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PostSubject: Ferrari 458 Speciale first drive review   Ferrari 458 Speciale first drive review Icon_minitimeTue Nov 26, 2013 11:17 pm
When a Formula One driver tells you that driving conditions on a racetrack are “scary”, it’s probably worth taking notice. Especially when the car you’re about to drive has more than three times the horsepower of, say, a Toyota 86 coupe, is also driven by its rear wheels and could cost someone more than half a million bucks if things go wrong.

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So we’re at Ferrari’s Fiorano test track next to the factory in Maranello, it has been raining torrentially all day and not only is the track wet, in places there are streams of water flowing across its surface and elsewhere puddles centimeters deep.

I jump into the passenger seat of the 458 Speciale for a chauffeured lap around the circuit and turn to find Kamui Kobayashi in the driver’s seat. The slight, former Toyota and Sauber F1 driver who now heads Ferrari’s GT sports car race team doesn’t pull any punches.

“It’s scary out there,” he says. “There’s absolutely no grip. If this was a GT race, it would have been red flagged by now.”
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And sure enough, under Kobayashi-san’s helmsmanship, the Speciale slithers sideways at every gear change, snaps into oversteer at the slightest provocation, understeers into a run-off area on one tight hairpin and generally feels to be battling the conditions, not conquering them.
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