this dead-on, hand-built model of chassis 2735GT, the car in which Stirling Moss breezed to victory in the 1961 Goodwood TT. Crossing The Line, Raising The Bar by Automobilist From £196 | automobilist.com As a much-changed Ferrari team looks forward to the 2019 F1 season, the folks at Automobilist look back to one of the great moments in Scuderia history, with a digitally produced artwork capturing Michael Schumacher’s win at the 2000 Japanese GP – the win, of course, that clinched Ferrari’s first Drivers’ Championship in 21 years. Playforever Velocita £25.30 | playforever.co.uk The…

This is one of Ferrari’sr are r road-car engines, but history has shown it to be one of the most significant. Only 272 cars powered by this particular twinturbocharged V8 were built, but three decades on this configuration is now at the heart of Ferrari’s most popular models. Is that a case of uncanny prescience or simply coincidental convergence driven by wholly different forces? It’s the latter, actually, even though the former would make a more wondrous tale. This engine arose out of Ferrari’s first roadgoing V8 and soon evolved into the power unit for the company’s first 200mph-orso supercar, the F40. It was conceived, though, for a role in a yet more exclusive car with a purpose more definite than mere marketing prestige and 40th-birthday celebration. At first glance,…

‘Here was a statement car and one perfectly in tune with the times’ The Testarossa made a su itably flamboyant entry into the public arena in October 1984 with a glitzy launch at Paris’s famous Lido club, lowered from above on a platform, picked out with a spotlight, complete with dry ice and dancing girls. Here was a statement car and one perfectly in tune with the times. In fact 1984 was quite a year for Ferrari, since it also saw the launch of the 288 GTO, whose engine we feature in detail elsewhere in this issue. But while the GTO was a very special machine, the Testarossa was the biggie as far as the balance sheet was concerned. This was the new production flagship, replacement for the long-lived Berlinetta…

LaFerrari/LaFerrari Aper ta (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 only 209 were to be made. LaFerrari: 6262cc V12 plus KERS, up to 950bhp, 217mph 488 GT B/Spider (2015-) Latest in long line of mid-engined V8 cars stretching right back to the 308. What sets the 488 apart from its immediate predecessors is its downsized twin-turbo engine, part of the F154 family, also found in Lusso T. 488 GTB: 3902cc V8 twin-turbo, 661bhp, 205mph GTC4 Lusso/Lusso T (2016-) Refresh for the FF was so comprehensive that Ferrari renamed…

‘The exhibition celebrates the career of the seven-time World Champion’ ON JANUARY 3, the occasion of Michael Schumacher’s 50th birthday, a special exhibition opened at the Ferrari Museum in Maranello, celebrating the career of the seven-time World Champion. ‘Michael 50’ has been put together with the help of the champion’s charity, the Keep Fighting Foundation, and tells the story of Schumacher’s extraordinary record-breaking F1 career: seven world titles, 91 victories, 155 podiums and 77 fastest laps. The Hall of Victories displays some of the most important Ferrari single-seaters driven in his 11 years with Scuderia Ferrari, from the F310 of 1996, with which Schumacher won three GPs in his first season, to the 248 F1 of 2006, in which he triumphed at the Chinese GP for his 72nd and final…

IN A SOFTER MARKET there is greater pressure on auction houses to deliver exceptional cars, and the big names had certainly rooted out some stunning and varied stuff for this year’s Scottsdale sales, which were just getting under way as we went to press. Having sold a 1956 290 MM for a whisker over $22 million in December, RM Sotheby’s arrived in Arizona with 23 ferraris, including a car fit for a queen – or a princess, at least. Thanks to antiquated rules intended to prevent a mere commoner from climbing too high up the social ladder, Mary Lilian Baels was not allowed to take the title of Queen upon her marriage to King Leopold iii of Belgium in 1941; she would have to make do with ‘princesse Lilian’. She…

Monaco witnessed an even larger number of Ferraris than usual in October, when the second running of the Padre-Figlio regularity rally was hosted in the Principality. The entry list comprised 35 highly significant Ferraris spread across much of the marque’s 70-year history, including a 275 GTB, 288 GTO, 250 GT California Spyder, F50 and LaFerrari, with only one example of each model permitted. And ownership of a Prancing Horse wasn’t the only condition of entry: each driving team had to comprise a father-son line-up – hence padrefiglio in Italian. Teams entered from eight different countries – though most were Swiss, French and Italian – with ages ranging from 10 to 87 years old. British entrant and Dino owner Alex Partakis drove to Monaco to meet his dad and take part…

‘That 308 cutaway has opened lots of doors,’ says John Lawson, nodding to the large, framed rendering, ‘and it’s allowed me to get up close to the cars.’ The evocative, impressionist renderings dotted around his studio are in marked contrast to the precision of the framed 308 and represent the hobby side of his life as an artist. They illustrate his passion for Ferraris and act as a release from his day job as graphics editor on the Daily Mail n e w s p a p e r. He’s been in that line for 30 years now on various newspapers, so if you’ve picked up a paper, you’ve probably seen his work. ‘As a kid, I always remember being better at drawing and painting than reading and writing,’ he…

‘To say the Ferrari 348 has previous is to understate the extremely obvious’ The corner was tight and there was nothing to hit. It was a private test track and the owner wasn’t watching. So I thought I’d just give it a prod. A gentle nudge, if you will, to see if what I’d said all those years ago was still true. ‘It’ was a Ferrari 348 and, 28 years ago, I’d written some fairly robust things about it in justification of placing it last in a group test with a Porsche 911 and a Honda NSX. I didn’t even lift. But as the corner opened out I did tread sufficiently hard on the throttle to provoke a reaction. And, in that moment, the pedal seemed to offer a portal…

‘It’s a rare machine, too, one of only 100 examples built’ This 1967 Ferrari 330 GTS, chassis #10703, achieved a world record price for the model when it sold for $2,530,000 at Gooding & Co’s Scottsdale, Arizona auction back in January 2018. It is a wonderfully restored, matching numbers car, and a rare machine, too, being one of only 100 examples built. And yet while so much of this could be reason enough to feature it in these pages, the real reason it’s here has nothing to do with any of the above. We’ve travelled to southern California to meet the new owner, for the very same reason that David Gooding, president of Gooding & Co, put the following lot on hold while he congratulated the buyer and explained to…

‘Ferrari had brought along a factory hot shoe, just in case the car would go a bit quicker…’ ‘Your Ferrari guests have arrived. They’re in the canteen,’ said phil Ellis, chief instructor and our regular liaison guy at the Bedford Autodrome. ‘They’ve brought a driver with them,’ he added. ‘i recognise him, but i just can’t put a name to him. it’s really bugging me…’ Our guests were the factory Ferrari test crew, on this occasion touring the new F430 scuderia around Europe so that select magazines such as evo could carry out full performance tests. Our day would include acceleration and flexibility tests at the Millbrook proving ground but, first, laps of the West Circuit at the Autodrome. Leaving nothing to chance, the Ferrari crew had done their homework…

Schumacher’s top five Ferrari drives Although at times a controversial figure, the brilliance of Michael Schumacher the racer is plain to see in the incredible statistics of his Formula 1 career, not least the five drivers’ titles won with Ferrari in consecutive years. His skill in getting the most from a car was clearly evident, especially in the wet, though another big part of his success was his ability to think about strategy and discuss options with the team, often while reeling off consistent yet scintillating laps. Here we’ve selected five outstanding drives from a truly remarkable career. Spanish GP Barcelona, June 2, 1996 schumacher’s first season at Ferrari yielded third in the Drivers’ Championship, which rather flattered the woeful F310. in spain, he showed that extraordinary skill could turn…

RACING IS AT THE HEART of everything that Ferrari does, so it’s only fitting that the marque’s biggest owners’ club in Europe is also heavily involved in motorsport. The Ferrari Owners’ Club of great Britain has been around for more than half a century, and for much of that time it has run two race series, one for circuits and the other for hillclimbs. Last year the club launched a third series, called the Ferrari Club gB racing series, which this year will expand in conjunction with the Ferrari Owners’ Club of germany. ‘The new series is the perfect stepping stone in to Ferrari’s own Challenge series’ The calendar for the new series runs to five rounds in 2019, taking in spa on april 27-28, Donington park on June 29,…

Chapeau, Stefano Bucci. In a world where some Ferrari owners put more miles on their ride-on mowers than their cars, Bucci sped off in the opposite direction. For two seasons he raced his F40 in the Italian GT series – he even drove it to and from some races – and over the next ten years clocked-up 90,000km before totally rebuilding it to look more like a race car, eventually taking the mileage past 120,000km. It was then sold, apparently to the brother of a German F1 driver, before being acquired in 2017 by DK Engineering who restored it to its original race specification, complete with distinctive period livery. Has any F40 led a more action-packed, high-mileage life? The story begins in January 1992 when one Christiano Guasti takes delivery…

This is definitely it. The wide, slightly scrappy boulevard that forms the main drag; the hillside gently rising up in the far distance: it all matches our archive picture of the Circuito del Mugello start line. Scarperia, this small town in Tuscany, has changed drastically in the last 50 years or so, but yes. Definitely it. We photograph the 488 Pista around where the start line must have been, mentally superimposing the colourful roar of Ferrari 750 Monzas and 250 LMs over the monochrome mid-week shoppers and dawdling Fiat Pandas. We imagine yesterday’s racers heading for eight laps and who knows what fate – and then we strike out on 41 miles of incredible roads where one of history’s most gruelling road races once played out. These days, the name…

In the 68-year history of the Formula 1 World Championship and Ferrari’s participation in it, no era was more troublesome for the Scuderia than the period between it winning the Constructors’ title in 1983 and doing so again, 16 long seasons later, in 1999. With the Drivers’ award, the drought was longer still – from 1979 to 2000. But right in the middle was a period when Ferrari got achingly close to its former glories, and one race in particular where a spot of much-needed Maranello magic summoned up a rare victory from apparently nowhere at all. Or, put another way, from 12th place on the grid at a track where overtaking was more difficult than at any other circuit, bar the possible exception of Monaco. This, then, is the…

It’s easy to miss Rardley Motors. They’re not hidden behind some unmarked gates or tucked away down some private lane but hiding in plain sight on the high street of a Surrey village. This Ferrari specialist has been in Grayshott for over 50 years but there’s no showroom packed with gleaming Ferraris, its windows dobbed with the nose-prints of young enthusiasts. Even if you nip round the back, the place isn’t obviously awash with red cars. Yet it’s one of the oldest Ferrari specialists in the UK, having been formed in 1966 by father and son Gerard and Dudley Mason-Styron. The Rardley name was created from extracts of their names and was already in use for the family’s property business. Dudley and his wife Sally are now wellestablished personalities on…