Volume 3, Issue 2 - Feb/March 1996

New Competition Class for Ferraris Only

new competition class for ferraris only

does this mean ferraris aren't well suited to track activities? no! ferraris relish being driven fast! and they hold up just fine. it's just that all the "go fast" racing accessories are cheaper and easier to get for cars like bmws and 944s and drivers of these less expensive cars tend to push the limits a little further than those driving ferraris.

so, recognizing that it is difficult for the relatively stock ferraris to compete with all this cheap, hopped-up iron, the fca and arosc have decided to create a new classification for ferraris only. unfortunately, class "f" is already taken so ferraris will be class "s" (like, for scuderia or sempre or speed or something). the club will provide engraved silver plates for the top finisher(s) each weekend. this will allow fca members to win accolades every event weekend and compete head-to-head in a year-long points battle. year-long points will be awarded retroactively for this first event, which puts joel quaid in the lead by 4 points over second place arthur trejo (points are distributed a la f1 - 10, 6, 4, 3, 2, 1).

come on out and join the fun.

Upcoming Events

upcoming events

these are old. click here for a current calendar of events

pacific palisades concours

similar to the rodeo drive event, but on a smaller scale, this exclusively ferrari, non-competitive exhibition will be on swarthmore avenue at sunset boulevard, in the heart of pacific palisades village. swarthmore will be traffic-free for the occasion, and show cars will be arranged on both sides of the beautiful, tree-lined street. the show will span both sides of sunset boulevard, with food booths (and overflow cars) arranged in and around the village green on sunset.

several area italian restaurants, including; misto, dante's, and tivoli, will provide the appropriate eats, while a fashion show and classical music will add to the ambiance. mort's, a great deli and favorite palisades meeting place, will provide box lunches for participants.

the pacific palisades chamber of commerce has been enthusiastically cooperative, and is providing refreshments for all the entrants, security, booths, p.a., celebrities, and all the necessaries they can. all fca members and other ferrari owners who want people to see their "special babies" and spend a fun-filled day in the prettiest small town in los angeles should plan to be there.

the palisades is easy to get to from anywhere in southern california. it is located just 10 minutes west of the 405 freeway on sunset boulevard, or from pch, 1 mile from the beach via temescal canyon road or chatauqua.

registration is required. please fill out the form below and mail or fax to the club office. for further information contact marshall lieb.

don meder's garage

his car collection is something to behold and includes his very special 275 four cam purchased new at the factory along with other ferraris and memorabilia from the era of chinetti and the factory. he also has "offy" midgets of sam hanks and indy cars which he promises to fire so that we may enjoy the sounds of a time past.

this is a very special private collection not usually open. you will see a fine presentation of unique automobiles and specialty items connected to racing and the ferrari factory.

the garage is located in tustin and we specifically request members and their guests to rsvp no later than monday march 18th to wally clark.

election meeting

we are most proud of our achievements and have you, our general membership, to thank.

this event will be held at ferrari north america's new technical center in orange county where they incorporate the latest in equipment and technology available to vintage and contemporary ferrari's. on display will be an assortment of cars of all era's and a few that are very rare - you will be surprised.

an italian dinner buffet will be served, tables and chairs provided and their is ample parking.

this is an introductory meeting to a beautiful new location and ferrari north america is going to offer this facility for technical meetings in the future. we are in hopes that you will be supportive of this meeting bo

F50 North American Introduction

the f50 north american introduction happened at texas world speedway on december 2nd and 3rd, 1995. the following personal account was adapted from an unknown author on the internet.

tutti in pista

i pull up to the infield access gate and the silence of a texas morning. only to be shattered by the unmistakable sound of a ferrari formula one twelve cylinder engine. nothing i've ever heard or will ever hear sounds quite so good. i park my car and walk over to the ferrari of houston transporter and to my surprise i find mauro baldi sitting in a 1989 ferrari 640 formula one race car.

ferrari technicians in their white shirts and black pants cluster around the car as mauro baldi checks to see that all is well. then the car moves and heads toward the pit lane and ultimately enters the infield road section. the rise and fall of the exhaust marks baldi's progress through the infield road section. and finally the rising note of the exhaust tells everyone that he has just taken the last left hander of the road section and has begun his approach to the front straight. the exhaust note getting stronger and more intense until a flash of red flies past, accompanied by a flurry of sparks from the underside of the ferrari making contact with the track. a few laps later it's all over and the engine is silent and sitting under the awning of ferrari of houston's transporter. i had forgotten the fury and power of formula one cars. one can only imagine what it's like in the driver's seat.

a wonderful beginning to what is shaping up to be a wonderful day. more people arrive and still more ferraris appear. first i noticed the ferrari 640 and then fermin velez's 333sp sitting next to it under the awning. out in the open, a 275 gtb in spectacular condition, ferrari daytona, 288gto, f40, f355 berlinetta and spyder, and just to round everything out a 456 gt and an f512m. i look over in the preparation area and there are numerous 348 challenge cars, and a few new f355 challenge cars for the 1996 season. and a particular ferrari model i'd never even heard of -- a 348gt competezione. a look under the engine cover and i notice that the engine is significantly different from the 348 challenge cars. also the presence of a large adjustable wing on the tail tells me that this is truly something different. it appears to be quite a bit faster than the 348 challenge cars and is quite a bit louder (not necessarily bad).

i wander around taking pictures to post on my internet web page (http://www.distinctauto.com) and then it happens. i'm standing by the ferrari of houston transporter looking at the 333sp when fermin velez walks up and i offer a bon giorno and he responds in kind almost shyly. we exchange small talk for a few moments (i wish i could speak italian) and then he's called away by one of the ferrari north america personnel.

not only am i surrounded by some of the most beautiful cars in the world but everyone in attendance had the opportunity to take a ride in the current ferrari models and even the challenge cars. (credit to ferrari of houston for supplying many of the cars in attendance). not only being driven around texas world speedway in an f355 challenge car but by the president of ferrari north america, gian luigi buitoni.

il presidente asked me if i was participating as a challenge driver-unfortunately i was not. il presidente asked me if i owned a ferrari-unfortunately i had to inform him that most of my experience was with german sports cars -- and his response? "it's boring-no? not boring really but kind of sterile -- no passion." to this<

Judd's 365 GTC

i'll never forget the feeling of spotting a long-lost love when i walked onto the lawn of beverly hills high school in 1992. the very first car i saw that june car show was a gray 365 gtc with the license number 12541. there was no question; this wasn't just a similar car, it was my car! that was the serial number of the ferrari i owned from 1975 until 1987, and that's a number i remembered as well as my service number (ao3055985, in case you want to look it up).

i walked up to the white-bearded, happy looking guy standing next to the car and practically shouted, "that's my car!" he was naturally alarmed, probably thinking frantically about where he could find the title, until i explained to judd goldfeder that i was the first u.s. owner of the small-bodied, big-engined beauty. well, second, actually, having bought it in 1975 from a friend in new york city, where i lived. he and his wife were the u.s. end of a small, informal importing arrangement her father ran from milan, and i had gone to the port at newark with them a couple of months earlier to pick up their latest ferrari acquisition. i already had a 330 gt 2+2 from their earlier "collection", but as soon as i saw the rare 365, i knew the 330 had to go.

365 gtc s/n 12541 owners new and old, judd goldfeder and earl gandel at the beverly hills high school show.

the car was a '69 but was somehow registered as a '67, which seemed to make the wheels of the new york state bureaucracy run smoother. my friend drove the car for a couple of months on the italian papers (an mi number plate i still have) but he always had luck with the law that eluded me. i took delivery of the car in bridgehampton, long island, 100 miles from new york city, and while driving it into the city, was stopped twice (but only ticketed once) for improper licensing. after that was sorted out, the car then resided in a 4-story public garage at 80th and broadway, from where it got regular weekend family use to bridgehampton and back (where i operated the race track, and still own a home), first with one new baby, then 3 and a half years later, with two kids, comfortably stowed in the luggage area behind the only two seats. and it did that for the better part of eight years!

earl's son asleep in the back of the 365 gtc. note the car seat held in with bungee cord and the luggage straps. where is ralph nader when you need him? the kid is in college in boston now, the car is here in california. the car looks the same (or younger) -- the kid doesn't.

naturally, using a rare, 325 horsepower ferrari for a new york city family driver resulted in some interesting experiences over the years. (scouting around queens at night looking for bootleg fuel during the '79 gas shortage comes to mind, as one). but the worst was when i blew the engine on the 59th street bridge during a summer friday rush hour. ultimately, it was the best thing to happen for the car's sake, but it didn't do my nerves or wallet any good at all.

i was using my boss's visit from california as an excuse to leave work early. i offered to drop him at jfk on my way to bridgehampton and beat the rush. as i drove up to the office at 45th and madison, he saw oil leaking under the car. we decided it was something to be concerned about, so he said goodbye, and jumped in a cab. i noticed that the oil gauges were normal, so i reasoned that i could get to joe nastasi's shop in long island city before real trouble set in. very wrong.

joe was, and is, a genius with anything italian. nastasi racing cars was home to a lot of people with cars that needed his tender care at a time when they were driven<

Boyd's Bash

the weather threatened, but the rain held off and we had a good size crowd for an interesting evening with the "king of hot rods," boyd coddington.

boyd and his staff were gracious enough to allow us to tour the hot rod shop and the wheel manufacturing plant with the large cnc machines that make the famous boyd "billet" wheels. boyd also showed us his own 456 gt, complete with a custom set of boyd's wheels on it, of course!

some of the interesting cars under construction were:

• a lexus v-8 powered roadster with ferrari-like pontoon front fenders and an austin healey-style rear end (being done as a concours car)
• three '32 ford roadsters, one of which featured a molded slanted windshield frame with an oval rear view mirror molded into it, and another featured a corvette zr-1 4-cam motor for power
• a '41 cadillac coupe being transformed into a wild "pro street" car with a 502 cubic inch cadillac v-8 for power
• a '51 mercury custom with a 3/4 inch chopped top that enhanced the lines of the car completely
• several top shopping projects which feature a tubular steel frame over the cut section which will server as a pattern for the new top to be hammered out from

the quality of the workmanship is excellent, and most of the car parts are made right in the shop, from suspension components to hand formed body panels.

among those in attendance was robert cumberford, the noted columnist for "automobile" magazine. many of us confessed to having grown up with hot rodding and still yearn for a "wind in your face" blast down the street in a big-block chevy-powered roadster!

boyd coddington's shop produces state of the art hot rods, and his cars have won many awards for design and showmanship, and each car is really a work of art.

we would like to thank boyd and diane coddington and their staff for hosting a great event!

Oldtimer's Corner - More Charlatans and Mountebanks

more charlatans and mountebanks

last month, we talked about some of the scams that had been pulled in the ferrari world. but you haven't heard the most outrageous.

it was in 1968 that our uncle instituted new rules, requiring certain safety and anti-pollution features on all cars sold for us use. so it came to pass that a "grey market" developed for post-1968 european cars. at first, it was relatively simple to import, say, a 1970 mercedes, bring it up to us specs, and sell it at a substantial profit, but still less than the price of a similar model made for us consumption by the factory.

one poor individual, in the early 80's, had been buying 500 sec's from europe for $29,000.00, changing a few things such as bumpers, lights, and smog equipment, and selling them for a handsome profit, but still far less than the $50,000.00 asked by us mercedes dealers. everything had been rolling along just fine, when he got a message from his european supplier that there was a substantial collection of cars, including some ferraris, for sale at a very good price, and "he better jump on it". our victim scrounged around among all his friends, bankers, and family, and raised the $600,000.00 required to swing the deal.

you guessed it. that was the last he heard of his european contact or his money. the last we heard, even interpol had not located the culprit.

it was around 1980 that a "gold chainer" burst on the local ferrari scene with his 308. he immediately became active in the ferrari owner's club, even to the extent of becoming the escort of our charming executive secretary. then, he had the misfortune to fall off the road in his 308, inflicting serious but not fatal injuries to the car. the car was sent to one of the local dealers (who shall remain nameless, for reasons that you'll see) for repairs.

as the repairs were completed, one of the employees of the dealership took the car out for a "test drive". it's not clear whether the driver was testing the car's limits or his own, but, however it happened, the car fell off the road again!

discouragement was only one of many emotions felt by the owner. sure, the dealership fixed the car, but now he owned a car that had already been crashed twice, and it was only a few months old! he didn't really want to keep that car. and, we were just coming into an era when "disclosure" was becoming popular, and he felt that in order to sell the car, he would have to disclose that it had been crashed twice. what to do? what to do?

the answer will be obvious to you, when i tell you that he then reported to his insurance company that the car had been "stolen"! well, insurance company adjusters are not stupid. so the insurance company quietly contacted all the local ferrari shops, and when they hit joe crevier's shop in orange county, it was bingo time. yes, joe responded, i have the car here, with a work order to disassemble it! the insurance company investigator hot-footed it down to orange county, and sure enough, joe had a work order to disassemble the 308. and it was signed by the owner!

that was the last we saw of the gold chainer.

we have talked about individuals as victims, and insurance companies as victims. but with the craziness of the 80's, the biggest victim of all must have been the irs! try to follow along as i give you an example: in the 80's, "rich" had completed a show restoration of a beautiful and rare ferrari. while the car was in restoration, its value appreciated to the point where, upon completion, it was worth close to $l,000,000.00. in fact, rich had the car parked at the restoration shop with the appraisal (for insurance) taped to the windshield for all to see. when it came time to sell, rich mentioned the car to john, a collector and broker with international connections.

john was clever enough to sign rich up on a brokerage agreement, whereby rich was to receive hi

Sempre Ferrari Wins Dave Cummins Award

it's a well known secret that our own jeff littrell, editor extraordnaire, was selected last year as a recipient of the fca's dave cummins award for his outstanding work in editing and publishing sempre ferrari.

the original award was known as the "warren fitzgerald memorial" and was first presented to mr. fred leydorf, who wrote an editorial in the 1970 fca news bulletin on the history and preservation of ferrari. this award was implemented by mr. dave cummins with the chrysler corp. and their stylist keith baker.

below is a personal note from mr. cummins about the award.

"it began back around 1971, or so, when fred leydorf, then president of the ferrari club of america, (and a charter member) felt that the club needed a monthly news bulletin to augment "the prancing horse" magazine in order to keep the membership up to date on sell and swap items, service tips, and relatively current items of interest while prancing horse could be reserved for articles of permanent record and ferrari history. fred's kind and generous wife, sue, suggested that i be the editor of this new monthly news bulletin for reasons to this day are unclear to me. but i was thrilled at the opportunity, of which i partook for about 12 years - until i finally turned the responsibility over to younger hands.

during my tenure fred sensed the need to encourage professional quality writing on behalf of ferrari history and the preservation of historical authenticity within the prancing horse magazine. at the same time warren fitzgerald, the clubs historian and co-author with dick merritt of "ferrari, the sports and gt cars" died of cancer. it was determined that there should be an award in warren's memory for this kind of writing which would appear in the prancing horse. fred asked me to propose a design. he simultaneously realized i was deeply involved in both the "concerns of ferrari" and the artistic end of automotive design as an executive in styling at chrysler corporation.

the design of the award seemed simple to me - a three dimensional model of ferrari"s hood badge - the prancing horse cast in bronze should be the main feature and i asked one of our clay modelers, keith baker, to interpret. he was a very fine sculptor and artist in his own right. this was mounted on a white travertine marble base with a brass plate at the bottom with the engraving: " warren fitzgerald memorial award". upon it's completion fred informed me he would be journeying to modena/maranello and i suggested we present the first one of these to enzo ferrari. it turned out that when fred arrived at the factory gate in maranello the guard detained him for the usual "few minutes". while waiting for word he rotated and held the award to the sunlight , realizing it was to be a gift to the commendatore. for all i know it may have very well facilitated a visit to enzo,; fred later told me he was greatly pleased with the gift as it is usually the case for visitors to ask for rather than to give something of significance. later publication of the ferrari yearbook will support this by showing the award on the shelf behind the desk at the pista de fiorano office.

quite a bit later, in 1993, prancing horse quarterly magazine editor dave siebert, called me with a proposal for an award to be given for the best regional fca news bulletin; not necessarily every year, but as the merit proved worthy.

further, he felt it should not be mandatory that someone had to die before an award be made in his name and that i should be designated as the person for whom this award should be named. of course i was flattered, and made sure that this was really the intent. having been assured this was a sincere proposal concerning the integrity of ferrari literature, i decided there should be an kinship between the warren fitzgerald aw

Physics of Racing - Part 7: The Traction Budget

by: brian beckman

this month, we introduce the traction budget. this is a way of thinking about the traction available for car control under various conditions. it can help you make decisions about driving style, the right line around a course, and diagnosing handling problems. we introduce a diagramming technique for visualizing the traction budget and combine this with a well-known visualization tool, the "circle of traction," also known as the circle of friction. so this month's article is about tools, conceptual and visual, for thinking about some aspects of the physics of racing.

to introduce the traction budget, we first need to visualize a tire in contact with the ground. figure 1 shows how the bottom surface of a tire might look if we could see that surface by looking down from above. in other words, this figure shows an imaginary "x-ray" view of the bottom surface of a tire. for the rest of the discussion, we will always imagine that we view the tire this way. from this point of view, "up" on the diagram corresponds to forward forces and motion of the tire and the car, "down" corresponds to backward forces and motion, "left" corresponds to leftward forces and motion, and "right" on the diagram corresponds to rightward forces and motion.

figure 1 - the circle of traction.

the figure shows a shaded, elliptical region, where the tire presses against the ground. all the interaction between the tire and the ground takes place in this contact patch: that part of the tire that touches the ground. as the tire rolls, one bunch of tire molecules after another move into the contact patch. but the patch itself more-or-less keeps the same shape, size, and position relative to the axis of rotation of the tire and the car as a whole. we can use this fact to develop a simplified view of the interaction between tire and ground. this simplified view lets us quickly and easily do approximate calculations good within a few percent. (a full-blown, mathematical analysis requires tire coordinates that roll with the tire, ground coordinates fixed on the ground, car coordinates fixed to the car, and many complicated equations relating these coordinate systems; the last few percent of accuracy in a mathematical model of tire-ground interaction involves a great deal more complexity.)

you will recall that forces on the tire from the ground are required to make a car change either its speed of motion or its direction of motion. thinking of the x-ray vision picture, forces pointing up are required to make the car accelerate, forces pointing down are required to make it brake, and forces pointing right and left are required to make the car turn. consider forward acceleration, for a moment. the engine applies a torque to the axle. this torque becomes a force, pointing backwards (down, on the diagram), that the tire applies to the ground. by newton's third law, the ground applies an equal and opposite force, therefore pointing forward (up), on the contact patch. this force is transmitted back to the car, accelerating it forward. it is easy to get confused with all this backward and forward action and reaction. remember to think only about the forces on the tire and to ignore the forces on the ground, which point the opposite way.

you will also recall that a tire has a limited ability to stick to the ground. apply a force that is too large, and the tire slides. the maximum force that a tire can take depends on the weight applied to the tire: f=uw where f is the force on the tire, u is the coefficient of adhesion (and depends on tire compound, ground characteristics, temperature, humidity, phase of the moon, etc.), and w is the weight or load on the tire.

by newton's second law, the weight on the tire depends on the fraction of the car's

Buying an Older Ferrari - Part 5

by: chris kantarjiev

last month chris was feeling pretty good about a one-owner 330 gt 2+2 in texas (s/n 9161) and is trying to have it checked out from afar.

some time goes by; stan manages to connect with junior and goes over to look at the car. they go for a drive, and he gives things a pretty thorough once over. so far, everything seems to match the stories that are being told. the car would like to have paint, but it's livable. the interior leather is worn but supple; the front seats could use redying and some of the foam is cracking and shedding. tool kit seems to have what it should. tires are old michelin xzxs that don't show signs of dry rot. suspension seems to be pretty good, except for one of the front sway bar bushings which is essentially dead - all the rubber is gone and it's metal on metal. the air conditioning blows cold and the clock works!

oh, and there's a huge power steering fluid leak. well, the leak may not be huge, but it's hard to tell because it's been there pretty long; the underside of the car is covered with red. he can't really tell if there are other leaks, but the stuff on top is red. took a test drive, started right up, didn't smoke, went like stink, the rear end didn't chatter... all good.

junior and i play phone tag for a little while. i leave him a message saying stan had told me what he'd found, he leaves me a message asking what we want to do next. i leave him a message saying i'll try to get to him soon. i have a feeling he won't like me asking to get someone else to look at the car, and i want to do it in person rather than via an answering machine.

sure enough, when i reach him and broach the subject, he's not terribly happy. it's not so much that he doesn't want me to get someone else to see the car - "do you have to send it over to that shop where sam works?" he then proceeds to tell me a tale about a car he was trying to sell to a dealer in southern california; they sent it over to sam's to get an appraisal. they found a bunch of things wrong with it, the dealer offered a lowball price, and junior didn't sell the car. a week or so later he was looking at the receipts that were with the car, and found that all those items had recently been repaired - if they were broken again, they were under warranty. or they had just never been repaired. sigh.

"ok, junior, tell me who else to send the car to?"

"well, that's the problem, isn't it - there's them and there's me and that's pretty much it. i guess you can send the car over there." "they'd been recommended to me because sam knows the early cars..." "yeah, but sam won't look at it - he's parts manager or something. they'll probably stick some new kid who's pushing a broom to look at it, because they don't have time to put their top mechanic on and inspection. listen, are you sure you couldn't come down here? i'd be willing to go over the car with you from end to end, you'd know all there is." "well, let me find out about tickets and see if i can get off work; i'll call you back."

so i do. i can't really get off work, and even though i feel pretty positive about the car now, i don't want to spend plane fare quite yet. i also call john, who looked at s/n 8679 for us, and asked him what to do. he said he had a friend down there who would look at the car, but he was really a porsche guy. but there's this guy who he knows, what's his name, he knows the older cars really well, this is who he calls when he has a question. turns out it's sam. so he says he'll call sam and ask him, as a personal favor, to check the car out himself. i call and leave messages all around, trying to set up the inspection.

that was friday; the inspection was to happen monday. call houston on monday, sam says that junior hasn't showed up. call junior, he's not there, leave a message. a few rounds later, the car gets delivered and inspected on tuesday.

they find a bunch of things wro

Ferrari on the Internet

this article isn't so applicable given that you're viewing this on the net already. it was designed for the printed version of sempre ferrari to entice readers onto the net. it included a bunch of screen shots which i am omitting here. - ed.

a few months back i wrote a couple articles about the internet and it's most popular feature, the world wide web. at the time, i mentioned the existence of many interesting automobile-related "sites." as a refresher, sites are computers on the internet which offer information on a particular subject for users to browse. well, like all things internet, the only thing you can count on is change. some of the sites i mentioned just a few months ago have changed their addresses or are gone altogether while other new sites have popped up, so an update seemed appropriate.

the most biggest single news is that ferrari spa, always a technology leader, has embraced the internet and put up their own official ferrari world wide web site. this site complements the many "unofficial" sites put up by fans of ferrari around the world. the official ferrari world wide web site runs on computers in where else but italy and can be found at: http://www.ferrari.it/ferrari/

upon entry to the site, one is greeted by a red background with the logo shown below. clicking the logo allows one to enter into a whole array of online, up-to-date information about ferrari - the man, the company, the cars, the brand, the factory, the clubs, and the news. but before one reaches the meat of the site, a screen is displayed which allows choice of language, either italian or english, and on that screen is an interesting quote from enzo himself:

"molta gente importante mi invita ad andare in questa o quella cittá. io rispondo che non vado perché vedrebbero me, un uomo come un altro. li invito invece a venire a maranello perché qui possono vedere come facciamo le nostre macchine e parlare anche con i miei collaboratori." ("many important people invite me to go to this or that city. i respond that i do not go because they would see me, a man like any other. instead, i invite them to come to maranello because here they can see how we make our cars and they can also talk with my collaborators.")

the internet provides a convenient way to visit maranello without leaving the comfort of one's own office.

ferrari's internet site is elegant and simple. the screens always present just a few choices, all shown with beautiful full color graphics. by the way, because the site, like the cars, has been designed to high aesthetic standards, a web browser which supports graphics is a must (but most of the graphics are fairly small so a 14.4 bps connection should suffice). from the main menu you'll find paths to follow on the history of ferrari, the models, racing, oggetti ferrari (ferrari style), the clubs (owners and fan clubs), a guest book, and ferrari news.

it is this last item which i find most interesting. sure, you'll be able to peruse the models section to see information on your favorite ferrari (they are all there) but you could get that from a book. the news, however, is something that lends itself particularly well to the electronic medium. here you can find the latest breaking news on the company, the cars, formula 1 racing, other competition (imsa, challenge, etc.), and on the ferrari clubs.

just prior to going to press on this article i was able to jump online to see how the 24 hours of daytona was progressing. there were 8 different postings made to this section during the course of the race:

• 1996 imsa championship kicks off at daytona
• ferrari f333 sp leads after three hours
• team scandia's f333 sp withdrew after 4hrs and 15mins
• at half race 2nd place for ferrari
• ferrari still 2nd after 15 hours
• ferrari is back in the lead
• ferrari is still struggling to win
• 2nd

1996 Ferrari Challenge

the ferrari challenge is an organized series of races for the ferrari 348 and f355 owners and drivers where they can experience the speed of their cars in the competitive, sporting and safe environment of a race track.

this event has been designed strictly for ferrari customers who wish to appreciate the racing heritage of their automobiles. coming up on its third successful season, this year the challenge races represent only a fraction of the special ferrari weekends which will also include touring sessions on the race tracks and rallies organized to various scenic routes around the tracks for those who wish to drive their ferrari.

this year there are a total of 200 drivers signed up (50 in east europe, 50 in west europe, 30 in italy, 25 in japan, 30 in the usa, and 15 in the far east). can't decide between an old 348 or a new f355 challenge car? here's how they stack up:

1996 ferrari challenge schedule

Classified Ads

for sale: 1986 328 gtb s/n 61181. red/black, 38k miles. a rosso corsa beauty: second owner since 8k miles. excellent goodyear tires. all records, tools, spare, ready for immediate enjoyment. $41,500. r.a. moore (310) 377-9859.

for sale: daytona spyder leather pouch and all books from my old 1971 spyder (perfect condition). also two maserati motorcycles (fully restored). michael lederman (310) 251-9263.

for sale: 1985 308 gtsi qv s/n 53165. "last year of the 308" mint condition, 42k miles. red/tan, california car, no rust. sony 10 cd changer, am/fm , alarm, new battery, phone, tool kit, all receipts and manuals, good leather. new tires and brakes, 30k mile belt change and service, 2nd owner never been hit, driven daily. $50k obo. must sell - moving out of state. bill (818) 841-7129 - leave message.

for sale: ferrari models. your favorite ferrari in scale at a very favorable price. handbuilt or diecast models plus unbuilt kits in a variety of scales. call/fax/write for new expanded list. chuck jordan p/o box 8330, rancho santa fe, ca 92067 (619) 759-9227. fax (619) 759-1301.