Laps of honour

A few minutes ago you had flung yourself into its spell. You were about to realise adolescent fantasies aboard a Monteverdi 375L, but that was then. A sense of anxiety has since descended, one perhaps

Carbon fibre wheels roll to a stop in the pitlane at Misano. The Ferrari F80’s fans are working at full pace to counter the fierce heat and the thermal load of a full day of fast laps and a couple of

THE APEX SUPERCAR IS AT A crossroads. If you’re Gordon Murray, you build the lightest, purest, most analogue car you can. If you’re Bugatti, you build a grandiose behemoth of blinding speed and dazzli

With its divisive looks and hybrid V6 engine, the Ferrari F80 looked set to disappoint after the Enzo and LaFerrari. How wrong can you be?

Price new: £265,937 Price now: £800,000 Engine: 6.5-litre V12 Transmission: Six-speed manual, four-wheel drive Power/torque: 661bhp/660Nm 0-62mph: 3.2 seconds Top speed: 212mph (209mph with aero kit)

Ferrari hypercars appear approximately once a decade. Which means approximately once a decade the TG hive mind turns to the cars that went before, and we swirl through the space-time continuum like a