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The front of a classic Ferrari F40 car was destroyed on Sunday in an expensive collision with side barriers, during a collection of supercars in the mountains of Switzerland on the occasion of Ferrari’s 75th anniversary.
Neither the driver nor a female spectator near the crash site were reportedly injured when the car went out of control in the ‘2022 Kerenzerbergrennen’ downhill race.
The costly collision was accredited to the “turbo activation time” which is the difference between the time of the accelerator pedal violation and the moment when the car receives strong acceleration from the engine thrust.
Video of the aftermath of the crash showed the classic 1990s car walking alongside other similar models before the crash, as it was later lifted by crane into the body of the service vehicle.
In another video the car is seen speeding on the mountain road with turns just before the collision.
The unfortunate F40 was among several supercars in the Kerenzerbergrennen hills in the eastern canton of Glarus.
Although the event is described as a “race” in reality it is a traveling museum, as the event’s owner Peter Rufibach says.
“About 15 private Ferrari owners wanted to take part in the 12-turn race for Ferrari’s 75th anniversary. The race is done with cars in a row after other people, at a safe distance from each other.
The F40 has a dual 2.9-liter V8 engine that reaches up to 471 horsepower.
But the turbo technology of the 1990s has a distance between giving command and executing acceleration from the car, which brings about sudden thrust and can cause problems if not calculated properly.
Ferrari produced 1,315 F40 models from 1987 to 1992.
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