"Stretching the legs" of your Ferrari...?

Fortunately I live in a part of England with a lot of lovely empty sweeping roads. A good mix of empty 3 lane motorways, straight country roads, undulating well surfaced stretches, and wide open moorland.

A few of us go out every now again at 06.00, do about 2 hours and finish with breakfast

I believe the highest figure ever seen was 172 (and that's not metric )
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What????

I would never speed (past 160 mph) I drive slow and safe (till no one is around than I nail it) going past the speed limit illegal (and going uber fast is wicked)
So I hope you have learned your lesson on how dangerous it is to go fast (and how boooooring it is to live by the rules..)

Ps drive safe...

 

Pappy likes going here to be naughty........
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Absolutely Rob
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Haven't we all? And it's a lesson well-learned...

Mike in Kuwait

 

I discern a flaw in the question: A straight speed run is the domain of muscle cars and heavily modded ricers.

Where the 328 comes alive is the twisties.

I can enjoy my 328 without exceeding the speed limit. There was an exercise that I wound up doing almost every evening in MA: The car in front of me would zoom off down the road at well over the limit. It was just a matter of how many curves it would take before I was right behind him again ... without ever exceeding the limit.

It's not about "fast" -- it's about "quick".

(Note: the trick to enjoying an F-car in the turns is visibility -- blind curves are a problem. It always amazes me that people can believe the sky is filled with invisible UFOs, but can't imagine that there might be another car around that blind curve. I've gotten a lot of experience having to drive on a fraction of my lane -- because the oncoming car is using his lane and half of mine.)

 

I think you're reading too much into the question.

I think it is simply asking where and when you take your car when you want a really good hoon.

For me, a good run takes in all sorts of types of road, fast and sweeping, twisty and technical, it's all good

Nice trio of cars by the way.

 

Being in east Tenn. you should be aware of the "Tail Of The Dragon"
http://www.tailofthedragon.com/

 

I haven't taken the 348 yet, but a long weekend trip to the Appalachian mountains is the best exercise for a car like a Ferrari.
Locally, I just stretch it out whenever there is nobody around. Nothing crazy though, at speeds above 130 or so you can't tell what's going to happen.

BT

 

Indeed - 311 turns in 11 miles (or something close) makes for an 'engaging' driving experience.

 

With the decline nationwide in hunting, AND the ever-increasing deer population that have overlapped with suburban sprawl, I'm leery of driving fast after the sun goes down. I've 'tagged' deer in the middle of a well-developed, dense neighborhood just 20 feet from my driveway, and almost had a rather large Buck leap in front of my Ferrari while he was blitzing through people's backyards at 3:00 in the afternoon. I managed to slow the car down because I saw the animal in the corner of my eye - I wouldn't have seen him until it was too late had I been travelling at the same clip at night. DGS makes a great point - the cars really shine in the bends, not having to brake in the turns, etc. The HANDLING of a Ferrari is a seldom-explored performance parameter with many owners...

 

From the place-to-drive standpoint, I've often questioned why I've bothered to own two Ferraris. Just getting to any kind of remotely-picturesque, open country roads takes an hour from home.

Where I live in Dallas...the eastern outer suburbs 40 years ago...traffic is beastly at all hours, even on Saturday and Sunday. It's a very pretty area around a large intown lake, but the winding roads are crowded with bicyclists and extreme caution is the word...I've been screamed at to slow down in both of my Ferraris even though driving well under the speed limit...guess it's the noise and aggressive looks of both cars that makes some people mad, no matter what.

The bright side: My old 330 2+2 was very entertaining to drive even at low speeds, with the valvetrain, carb, and exhaust sounds, gear changing, and all the associated Vintage-12 aspects.

The 308 has proven out to provide the same fun-when-slow factor, for much the same reasons...fast revving engine and quick acceleration, very slick gearchanges when warm, feels glued to the road. The injected V8 with Tubi makes a different symphony than the 330's carbed 12, but it's no less great...I took a cruise through the neighborhood a couple of evenings ago, didn't get over 35, and came home with the same old schiteatin grin.

 

Early Sunday Morning, German Autobahn, almost alone, 295 km/h no problem. Every Sunday, if I want.

Over 250 km/h on normal weekdays on some Autobahn, but not during the rush-hours. But much more fun to drive at less speed but still quick on little mountain-roads in the south of Germany or north part of Italy.

Do not try to go over the limit in Switzerland or Austria....

 

This might be better discussed in a less-public forum, if you know what I mean. Hate to be unduly paranoid, but no reason to give anyone any ammunition. We all have our favorites, why advertise our "anti-social" habits to anyone else??? Tongue in cheek, of course!

 

+1

I like to say that the GTC is as much fun as the law allows. The 550 is more fun than the law allows.

But back to the original question, in most jurisdictions, the least patrolled hours (and the ones with the least traffic) are normally 6:00 am to 8:00 am Sunday morning. Hopefully, this answers your question.

Dale

 

Watch out for them roos!

 

The track, Cops are Aholes and the PC police have turned us into pariahs if we play on the highway

 

After the 330 was gone, I had a shot at an excellent carbed Boxer for very reasonable $$$. One of the reasons I didn't do it was the "more fun than the law allows" aspect...it would have been a first-class rolling-start stoplight contender, and the real highway fun kicks in at 80 and above. My test drive was a memorable experience, just having the gut-level sense of all that power in wait, and realizing that it would go unused 98% of the time if I bought it. Seemed a waste.

That's the nice thing about my 308QV...plenty of sounds and sensations, very snappy performance, all doable within legal/safe limits, at about 35% the price of the Boxer.

It's not the police I'm concerned with around here, though there are known speed zones. More, it's just the unending volume of regular vehicle traffic and the large number of walkers and bicyclists.

 

The race track www.EnjoyTheTrack.com (hint, see VIDEO section). As a stupid kid i learned some lessons plus once you are on the track, public roads generally UNSAFE atmosphere and lousy other drivers become more obvious. Though take note once you 'taste' the fun at the race track it could lead to 'harder drugs' like proper race cars nearly faster/better than a $1,000,000 Ferrari Enzo... for only $20k

 

You can have fun in a 328 just east of San Diego, also enroute to Palm Springs we have some incredible roads.

As far as speeding, you can do that on the track.

 

+1 to Bullfighter. Not too many options, so do the math!

 

Yeah... like anyone would put that in writing.

 

I take mine to the lake where there are excellent roads complete with banks & good visibility (177 is my highest #). However, when the 430 is in Lauderdale for the Winter , it's pretty much just quick bursts here and there. Too crowded.