SILVERSTONE GRAND PRIX 12-14th SEPTEMBER 2014
HE FINAL PIRELLI Ferrari Open rounds of the 2015 season were enacted at Silverstone on the weekend of 13/14th September. This was at the Ferrari Racing Days event, arguably the highest profile meeting of the year for our UK Series. This event is organised by the Factory to showcase the Ferrari marque in various countries around the continent and this year it was the turn of the UK. We were privileged to be again invited by Ferrari to join the usual participants at this important occasion. These include the XX activity, an ongoing research and development programme featuring client test drivers. The cars used in this scheme are currently unhomologated FXX vehicles with 6.3 litre engines developing a massive 860bhp at a dizzy 9500rpm. As well as the XX programme the usual spectacular collection of recent F1 Ferraris, from year 2000 to 2008, were on
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parade. All these Corse Clienti cars are prepared at the factory and transported to European circuits for their owners to enjoy the experience of driving them with the full back-up of works technicians. As well as these track activities there were rounds of the factory’s Trofeo Pirelli and Coppa Shell championships, the latter being for amateur drivers. So, joining all this dazzling array of mainly scarlet machinery, were our PFO
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competitors, who should have felt pretty special since no other Ferrari club in the world has the honour, or indeed the ability, to be asked to join this tremendous party. The PFO cars were allocated space in the garages in the Silverstone Wing, and on Thursday trucks began to roll in to the paddock area. There was lots of other activity as a small army of Italian factory personnel erected the huge Corse Clienti hospitality building and convoys
Andy Christopher showed he has lost none of his prodigious speed. Here, in his 430 Challenge number 44, he is harried by Sean Winder (430 GT3)