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FERRARI F12
Many consider this Tour de France to be the ultimate F12, and why not? It’s inspired by and named after a famous Ferrari that proved highly capable on both track and road.
225 SPORT V12 ENGINE
A trio of 36DCF Weber carburetors delivered the air-fuel mix to the V12 engine in the 225 Sport. With an 8.5:1 compression ratio, output was 210 horsepower at 7,200 revolutions per minute discharged to the rear wheels via a five-speed gearbox integral with the engine.
FERRARI CABRIOLET 011 S
Stabilimenti Farina produced the first Ferrari cabriolet (011 S), pictured here. This is one of the oldest known of the road cars, built in 1949 and displayed at the Geneva Salon by Luigi Chinetti. Geneva was Ferrari’s first showing outside Italy. The lines of the car were similar to those of other Farina and Pinin Farina designs of the time, such as the Alfa Romeo 6C 2500, and were repeated on the Simca Sport.
365 GTB/4 BERLINETTAS
The 365 GTB/4 Berlinettas were campaigned successfully at Daytona, Le Mans, Watkins Glen, and the Tour de France; less successfully at Sebring and the Spa Francorchamps. In the annals of SEFAC Ferrari, the Daytona reigns as the last great front-engined V12 model. Here a pair of North American Racing Team Daytonas battle in the GT classes at Le Mans in 1972.
FERRARI 458 ITALIA
The 2009 458 Italia was a pure exotic sports car, and at the time the most highly developed naturally aspirated Ferrari V8 model, with legitimately race-inspired and aerodynamically driven features inside and out, very much setting the tone for the turbocharged 488 and F8 models that would follow.