Ferrari Burnout: YouTuber Takes F8 Tributo Off Road, Accidentally Totals the Car in Fire

WhistlinDiesel is a Youtube channel that needs little introduction – Cody Detwiler is the name of the ‘Actor, CEO of Destruction, Too much driver not enough car, and Chaos Engineer’ social media sensation that likes to annihilate vehicles and video document his deeds.

His latest feature is one of epic proportions, and this time, things went a little too far off the regular program. You might have seen the 25-year-old YouTuber take it out on Ferrari in the past, mocking the Italian brand and its verbatim legalese small-print terms of use for the Prancing Horse automobiles.

There is, however, one matter that Ferrari apparently haven’t thought through with WhistlinDiesel, and it has to do with geography. You can’t tell a Texan he can’t do whatever he wants with his car and expect him to just take it as it is. He’ll burn your house down. Or, in Ferrari’s case, their car.

The F8 briefly featured in the first video was supposed to be the star of a multi-episode test drive, Cody Detwiler style. But the filming was cut short due to an unplanned but mighty fire that left the vlogger without his car.

Apparently, doing donuts in a field covered in corn stover in a $400,000 supercar isn’t the best treatment for the delicate tarmac-accustomed automobile. aAlternatively, one might say that this is a proper burnout session, with the car going up in smoke - literally.

Enzo Ferrari openly despised Ferruccio Lamborghini and his tractors, but it’s the farmer who has the last laugh now. The House of the Raging Bull has an off-road supercar – the Huracan Sterrato – and agriculture is in their DNA since the brand was born as a plow-puller constructor.

As we can see from the (allegedly) un-staged video below, the Ferrari suffered a severe case of spontaneous combustion. Either that or the dry corn stalks caught fire from the overheating carbon-ceramic brakes of the drifting Ferrari. Whichever the case, one thing is clear: an F8 Tributo is not a proper supercar for the dirt.

If you want to see more Ferrari abuse from WhistlinDiesel, play the second video – the first part of the multi-episode endurance trial. Surprisingly, the car held its own pretty well before the flaming end. To say the F8 is toast would be the understatement of the year since everything above the wheels has vaporized.

Miraculously, the Prancing Horse shields and the ‘Ferrari’ call-out have survived the ordeal, prompting the question, “Shouldn’t the rest of the car be made of emblems’ materials?” Jokes aside, these extreme antics burned a half-a-million-dollar hole in Detwiler’s pockets (pun intended).

Apart from the expensive supercar, the filming crew’s van and equipment were totaled in the fire. But, given the YouTuber’s 5.7-million-subscribers-strong audience, putting the money back shouldn’t be that impossible of a task.

As for the corny Ferrari in the cornfield, it proved that internal combustion can become external very quickly, so EV makers aren’t the only ones with blazing-hot concerns about safety. However, it is a matter of time before some environmentalist raises concerns about how polluting gasoline-burning cars can be (especially if the gasoline burns the vehicle down to a pile of fine dust).