Super Fest

Six and a half litres of naturally aspirated V12 in the nose, driving the rear wheels, tuned to eight hundred and fifty horsepower. No turbochargers anywhere. Everything you hear is combustion and everything you feel is immediate.

Front-engined, rear-driven, and long — a layout that gives you a great deal of warning and then asks you to do something about it. On the Nordschleife, over twenty point eight kilometres, that conversation goes on for a very long time.

• Naturally aspirated at 850 hp — no turbo, no hybrid, no assistance of any kind.
• 1.79 kg per horsepower, from a car with two seats and a boot.
• Under three seconds to 100 km/h through the rear wheels alone.

Twenty point eight kilometres, and nobody has ever fully learned it. Six hundred and fifty horsepower through the rear wheels of a front-engined Ferrari, on a road that compresses hard at Fuchsröhre and goes light over Pflanzgarten. There is no clock and no grid. Stay out as long as you want.

The engine, high in the range, fine-grained and rising — a naturally aspirated V12 near eight and a half thousand is the most musical thing in the collection and nothing in the profile gets in its way. Underneath it, vertical loading: the Nordschleife's compressions felt as weight rather than as bumps.

Every setting is configured before you sit down — force feedback, haptics, seat position, field of view. Select the experience, and drive.