Something incredible happened in Montecarlo: a blow to the heart for all fans of “Rosse”. Here are the pictures…
Ferrari F40a dream that has lasted for 35 years. It all started in July 1987when Enzo Ferrari heads to Maranello for the world preview of the car created for the 40th anniversary of the Prancing Horse. Well, in September 1987 the model was then officially presented in Frankfurt Motor Show in front of hundreds of journalists from all over the world, in front of the most important Italian car dealerships and the major worldwide customers of the Reds.
At that moment no one could know what later became history: the F40 has become a piece of legend of Ferrari. “The F40 Le Mans was born, the most powerful and sophisticated Ferrari, a racing car with number plate”, Enzo Ferrari will say. An exceptional fireball, with 90 degree V 8 cylinder engine, displacement of almost 3 thousand cm³, four valves per cylinder with two injectors per cylinder, a power of 478 hp (352 kW) at 7000 rpm. Five gears, reverse, two-disc clutch.
The F40 was conceived and built as one berlinetta 2-seater with fiberglass bodywork, suspensions independent front and rear and interior passenger compartment reduced to the essentials (another peculiarity of the F40). With the exception of the air conditioner they resulted absent the stereo system, the glove box, the mats, the finishing touches leather and door panels.
The first 50 models used side-sliding windows, while the later ones featured crank-operated descending windows. The electric control has never been included in this F40 without assisted steering and ABS, therefore essential in electronic technology.
F40 on fire, witness even a champion
So a jewel. And when a jewel breaks… the scene hurts. This is what happened in Monte Carlo. The flames devoured the Ferrari F40 a few hundred meters from Roundabout of the goalkeeperalong avenue princesse Grace. At the time offire there were two people on board and luckily neither occupant was injured.
The curiosity is that of this fire, which took place in February 2020, he was a witness Max Biaggichampion of two wheels who lived right in the immediate vicinity of the crime. In some photos you can even see the desperate attempt of a person on an upstairs condo trying to turn off the flames with a small hose of water while spraying it on the fire of the F40.
Last (strange) curiosity? Unbelievable but true there Ferrari F40 went up in flames in Monte Carlo right on the day they celebrated i 122 years since the birth of Enzo Ferrari.
