Being able to afford a Ferrari isn't the same as being able to drive it

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Old Boy - 04 Dec 2006 16:45 GMT

Quite a nice opinion piece on the ability required to drive a Ferrari
Enzo

http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?menuID=2&subID=1176

Suleiman Kerimov - Russian billionaire and 72nd richest person in the
world on the Forbes list - is not the first rich boy to find that the
Enzo Ferrari is a barely house-trained beast that bites ferociously.

When Kerimov smashed a borrowed $1m Enzo into a tree on the Promenade
des Anglais in Nice last Sunday - igniting an inferno that destroyed
the car - he joined a long list of big shots who have painfully
discovered this 220+mph toy is a potentially lethal handful.

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Paul Duffin - 04 Dec 2006 16:53 GMT

Since the traffic on the Promenade tends to reach a chest-crushing
maximum of about 10mph (on a good day) he was doing well. ...and if it
*was* a rare traffic-free day, it's a (near-enough) straight road!
Perhaps snow was a factor (and I don't mean the stuff that falls out of
the sky).

Paul.

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Al Nakba - 04 Dec 2006 18:41 GMT

Episodes like that sometimes make me think that wealth is oft times
wasted on the rich..

> Quite a nice opinion piece on the ability required to drive a Ferrari
> Enzo
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> the car - he joined a long list of big shots who have painfully
> discovered this 220+mph toy is a potentially lethal handful.

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