Corso Pilota Classiche Maranello

WHOA......did you guys also get this email this morning.....Corso Pilota Classiche......

https://www.ferrari.com/en-EN/auto/officine-classiche?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2021_email_CorsoPilotaClassiche&utm_content=&idm=37b9d8855018c6967e921de12166b85b&ids=5eb6039998764528d6cab20dfb5a8efb1f272bee1526e2fdac38b039f1b34d46

September 14-15 is close to the window discussed in this thread.......

https://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/threads/550-is-25-next-year-anyone-fancy-a-meet-in-maranello.632949/page-3

 

Nice to see a 550 as part of this but six housand Euros (eight thousand bucks I believe) for a couple of days........

 

Agreed....thats not mickey mouse money that's for certain (above my pay grade). Only 15 people per session. There are some very wealthy guys on the forum so I figured it was worth sharing.

 

It’s definitely alot of euros. I’m quite certain the experience would be great, but I know you can have as much fun road tripping down to Maranello for 1/3 the cost.

Or come for a tour here in Austria if you want to really enjoy your cars!
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Cheers
Jason #jcr_cars



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Hi,

sure, I got that as well, well on Sept. 16th I hope to be driving towards the UK for the Goodwood Revival, but unfortuately with an old Jaguar. ;-)

Cheers!

 

Actually, a normal Pilota course is (was - 10 years ago) EUR10k, so I think this quite reasonable. Everything is relative, of course. For some people it will be an enormous expense and for others it will be peanuts. But considering where Ferrari normally sits, I think they made a conscious effort to make this more affordable.

 

5K Euro is way cheaper than any other corse pilota program at Ferrari.


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FWIW, I just got back from the program, and there was no 550 (although one of the European participants drove his down). Just 308s and a Mondial (don't knock it; holds its own on a track, relatively anyway).

 

Saw the email this morning for the Corsa Pilota Classiche dates for 2023.

My wife and I have been penciling out our 2023 travel and Europe isn’t going to be in the cards for this year but maybe 2024….

Doing this Ferrari event in conjunction with Oktoberfest would be amazing….

https://www.ferrari.com/en-EN/auto/driving-courses?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2023_email_CorsoPilotaClassiche&utm_content=&idm=37b9d8855018c6967e921de12166b85b&ids=5eb6039998764528d6cab20dfb5a8efb1f272bee1526e2fdac38b039f1b34d46

 

My private corsa piloti looks as follows.

Choose a dry and sunny day between august and oktober, monday to friday preferred.
Choose the car you want to drive and take some important things into the trunk and into the car.
(credit card, some cash, documents, a bottle of water, role of kitchen towel, sunglasses, alternate glasses, tablet, mobile phone, charging wire, jacket)

Wake up between 5-6 a.m.
Take the car out of the garage, drive to austria and suisse (about 45 minutes, then on suisse highway to the alps.
Choose the first pass, like San Bernardino, Spluga, Julier, Albula, Fluela, choose more nice streets like 2nd or 3rd pass or east/west side of Lake Como.
At noon look for a nice restaurant around Milano to get a fine italian lunch like Fritto di Calamari, Pasta, Pizza, ....

After lunch take a short tour inside the Alfa Romeo museum, then back into direction home.
Coose again 1-2 passes and arrive at home at about 9 p.m.

This day will in your mind for a minimum of a year, mostly longer.
Costs about 150 liter Super 98-102 octane for about 250-300 €, perhaps some engine oil, lunch for about 30 €, museum 15 €, highway toll 40-50 €.

Daniel


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Colorado has some amazing roads. I heard Arkansas as well.

 

Fantastic!

 

I got the email today too and look forward to planning for 2024!

By the way, what cars are eligible?

 

So cool!

I like your style!

 

If you plan to bring your own car to the track, it has to be a Classiche certified vehicle, so any model they’ll take through the program (which I think is pre-F355, but I’m not 100%). You’d pay the additional ~$35k cost of shipping your car there and back. Otherwise, the school has a fleet of 308s and some other goodies, and any registered Ferrari owner is eligible to participate, subject to space availability.

 

Thank you.

That is good to know.

BTW - I am shipping one of my cars over to Europe for the summer and it cheap by boat.

Around $8,000 return.


May the Horse be with you

 

According to the Ferrari Corso Pilota Classiche website, they have four 308s, one 3.2 Mondial, and one 550 Maranello used for the Fiorano on-track driving portion of that program. It is not clear if you drive each of those types, or get to pick which one. In any case, how cool is it that they have a 550 available to drive at Fiorano!

https://www.ferrari.com/en-EN/auto/driving-courses?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2023_email_CorsoPilotaClassiche&utm_content=&idm=37b9d8855018c6967e921de12166b85b&ids=5eb6039998764528d6cab20dfb5a8efb1f272bee1526e2fdac38b039f1b34d46

 

They rotate you among the different cars.

 

I think when I took the Corso Pilota in '98 (at the Mugello) they had four 355 (manual and F1) and two 550... it would be funny, although unlikely, that the current 550 be one of this time.

 

Corsa Pilota uses the current models, Corsa Pilota Classiche is a different program they started around 2019 that offers clients a manual transmission driving experience.

 

I know that, my question was whether they use for the corso pilota classiche some cars they actually used for the regular corso pilota some years ago - although unlikely (most probably they sourced other cars now) I thought it would be funny.

 

I cannot recall the actual years I was there for the first two courses - late 90s.

At Mugello we had TR512 and 355.
At Fiorano we had 550 and 355.

At Fiorano we were allowed a final session with our own cars. I had driven my Dino down from Scandinavia and belted it around Fiorano very briskly indeed. According to Andrea de Adamich (who tested the Dino road car back in the day), my Dino was most likely the first one to lap Fiorano in anger.

Alas, there are no pictures to document this event, though I have some in-car VCRs somewhere.