What are the chances to see a LaFerrari Aperta and
what are the chances to have the keys of one of those?
I think I'm running out of words this time, I'm speechless! Just wow, look at that!
Ciao everyone here it's Marchettino and today I'm catching up with my friend Josh Cartu which is the owner of this extremely rare LaFerrari Aperta!
Josh is here today at Imolafor a training session with his brand new Ferrari 488 racecar.
I mean, showing up to the track with your LaFerrari Aperta to drive your brand new Ferrari racecar, life could be worse!
Ciao Marco!
You can actually start in electric mode and you just roll in but you know that already, you've seen in the LaFerrari before.
The only difference really is the aerodinamycs package here and then in the front they turned the radiators upside down and you got a slighty different
aerodinamycs setup on the front.
So we'll just let warm it up a little bit 'cause it's been sitting here all day, once at least the motor and brakes are warm we can give it a rev! - I can't wait!
So we're trying to warm up the car a little bit because everything is super cold - Ok!
Noise is little better than the closed roof!
Yeah I've been inside the LaFerrari Coupè a few times but with the roof off, it's completely different!
There we go the motorcycle and now we can push a little bit
if we find some open space here!
Yeah the noise is fantastic!
Just a little bit difficult with the cold tires and not much margin here!
Let's try not to fuck up a 5 million euros car!
So I'm inside this car since like 5 minutes and I think this is really one of the best cars in the world!
No roof, all the way to 9000rpms oh my goodness!
Naturally aspirated V12!
It's funny how I get out my racecar and then in this, it's like twice as fast on the straight line, it's crazy!
It's unbelievable also thanks to the electric engine, it's insane at how it delivers instantly so much power anytime!
Even in 7th gear, this car is really ruining our party for us!
We'll let him go a little bit.
We're gonna catch him very soon!
Oh it was good until it lasted!
You notice there's a very little turbolence in the cabin? I mean just at the top of your head it goes.
It's not that bad!
It can do 300(kph) like no problem but 250 you can cruise with the roof off!
There aren't many cars with the roof off that can do that!
Oh we have the back tires warmed!
The breaking power is like really insane!
We're lucky!
I mean, the engine power is insane but I think it's even more impressive the power of the brakes!
On the highway you really feel it when you get the airbrake working, that's pretty exciting as well!
What is actually the maximum speed you can reach in full electric mode?
You know it?
I don't!
I didn't try, actually!
I should find out because I come so close actually running out of fuel!
I've always thought at least I can move the car at the side of the road with the electric which is nice,
this thing drinks fuel like,
like you've got 4 bars and you're like yeah I'm ok for a while, you look down red!
Which is strange actually because the TDF doesn't do that. - Really?
It's better on the gas efficiency? - It doesn't make any sense I don't know.
I would almost say,
According to logic, it must be my imagination, maybe i'm having so much fun and I don't notice time!
Maybe because you push this one much harder!
The feeling is really incredible, the diractionality, the balance, how flat it is!
It's really amazing!
In my opinion, I mean obviously I'm a big Ferrari fan,
I think right now it's the best car in the world.ì rught now.
Also in the hypercar league?
Yeah even when you get into the even really more expensive crazier stuff,
the only stuff that's crazier than this in terms of like
don't think just specification it's like I'll tell you, if it's specification it's the stupidest way to think about a car because first of all,
you have to consider you're a normal guy, you have some small track experience
you cannot take this car to the limit, ok? I can take it to the limit barely!
You really need a good experience!
You have to be quite experienced to the drive the Aperta so
you should probably consider what I call " the package " which is
you have a car, how good is it overall. If it doesn't have the best top speed but has the best acceleration, you know whatever right?
But when you undersand it, I mean you put the active dampers on and you can drive this over the craziest bumpiest roads and still have
quite good speed, then you understand the difference and why this is the best car in my opinion.
It's still quite livable as a daily car! - Really?
Yeah I mean, you don't have storage unfortunately that's the annoying part but
you've got speakers, you've got navigation - Yeah if you think at the Enzo, this is the successor of the Enzo they made a huge step forward!
There's always this talk about you know, they took the 3 hypercars, they took the LaFerrari, they took the 3 hypercars, the 918 the P1 and the LaFerrari
and there were like 2 different tests, one by Top Gear, one by the other guy, this " Hyper 5 ", all these stupid things right?
The funny thing is that people don't understand how much is the pneumatic, the tires.
We're talking about 1 second between these cars but it depends quite heavily on the tires.
The thing about the tires is
they make the biggest difference all the time, much more than more horsepower usually much more than aerodynamics much more than anything,
the big joke is that I've got a 458 Challenge which is a car that you can buy now for 100.000€ used.
You put a brand new set of slick tires on it and then you put this on the track and you're 10 seconds faster!
With a 458 Challenge which a 458 Challenge is a lighter 458, really is a road car! It's not much racecar there,
like it wasn't taken to Michelotto it's really a lighter 458 with better dampers and slick tires, right?
And it's 10 seconds faster than this!
It defies logic!
That's the big stupid thing when I see people comparing " Oh the LaFerrari is not as fast as the P1! "
Well sure it is, just change the tires!
Because you've got 6 seconds on some tires, 10 seconds on other tires, that's really what I want to post down to
is the tires, so that's all I wanted to say about that.
But even if the 458 Challenge is faster, I would take this one!
Actually, the value of this car is pretty insane, they're for like 5-6 millions right now!
We're sitting here putting kilometers on it, we should figure out that if the car will go like 10.000km in its life,
what each kilometer is worth we've travelled today!
I think every kilometer is priceless in this car because at the end you have fun and when you want to sell it, it's gonna be expensive anyway!
Back on the track and allow me to say this was absolutely unreal,
hearing this V12 shout with the roof off around the italian countryside,
I think this the best road legal car in which I have ever been into, absolutely insane!
LaFerrari Aperta, what a car!
Massive thanks to my friend Josh Cartu for making this possible and guys
make sure to follow my friend Josh Cartu on his social medias (Links in the video description down below)
he's very active and posts lots of crazy stuff of his supercar experiences!
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and as always thanks for watching, ciao!