Where have you driven your Ferrari?

Dave,

In May I drove down to Monte Carlo in my 348 Spider with two others in a 348 ts and a 911 turbo for a friends birthday party, had a great time driving round the circuit.

We then went on to Gabicce Mare in Italy for a week, then back to Monte Carlo for the Grand Prix.

The other two went back home while I went back to Gabicce for another week, driving up to Maranello for the day and a factory visit.

Drove back home via Switzerland and into Germany for a visit to Wuppertal to see a friend.

Three & half weeks 7,500 Kilometres, 300kph in Italy and Germany and still going like a train, and will be going back next year to Italy and then into Spain.

Also went to North Wales last weekend (LOL).

Regards,
Phil.
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France........Venturi testing track with the FROG equivolent of FOC supposed to be a club trackday but they lined up everyone for racing MAD.

Italy Factory visit .......twenty 348 challenge cars lined up ready to go out to customers (sometime ago obviously ) saw a convertable Testorossa white on the production line, had lunch in the restaurant across the road Cavelenos I think.

Germany.......Nurburgring on three separate occassions guest of the German club , typically they lined all Ferraris up to perfection and to the mm.


Belguim .......Spa racing

up to Yorkshire......The Yorkshire car collection ,arranged by the London Ferrari owners section got to drive 7 of there cars including a Ford Thunderbird
A 1908 NAG an E Type etc

don test track...........Again by the London crowd apparently we were the FIRST to hire the track..........all amourco all round

And many many more all in a 308 GTS Carb absolutely slaughtered the poor thing Over 5,000 miles on one14 day trip with 7 track days finishing at Monza

Those were the days.................

 

Ferrari,s track Mugello under instruction by head sets from pace cars . Driving 355,s and 512 LM,s

Organised by Ferrari UK

3 Days of shear bliss

 

Went to Ealing took the boys to Rugby in my very old Ford escort estate

But i,m not bitter.

 

Bought my 575 three weeks ago with 2000 miles - done 3000 since. I took the car, on the day I got it, to a friend's wedding in Vienna.

I think I am going to fly next time I have to be somwhere 1000 milles away from good ol' Hertsfordshire.

 

7,000 miles in the last 18 months including the following places;

Lausanne, Geneva, Zermatt, Simplon, Luzern, Rheinfall, St Moritz, Interlaken, Bern, Genoa, Forte Dei Marmi (near Pisa), Maranello, Sant Agata, Stelvio pass, Nice, Monaco, Reims.
And how could I forget Donington, Picadilly, Epping and Hatfield!!!

 

Just back from a trip to Maranello. Driving round Fiorano

Try to do one decent European trip a year and I've had my car 5 years now.

Drove down to Maranello 18 months ago to do the factory tour.

To Hockenheim for the German GP in 2002 via a lap of the Nurburgring Nordschleife, of course!

To Spa for the Ferrari days in 2003. Managed to spin off into the kitty litter at Pouhon during one of the on track sessions...

To Monza for the Italian GP in 2001. Mont Blanc was still shut, so I went a bit further south. Didn't look far on the map! Turned out to be all goat tracks and hairpins up the side of Alps, often with no barrier. I spent about 20 minutes following an Italian army truck with half-a-dozen soldiers leaning out the back and grinning as I was totally unable to get past for want of visibility of more than about 10 yards of the road ahead.

All wonderful, though!!!!

Jonathan