Ferrari Enzo(Top 2nd car)

The race

track has

always

been the

testing

ground for

the

advanced

technological research that later went into Ferrari's road

cars.They very first ferrari, built in 1947, was a 12-cylinder

racing car. From that first 12-cylinder, 126 more were born,

destined for both track and road. The Enzo Ferrari is not

only the marque's latest V12, it is also a prinnacle of

excellence drawing on the experience of victories in the last

four years of the formula 1 World championship, thus

endowed with the very latest automotive technology.

Company founder Enzo Ferrari always felt that design of the

road cars should stem from the racers. Therefore, it was

entirely logical that the company's latest creation should

bear his name. The Enzo, built in a limited run of 399, is an

outstanding expression of the concept of extreme

sportiness, developed for road use, yet epitomizing the

most advanced concepts of Formula 1 racing technology

Ferrari set out to develop the Enzo as an integrated system

designedfor extreme performance, in which even the limits

of the performance achievable by the driver were

enhanced, thanks to a man-machine interface typical of

Formula 1.

Never before has style been drived so directly from

function as in this model. pinifarina wanted to create an

uncompromising car that would break away from the

approach used for the GTO, F40 and F50 that preceded it,

to develop a new formal language that looked to the future.

The engineers tried to create visual links with the world of

Formula 1, to which the Enzo owes its technology, while

highlighting its compactness and lightness. The result is a

complex, sculpted form.

Aerodynamics

in developing the Enzo, Ferrari set it self two pure

performance targets which would represent a milestone for

ultra-fast cars: to increase the grip limit inmedium-fast

bends by increasing downforce (lateral dynamics) while

maintaining a very high top speed, over 350 km/h

(longitudinal dynamics.)

This meant that different aerodynamic configurations with

contrasting characteristics had to coexist on the samecar.