@@ag-bk5wf dummy how??? You know the majority of modern race cars rely on electronic to hold traction for then hell even F1 has an electronic wing flap to help with overtaking.
Im not going to lie when he mentioned the “hammer marks” and it showed the marks on the metal, i teared up. You know that at one point in time it was the “here and now” point in time and the men who made them are no longer here. Their work, their art, their sweat and long hours are legendary and infinite. Truly a beautiful thing. May these beautiful machines keep living and keep giving the younger generations a taste of what it was like to have truly marvelous maching going 200+ mph.
Glick drives his on the Interstate regularly. I treasure a pic of it going away on the turnpike The 330P4 tag surrounded by those FOUR pipes! Only wishing for the AUDIO track to go with it! Those 3 valves per cylinder.. 9300 rpm Unique! I once was blessed to hear them for 24 Hours... Daytona 1967 If I don't dream of Kathy.... I dream if THEM! Gearing down for the infield Screaming around the 180 behind the pits Where I heard my first NART 250 GTO in 1964.... Pedro Rodriguez 4 wheel drifting! HEAVEN! J.C.
As an 18 year old in 1967, and a Lorenzo Bandini fan this car means so much. I went to Brands Hatch to see the BOAC 500......The P4s were there..no Bandini sadly but Amon, Stewart, Scarfiotti and many more...what a day...race won by the Chaperal but it was the P4s that were the stars.....great video, thanks.
Time and place are so important to our destiny. How many people can say they had that particular experience. You are so fortunate. I was 17 in 1967 and living in North Hollywood California. My Brothers and I loved Ferraris and we occasionally saw various movie stars driving them on the street but be weren’t able to see them race until the CanAm series at Riverside California. Not the prettiest setting for a track but one year Ferrari had two cars entered driven by Chris Amon and Jonathan Williams. Seeing those cars changed the trajectory of my life. Isn’t life wonderful.
@@Americathebeautiful49turncoat!. Every American race fan I met was a Ford fan back then. Me included as we were proud of what they did and were doing in international racing. Kind of a weird name you got all things considered!😑
Petrolicious, you are the only RUclips channel that can successfully evoke emotion from car videos. You guys make my favorite videos. Thanks for all the effort you guys put in- we all appreciate it.
Classiest car culture channel on the internet and they don't disappoint. I had the chance to drive that car in GT5 and I thought "there's no way that car is that good in real life." Guess I was wrong.
@@michaelmeliambro5117 I’ve heard Ferrari 488 Pista’s and Mercedes AMG GTR’s have a more refined sound. Your lopey cam V8’s sound like a broken diesel truck.
Car is owned by Laurance Stroll living in Canada. Hes a ferrari collector who owns 20+ Ferraris, he also owns the 275 Nart that Petrolicious made a video of before it went to auction
So.....we are essentially saying...”Priceless”. How many objects truly enter that realm? A Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Van Gogh, an antique Japanese sword, a mere handful.
Brilliant little film. I've never much liked Ferrari as an organisation but happily admit some of their cars are stunning and the P4 is my favourite. It's the nearest thing to a perfect racing car I've ever seen or heard. Very good point about cars of that era being the culmination of engineer, designer and driver input.
I love this channel. It makes my heart stop to hear these engines in my surround sound. It makes me smile to hear the stories. It makes me sad that the guy that started it was forced out.
It almost makes you cry if you're old enough to remember these cars remember how fast they were and then look at how far down we have deteriorated from the pure beauty of automotive design to the absolute crap that they call race cars today
Ferrari built three 330/P4s and one 330/P3/P4. Of these 4 cars, 3 were converted to 350 Can Ams, but the 917s stole their lunch money. This ONE care was left original and, I've heard, one of the 350s was converted back. Priceless.
once upon a time, men challenge God in making the most beautiful thing: God brought the most beautiful woman and man brought the Ferrari 330p4.. The contest was considered a tie
Amazing insight into the P4, one of me fav' ferrari's with the sexy curves and well placed intakes. But also the explination of the way the cars were made between driver and builder. Nowadays cars are build and then they pick a certain driver, It seems the art of driver full feedback and then adjust and versa viva have gone...
It is unfortunate this car was not as good a the GT40. Enzo never figured out that looks matter little on the race track. It is a good looking car. Not as good looking as the MkIV GT40 but still a beauty.
I haven't even started the video, but I'm astounded at the metal you guys get your hands on. This is world class filming, worthy of history's best of the best cars.
I always wonder how they manage to get these cars on the show. Where do they find people willing to do an interview with them. The owners of this channel are prob well connected.
Best Braai Top gear can't even get this kind of stuff. I guess they're either well connected, or they just rock up with their portfolio and that's enough to earn use of the cars, because it's absolutely brilliant.
***** I agree, this car is owned by a wealthy Canadian businessman that made a fortune in clothing. He owns the track this was filmed on (Le circuit Mont-Tremblant.
Best Braai I've always thought that a good way to determine why someone owns a Ferrari, Lamborghini, Porsche, or any high end sports car, is to ask them about the car. If they love to talk on and on about the car, then they own it (for what I feel is) the right reason. These folks with these type of cars have no problem with talking about their cars. Kinda the same thing with doctors. Don't ever feel stupid asking them questions. They looove to share how much they know.
I skipped school to watch this very car practice for the 1967 24 hrs of Daytona. Our high school was about 2/3 mile from the track. When it was coming out of the East turn onto the front tri-oval all you could hear was valve lifter clatter and the air being pushed out of the way. But when it went by the East stands it was deafening, with a huge Doppler pitch change as it raced away from us. The car was running about 195 mph on the banks. I was so excited by the 1-2-3 win by Ferrari that I wrote Enzo a letter. About 4 or 5 months later I got a card signed by him saying “Many thanks” in Italian. After watching about 12 hours of racing I went home that night, crawled into bed, and listened to those Ferraris climb up out of the infield onto the West turn bank and then run up through the gears down the back straightaway. Our home was three miles East of the track so that West turn was like a huge reflector to the East.
Great story. Nothing sounds as great as a Ferrari. I have one, and it does not have a sound system. I always believed in the Enzo philosophy: Why would you want to listen to a stereo when there is wonderful music right behind your head? And he was right.
That's cool. So you live in Italy now right? How an American boy could NOT root for their own Country's car is beyond my comprehension. I know I was ecstatic when Ford went prototype racing in 1964. One of the reasons I'm still a Ford fan today. Besides their domination of Indy, Stock Cars and F-1. The 1960's were a great and proud time for all American race fans. Except you I guess!!😣
Mr18000rpm When someone pointed out that there COULD have been more downforce, the reply ( by the body builder),was that YES, there could have been.... But it would have spoiled the LOOKS! No one ever complained about their stability at 198 mph. 205 mph, when drafting the big Fords! Even through The Kink in The Mulsanne Coupe or Spyder. That begat the Ginther Lip on the 176 mph GTOs.... 240 pounds of LIFT, became a slight down force... The beginnings of a new world of aero packages.. The 330P3s had the first small Diaplanes, on the front fenders. Roll hoop inverted airfoils had been tried on the Spyders, from the '62 Dinos... Most prominent on the '65 P2s.. The press never caught on... I first felt them on Graham Hill's private entered 330P at Sebring. Flat on top.. curved on the bottom... a wing! Hill saw me testing that out, put his finger to his lips and winked. I shook my head emphatically... Mums the word! I scurried away before a pit official saw me there. Jim Hall was only a couple pits away.. This was 1965.... or maybe '64.... I was only 15, but the Ferrari mechanics SAW how much I loved their cars. Particularly the oldest, most irrasciable of them.... Who, in later years, would talk to me in good enough American... I used to pay close attention to things like rear suspensions with 8x30 binoculars in places like the Esses... and the sweeper after them Ferrari, ALFA, Lola, as the rear of the prototypes were opened up to observation. Jo Bonnier was kind enough to thank me for them, in 72... His Lola was the most STABLE, under bump steer. I had read my suspension book by Frank Costin..... By which time I was an unknown journalist, of a sorts..... Then Jo was dead a few months later... at The Hunederres... Helicoptered into the trees.. Hill had to go looking for his friend.. Ghastly business. Took the joy out of his win... Racing..... Like Lucian Bianchi, and Piers Courage, who I had also spoken with... When they were ALFA drivers, there..... Next to my heart with Ferrari. I've SEEN Ferrari mechanics helping ALFA mechanics, late at night, before the race, and vice versa... working on a transaxle.... They WANTED each other there for the race! KNEW how important BOTH were to the crowd and the sport. True Italians with big hearts! I forget the Latin word for it... MUCH like the Brits F-1 teams, in that... Indy teams TOO! Helping each other out so they could RACE! Win on the track, not by circumstances in the pits or with shipping from home! Lola and Mirage were not enough! Porsche was not there, that year... Your competitor was your FRIEND! Made it all worthwhile... You can bet Corvette LIKES Viper being there. Competitors, YES! But Americans! The Sport...
I'm italian and usually i don't love my country. Bad politicians ruined everything, corruption and mafious attutide spread all over. But casually i found this kind of video and i thought that at least there's something to be proud in Italy.
Yes. I have seen him on the Monza podium with Chris Amon, April 25 1967. I was a kid and I was so happy, and so was everyone around. He died two weeks later in Monaco, I was terrified in front of the tv while the car was burning.
Right! I first saw poor Banders at Sebring, 1964. If memory serves he co-drove the winning SEFAC 275P with Mike Parkes, after Sir John desyroed the RR lower A arm on his 330P from dropping a wheel of into the sand, on exiting the Webster Turns... Sparks flying.. observed closely with my WWII Navy armored B&L 7x50s.... I got to know the elder SEFAC mechanic from my observations... and Sir John came over and rather sheepishly thanked me for my report.... he ended up 3rd.... After replacing the arm.... ANYWAY, if Enzo had allowed racing the 246 Dino F-1 car at Monza, Banders may well have WON! Might be still with us today.... And YES Surtees might have won another WC for Ferrari and maybe another Le Mans We will never know... Enzo's EGO! )-:// J.C.
Amazing race car, 0% electronics gadgets, 100% mechanical power
Agree
Yes men !!!!
A real car
Its a race car dummy
@@ag-bk5wf dummy how??? You know the majority of modern race cars rely on electronic to hold traction for then hell even F1 has an electronic wing flap to help with overtaking.
Im not going to lie when he mentioned the “hammer marks” and it showed the marks on the metal, i teared up. You know that at one point in time it was the “here and now” point in time and the men who made them are no longer here. Their work, their art, their sweat and long hours are legendary and infinite. Truly a beautiful thing. May these beautiful machines keep living and keep giving the younger generations a taste of what it was like to have truly marvelous maching going 200+ mph.
It was made by hand. 100%. With hammers and heat. It is literally a work of art.
Couldn't agree more. This clip was goosepumps from start to finish but that moment, well there I had a lump down my throat.
Ai detto semplicemente una verità assoluta
Amen,friends.I think all of us agree on all our comments!
The true definition of past era...men and their handmade
beauties built with love....
I couldn't have said it better myself.
Nice to see this car running rather than just sitting in a museum I think
Glick drives his on the Interstate regularly.
I treasure a pic of it going away on the turnpike
The 330P4 tag surrounded by those FOUR pipes!
Only wishing for the AUDIO track to go with it!
Those 3 valves per cylinder..
9300 rpm
Unique!
I once was blessed to hear them for 24 Hours...
Daytona 1967
If I don't dream of Kathy....
I dream if THEM!
Gearing down for the infield
Screaming around the 180 behind the pits
Where I heard my first NART 250 GTO in 1964....
Pedro Rodriguez
4 wheel drifting!
HEAVEN!
J.C.
@@michaelmeliambro5117 you are everywhere... you must be broke asf
@@rajat1960
Lmao I’m surprised that that dumb neckbeard even deleted his reply. Can’t say the same for the other comment threads.
Use it or lose it. Mechanical parts fail if not used.
1:00 P4: *revs around the corner*
RUclips captions: *[MUSIC]*
Couldn’t agree more with RUclips captions here.
The atrocious amount of ear rape from this "car" will KILL you before the end of the video.
Guess RUclips knows the sound of the car is...
MUSIC TO OUR EARS
sorry for the stupid joke
@@reels9941 Music to YOU, maybe........
even at the minute 2:40 whit applause i couldn't agree more
@@michaelmeliambro5117 Oh wow you had to destroy this comment section too?
As an 18 year old in 1967, and a Lorenzo Bandini fan this car means so much. I went to Brands Hatch to see the BOAC 500......The P4s were there..no Bandini sadly but Amon, Stewart, Scarfiotti and many more...what a day...race won by the Chaperal but it was the P4s that were the stars.....great video, thanks.
Time and place are so important to our destiny. How many people can say they had that particular experience. You are so fortunate. I was 17 in 1967 and living in North Hollywood California. My Brothers and I loved Ferraris and we occasionally saw various movie stars driving them on the street but be weren’t able to see them race until the CanAm series at Riverside California. Not the prettiest setting for a track but one year Ferrari had two cars entered driven by Chris Amon and Jonathan Williams. Seeing those cars changed the trajectory of my life. Isn’t life wonderful.
@@Americathebeautiful49turncoat!. Every American race fan I met was a Ford fan back then. Me included as we were proud of what they did and were doing in international racing. Kind of a weird name you got all things considered!😑
Petrolicious, you are the only RUclips channel that can successfully evoke emotion from car videos. You guys make my favorite videos. Thanks for all the effort you guys put in- we all appreciate it.
If you're feeling suicidal, yes.
I'm about to cry. I fckng love cars.
Thanks for doing this world class films.
Classiest car culture channel on the internet and they don't disappoint. I had the chance to drive that car in GT5 and I thought "there's no way that car is that good in real life." Guess I was wrong.
Most likely one of the most beautiful things ever put on wheels.
Best looking car. Ever.
BEST SOUNDING!
3 valves per cylinder
VERY RARE!
8500 rpm
1000 more than the wonderful sohc Ferrari's
PERFECT!
That IDLE!
Unbeatable!
J.C.
@@375GTB well that's subjective
I think the M5 V10 sounds nicer but beauty is in the ear of the beholder
@@humakhan80 I've heard 427 Corvettes and 454 Chevelles make a sweeter noise......
@@michaelmeliambro5117
I’ve heard Ferrari 488 Pista’s and Mercedes AMG GTR’s have a more refined sound. Your lopey cam V8’s sound like a broken diesel truck.
@@EbilEnemyofBurgerTown Since when do you think ur opinion matters??????
This car is gorgeous, it aged really really well
LOL yea......why not get ur eyes checked????
@@michaelmeliambro5117 maybe get yours?
@@LeprosuGnome Do u ppl have brain damage or somethin'??????? What is it about this despicable red TURD that grabs ur curiosity???
@@michaelmeliambro5117 do you? Why care about what other people like? No need to keep liking your own comments either, its pretty pathetic.
@@LeprosuGnome "Why care about what others like"????? Maybe bcuz I can't stand ppl who are too IGNORANT to realize the error of their own ways.
Car is owned by Laurance Stroll living in Canada.
Hes a ferrari collector who owns 20+ Ferraris, he also owns the 275 Nart that Petrolicious made a video of before it went to auction
Well shame on him, he needs to share more. He shouldn't be so mean as to keep them al for himself....:-)
mazdaman1980 Well he also owns the ferrari dealership in Montreal, Canada so we could say he shares ferraries by selling them...
Actually he is a Canadian citizen who has lived in Switzerland for some time.
The same Lawrece Stroll that owns the new Force India F1 team?
Rubertoe yeah he is the father of lance.
racing a 9 million $ car that's passion! lool
Jiany Mass it is way more than that...people say it could sell for over 50-million
Jiany Star Massa vich not 9 million but 35 milion (from italy)
no
So.....we are essentially saying...”Priceless”. How many objects truly enter that realm? A Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Van Gogh, an antique Japanese sword, a mere handful.
$36M 250 GTO... Brands Hatch!
Ditto 250LM...
Bella, mitica, un pezzo di storia mondiale dell'automobile. Un gioiello firmato da Mauro Forghieri, non ha prezzo
Ohhhhhhh The sound alone!!!!!
Could listen to this Car all day long!!!
FERRARI!!!! # 1
Brilliant little film. I've never much liked Ferrari as an organisation but happily admit some of their cars are stunning and the P4 is my favourite. It's the nearest thing to a perfect racing car I've ever seen or heard. Very good point about cars of that era being the culmination of engineer, designer and driver input.
God bless David Piper, TOO!
A LIFE WORTH LIVING!
Gave a LEG for it!
Very raw sounding like an Aston Martin
I love this channel.
It makes my heart stop to hear these engines in my surround sound.
It makes me smile to hear the stories.
It makes me sad that the guy that started it was forced out.
"It makes me smile to hear the stories." LOL Stories of you LOSING????????
@@michaelmeliambro5117
Lol you only won 4 times. Ferrari beat your ass 9 times.
Great to see a race car like this P4 being used on the track and not being kept in a box. Bring that bad boy over to Goodwood?
It almost makes you cry if you're old enough to remember these cars remember how fast they were and then look at how far down we have deteriorated from the pure beauty of automotive design to the absolute crap that they call race cars today
My most of all favorite Race Car since my Born in 1967 , i'll remember it like it was yesterday
Ohh, the interior video of the transmission tunnel and headers is remarkable. Purpose built, form-follows-function and nooo room for golf clubs!
Balls of steel! You deserve that car.
I’m a Lamborghini man, but this car looks so gorgeous and sounds insane too. Not to mention how analog and raw it is
Ferrari built three 330/P4s and one 330/P3/P4. Of these 4 cars, 3 were converted to 350 Can Ams, but the 917s stole their lunch money. This ONE care was left original and, I've heard, one of the 350s was converted back.
Priceless.
What an undisputed beauty!❤️🇮🇹 STREPITOSA
195 people are Prius/Tesla drivers.
Still the most beautiful car alive 2021
nah its mid
The purpose of this channel is to make me cry
Why?
Because I'm addicted to Ferrari
This is the only original P4. In the world. Kudos.
I can only dream of driving this thing in Gran Turismo. Definitely a beautiful machine, along with the Mk IV GT40 and the XJ13.
The hammer marks 😮 that's legendary
Thanks for sharing.. I only thought Ford did the feat at LeMans.. well done and this car is simply beautiful.
The most beautiful car ever made. Period.
To me this car is the most beautiful race car ever made.
Such a gorgeous work of art
The sound of three Ferraris crossing the finish line...
imagine enzo looking mad at you, thats this car front,,, "mah que COOOOOOOOOOOSAAAAA! brabrabrabraaaaaaaaa!"
I’ve been in one it’s just absolutely beautiful car and the sound of the v12 is just tremendous
One of the best looking race cars of all times. Its sad that Ferrari gave up on long distance racing, they were so good at it.
It's the most beautiful car I've ever seen it looks like the speed racer car
Thank you guys!
By the way, does anyone know which track this is?
Mont Tremblant, Canada
@@LegoExotics The track is owned by Lawrence Stroll who also owns the car.
What a beautiful car!!
"This is the only original P4 left in the World..." is the coolest thing anyone has ever said.
The most beautiful car in Ferrari’s history
I salute you Ken Miles. I would prefer the 330 P3 over a GT40 any day of the week imo.
...not arguably, it IS the most beautiful race car ever made, period!
I love the fact that he's actually driving it
Absolutely tear-jerkingly Beautiful.
Poetry in motion.
Just incredible good old days 👌
Amazing,beautiful and stunning all at same time
once upon a time, men challenge God in making the most beautiful thing: God brought the most beautiful woman and man brought the Ferrari 330p4.. The contest was considered a tie
Carlitox b From the looks of it, I think God might have even cheated... just speculating.
Carlitox b Maybe the p4 won.
I'd still smack that woman tho, fo' real
Amazing - both the car, and the video!
Had to go get my over the ear headphones for this..🖖🏻😬👍🏻
Music, anyone ?
Thanks in advance ; )
@Petrolicious , would you mind sharing that beautiful soundtrack's name with us ?
For me the most beautifull car ever made.!!!
So beautiful I cried.....
I'd go as far as to say the best looking car in the world
Holy Distributors, Batman!
The. Most. Exquisite. Car. Ever.
Drop dead gorgeous.
Even if it didn’t go fast, it’s beauty alone would make it desirable.
For me, it's a tie between this and the ill-fated Jaguar XJ-13 for most beautiful racecar of all time.
You can see all the design cues borrowed to make the Noble M200
Bellissima Ferrari. Che insieme d'arte, technologia e "savoir faire".
Amazing insight into the P4, one of me fav' ferrari's with the sexy curves and well placed intakes. But also the explination of the way the cars were made between driver and builder. Nowadays cars are build and then they pick a certain driver, It seems the art of driver full feedback and then adjust and versa viva have gone...
Engineering masterpiece.
OMG what a beauty!!!
La plus belle voiture de course
It is unfortunate this car was not as good a the GT40. Enzo never figured out that looks matter little on the race track. It is a good looking car. Not as good looking as the MkIV GT40 but still a beauty.
What track was this filmed at? It's a thing of beauty as well.
Mont Tremblant
The piannacle of race cars has to have been the 60s and 70s... I'll make an exception for Group C cars, but nothing comes close to cars this.
This car is undeniable one the best aesthetically... except the back end. Did the designer die before the back was done?
Thanks!!! 👍
ART
The best looking car of all time, Ferrari need to re release.
I've loved this car since I was a young man. I still want to marry it.
Beautiful car, only spoiled by the oversized number stuck on the front
The movie "Ford/Ferrari" !
It's rare to see a factory car, that if one single piece was altered, it would ruin it.
Imagine this guy crashing it and surviving to tell the owner 😂😂 "you crashed whaat...?"
ONLY ONE IN EXISTENCE!!!
How much would it cost??
Jst a bit more than we can afford😓
That's gotta be worth at least couple of hundred thousand dollars there.
More than that.
The Ford GT-40's are in the Millions of dollars.
As a Ducati owner, I feel the same way when I throw a leg over. How lucky I am.😊
Fantastically Ferrari
9000 rpm go like hell...
"if this was a beauty pageant, we just lost" Carol Shelby
Alex Habr the driver said it
@@thlee3 Ken Miles?
Alex Habr yeah. At least in the recent movie he did.
@@thlee3 I should see the movie ASAP
My desktop wallpaper
un'opera d'arte
If this were a beauty pageant, we just lost.
-Ken Miles
Looks aren’t everything.
Carrol Shelby
Car- Addict032 I pay attention to the sound. The idle that comes from the GT40's 427 V8 is just phenomenal
@king bee I think you are the only one lol
King bee you are not
I think gt40 is more beautiful
The Ferrari 330 P4 has GOT TO BE one of the most beautiful Ferraris ever made... no. One of the most beautiful CARS ever made. Damn gorgeous.
Yes I want it.
+Wake me up when the world is not fucked up You should still be sleeping...
+EyeOfTheTiger ok I'm going back to sleep.
I'd go as far as saying one of the most beautiful things ever made.
No the most beautiful thing ever made
I haven't even started the video, but I'm astounded at the metal you guys get your hands on. This is world class filming, worthy of history's best of the best cars.
Now I have watched it, I'm in love with that noise
I always wonder how they manage to get these cars on the show. Where do they find people willing to do an interview with them. The owners of this channel are prob well connected.
Best Braai Top gear can't even get this kind of stuff. I guess they're either well connected, or they just rock up with their portfolio and that's enough to earn use of the cars, because it's absolutely brilliant.
***** I agree, this car is owned by a wealthy Canadian businessman that made a fortune in clothing. He owns the track this was filmed on (Le circuit Mont-Tremblant.
Best Braai I've always thought that a good way to determine why someone owns a Ferrari, Lamborghini, Porsche, or any high end sports car, is to ask them about the car. If they love to talk on and on about the car, then they own it (for what I feel is) the right reason. These folks with these type of cars have no problem with talking about their cars. Kinda the same thing with doctors. Don't ever feel stupid asking them questions. They looove to share how much they know.
This car still looks futuristic even in 2016
Self entitled Car-guy yes
Give all the credit to aerodynamics!
Otherwise this might have looked like like a box, you never know...
Even in 2018!
It's aerodynamics is so advance for its time.
“If this was a beauty pageant, we just lost”
Seems like I'm not the only one!
"Looks aren't everything."
"We're lighter, we're faster, and if that don't work, we're nastier"
@@perotekku Or, in Ferrari's case, "uglier, slower, less powerful, and crappier build quality".
“This car wants to go faster I FEEL IT!”
I skipped school to watch this very car practice for the 1967 24 hrs of Daytona. Our high school was about 2/3 mile from the track. When it was coming out of the East turn onto the front tri-oval all you could hear was valve lifter clatter and the air being pushed out of the way. But when it went by the East stands it was deafening, with a huge Doppler pitch change as it raced away from us. The car was running about 195 mph on the banks.
I was so excited by the 1-2-3 win by Ferrari that I wrote Enzo a letter. About 4 or 5 months later I got a card signed by him saying “Many thanks” in Italian. After watching about 12 hours of racing I went home that night, crawled into bed, and listened to those Ferraris climb up out of the infield onto the West turn bank and then run up through the gears down the back straightaway. Our home was three miles East of the track so that West turn was like a huge reflector to the East.
Great story. Nothing sounds as great as a Ferrari. I have one, and it does not have a sound system. I always believed in the Enzo philosophy: Why would you want to listen to a stereo when there is wonderful music right behind your head? And he was right.
your post exemplifies why the the true value of youtube is found in the comment section. Salut sir.
Really enjoyed this comment aswell! The most beautiful car in the world. Great story!
what an amazing memory 😊 LUCKY YOU
That's cool. So you live in Italy now right? How an American boy could NOT root for their own Country's car is beyond my comprehension. I know I was ecstatic when Ford went prototype racing in 1964. One of the reasons I'm still a Ford fan today. Besides their domination of Indy, Stock Cars and F-1. The 1960's were a great and proud time for all American race fans.
Except you I guess!!😣
When art, sport, beauty and craftsmanship define the parameters; Ferrari 330P4 is the answer.
Mr18000rpm
When someone pointed out that there COULD have been more downforce,
the reply ( by the body builder),was that YES, there could have been....
But it would have spoiled the LOOKS!
No one ever complained about their stability at 198 mph.
205 mph, when drafting the big Fords!
Even through The Kink in The Mulsanne
Coupe or Spyder.
That begat the Ginther Lip on the 176 mph GTOs....
240 pounds of LIFT, became a slight down force...
The beginnings of a new world of aero packages..
The 330P3s had the first small Diaplanes, on the front fenders.
Roll hoop inverted airfoils had been tried on the Spyders, from the '62 Dinos...
Most prominent on the '65 P2s..
The press never caught on...
I first felt them on Graham Hill's private entered 330P at Sebring.
Flat on top.. curved on the bottom... a wing!
Hill saw me testing that out, put his finger to his lips and winked.
I shook my head emphatically... Mums the word!
I scurried away before a pit official saw me there.
Jim Hall was only a couple pits away..
This was 1965.... or maybe '64....
I was only 15, but the Ferrari mechanics SAW how much I loved their cars.
Particularly the oldest, most irrasciable of them....
Who, in later years, would talk to me in good enough American...
I used to pay close attention to things like rear suspensions
with 8x30 binoculars in places like the Esses... and the sweeper after them
Ferrari, ALFA, Lola, as the rear of the prototypes were opened up to observation.
Jo Bonnier was kind enough to thank me for them, in 72...
His Lola was the most STABLE, under bump steer.
I had read my suspension book by Frank Costin.....
By which time I was an unknown journalist, of a sorts.....
Then Jo was dead a few months later... at The Hunederres...
Helicoptered into the trees..
Hill had to go looking for his friend..
Ghastly business.
Took the joy out of his win...
Racing.....
Like Lucian Bianchi, and Piers Courage, who I had also spoken with...
When they were ALFA drivers, there.....
Next to my heart with Ferrari.
I've SEEN Ferrari mechanics helping ALFA mechanics, late at night,
before the race, and vice versa... working on a transaxle....
They WANTED each other there for the race!
KNEW how important BOTH were to the crowd and the sport.
True Italians with big hearts! I forget the Latin word for it...
MUCH like the Brits F-1 teams, in that...
Indy teams TOO!
Helping each other out so they could RACE!
Win on the track, not by circumstances in the pits
or with shipping from home!
Lola and Mirage were not enough!
Porsche was not there, that year...
Your competitor was your FRIEND!
Made it all worthwhile...
You can bet Corvette LIKES Viper being there.
Competitors, YES!
But Americans!
The Sport...
I'm italian and usually i don't love my country. Bad politicians ruined everything, corruption and mafious attutide spread all over. But casually i found this kind of video and i thought that at least there's something to be proud in Italy.
Ma vai in Svizzera a fare gli orologi a cucù. Solito lamentino del cazzo, ma che palle!
375gtb, I really want to enjoy your comments, but the way you write them makes me dizzy.... Shame because they look like great stories.
gt40 bitch
I could cry just looking at it...
That is exactly what I thought - and I am sure I would do if someone opened their garage door and it was just sitting there to welcome me.
RZFitnessTV I watch this video a lot and almost cry every time.
I'm already crying!!! Bro hug?
Funny you should say that... sniff...
This video is just so touching... WHAT a car.
In memory of:
Lorenzo Bandini
Ludovico Scarfiotti
Pedro Rodriguez
Mike Parkes
Jean Guichet
ALL who ever drove them!
FORZA FERRARI
Que Bella Machina!
Yes. I have seen him on the Monza podium with Chris Amon, April 25 1967. I was a kid and I was so happy, and so was everyone around. He died two weeks later in Monaco, I was terrified in front of the tv while the car was burning.
Right! I first saw poor Banders at
Sebring, 1964.
If memory serves he co-drove the winning
SEFAC 275P with Mike Parkes,
after Sir John desyroed the RR lower A arm
on his 330P from dropping a wheel of into
the sand, on exiting the Webster Turns...
Sparks flying.. observed closely with my
WWII Navy armored B&L 7x50s....
I got to know the elder SEFAC mechanic
from my observations... and Sir John came
over and rather sheepishly thanked me for
my report.... he ended up 3rd....
After replacing the arm....
ANYWAY, if Enzo had allowed racing the
246 Dino F-1 car at Monza, Banders may
well have WON!
Might be still with us today....
And YES Surtees might have won another
WC for Ferrari and maybe another Le Mans
We will never know...
Enzo's EGO!
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J.C.
TRULY!
Alberto Ascari
Eugenio Castelotti,
Fon de Portago....
Just off the top...
J.C.
yeah really what a car built by ing. Forghieri! :-0