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What’s Going on with Ferrari Accidents This Week?

Mar. 13, 2013 11:28am Liz Klimas

March has been quite the month for Ferrari crashes.

Over the weekend, a 700 horsepower Ferrari 458 Spider with twin turbo engines was racing on a local airport’s tarmac when it ran out of road. As Justin Hyde for Yahoo! Autos wrote of the incident – which occurred as a spin-off event near an Amelia Island auto show in Florida, north of Jacksonville — for such a car to go top speed, it “requires a significant length of road. Hyde wrote that the private airstrip on which the Ferrari was trying to stretch its legs was just over half a mile long.

Ferraris with standard engine specifications can reach a top speed of 199 miles per hour.

Ferrari Crashes in Florida, Italy and Brazil in the Last Week

(Photo: Ferrari Chat via Yahoo! Autos)

Fortunately, no one was injured in this crash, although Hyde said repair of the Ferrari would likely cost as much as just replacing it completely.

Some in another Ferrari 458 crash in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Sunday though were not so lucky. Three were injured when the Ferrari in the promotional event for a beverage company crashed into the spectator area. Gaz.com.br (via Google Translate and Auto Evolution) reported that two were taken to the hospital, but released later that day, and the third was treated on site. The driver of the car was escorted away by authorities because some in the crowd began to harass him after the accident.

Here’s footage of the crash:

The U.K.’s the Independent points to footage of yet another recent crash involving a Ferrari in Italy. According to reports the F458 Spider in Bari was just registered the morning of the crash last week.

Footage from the perspective of passengers in another car shows them driving past the Ferrari, which soon then speeds after them and quickly loses control. Check it out:

No one was reported to be injured in this crash.

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Comments (10)

Kooringa
Posted on March 27, 2013 at 10:12am
Even people who race cars for a living or have had advanced driver training struggle to keep them on the road.More likely a quality control issue.Some are very good others are rubbish.Wouldn’t have “poncing pony” if you gave it to me for free.

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BehindTheMouth
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 8:17am
Oh this is an easy one. Oblame will pay for it all.

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Jaracing2
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 8:37pm
“My Maserati does 185″ , I lost my license now I can’t drive……LOL

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Sgt_Rock
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 7:24pm
This is no different than parents giving their kids a Subaru WRX for their 16th birthday and watching the tickets start piling up or buying them a 400 horsepower Mustang for graduation and then wondering why they don’t make it to their first day of college…pure idiocy. Some companies, like Porsche or Mercedes, even Audi will send you to a drivers’ clinic when you buy a new car, unfortunately, it’s months after you take delivery. If you buy a new Boss 302 Ford will send you to a two day school in Utah. But if someone buys one of these high end cars second hand, they are left to their own devices and end up being a hazard to the motoring public. Up here in the NW with all of the Microsoft, Intel, software geeks, we see a lot of these guys show up at track days, drinking their energy drinks and chocolate milk, with Viper GTS-R’s , late model Ferrari’s of all types, two Lambos that I can recall, Ford GTs, Audi R8s plus the requisite Porsche’s and M series BMWs, basically the entire gamut of more car than driver match ups. Suffice it to say most of them spend a lot of time sideways or in the runoff areas as guys with much less expensive cars get their money’s worth concentrating on being smooth and mastering car control which eventually = fast. It’s like learning to ride a motorcycle…you don’t start off on a ZX-14, but ultimately your a better rider when you get there.

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Stoic one
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 6:26pm
Three in the whole wide world? OK ..some people probably should not drive..

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- RIDEMODELS
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 9:22pm
  A young girl died in a Lambo accident in Florida and killed the owner of the car who owned multiple Exotics himself and she drove an Audi R8 everyday….Some said she could not drive but I hear stories of these cars all the time and I have come to one conclusion…..I think its the fact that people want to drive them and then they get hard tires, because the sticky ones wear down quick.
  
  Its kind of like the typical Dem or Lib who gets a heavy 2 ton caddy and puts low pro 26″ wheels on it and then wonders why he spends more money on tires per month then on his babies per year….With that much rubber on the road you need sticky tires no matter what the car or the ditch will git cha……and as long as people buy those hard tires then the tire companies will make them….Stupid is as stupid does.
  
  A fool and his money are soon parted…….
  
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Speakmymind
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 4:46pm
OMG 3 Ferraris in the whole world crashed in the same week !!!!!!!!! BFD

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CommonSenseTalk
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 4:10pm
The problem is a ***** should not drive. Just because you are rich does not mean you can drive. They should spend more time learning how to drive with less horsepower first.

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asybot12
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:59pm
@ Gonzo. So that was you!!!! I had to go steal another one!:-)

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Gonzo
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 1:57pm
I hit a shopping cart with mine last week. :-(

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