Ferrari offers limited- and powertrain-warranty coverage identical to that provided by Lamborghini. However, Ferrari one-ups its rival when it comes to complimentary scheduled maintenance; with Ferrari vehicles, you get seven years of coverage. With Lamborghini vehicles, complimentary scheduled maintenance isn't offered. Now, that was a way I suppose he probably had of pushing himself to the limit. But he was certainly rather brighter and rather less of a madman than people have made out. I mean, the image has probably grown with the passing time, but actually, I always found him very serious, and really quite a bright guy. After the Wednesday night opening ceremony festivities, which featured everyone from Kylie Minogue and Andra Day to John Legend and Keith Urban, along with all the drivers gathered together, Verstappen had already said: “For me, you can skip this… We are just standing up there, looking like a clown.” Twenty-four hours later, he’d step into his car in a racing suit designed in homage to Vegas-era Elvis. Featuring on its roof the largest Ferrari logo ever created, the megastructure is home to multiple rides and attractions, plus, of course, a large Ferrari store.

There would be more race wins before Postlethwaite left Maranello in 1987, but the 1982 car remains the one that his tenure at the team is best remembered for. That fact that it’s still an attractive-looking machine is testament to the effort put in. The nose is particularly good-looking, in my opinion, while the rear is neat, considering the car’s role as a proper family car with a decent boot; reminiscent of the FF from certain angles. And while changes will no doubt come when Vasseur has had time to get his feet under the desk, it does not appear that Ferrari is in need of a major revolution or upheaval. Minor adjustments in the way things are run could be enough to make the difference in that fight with Red Bull and Mercedes. The accepted wisdom is that he was so fired up by what had happened a fortnight earlier, and so keen to outpace his teammate, that the qualifying accident that claimed his life was a direct result of their feud.A Tuscan Vila-inspired home for our Ferrari clients and enthusiasts” Jan Hendrik Voss, President of Ferrari Australiasia. Road cars have homologation concerns, race cars have rules; these have no barriers,” Galliera says. “We test on them what we can’t on road or race cars. Customers tell us if the technology is interesting or not, then we see if it’s suitable to develop further for the road cars.” I don’t much like racing,” says Lyon. “You’re often dealing with egos bigger than the talent available. If they win, they tend to forget how it happened, which can be frustrating. So these days, our race projects tend to be for friends we know.” Experienced drivers will enjoy flipping it into Sport mode, or even ESC off, and controlling slip at the rear end with their right foot. Despite clever four-wheel steering and electronic stability control systems (see below), acceleration and torque distribution is natural and progressive.

The worry with advanced electronic damping and ride height control is that you end up with an artificial sensation through the wheels, but with the Purosangue the way the car moves around when punishing it is absolutely natural and predictable. It’s a car that belies its 2.1-tonne weight, with those astonishingly powerful carbon-ceramic brakes that you can lean on hard for hairpins or feather gently when you want to carry speed through a tightening turn, and there’s never a hint of it getting out of shape. The brakes are pretty sensational in the dry but extraordinary on those low grip surfaces. Ferrari’s ABSevo braking system, with brake-by-wire technology, is available for the first time on a model designed for use on snow and ice and it manages not just to keep the car pointing in the right direction under hard braking but also scrubs off tremendous amounts of speed. Independent rear-wheel steering (Ferrari has developed a system that can limit the angle of the inside rear wheel) along with an electronic rear differential and a two-geared power transfer unit sending torque to the front wheels really helps pivot the car through tight turns, and on hairpin-heavy mountain roads in the Dolomites the Purosangue genuinely felt like a car half its weight. Around the same time, Max Verstappen—the sport’s intermittently humorless world champion three years running, who’s already been declared the champion a third time after a dominating 2023 season—called the Vegas race “99% show, 1% sporting event.”

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On the plus side that Burmester 3D stereo is outstanding. It’s the first collaboration with Ferrari for the German audio company, and features 21 speakers with a total output of 1,420w, 400w of which are dedicated to the subwoofer alone. It also features things called ribbon tweeters, which involve a strip of foil between two magnets, rather than a traditional cone, and don’t distort the sound at high frequencies — apparently. In fact it’s just two tenths of a second slower to 62mph than the twin-turbocharged V8-powered Aston Martin DBX707, and hits the same top speed. But then again, that comparison’s not fair because as we know, the Purosangue is not an SUV. So yes, the Purosangue (meaning “thoroughbred”) is higher off the ground than any Ferrari that has come before, and has space for four adults plus luggage, but thanks to state-of-the-art suspension and a naturally-aspirated V12 engine it’s designed to be something altogether different from anything else on the road. The vital statistics? Accelerating from 0-62mph takes 3.3sec and 0-124mph just 10.6sec, which is pretty sensational stuff for a car weighing 2,033kg with all the optional lightweight components, and before you even add fluids. It’ll keep pulling away all the way to its top speed of 193mph, too, which makes the Purosangue no slouch at all. Last year Leclerc started season with two wins from the first three races, but by the sixth round in Spain Max Verstappen had taken the lead and then never let it go. Ultimately, a combination of reliability issues, strategy mistakes and driver errors put an end to Ferrari's title challenge midway through the year, although in the second half of the season it was also out-developed by rivals Red Bull.