In a new time, with a very different FerrariFor hours we’ve crushed distance with speed, watching in reverential silence as vast landscapes – widescreen valleys between sky-scraping escarpments – slid inexorably from windscreen to windows to rear-view mirror. As coarse tarmac rushed beneath warm Michelins and the V12 cantered just off idle for hour after hour, the effect was hypnotic. There was no traffic; no other life, even. Nothing to break the spell of this elemental place.
Then a very strange thing happens. Mid-corner, braced against the Ferrari’s unwavering body control, I think about a desk and a telephone and a call nearly 30 years ago; the beat of a butterfly’s wings and a chain of events that made this drive, this moment, inevitable even then. Rounding one corner I see a mountainside much like every other. Only this one is different, familiar.
Timing is everything and Richard’s was exquisite. Ghini had an ex-engineering 512M kicking about. He’d been thinking, too, about how bland and samey Ferrari stories were becoming. Maranello was also keen to address the misconception, exacerbated by the tiny annual mileages most owners did, that its cars were fragile. Then came the call from CAR. Bremner had his Ferrari.Its exquisite timing also helps explain the story’s enduring legacy.
On the dockside, chaos. In the Ferrari’s sumptuous cabin, calm. Despite sharing a hold with idling refrigerated trucks for the last couple of hours the car’s display indicates a decent level of air quality. Fully fuelled, the read-out shows some 370 miles of range . And the fierce drop-off from the ferry ramp to the dockside holds no fear in a car with plenty of ride height, not to mention a body-lift function should we need more.
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