A recent video posted by professional wakeboarder Jorge Gill on his YouTube account shoes how he is being pulled by a Ferrari F50 through a water canal. Even though the car’s V12 Formula One-inspired engine made the experience last for less than a minute, the daredevil literally rode behind the car.
The principle is quite simple: you’re an adventurer, you love water sports and you have a board. All together equals wakeboarding. Better put, it’s a surface water sport which involves riding a board on the surface of a body of water. Seen as a combination of water skiing, snowboarding and surfing techniques, this new water sport has one great advantage - you can practice it everywhere.
This is why there are more and more people experimenting new ways of practicing this sport. After all, the Ferrari F50 is a lot more efficient than the average motor boats, considering the drag and the way the sportscar was built. Just as a short reminder, we’re looking at one of only 349 that were ever made.
Even though it’s not the best idea to tie a rope to the spoiler of a million-dollar hypercar, we have to admit that the wakeboarder did manage to keep going for almost 40 seconds, which is really impressive.
This is why there are more and more people experimenting new ways of practicing this sport. After all, the Ferrari F50 is a lot more efficient than the average motor boats, considering the drag and the way the sportscar was built. Just as a short reminder, we’re looking at one of only 349 that were ever made.
Ferrari F50, a race-worthy hypercar
The Ferrari F50 comes with a 4.7-litter naturally aspirated V12 engine running 5 valves per cylinder, a mill that was developed from an actual racecar’s engine, the 3.5-liter V12 used in the 1990 Ferrari 641 F1-90 Formula One racer. This beauty is capable of doing the 0 - 60 mph (0 - 96 km/h) stint in 3.7 seconds, so we're pretty sure that using it to pull somebody must be a breathtaking experience.Even though it’s not the best idea to tie a rope to the spoiler of a million-dollar hypercar, we have to admit that the wakeboarder did manage to keep going for almost 40 seconds, which is really impressive.