Power of Competizione: Meet Ferrari’s Record-breaking Superfast Twins
Extensive Carbon Fiber Diet
Chassis enhancements include independent four-wheel steering ‘to extend the feeling of agility and precision in cornering’. An extensive carbonfibre diet means 38 fewer kilograms to lug around.
But there’s one aspect about this record-breaking Ferrari that not everyone seems all that thrilled about. Competizione’s revised aerodynamic package, which has clearly been tweaked more in search of optimal downforce. Rather than winning the next auto show beauty pageant.
Those bumpers, splitters, diffusers and an aluminum panel rather than a conventional glass rear screen. A squadron of vortex generators, louvres, winglets and vanes and that elevated rear spoiler, along with that dubious carbon-fiber bonnet strip, have not just split the boundary later, but opinion too. The media and social media and even our office banter is alive with contention.
Love it or hate it — Competizione!
Are these cars too ugly? Some love the way they look, others hate it. This writer for one, defends the good old function over form argument…
Not that any of that has made an iota of difference to Maranello’s Ferrari’s most passionate collectors and connoisseurs. They were initially expected to be called GTOs. In deference to several homologation or ‘omologata’ Ferraris over the years. But they’re already long all sold out. All 999 of the $600,000 hardtop and each of the 599 $700,000 open cars are already accounted for.
Just goes to show the power of Competizione!
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