Ferrari Mailing List: A room full of FXX's

[Britt2Asa (Britt2Asa]

So today is the first day of "Ferrari Racing days" at Silverstone celebrating 
Ferrari and the FOC UKs 60th/50th birthdays. Weekend of racing at Silverstone 
plus a huge club gathering and an attempt for a guiness book of records 
tomorrow with the most ferraris on the track at one time.

Its cold and cloudy and not a lot of FOC people showed up today. All day is 
practice and quaifying for the various ferrari club races/Historic 
racers/Challenge racers ect. A good gaggle of F1 cars, about 30 F430 challenge 
cars, ect. 
I am wandering through the pits, in and out taking pictures. Nobody cares 
where you go or what you look at. No guards are stopping you and pits are open 
to 
everyone (though 99% of the people there were with the racing teams. I wander 
past a slew of recent Ferrari road cars including the 612 Police car that they 
have here in the UK. Wander past a pretty Veyron sitting behind the pits in 
black and creme (The Veyron looks fantastic in person, much much better than 
the pics show. Its a small smooth, beautiful car and looks great in the colours 
of a skunk!).

I see Massimo Fedeli in front of one of the Corse Clienti buildings that 
Ferrari has set up at the pits. Say "Hi Massimo, hows it going?" Massimo is 
worried about the record attempt on Saturday. He really wants it to happen here 
in 
the UK for bragging rights. We chat a little. I ask him where the FXX's are. He 
says go look in Pit garages 1A-1C; the doors are closed but unlocked. I 
wander over and open the door. Inside are 8 FXX's all sitting on their 
airjacks, 
wheels off, doors and bonnets open and nobody else in the garage but a grumpy 
Itailian mechanic. (The FXX's fill the entire garage). Mechanic: "Gedda outta 
here, its closed off". I wave Massimos business card and say "Massimo said its 
ok". Mechanic: "Donnta you toucha anything but ok, ok"  Ithen have 30 minutes 
of looking over all the cars first hand and alone but for my buddy. Really 
cool! All different colours and schemes. One of them said "Swap Shop, Ft 
Lauderdale" on it and "Shelton" so I assume they flew it over. FXX's have never 
done a 
demo track day in the UK before and tomorrow they will be racing around 
Silverstone on a track day display.

Really cool to see up close and the best thing as always about FOC events 
here in the UK is you can pretty much go anywhere, see everything and nobody 
says 
you aren't allowed in certain areas. You just go and do it. Took 800 
pictures. Tomorrow I will take part in the record attempt and will watch the 
racing 
all day, same on Sunday. I know fellow lister Francis Newman is working the 
event with the FOC, if anyone else in the UK is in the area it looks to be a 
great 
weekend.

Just had to share....

Britt

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