This Ferrari cost its owner $427,000 per hour

Iain Kelly

Contributing Journalist

1 min read

It is the dream of many car enthusiasts - to go out and buy not just a Ferrari, but one of their special lightweight track day models. For one unfortunate bloke in the UK his dream became a nightmare, crashing his rare 430 Scuderia after only owning it for an hour!

Police in Yorkshire reported the driver lost control on a wet M1 motorway near South Yorkshire on Thursday, leaving the road and ending in a field on fire 50m off the highway.

The Scuderia, a track day variant of the popular 430 model, is one example of a modern Ferrari already going up in value thanks to its high performance capabilities and rarity.

It was reported the unnamed owner had paid up to £260,000 (approx. $427k) for the car just an hour earlier.

Thankfully he escaped with some cuts, bruises and very damaged pride. 

Iain Kelly is the car-obsessed maniac behind The Creators Online.

What's the shortest time you've heard of someone owning a supercar before it all went downhill? Let us know in the comments below.

Iain Kelly

Contributing Journalist

A love of classic American and European cars drove Iain Kelly to motoring journalism straight out of high school, via the ownership of a tired 1975 HJ Holden Monaro.  For nearly 20 years he has worked on magazines and websites catering to modified late model high-performance Japanese and European tuner cars, as well as traditional hot rods, muscle cars and street machines. Some of these titles include Auto Salon, LSX Tuner, MOTOR, Forged, Freestyle Rides, Roadkill, SPEED, and Street Machine. He counts his trip to the USA to help build Mighty Car Mods’ “Subarute” along with co-authoring their recent book, The Cars of Mighty Car Mods, among his career highlights.  Iain lends his expertise to CarsGuide for a variety of advice projects, along with legitimising his automotive obsession with regular OverSteer contributions. Although his practical skills working on cars is nearly all self-taught, he still loves nothing more than spending quality time in the shed working on his project car, a 1964 Pontiac. He also admits to also having an addiction to E30 BMWs and Subaru Liberty RS Turbos, both of which he has had multiple examples of. With car choices like that, at least his mum thinks he is cool.
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