Photo: Evren Milano
Now that you can pay Ferrari to fly you to various motorsport events where they'll allow you to drive the racing incarnation of the LaFerrari, the FXX K (you can't actually own the track special hypercar), there's an important question that remains unanswered - what will the Prancing Horse do for the next step of its Corse Clienti (customer racing) program?
One idea would be for Maranello to chop the roof off the 1,050 hp FXX K. Visit Maranello these days and you might just run into a rather unusual LaFerrari test mule. The conventional doors mean this is a prototype for the upcoming LaFerrari Spider, so one could expect a similar treatment for the track-confined version of the hypercar.
Don't hold your breath for an FXX K Spider though, this is not going to happen. Nevertheless, the Pracing Horse should come up with such a development and the reason for this is simple.
The Corse Clienti program is only for the extremely wealthy, since, like we said, you don't even get to keep the car you pay for, Ferrari does. Speaking of this, the price for the FXX K hasn't been released yet, but its predecessor, if we can call the Enzo-based FXX Evolutione that, came with a financial toll of around EUR1.5 million ($2.1 millon), excluding taxes.
When you pay that much to race under the Italians' supervision, knowing that Ferrari engineers take advantage of this to record data and learn new lessons, you'll want to be entertained.
hair helmet would bring an extra level of adrenaline, borrowing a bit of aroma from the open cockpit Formula One game Maranello is go good at.
Besides, it would also offer an element of novelty. So far, we've had racecars based on the Ferrari 599, the Enzo and the LaFerrari and while the last upped the ante thanks to its hybrid powertrain, none of these was topless.
With the carbon fiber technology available today, Ferrari could find a way around the shortcomings of a roofless vehicle. The aerodynamic challenges would also be massive, especially given the 50 percent extra downforce the FXX K develops compared to the LaFerrari, but we're not here to worry about that.
Some might say that this is too much of a dream, but most of us will have to file the actual FXX K under "if I ever win the lottery" anyway. Speaking of which, the rendering above, which comes from artist Evren Milano, should provide a pretty good piece of daydreaming material.
Don't hold your breath for an FXX K Spider though, this is not going to happen. Nevertheless, the Pracing Horse should come up with such a development and the reason for this is simple.
The Corse Clienti program is only for the extremely wealthy, since, like we said, you don't even get to keep the car you pay for, Ferrari does. Speaking of this, the price for the FXX K hasn't been released yet, but its predecessor, if we can call the Enzo-based FXX Evolutione that, came with a financial toll of around EUR1.5 million ($2.1 millon), excluding taxes.
When you pay that much to race under the Italians' supervision, knowing that Ferrari engineers take advantage of this to record data and learn new lessons, you'll want to be entertained.
A bit of F1 aroma
Well, racing with the wind in yourBesides, it would also offer an element of novelty. So far, we've had racecars based on the Ferrari 599, the Enzo and the LaFerrari and while the last upped the ante thanks to its hybrid powertrain, none of these was topless.
With the carbon fiber technology available today, Ferrari could find a way around the shortcomings of a roofless vehicle. The aerodynamic challenges would also be massive, especially given the 50 percent extra downforce the FXX K develops compared to the LaFerrari, but we're not here to worry about that.
Some might say that this is too much of a dream, but most of us will have to file the actual FXX K under "if I ever win the lottery" anyway. Speaking of which, the rendering above, which comes from artist Evren Milano, should provide a pretty good piece of daydreaming material.
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