Photo: Gumbal on Facebook
By now, anybody who's spent enough time on the drifting side of the Internet is well aware of the fact that no marque is safe when it comes to Formula Drift. And the latest slip angle stunt to involve an iconic name now sees a Ferrari 599 making its debut as a drift car.
Oh well, purists should at least be happy about the thing that the Prancing Horse sideways machine is being introduced by an Italian, namely Federico Sceriffo.
The full details of the project aren't out yet (lens tip to Gumbal for the images in the gallery above), but it seems that the V12 heart of the once-a-Grand-Tourer now works with a pair of belt-driven turbos (the instant response is the key to using the throttle as a steering wheel).
According to the rumor mill, the V12 now delivers at least 800 hp and 1,000 Nm of twist and we'll have to wait for Formula Drift to deliver some proper action involving this Sliding Horse in order to dig deeper into the matter.
For one thing, this could be the 599 drift car we associated with Japanese drifter Daigo Saito in last year's tales - or perhaps the world will soon have two 599 being used as slip angle vehicles, but such a scenario doesn't seem all that likely.
Note that, as with any good drift car, there's a distance between the corners of the car and the important hardware. After all, an error made during the kiss-the-wall moments isn't supposed to put a car out of the competition.
Given the professional reconversion, that massive rear wing seems like less of a blasphemy and so does the inevitable hydraulic handbrake decorating the cabin.
And, before inviting you to check out the live pics below, which come straight from Sceriffo's Instagram, we'll remind you that the man's Ferrari drift toy joins Daigo Saito's Lamborgini Murcielago and Youichi Imamura Lexus LFA. In fact, here's a battle between the last two.
The full details of the project aren't out yet (lens tip to Gumbal for the images in the gallery above), but it seems that the V12 heart of the once-a-Grand-Tourer now works with a pair of belt-driven turbos (the instant response is the key to using the throttle as a steering wheel).
According to the rumor mill, the V12 now delivers at least 800 hp and 1,000 Nm of twist and we'll have to wait for Formula Drift to deliver some proper action involving this Sliding Horse in order to dig deeper into the matter.
For one thing, this could be the 599 drift car we associated with Japanese drifter Daigo Saito in last year's tales - or perhaps the world will soon have two 599 being used as slip angle vehicles, but such a scenario doesn't seem all that likely.
Note that, as with any good drift car, there's a distance between the corners of the car and the important hardware. After all, an error made during the kiss-the-wall moments isn't supposed to put a car out of the competition.
Given the professional reconversion, that massive rear wing seems like less of a blasphemy and so does the inevitable hydraulic handbrake decorating the cabin.
And, before inviting you to check out the live pics below, which come straight from Sceriffo's Instagram, we'll remind you that the man's Ferrari drift toy joins Daigo Saito's Lamborgini Murcielago and Youichi Imamura Lexus LFA. In fact, here's a battle between the last two.
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