Ferrari’s latest roadster
Ferrari has confirmed that they’re working on a track-only variant of the LaFerrari called the LaFerrari XX, which will take the supercar to extreme levels of performance.
The LaFerrari XX will follow on in the footsteps of the extremely limited and exclusive Enzo-based FXX and 599XX racetrack machines, which were built for the Italian brand’s most discerning customers.
Antonello Coletta, head of Ferrari’s Sporting Activity Department, admits that while it’ll be hard to improve on the performance of the LaFerrari, the XX will benefit from improved aerodynamics, electronics, suspension, and shock absorbers, slick tires, and of course some weight reduction. It’s expected to launch in 2015.
“It is very hard to make a car more fast than a LaFerrari but this is the challenge. It will be more or less the same [power] but it will be completely different the handling, because it’s normal that the handling is different for the circuit and the road.”
As for the price, you know what they say. If you gotta ask.
Enzo Ferrari worked for Alfa Romeo from 1920 to 1929 and raced Alfas for another 10 years after that. From the time he was 12, according to Ferrari: The Man and His Machines, Enzo knew he wanted be a race driver.
At Alfa, he achieved that dream, and adopted the cavallino, or prancing horse, insignia for his Alfa race car. In 1929, he left Alfa to start Scuderia Ferrari in Modena, his privately owned Alfa Romeo racing team.
In 1929, Enzo Ferrari left Alfa Romeo’s employment to start his own racing stable (scuderia in Italian). Scuderia Ferrari did not race cars with the Ferrari name, though the Alfas they used on the track did sport the prancing horse.
The Ferrari shop in Modena built its first car, the Alfa Romeo 158 Grand Prix racer, in 1937.
In 1938, Alfa took its racing program in-house, and Enzo Ferrari went with it. He left Alfa (or was dismissed) for the last time in 1939.
Ferrari moved from Modena to Maranello during the war, where it remains today.
In 1945, Ferrari began work on the 12-cylinder engine the company would be famous for, and in 1947, Enzo Ferrari drove the first 125 S out of the factory gates. Post-war racing was Ferrari’s finest hour on the track.
Driver Luigi Chinetti was the first to import Ferrari cars to the US in the late 1940s, including the first highway Ferrari, the 166 Inter. — guysgab.com/about.com