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The Ferrari F80 is the latest in a long line of top-line Ferrari supercars that includes the F40
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00:00Open it up!
00:10Now, brake! Stay on the brake!
00:12Stay! Stay!
00:14Bravo!
00:16You see the difference?
00:18Yeah, I'm told.
00:20Cool down!
00:22Hi there! I'm Johnny Lieberman, you're watching Motor Trend, and this is the all-new Ferrari F80.
00:36But never mind this thing, because look at this!
00:40It's a 288 GTO! It's the daddy!
00:44Literally, Ferrari's first supercar.
00:47And you might be saying, well, what about the 250 GTO?
00:50They'll say, well, that car came out before the invention of the word supercar a few years later.
00:55But this was the one, I mean, when I was a kid,
00:58Countach probably made me more excited, but if you knew what this was, you were just going nuts.
01:04Twin Turbo V8, in fact, if you're not familiar with this, you're probably familiar with the Ferrari F40.
01:09This is basically the F40 in a different body kit.
01:12Yeah, the F40 makes a few more horsepower, but not many!
01:15Just, I mean, unbelievable!
01:17And if you don't believe me, these people have finally started to realize what they are,
01:21and they've like, you know, the F40 has, you know, doubled or tripled in value over the years.
01:27This has gone up 10x in my memory.
01:30This is about $4 million, which is funny, because that's actually what the F80 costs.
01:35But remember, the 288 GTO, it led to the F40, which led to the F50, which begat the Enzo, which begat the law Ferrari.
01:43And now, 10 years after that, here we are with the F80.
01:47It's a little V6, twin turbo V6, makes 888 horsepower.
01:57It's actually the same V6 block that you would find in both the 296 and the 499P Le Mans winner.
02:05It's won three years in a row.
02:07And you'll recognize there's a lot of similarities between this and the 499P.
02:11In fact, they started working on them back in 2018 simultaneously.
02:15In addition to that engine, it's got two motors, one motor for each front wheel.
02:19They kick in another, I don't know, 240 horsepower combined, something like that.
02:24Total system output is right around 1,200 horsepower.
02:28There's a third motor.
02:30It kind of hangs out under the engine instead of being a pancake motor in the transmission.
02:34And it does provide a little bit of tractive power, like 20 horsepower when needed.
02:38But really, its job is to spin and send electricity either to these motors or to the battery.
02:44There's a 2.3 kilowatt-hour battery that kind of runs this way behind your butt, below the seats.
02:50And then there's the aerodynamics.
02:52And I mean, I don't even really know what I'm talking about.
02:55But starting up here with what they call the S-duct, and you've seen that.
02:58It started with the piece that had that.
03:00It leads to what they're calling a triplane.
03:03So there's three wings.
03:05And they start, like, kind of gently ramping up the airflow.
03:10And so by the time it's exiting the hood here, it's basically going straight up, which then gets sucked back over the windscreen, back over the body.
03:17And that goes below the wing.
03:19And then you see that Zorro mask up front.
03:22That has a little kick up, which then sends clean air over the wing.
03:25So they really control the airflow there.
03:27And that's just the top of the car.
03:29That's not even, we're not even talking about, like, this duct here, this channel, which feeds this crazy NACA duct, which is like, cools the radiators, gives air to the engine, cools the rear brakes.
03:39Oh, the front brakes!
03:40The front brakes!
03:41This is the wildest thing.
03:42You see these holes, these twin holes here?
03:44That actually leads straight into the frame rail of the subframe.
03:48It's a hollow piece of the chassis, and that cools the front brakes.
03:55I mean, there's that.
03:57It's got an asymmetrical chassis.
03:58What does that mean?
03:59Well, you know, they wanted to keep the silhouette of the Le Mans car, the 499, but they didn't want the car to be wider than a LaFerrari.
04:06So instead of having the seats like this, they put them closer together, but then backed the passenger seat up.
04:11And so they didn't have to make the body any longer.
04:13The passenger seat is designed for people in the 85th percentile in terms of height.
04:17So if you're over six feet, it's a tight fit, while the driver's seat is more normal.
04:21It's like designed for people in the, you know, 95th percentile.
04:24So if you're up to like six foot six, you'll be able to drive this car.
04:27What else?
04:28The wheels are carbon fiber.
04:30The brakes are like from the Brembo racing division.
04:33The tires are 3D printed.
04:35They 3D printed the tires.
04:36I don't even know what that means, but apparently they did.
04:38And look at how this door opens.
04:40I mean, look at that.
04:41The door handle is almost pointing at the sky.
04:43But I didn't come all the way out here to the Masano circuit in Italy.
04:46To talk about the Ferrari F80.
04:49I came here to drive it.
04:53All right.
04:54The first thing you probably want to know about driving the F80 on the track is that, yes,
05:06the air conditioning is fantastic.
05:07The second thing you want to know is, yeah, probably put it in manual mode.
05:11We are in race.
05:12We have the little drive selector thing here.
05:13The Ferrari Manantino, I believe it's called.
05:14I don't speak Italian.
05:15I love Italian.
05:16I just don't speak Italian.
05:17And then, voila, racetrack.
05:18Just to understate everything, this car is so capable.
05:20It's ridiculous.
05:21It's ridiculous.
05:22Warming up the dirt.
05:23Warming up the bike.
05:24Warming up the bike is pretty much fun.
05:25It's just the beauty of running out.
05:26It's just a racing car.
05:27It's a real car.
05:28You're using a little road.
05:29I said, yeah, absolutely.
05:30You know what?
05:31They're a little bit different.
05:32No, no, no, no.
05:33You justlasm off the bike.
05:34You can eat all the nuts and out.
05:35On the back.
05:36speak Italian and then racetrack just to understate everything this car is so
05:44capable it's ridiculous warming up the tires warming up the tires okay so
05:54there's this thing called boost optimization and it's this cool little
05:58feature that the F80 has and what it does is you you turn it on say I'm going to
06:05optimize and it learns the track it's not like it has things like you know the
06:11Nürburgring stored or something like that you go and do one lap and it kind
06:15of knows where the apex is it senses the grip is it wet out you know is a cold
06:21whatever and then it plans a strategy to deploy the front motors and you want to
06:28it's basically battery optimization for the track and then every time you go to
06:32a track you just go to one lap optimize for boost and you're good to go now
06:37could you just say hey I want max power the whole time yes you can but it's not a
06:42big battery 2.3 kilowatt hours and so what that's gonna do is it's gonna run out on
06:50this track it's about a 4,000 meter track that's like two point some odd miles and
06:56you're gonna get like a little more than one lap and full full power for the whole
07:01thing so boost optimization means the little motor will you know charge the
07:05battery in between corners and just kind of how you know F1 works kind of how the
07:10Le Mans hypercar strategy works and very effective and again the other thing is
07:16888 horsepower from the V6 means for the straights where you really don't need the
07:23front wheels for the extra traction and launching out of a corner that it's at it
07:28it's more than adequate you're fine you're flying you know I think I was
07:32seeing like I don't know over 260 so it's over 150 on the straight yeah totally
07:39fine totally works and you know so and again it's just the strategy is when you
07:43actually need full power it's gonna give it to you
07:48that's boost optimization now the other thing to know is and I think what's
07:54impressing me so much about this car is like yeah it's a 1200 horsepower hypercar
07:58but actually I'll get to that a second it yeah it's a 1200 horsepower hypercar
08:03that stops the brakes are so bloody good I'd swear but they'd beep it the brakes
08:11are unbelievable they're like these like they're busy racing brakes and they're
08:15probably not going to show up on other Ferraris because Brembo can't mass
08:19produce them because they come from the racing department not the production car
08:22department and I mean they are indefatigable I believe the proper word
08:29is meaning there is first of all massive massive stopping power without any side
08:36of fade or the pedal getting long actually the pedal will never get long
08:43because it's a brake by wire system and it just works man it just like absolutely
08:49works here's a little taste of the brakes and again back to the braking because of
08:55the the active suspension you know making sure that the arrows optimize you're
09:00just flat and it just it's it just works I can't explain it the other thing
09:05about the braking is because of the active suspension it just handles any kind of
09:11movement you might have under braking is just totally solved it's it's just a
09:16non-event and it works lap after lap after lap so then okay the biggest the
09:22most impressive thing then about driving this car on track is how easy it is now
09:30look I know all the internet tough guys are running you know cracking their
09:33knuckles they're gonna leave a comment oh I want a real car I want to challenge me
09:37blah blah blah all this tough guy nonsense ludicrous you know you want on a track
09:42especially you want a car that's easy to drive because you don't want to be
09:47fighting something you want to go you want to go and and it's remarkable and
09:52like when I was out here earlier with an instructor you know he'd be like no
09:55you're supposed to be on that side in second gear not fourth okay boom boom you're
09:59in second you pull over and it just it's an easy car to make a correction and I've
10:05driven lots of big dollar big horsepower stuff on track and like it it sometimes
10:14when they're a handful it's tough and you're nervous and sweating and you
10:18don't necessarily want to keep going lap after lap after lap as I found myself
10:23really wanting to in this car we got three kind of you know uncorked full
10:29sessions and like while that's awesome totally not enough now Ferrari
10:35understandably talking a very big game and what they're saying is this is them
10:42talking I've never built a car but they're saying it's very easy to design a
10:46very fast car for a track it's much harder to do that and then make sure that
10:51the same car is going to excel on the road but like what what just a sweetheart of a
10:58track car
11:04also you might be noticing it sounds way better inside the car than outside the
11:09car and Ferrari says that was a choice they made they just wanted the car to be
11:13drivable everywhere and so just for like you know noise laws globally what you're
11:20really hearing outside the car isn't so much the engine as it is the aero working
11:24and it really does sound like a weather event as the thing goes by but inside
11:29the car you know more engine noise obviously and it yeah I mean sounds
11:33pretty cool kind of like you know 296 plus
11:40over that's the real story of this car it's all over too quick like I wanted to
11:45talk about how you can take these corners at ridiculous speeds because of the
11:50stability provided by the active aero I guess we'll have to check that out when
11:54we get to the road
12:03so Ferrari made this ridiculous claim that not only was the F80 engineered for
12:09the track but it was equally engineered for the road I just did about two hours
12:14behind the wheel and I hate to ever agree with the manufacturer about things like that but it
12:20might actually be more engineered for the road than it is for the track the dynamic range of this
12:25vehicle is incredible you can be sitting on the auto strata at 85 miles an hour with
12:31traffic and the engines barely ticking over at a thousand rpm and then you twist the little thing the
12:38manentino to race it explodes you downshift put it in manual and it just becomes an
12:46animal I mean it's like like the Ferrari 296 is one of the most amazing vehicles I've
12:53ever driven as a streetcar and and this is like you take that and just like pump
12:59every single thing up it's got more power it turns better the brakes are better I'm a
13:05little at a loss for words because I just don't want to you know ever just agree with like what
13:11the with the presentation at the briefing says but in this case they're right I mean the F80
13:18it's absolutely incredible is anything worth four million dollars I don't know but if I had four
13:26million dollars I didn't need for anything else and they said go get a car I mean if it's not this
13:32what else well maybe that 288 GTL actually
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