Chris Harris drives... Best of Ferrari: LaFerrari, 488 Pista, 812 Superfast, F12 TDF | Top Gear

Now, as you all know, I'm a very lucky guy and one of the reasons I'm so lucky is that I've spent more time in the amazing Ferrari F12 than most of my colleagues doing things like this. Insert Emil's photo as You'll see in those images that the car is capable of gutting its rear tires in a way I didn't think was possible. In fact, given the grip available, it's one of the most over-the-top cars I've ever driven, so Ferrari has logically given it to me. its power is welcome to the f12 TDF the change from the Berlin desert EDF is big the power goes up to 780 horsepower and talk about 524 pounds at idle now 8900 RPM upshift speeds reduced by 30% downshift speeds by 60 percent the total shift is reduced to 6 0 to 124 miles per hour takes just 7.9 seconds and Ferrari stopped bothering to identify the top speed.

At 211 miles per hour it will go faster, but this is a track car, so who cares, fourteen hundred and fifteen kilograms dry, it's 110 kilograms lighter. In addition, most of the body is made of carbon and the rear treatment is very different, the screen break has changed, the chassis is very different as it receives 275 section bottoms, it provides much more front grip and the balance of the front area It is managed by the rear steering system and aerodynamics. We'll just look at it, everything has been modified, kicked and stripped to add downforce without resorting to a huge rear wing.

You could look inside its semi-porous skin for hours and that's before you see the fins on the diffuser that fold out for storage. and reduce straight line drag DRS for the road, anyone will only build 799 yes you guessed it, they will turn out I wonder what it will be like to drive, no lie, this thing has to be first in the round. I just went around it a couple of times, let it move it around a little and guess what still scares me? Let me tell you what it is and why it represents a series of small incremental steps on an F 12 that come together to create comfortably. the most ridiculous Ferrari I've ever driven not the fastest but the most aggressive potentially the most spiteful potentially the most rewarding this is an angry car all around the front axle so we get to this one call it before the bridge I turned the wheel and I've got it a little bit of evil in a Colt.

I have 20% grip at the front, which means that at the rear it's hard to keep going, which is why we have full steering on the wheels because it simply can't generate the same amount of perfect grip on its own, but it means that when you leave the systems on you're on traction control all the time so when this little helper shows up here again I'm completely flat but mostly I let it do it for me but it breaks. at nine, it's just ridiculous that this quick left turn is so much faster than an f12 again. I'm using traction all the time because I don't have this man's ability to do it, otherwise I can't do it without it, really, really.

Be warned, there is a speed limit at the moment on the main straight, which is a shame, but actually, for the first time, I'm really glad that the speed limit on the main straight saves me from having to drive like a complete , we will move forward again. you hit the accelerator in a second and we're gone, so everything about this car feels angrier than the F12 and although the differences on paper aren't huge, that front axle, that extra angry engine, they come together, of course, when you turn the car to get all that sand off the front axle it ends up with the rear end that wanted to turn with it.

I'm not really aware of the rear steering. I'm just aware of the fact that it feels shorter than the wheelbase, but with the normal f12

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shift, thanks. It feels on the verge of a nervous breakdown with the systems on when you turn them off. I'll do it for you, but I have to say I beat myself every time. I mean, I got spun in this corner twice on cold tires. happens now Oh al and then by here I mean just power with the TC off a story was there everywhere everywhere everywhere even at 120 hundred 30 miles an hour you know you're millimeters away from a big slide can I also tell you something interesting?

I have never been further from the discussion about Manuel or Pebbles. If this fellow had a manual

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box, he wouldn't be able to keep up. He just wouldn't have a clue what he was doing. Everything is happening to people, so that's how it has been. To be paddles there is no discussion, I mean, between seven R49s, the engine is devastating, it is already third gear. I can continue that slide to the next core if I want, but my Karan isn't big enough, what a machine, but you know, it's not everything. about how fast it is, they talk about the lap time, it's a couple of seconds, they offer the

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, it's the final, I just had a heart rate monitor or hopefully I'm in it right now like I've never been in it before in the history of the car.

In a long time this will not be so much a car but a first class substance, it is a magnificent job. I'd like to meet the poor bastard who can drive it fast down the highway with all systems off because that's not the case. To me, it would be like he was there, I mean, he's armed again. An incredible machine. I think I have a beer. I think, oh my god, so from the outside it looks like an FF for someone to try to remodel it slightly and on the inside it's pretty. different, the two side TFT screens and the center of the counter were kept, the rest is completely new, including this huge flat screen center console that has been here for many years.

Ferrari was way behind the curve, always seeming to launch the kind of infotainment generation behind any of its rivals, but this looks very up to date and has a split screen feature on both sides. I don't really know how it works. I've spent a bit of time playing with it and there is some sort of instruction that comes with it. I'll get there after a year, you really learn how the controls work and the quality of the interior here is much better than the ffs. I must say that it doesn't squeak, it doesn't make noise and you don't have to put all the parts that fall off in the glove box like they put in the dynamics of my FF.

This is really smart on Ferrari's part because as someone who did, I don't know what 7,000 miles on my FF, I loved it, but there were some very obvious problems first. It was too loud when you started, it woke up townspeople for a mile around, that's too much, we want sound, we don't want to be antisocial, that's the new way of doing things, ride comfort even with the dampers selected . the song was too busy and the biggest problem with the FF for a car that was in GT was the type of tire suspension noise at the rear of the car.

If you sat in the back, you were deaf, there was plenty of room, but you had suspension shocks and exhaust noise and the kind of resonance that comes from the suspension, the tires, so what have they gone and done right when you start it up? ? It's quieter, but still sounds wonderful. The ride comfort with the bumpy road button. it's excellent. I come from an everyday Mercedes s63 AMG which I think

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as well as any fast car, but this isn't far off, it's really impressive. I'm perhaps in the most impressive part of the bathroom, so the way it filters out noise that doesn't want to leave the cabin and allows you to have all that v12 goodness that most Ferraris are designed with the driver in mind.

The driver doesn't care about anyone else for all the controls and everything that is configured for the driver's environment. Forgot about the passenger, but the bathroom is obviously a four-seater, so Ferrari has had to pay attention to the person sitting there in the front road machine and also in the back seat, so it's not radical. I'm going to try this vehicle out of the other suits now in the spirit of good consumer journalism. I'm going to try to show you the new infotainment screen, but before I do that I'm going to start the engine because I wouldn't do that. we need something cool to happen, push this, a hatch opens and air comes out now despite the fact that Jaguar managed that 10 years ago, Ferrari got a hatch that opens amazing, so here's your infotainment screen, look what big that it is and it's flush with the edges and it has that kind of luxurious matte feel that shows basic information like the temperature and the time, so you've got your usual stuff, you've got the media, you're playing your Navi, your phone, the way you can change your seats and air conditioning and all that kind of stuff and then the settings of the car which is like a normal car but it has a split screen function now look you see media and navigation at the same time you can also have Apple Carplay Where is my? cable, what is this?

So I connect the phone. They offer Apple CarPlay now which in a Golf R I think it's free in this car it costs about two and a half thousand dollars which seems a little expensive but it works pretty well. We have a redesigned set. of the climate control buttons, we have another rotary button here that helps you navigate Randy if you don't undo the touch screen. I don't know why you do that, a volume knob here that has a crack in the middle. and if you look at it, it moves like the buttons on a 300,000 pound car shouldn't move, it's a bit ergonomic, but it looks beautiful and the materials are very special, in fact that's what you need to understand when you see the price Of this car, you will say what an RS6 is that costs a third of the money.

An rs6 feels a third of the money inside. This is beautiful, the skins are waxy and soft and have a beautiful color and everything works. they fit together quite well in a way that Ferraris don't always do and these titanium vents and edges are beautiful things, there's not too much carbon on this car which I like better the usual controls so you have two paddles here up and down are fixed they are not behind the steering wheel and they move with the steering wheel this has all been slightly redesigned that is the most important button on the Karma you press it so that your soft shock absorbers the Manatee gnome is simple one thing you need to know is that when you turn off the ESC and you slide it, which I'm not going to do in this video, the rear wheel steering cuts off, it doesn't work because that wouldn't help in a skid situation, the fuel tank still doesn't fully work.

Big enough at less than 90 liters and everything else, well, it's the same as before. What I find a little confusing is that there are 1 2 3 4 5 6 rotating dials and I'm not quite sure where each of them is. they do something here I think it's my Pitt lemon, not my cruise control, another thing worth pointing out: the JBL hifi on my FF were pants, really rubbish, the JBL: this is actually very good, Well, that's all from the driver's perspective. Now I'll turn it over to my short, dark, and very handsome colleague to talk about what's going on in the front passenger compartment, so here we are in the bathroom, and right in front of me is the optional passenger readout or display 3,360-pound passenger weight.

I can say that with a straight face, just look at this, it used to be basic now, how could it not be so basic? You get the exact same graphics that you had on the main screen so you can have a duplicate of all the information that drivers see. about the car and what you are doing on that screen on the left here, but you can also have all the media and you can change the song that you will find, you can put your anger because bless my 12 year old son. He was up front with me this morning and he was changing the radio station every five minutes, which drove me completely crazy, but look how cool this is, so then you can have all your performance data too, so that's your speed and your rpm, I mean.

I know it's a total gimmick but these cars are theater and they make people feel special and they make you smile at all kinds of delights and that's what I love about this so if you're sitting here as a passenger, actually have more. It's more fun to have here than the passenger in any other car for sale. Having played with my directional air vents with their new opening and closing mechanism at the top, they are quite nice and I pressed the solenoid activated glove box release. I'll go to the back where another little dark man, quite attractive, is ready to show you what it's like that's all in the back I can't talk about the back tomorrow free eleven thousand five hundred and twenty pounds eleven thousand five hundred for a roof of glass Okay, once you get that out of the way, the rear of this car is a revelation, more legroom than the S class coupe.

What a great position, the seat back rake is perfect and as they are bucket seats, they have I have these little side cushions that just pinch the wood of your back, which makes it really comfortable and supportive. It feels like a bucket seat on the back of the armrest of a car to my left.Check out that pair of USB charging dual cup holders and a dual air vent. point cold air at your face genuine four-seater with trunk oh look a folding and split rear seat it never falls flat it's already flat that's why there's the fuel tank down there but to a really practical car I've arrived here Fiorano Homer Ferrari Anna I I'm in a cynical mood because I just don't see what they're doing with the 720 horsepower 480 because regular cars already have so much power it makes your face double and this is a track version, but who wants to go to a track on the car worth two hundred and fifty thousand pounds, I mean, if you hit a wheel or go through a gravel trap, it costs a fortune, so I wonder if Ferrari's special edition mid-engine car is getting ahead of itself.

The world needs 720 horsepower for a treadmill for track use. I don't know and then you get to be afraid of the unknown, of course, then you drive the thing, oh and it's on the road and you think okay, I'll be part of the cynicism for a minute, let's enjoy the car because this thing is alive It's on its toes, responds and is so quick it's brutally fast while managing the torque delivery of a turbocharged V8 and the speed around here. I just spent the weekend racing a gt3 car, it feels like it says fast, it's accelerating a lot too.

The peak height is 6 750 like a standard car, but there is much less nursery. Now you will notice from the technical part of the video that it really feels like it accelerates quickly, it feels more normally aspirated, the tire grip levels are good. Front to back, interestingly, they've gone for a super sticky Mitchell on this Pilot Sport Cup 2 kated. It's pretty street-wise, so those hoping to set stupid lap times with sticky rubber may be disappointed, but you know what road balance is. I'm sure it's the right decision, but for me this is the turbocharged engine I'll always want before it happens one day.

I don't really feel like it's turbocharged, except for the fact that it occasionally releases huge amounts of torque at the moment it's turned off, so I control the traction myself, but if you put it into race, you just come out of a rush. curve full of energy. If you're a really experienced driver, there's never been a Ferrari, this is useful as this and so within the space of In two minutes I've gone from cynical, grumpy pants to this is quite wonderful. It does that to you through this place and these cars. What's really interesting is that the more power these manufacturers extract from these supercharged engines, the more the vehicle becomes the limit.

The mechanics grab the tire and what you end up with is a driving experience that's curiously old-fashioned because you're managing the amount of grip you have in the back of the car, as is traditional, which must dampen everything a bit. It happens, look what happens here, so we step on the accelerator and immediately I'm always predictable and balanced, yes the steering is perfect to be pretty here, as they are these days, but let it out to be here, I mean, it's a lot chat. but even at half throttle the car moves all over the place mid-slide, nonchalantly I think about the electronics that kick in to make this brake pedal feel like they've really gone to town on the brakes and it feels like a racing car.

Pat, let's go back. It's got a lovely solidity to it, ultimately it doesn't feel very grippy because you always overpower the grip with the power, it's really lovely. I love the way the engine revs, the inconel exhaust gives us a bit of sound, it's a big step forward in a big step, particularly in terms of the feel, I don't care about the raw numbers, the fact That it is fast with all the other gases, it is a much more pleasant car to drive, mainly because of the pedal and the engine, for me it is simply a better response, less inertia, it feels more normally aspirated.

Another trick is that when you accelerate into a downshift, the engine produces what engineers call greater negative torque from the

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double negatives ever effective, you're adding inertia, you're trying to add resistance so that when you're going through A hard break with a damn shift all contributes to braking performance and moving the weight towards the front of the car is a smart thing to do, but would you really go out and stuff it on a track day? This is the frustration with these cars, many of these will sit in garages and the owners will brag about them.

Yes, I have one of those. I get special service cars because I'm a big dog. I don't mind. Drive it. or do this, whoever you are, you can't make things that good to drive and then treat them like an inanimate object. I think they should make it a crime. The track does not use a modified GTB engine, but instead runs the unit. Of the four race cars I take on, this means a new cooling system, new intakes and exhausts, and plenty of internal changes too. It also means 720 horsepower and 568 pound-feet of torque, a 90-kilogram weight reduction, and increases in downforce on both axles.

Fiber wheels are optional and the latest electronic chassis aids allow the variable locking differential to communicate with the brakes to create even better direction changes. The interior is mostly four five eight which means it's almost ten years old now and frankly it looks like the wheel doesn't. It fits snugly enough and the sheer amount of different materials and textures makes you wonder what stewed cheese means in Italian, but it doesn't matter, this is a car to drive. Ferrari says it's a track car, but despite being optimized for track use, we know most of the parts will wear out.

Your moment will be to sing slowly on public roads so we are going to tell you what it is like to drive on the road. I don't want to like it, but a car because it is very, very good, first of all the engine. I think anyone who has driven a 488 GTB will. I know I think it's very close to greatness, but there's something missing at the top and an urgency because it's turbocharged and everything seems to get up to six and a half thousand rpm very quickly and then it stalls, this one goes on, for two reasons. a larger internal part for its crank stop and all the other lighter parts inside the challenge motor really make it expand faster, it feels lighter, all the internal parts you have the feeling of lighter metal parts moving and the other part is the way they calibrated the last rpm before the rev limiter kicks in at about 8,000 rpm while full rotation had a soft limiter to protect the engine from blowing up, it depends on the fish, this one is more aggressive, you could practically achieve anything. the road and it doesn't, it doesn't narrow, it just gets there and stops, that really helps, so now there's more reason to increase the rev range of the suspension, but you know what Ferrari is notoriously unpleasant to talk about. things for springs, dampers and anti-roll bars these days, much of what it achieves seems to be through electronics, the spring is a little stiffer than the four eight eight, the vamp ian is the same but it is recalibrated to wear out with everything else the differential is the same It's electronic but again has a different calibration and the anti roll bars are the same apparently according to the engineer in charge.

Roll bars don't really matter nowadays, yes you need them, but they don't really matter. It's amazing what really makes the car stand out. for me it's the fact that the bumpy road button absorbs really quite bumpy roads. The front of the car is excellent. This Michelin Pilot Sport from the K2 brand is incredible on the road. It has to be the

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street tire I've ever driven that has track credentials, so the front. of the car is incredible, you just move the wheel as hard and fast as you want, the car turns, that's a big advantage over a two-deep RS because the GTRs just can't match that on the road, that somehow moves it between Your wrists enjoy the feel of the Italian countryside and then when you open it up, this thing is a sniff, a sniff, slower than a Ferrari in a straight line, nothing like 225 miles per hour in seven half seconds, I say that again, seven and a half seconds wow a gearbox identical to the GT be quick with an even quicker shift program the downshifts are hilariously quick almost feels like a pneumatic race the upshift is excellent no I can't fault any of it, so what's wrong with it?

The interior just looks old and junk to my eyes. I may be wrong and I may be subjective but there are so many different materials it looks like you've been to the haberdashery department at John Lewis and picked up some random materials and thrown them into the car, there's just colors and textures. and the fabrics and all this is a bit old and too familiar and yeah, I don't get it, the ergonomics are a bit crazy too, the driving position is good, you sit low, but I can never get the steering wheel right and this seat is bad.

Quilted the Manatee well, which also looks old. I'm ready for the next generation of Ferrari cabins and, frankly, it's a pretty nun device too. You know, the steering doesn't really give you much, the brake pedal with this firmer response, it's good. but again, pretty dead, it's a collar that you feel your way through, but sometimes you have to take a few jumps just to get there because you don't get much peace of mind from the controls and on the road if you turn off the traction control on these units and This is the really strange thing in 2018: it

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like a sports racer from the late 50s.

Now we have our high-performance cars where the gap between the potential of the engines and the technology of the tires is increasing. They are doing a fantastic job trying to maintain. but they just can't, they just can't handle these huge increases in power and torque and that means if you turn it off, half throttle will break traction 1/3, sometimes maybe less and it's literally like driving a Jaguar e-type . The way I love it, the car dances and you can play with it, the speeds are quite high and I'm not sure in 2018 people want to see supercars. Roundabouts are based on public roads, so maybe that's a clue.

It just belongs on the circuit because it's so fast, it's the only place you can use it. It is completely usable on the road. It drives well. It's a little loud with that inconel Bhoomi exhaust, but it performs well. It wasn't much less. more comfortable than a GT b maybe I don't know 5 10% who cares. You could use it every day if you wanted, but not using its performance would be a shame and there's something else that this and the new gt2 RS are doing. I wonder if the phrase "normally aspirated lasts" is now so often applied to car values ​​that are rising stratospherically because they are the latest naturally aspirated engines.

I wonder if these are killing that feeling because it's so good, this engine is so good, but I'm not especially sure it's something worth a ton of money because I think it's a step up from almost everything that does and sounds. well: it accelerates, so perhaps the last, the unaspirated, will soon end because These turbo engines are not only so effective but also very fun to use, food for thought, so this is a spectacular trip to Fiorano in Italy , home of Ferrari, we have the circuit ourselves, we don't have much time, about 45 minutes to Go and blink and what we are driving is the new

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Ferrari 812, the replacement for the F12 that already had 740 horsepower.

This car has 800 horsepower from an enlarged six-point-five-liter V12 and 529 pound-feet of torque. The Red. The line is set at eight thousand nine hundred rpm. The gearbox is the same dual-clutch unit as before, but gears one to six, much shorter shift times, 30% faster on the way up and a whopping 40 percent faster on the way up. below. The chassis is better described. like 9/10 f12 PTO with rear wheel steering and higher spring rate, the a12 also inherits that incredibly wide car, the dry weight of the 275 section front tire is 1525 kilograms, the aerodynamics are very different from the f12 , the front diffuser system can stop or accelerate. airflow with a handful of options is a 300k pound machine, oh and as you're about to see, forget about fastening my chin strap, I did it all deliberately to give you guys something to chat about in the comments. about the new rules at Fiorano an 800 horsepower front engine berlinetta, well what is that thing we have then, well we have four wheel steering, now the rear axle, sorry, there are some pretty clever things that happen here, so, for example, if you get into a terminal understeer situation, the rear wheel has come back to help you carry that gear lube into a corner, which I thought was, I think it's avery very smart power, does it feel faster than that? and then you know what it does and it does it both for the change and for the power.

I think it's with a normal p0 tire that is fighting so much heat and pain on this circuit, thinking that there is understeer on the road in traction for a car of this era, you know, with a front engine. rear wheel drive I still think it's a snake all the time. They make these things feel good. They have a lot of traction. They only shoot on curves. I'm ready. No, from Gary. This is so fast. The sleeping rakes are immense. I hear the engine noise, how does that sound? The balance of the car is really good.

The electric power steering, interesting to me, feels exactly the same as the old hydraulic rock on the F12, which to me was still the weakest part of the F12. I think it's the weakest part of this car, still, the steering is too quick and I don't have a great sense of connection either, and the fact that it's a street car and it's spitting out these kinds of numbers turns everything off, look what . it happens when we do that, so when you slide the rear wheels are still there on this car, which they are not in the CCG for loose.

Oh, very, very subtle, we think how much is going on here, the comedy is the complete steering of the wheels or Fiorano looks at his very fast, funny and a little bit on the track, but he also has license plates, so we should really go out to the road with him for a while because even though he's incredibly fast and capable on the track, yeah, 12, it's after a streak, what's he like on the road? Well, first of all, like all modern Ferraris, you have to press a little button here and a logo that says bumpy road appears on the dashboard, loose shock absorbers and then you have a car that is so civilized that it gives it all the potential that it is. quite difficult to understand how they have done it and the best thing about this type of F12 family car because let's face it, it's an improved F12, it's smaller than the old 599, so it's not that wide of a car because there's nothing. worse than driving a supercar, big GT car whizzing by, a truck will hit you broadside on that side and on the near side both wheels are in the ditch.

You don't have that problem on the A12 like you did on the five nine nine, honestly how? It feels different to an F12, well obviously this whole thing has been redesigned and it's a little bit sleeker and nicer, there's more carbon and more architecture, and the driving environment is still quite complicated with control split on both sides and you. You have the new indicators that you can activate behind the wheel, we are in the fall of the GTC and you have your redesigned manettino, then you have your winter wipers that you can now use with a rotary control.

You see, you will find all the practical tips on how to use the new a12 supervisor skin. If I were to drive to Nice and Mac in this, it wouldn't be a problem, it would be comfortable and that's what stars try to cover a distance. great speed and with a surprising level of refinement. So what have they done with this car? They've made the F12 faster and more capable and whether you like the way it looks or not, it's a better car than an F12 I don't know where. they go for me can you get more power and torque through a pair of rear wheel drive?

Is this the last normally aspirated v12 front engined Ferrari? Most people seem to think it goes either way. I have a strange feeling that they are close. Super fast. a high tide line or perhaps the end of an era for a particular type of Ferrari, so I'm going to drive until they ask me to come back and when they do I'll ignore them. Oh, where's your boss? My only real criticism with the on-road performance is the ride comfort. The car feels stiffer than an F12 and even with the soft damping mode activated, the target is quite busy at low speeds.

I need to drive it in the UK to see what it's really like. We filmed the fxxk in Daytona, most of the day was dedicated to the TV show, but we snuck in and grabbed some stuff for the internet, we just had a little secret, like introducing myself, I'm awake, hello cozy, find out what it happens when a thousand and fifty horsepower right now what we have very sensational very fast I'm very good I'm just blending in here to say what's up better prettier just look it's immense now these girls create a vacuum release while another electricity and it they say just go, you don't even need to worry, just take advantage of all that talk, the drafts were a little shorter on this car than the la

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, the short force is doing 1630 clicks in that time, it definitely feels like a very fast word card . in the racing car, whatever it is, we did it with power, with the shame of F1 cars here, very purely in a straight line, this is one of those cars around your theater because it causes water in the production in Ferrara , but I cotta makes it even more challenging. allow scraper to take the goods much sooner I just need the church to control my firm and now this is a very, very, very good reason to get rich, this car, rent to a mother, aka, my beloved, this topic, give him that bag, sex tank, I'm I'm going to say sit down with marine friends how far we've come with this party every time you think that's all they can get me it gives you more power and when you put it half on your back it just dances because you're there and with a million metric control, you can feel the rear axle and it's just this beautiful lesson in restraint that says, get me to that point where I'm just dancing where I'm on my toes.

Did you go too far? I'm going to cause the most expensive accident you can imagine. You can see how much more arrow control is applied throughout the body. The rear diffuser is especially large. The front splitter is 30 millimeters lower and the overall effect is 30% more downforce than the standard car. The Laferrari's curse system has been changed to one that is almost identical to that of Vettel's Formula 1 car. It is more efficient and more powerful. The V12 now has 848 horsepower thanks to new cam intakes and the elimination of the catalytic converters with the new Kerr system. means 1,050 horsepower and weighs well under 1,500 kilograms, 90 kilograms less than the base car, the gears are shorter, the gear changes are faster, the slicks are stickier, it's five seconds faster in Fiorano than the standard car;

If you have been to Fira, you will already know this. in a Ferrari that sounds crazy in short it is a monster