F40 Ferraris on parade at Silverstone
Red letter day as a record collection of F40s gather to celebrate the model's 25th birthdayNo less than 60 Ferrari F40s lapped the Silverstone Grand Prix circuit in the UK on July 22 this year, all for the purpose of celebrating the iconic supercar’s 25th birthday.
The gathering set a new record for F40s congregating in the one spot — and outstripping the 40-unit assembly of F40s at Silverstone back in 2007.
First appearing in 1987, the light weight, twin-turbo F40 was the last car to be commissioned by Enzo Ferrari before his death in 1988.
Weighing just 1.1 tonnes and powered by a 352kW 2.9-litre V8 driving through a manual five-speed transmission, the aerodynamic mid-engined F40 was the first road car to top 320km/h and was capable of accelerating to 100km/h in 3.8 seconds. By the end of production in 1992, 1315 F40s were built.
The new world record gathering of F40s represented an astronomical sum of money – at, conservatively, the equivalent of A$600,000 apiece, shall we say maybe, surely, more than A$36 million? And how much for all that red paint?
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