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Using a naturally-aspirated V12, with no electrification to be seen, is an interesting choice by Ferrari. One could see it as two fingers up to the environmentalists, but from Ferrari’s point of view it is what truly makes the Purosangue stand out from its competition. Slower attractions include the Bell'Italia children’s ride in model Ferraris through a miniature village, along with electric go-kart racing and a motorised tour of the Ferrari factory. It's really difficult to know what he would have gone on to do. We can speculate, but I'd like to believe that he would have won several world championships, and that he would have been a wonderful ambassador for the sport. 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.

Ferrari developed an all-new active suspension system for the Purosangue, and it’s an astonishing feat of engineering. Having sat through the extensive technical briefing and Q&A session, and asked the chief chassis engineer for further explanation of how it works, it’s still boggling my mind so trying to explain it in broad brushstrokes here is no easy task, but let’s give it a go, anyway. He had a helicopter and he'd try and make it loop. That was the kind of guy he was. And I think people just appreciated that, certainly then. One of the sad things is probably the whole world is now much more anaesthetised to these things, and perhaps that isn't quite kosher these days." On the other topics, the vision you have from outside the team is always a bit different, and as you know it has been very short notice for me and I have spent the last four weeks trying to understand what is happening at the team last year, but I won't draw any conclusions before the first event and we have to know each other before we take any action." Perhaps most notable about Ferrari World is how much it feels like a theme park. Children rush from ride to ride clutching merchandise, while others stare at the cars dotted around. I also think that after the 2021 season where we've been working very well and reset it a little bit from 2020, that was a difficult season, we have been working in the right direction and in the right way. And this gives me the confidence that we'll have a competitive car for 2023."

A car crash that resulted in marriage

The most popular advice topics — we've got you covered 2035 petrol and diesel car ban: 12 things to know The 458 Italia is capable of telling the driver when the brakes, tyres and engine are at the optimum operating temperature. Called virtual race engineer, a display in the dash to the left of the rev counter shows a schematic of the car, and components change colour according to temperature. Yellow means the temperatures aren’t high enough, green is the perfect temperature and red means the car is too hot. First: it wants to improve its top speed with greater aerodynamic efficiency. The drag problem derived not only from the difference in speed withDRS open, but also from the approach to aero-elasticity of certain components – where perhaps Red Bull did things much more cleverly. And this counts not only for wings but also in the overallpitchof the car when it hits top speed on the straight. Read Also: 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. I think the priority for everybody is reliability because when you are at this stage of the season and you don't have the reliability, you are not able to do the three days [testing] and then you are starting on the wrong foot," Vasseur said. "Based on the data from the dyno we are all optimistic, but only Bahrain will tell us where we are in terms of reliability and performance. So far it is OK.

There certainly appears to be more confidence inside Ferrari than outside at the moment, and that is something that has not always been historically true. 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.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. He concedes that the programme is an expensive one to run, but “if you find technology and put it on a road car, you have already absorbed some of the cost, as it has already been tested [on the XXs]”. Alonso Duralde, The Film Verdict: "That rarest of films: the complex, complicated biopic. Like his subject, Mann appreciates beauty and power while never forgetting that beauty can wither and power can destroy; within that matrix of messy contradictions, he creates haunting drama." 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. Take it out on the deep white stuff and switch the manettino to Ice, as we did at one point, and it’s the same story — control, poise and confidence — though of course with greatly reduced throttle response, power and steering sensitivity.

The disappointment of finishing a distant second in the championship led to the resignation of team principal Mattia Binotto last December and he was replaced by former Alfa Romeo boss Fred Vasseur in early January. It's a significant step up for Vasseur, but the Frenchman said the same rules of running an F1 team apply.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.