F40 not attending - 575M is

[anniesdad]

Sorry to have to report that the F40 won't be there. I'm told that the pump for the ride height hydraulics has failed and there's no way it will be sorted for Sunday.

The good news is that Lawrence and I will definitely be attending in a Ferrari 575M (Fiorano, Manual).

Hopefully the F40 will be able to attend at a future date, but in the mean time I'm looking forward immensely to Sunday.

Sorry Slinky, but you'll have to up date the list again.

Cheers

Steve
(ever so slightly gutted)

[craigw]

I'm sure we'll muddle through with the 575

[anniesdad]

Passenger rides are freely available to all those wishing to have one by the way. Just ask Lawrence on the day and I'll vacate my seat......now where's that Lambo.

[slinky]

A great shame, but it's not like we're losing out!

I'll have a dig around for the 575F stats..

slinky
Resident Vmax Stato

[craigw]

its possibly quicker than the f40 you know?!

[DustyC]

craigw said:

its possibly quicker than the f40 you know?!

Even if it is that somehow just isn't the case.

(Nice second car by the way! )

[anniesdad]

Lawrence seems to think VMAX speeds will be pretty similar, it's just the F40 would get there quicker. He tracked the 575M at Silverstone at an FOC day recently and was finding his terminal speeds were the same as he could achieve in the F40.

He asked me about grub on the day....did I hear somebody say ratburgers? What are they then?

[Blow Dog]

Be interesting to see my 550 with your 575 - what colour BTW?

Cem

[anniesdad]

Hi Blowdog,

It's not my 575 sadly. It's a proper spec rosso corsa/nero.

Cheers

Steve

[craigw]

ratburgers=burgervan

[anniesdad]

Is that the name on the van, or the contents of the burger? Do they have cheese on?

[jeremyc]

anniesdad said:

Is that the name on the van, or the contents of the burger? Do they have cheese on?

The trick is not to question, think, worry or look at them: just eat.

>> Edited by jeremyc on Tuesday 26th October 10:56

[shadytree]

Blow Dog said:

Be interesting to see my 550 with your 575 - what colour BTW? Cem

Slinky , how's the stat's compare ?

[anniesdad]

And spend the following day on the bog getting rid of it !! I know the score.

[granville]

craigw said:

Its possibly quicker than the F40 you know?!

Quite conceivably so: on the Hangar Straight recently, I had a devil of a job getting ahead of a 550, never mind a 575.

These cars are phenomenal by anyone's standards and it's the preponderance of mega grunt across the power band board that endows them with such crushing titanicism.

I, for one, look forward to questionable relations involving this vehicles exhaust pipes.

It could well be the star of the show.

(Hail to the owner, btw )

[anniesdad]

derestrictor said:

I, for one, look forward to questionable relations involving this vehicles exhaust pipes.

Not quite sure what you're getting at here, but if its rude, I'm not convinced you'll be allowed to have such a "relationship" with the car. Sorry.

I'm not aware that the car is Tubi'd by the way, I think it's running a standard exhaust, but I may very well be wrong.

[Blow Dog]

I got Tubi to satisfy the aural fetishists. Hopefully, just the backboxes will suffice.

[slinky]

shadytree said:

Slinky , how's the stat's compare ?

sorry wasn't listening, missed the shout... bear with me two seconds...

tick tick...

Ferrari 550 5.474 12 NA 485 415 4.30 10.00 199
Ferrari 575 5.748 12 NA 515 434 4.20 9.60 202

How's that?

slinky

[mr_tony]

anniesdad said:

...I'm not convinced you'll be allowed to have such a "relationship" with the car. ....

Hmmm Der could probably sweet talk an LM002, better be careful!

[phatgixer]

derestrictor said:

craigw said: Its possibly quicker than the F40 you know?! Quite conceivably so: on the Hangar Straight recently, I had a devil of a job getting ahead of a 550, never mind a 575.

It would be interesting to know what speed you were pulling before Stowe. My DL1 suggests the CSL gets to 146 mph there...but the GSXR speedo nudges 174mph.

Next VMax, Bikes MUST come!

>> Edited by phatgixer on Wednesday 27th October 11:14