Twin Turbo Ferrari Enzo Takeoff at Bonneville (2010)

Yeah the vid quality sucks, its a point and shoot camera and if you have ever tried to shoot anything on the salt, you know what a pain in the ass it is without a good set of filters (which this cam lacks)

Ok, for the people that are complaining about how slow the car takes off on the line, then you really don't understand how Bonneville works. The cars do not take off hard at the line. The tires on this Ferrari were very, very narrow and it would spin all over the place if it tried to launch hard. In fact, most of the really high speed cars out on the salt flats need a truck to push them off to get started because they are all geared for top speed and NOT 1/4 mile or 0-60. Bonneville isn't a drag race, it's all about top speed here and a hard launch doesn't matter!

Anyway..... read about the car here on Jalopnik http://jalopnik.com/5615366/the-worlds-first-twin+turbo-ferrari-enzo

This was the second run of the day for the car. It was on the short course and IIRC it was for licensing. Gorgeous rebuilding of the car through and through and lots of respect to the owner for taking a $1M+ car and making it a salt flat racer! Love it!

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Autos & Vehicles

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• speed
• week
• scta
• bonneville
• salt
• flat
• racing
• top

[progolfj]

thats like the slowest ferrari i've seen in my life

[sixt9coug]

@progolfj

Read some of the other comments first man. This isn't a drag race, or a contest to see how fast he can get to the end of the course. This is all about top end. They don't launch like drag cars out on the salt. In fact, lots of the cars even have push starts off of the starting line. Does that mean they are slow too? No.

FWIW, the car did over 200mph on salt and it's bumpy and not easy to drive on. Start slow, but there's nothing slow about the top end of the track.

[progolfj]

@sixt9coug So they spend all this money on this car so its top end speed is 200 right? Well why not buy a ZR1 for less and have 0-60 in 3 seconds and tops at 205 and thats restricted speed as well.

[sixt9coug]

@progolfj

The car is capable of well over 250 mph. The driver keeps losing control though so it hasn't realized it yet.

The ZR1 wouldn't hit that 200mph mark on the salt surface. If you have the time, look at what goes into making a successful salt flat car. 0-60 and 1/4 mile times mean nothing in this racing. In fact, the tires on this Enzo are maybe 7 inches wide. That is much smaller than stock but It has purpose. Bigger tires mean more drag on the top end but you compromise the launch.

[ODonMETALLICA]

i was in the crew and it did 205.

[sixt9coug]

@ODonMETALLICA

I heard it ran better later in that week and on later visits to the salt.

The time for August Speed Week is coming up soon. Are they gonna head back out this year?

[sixt9coug]

@dtowngreg

Salt flat racing is a ton different than drag racing in that they are often told not to launch hard off of the line. If they did they would tear up the salt and spin all over the place without going anywhere. Besides, I took other pics of this car and once you see the size of the rear tires, you wouldn't want to nail it off the line either. Salt flat tires are super skinny!

[MartinPaulTucker]

@sixt9coug Keep up the good work on proper videography buddy. Too many viewers on youtube need nakedness, madness, "fails" or "wins" to GET a video, but sometimes you just have to take them as documents, as in documentary footage... Hard concept for Joe and Joanne Bloggs. :)

[BallisticEVA01]

@sixt9coug

True... And we have also to remind that gear ratio must be unbilievably high to make better top speed.

Racing in the salt is a true different art of racing. :)

[mammo8369]

@progolfj stick ur zr1 up ur ass dick head...a standard enzo does 222mph..standard......wipes ur shitty little zr1 peice of shit....this tuned versions will do well over 250mhp....

this is a top speed test on salt, not an acceleration test...

fucking 12 yr olds on utube !!

[tundracam]

U just ruined a 1.7mil dollar car

[MicahLeviClark]

What a waste of a car he could have built a kit car to race a clock in a straight line on solt flat

[tvguides]

Seriously Losee.....do you really make that much selling engagement rings to all those desperate, sexually repressed BYU students????