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Old 07-08-2012, 10:38 AM
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Awesome trip Nath! So did you hire the Ferrari's for 1 and a half hours by yourself? Or do you have to take someone else with you or what?

What was that worth?
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Looks like the time of your life over there!
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Awesome trip Nath! So did you hire the Ferrari's for 1 and a half hours by yourself? Or do you have to take someone else with you or what?

What was that worth?
You have to take an instructor with you, they have no controls in front of them. But to be honest in my first 15minutes I wasn't pushing the car, all I had in my head was the 12,000euro excess if I had an accident,then I lost that thought!.
But the instructors who were both ex racing car drivers were pushing us,
eg. at one point he told me to almost stop on the freeway put it back into 2nd, waited for enough of a gap between us and the car infront and he pushed my knee down so I would be foot flat and rev out all 4 gears foot flat!

So I had the 599 for 45minutes then swapped halfway with my mate for another 45 in the 458 (which I drove completely on the limit for my capabilities). We only paid for 1 hour but they let us have them for 1.5 hours.

All up we got it for 850euros so 425 each (website quotes is as 1100euro all up). These are the two most expensive cars you can get and for the longest time, also included the in-car camera footage.

Defiantly recommend this company, just remember to barter the price down!
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If only that fence was 0.5m lower! We were on the top row couldn't get any higher! But I do like this pic.
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Did you book in advance? If so, how long in advance and did you secure the 458/599 as part of the booking?
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Did you book in advance? If so, how long in advance and did you secure the 458/599 as part of the booking?
We were walking into the Ferrari Museum, and a very good looking Italian lady just walked up to us and asked if we were interested, went over had a look haggled the price and jumped in after signing some paper work. The cars are right next to the museum just down the road from the factory.

So no bookings, we were in the cars driving down the road about 20 minutes after first talking to her. I think the advantage of doing it this way we were able to haggle the price, where as if you booked they would be pretty set on the price.
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