Ferrari F50 at Suzuka: Time For Tea?

Because V12s and manuals are the best, aren't they?

Often a Time For Tea? video will be topical, or have some relevance to what's in the automotive news. Sometimes, however, the situation just calls for a brilliant car video. Today is one of those days.

The Frankfurt media days are done for another year, so indulge us a little nostalgia as the future looks all new and scary. It's a Ferrari F50, one lap of Suzuka and a rather handy racing driver - with some fabulous Adidas race boots - committed to video.

That really is it too, besides a bit of jazzy lift/Gran Turismo music to begin with. Perhaps best of all this video has a foot cam, allowing you to watch those boots dance across the pedals. Not only are they there for the (very nicely done) downshifts, but also note the left foot gently dabbing the middle pedal for big stops.

And that V12! The F50 was mentioned in our Project One story the other day, and how the Ferrari was the last installation of an F1 engine in a road car; regardless of how much more modern the AMG 1.6 is though, there's no way it can hope to compete with this glorious V12 sonically. What a car. Sometimes simple really is best!

Watch the video here.