Friday 15th November 2019

Ferrari 250 GTO on track | Time for Tea

The new Roma is all about Ferrari's future. The 250 GTO embodies its glorious past...

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It’s a crying shame that 2018’s record-breaking $48.4m auction sale price for a 250 GTO has somewhat overshadowed the model’s achievements in motorsport. The car came from Ferrari’s sportscar racing heyday and represents one of the very last – and unquestionably prettiest – examples of a front-engined V12 to dominate in the world of GT racing. Yet such is the world today, the 250 GTO has increasingly become known as the investor’s dream Ferrari. As we know, however, it is so so much more than that.

Praise drivers like Nicky Pastorelli and videographers like Robert Alblas for creating footage like this, then, which reminds us just how terrific Maranello’s sixties homologation special can be when the covers are pulled off and it’s let loose on the asphalt. Alblas told PH that he produced the two minute 21 second film you’ll find below entirely to illustrate “the beauty of the car and the pure racing experience it gives”, as demonstrated at Zandvoort by its very enthusiastic pedaler, Dutch pro racer Pastorelli. And we think it does the job remarkably well.

The car in question has been built by Roelofs Engineering in Holland to original race specification, and the camera angles Alblas provides us with show just how wonderfully balanced this machine is. Pastorelli is decisive with his steering and throttle inputs and the 250 GTO responds beautifully willingly, appearing to flow around the corners like all the greatest vintage racers do. Not to mention that heavenly V12 soundtrack - we encourage you to dig out the headphones and watch this one at high volume. Sod atmospherically controlled garages, 250 GTOs belong out on track like this.

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[Niffty951]

I think I was actually salivating whilst watching this film. The compression lock on the rear tyres as he down changed hard into the hairpin. The image of all the throttle connections to the carbs slamming open together. Ohh god. This is what cars mean to me.

More. More.

[supacool1]

EPIC!

[200Plus Club]

More in car and less "effects" would be fabulous. Nice film tho.

[D.no]

200Plus Club said:

More in car and less "effects" would be fabulous. Nice film tho.

Agreed.

Here you go... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHgD0wJGcR0

[200Plus Club]

Seen it before still epic :-)

[Pericoloso]

I saw a 250/330 GTO race at Monza Historic in September ,had a good old ding dong with a Maserati Birdcage.

That was fun.



Excuse poor pic ,Italian health and safety fence in the way.

[cardad60]

What's the point of a music sound track? It would have been a much better film without it.

[mike-v2tmf]

Surely thats a 250 LM not a GTO ?

[Pericoloso]

mike-v2tmf said:

Surely thats a 250 LM not a GTO ?

Nope ,250 LM is mid rear engine and almost a totally different car ,although Enzo thought not.

[Pericoloso]

This is a 250LM

[lotuslover69]

mike-v2tmf said:

Surely thats a 250 LM not a GTO ?

This is a 250 GTO, has the different bodywork and is sometimes referred to as a series 2 GTO. Personally i prefer the series 2 bodywork.

There are also other variations including the 250 gt drogo Berlinetta and 250 GT Nembo Spyder

Edited by lotuslover69 on Friday 15th November 20:12

[BVB]

Very nice but I prefer the looks of the first generation 250 GTO.

[anonymous-user]

Isn’t AM6596 the one that started life as a 250GTE and was rebodied as a GTO? It’s fair enough, rebodies happened in period too but it’s not a factory GTO...

[braddo]

Just pop along to the Goodwood Revival to see these amazing cars being drifted around an old-school fast circuit.



No-name corner the best place to watch them drift through from Fordwater.

[Baddie]

300hp can be so viscerally, beautifully thrilling. You can almost feel the engine through that sound.

Don’t need 700hp to excite.