Daily Archives: June 20, 2012

Pininfarina exhibition in London

June 20, 2012   simon   No comments

Pininfarina, the designers of the vast majority of Ferraris ever built, will be the subject of an exhibition in London this summer. The exhibition will take place at the Italian Cultural Institute in Belgrave Square, and is open to the public from 22 June to 15 July 2012 with free admission. Pininfarina is best known, of course, for cars, but the company has designed many other products as well, from coffee makers (pretty well mandatory for an Italian designer) to furniture and even the torch for the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics.
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National Motorsport Week – Win prizes you can’t buy

June 20, 2012   simon   No comments

National Motorsport Week 2012 runs from 30 June to 8 July and has competition prizes, factory tours, signed F1 components and even opportunities to become team members for a day.Timed to coincide with both the Goodwood Festival of Speed and the Formula 1 Santander British Grand Prix, the event is intended to remind people that the UK is at the epicentre of global motor sport.
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Eats, shoots and leaves – the chef, the shooting and the missing Lamborghini

June 20, 2012   simon   No comments

Take a deep breath – this is way weirder than CSI. Back in March 2011 an American “celebrity chef” called Guy Fieri (presumably a celebrity over there rather than over here), had his yellow Gallardo Spyder stolen from a San Francisco supercar dealer who was servicing it. Someone apparently climbed on to the roof, abseiled down into the showroom, got the keys and then broke out of the dealership.
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World record Ferrari parade at Silverstone

June 20, 2012   simon   No comments

Ferrari is planning to break the world record for a parade of its models, which currently stands at 490.The plan is to get 1,000 Ferraris together at 18:00 on Saturday 15th September during Ferrari Racing Days at Silverstone Circuit. So far 600 owners have signed up, so the hunt is on for 400 more.

Ferrari Racing Days is the only motor racing event in the UK where Ferrari fans will see the ultra-exclusive FXX and 599XX development cars on track, plus a wide range of historic Ferrari F1 cars from the F1 Clienti department, together with a schedule of races from the Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli and the Ferrari Club Challenge. There should also be a great turnout of Ferrari’s rarest models, such as the F40.

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