A Ferrari 512 BBi Is A Car To Drift On Track

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Interesting comments to read.
Firstly the Tr was incrediably sucessful, so have no idea where the comment coes from. True the later cars were more sucessful, because if you build a car any poseur can drive, you expand the market.

As to BBs. Having owned and driven one for close to 25 years here are some impressions.
Unlike moderns which truly are underwhelming to drive untill at 9/10ths, being pretty much no different to a hyundai in feel untill insane ve,ocities a boxer is always engaging. Even worse its impossible to sanely drive a modern at 9/10ths on the road, and yet they still will wilt on track.

Now take a BB. You actualy have to know how to operate a machine, and have driving skills to use one. They are truly terrible in any traffic, and the Ac is essentialy nonexistent. This limits the driver pool.

But get one of these cars on a big open road and they are truly sublime. What makes them painful in traffic is that in feel height and size they are not too far from a civilized track car, a streetable canm am car from the 70s. On the right day on the right road they are just sublime, few cars are able to flow and get in synch with a road and driver like a BBI.

I thought the video anlysis of the driving dynamics was pretty spot on, they are very reactive cars, like an aircooled 911, and they will punish the hamfisted quickly, with as the video says the front or the rear fighing the edge and little space in between.Theya re so sensitive that a few psi difference in tire pressure alters the basic feel.

As to speed, nick masons BBLM was faster than his F40 around a track, same track same day same driver. A BBlm is the same basic suspension as an BB, just more power and somewhat less weight.

Most BBs around drive liek crap, they ahve old tires and worn suspesion, being 30 years old but not necessarily restored. Like any good race car, they need to be setup properly.

The flaw of a BB as from the factory is the tires and enzos refusal to fit more modern low profile tires, the bendy sidewalls wortking against the car and creating snap dynamics on the limit. The stock tires which are really designed for a BMW sedan also require a pretty stupid alignment setup to be slightly benign, they also need over 40psi to be stiff enough to handle..

Fit modern rubber even in a high profile, I run 17 in wheels and the car is transformed. the chassis really is good, at elast on street. On track compared to a modern its lacking, essentialy faster than a 355 slower than a 360, well quicker out of bends than a 360 but slower in and slower accleration above 120. On street the torque works for you.

on a recent club outing which was mostly backroads, the BB had no problem keeping pace and setting pace with the moderns. yes I had to work harder, but that made it fun and angaging for me, whereas the 458 guys were monitorign systems and suggesting to the computer what they woudl like the car to do.
Unless your street drives involve speeds above 150mph, you simply are npot going faster in a modern, and you wont have as much fun.
Two years ago, taking the BBi to dealer to test drive a Mp12 458 and Gt3. There is one bend on the parkway, in the BBi you have to think ahead, select the right gear , blip and engae engage as you brake before enty, get your entry right and ooze in the power and then flatten the pedal after the apex and slect the next gear as you get straight. Lets say its 90 entry and a 125mph exit corner. In the Mp12 and 458 the same speed was ho hum irrelevant, might as well have been tapping a keyboard..The only modern that was fun was the 997 Gt3 because it was still engaging.

if you want a fast engagng car, full of occasion, something that will require all you have to perform, somehting that can embarras the average exotic owner on a twisty, something for the sunday drive, pretty hard to beat a boxer, unless you hve the scratch for a 288..

A boxer is a car also designed before legislation dictated design, ie its pure shape and execution.

It’s a wedge hidden from the wind, says it all really.