Behold: the 1952 Ferrari Arno XI Hydroplane – developed to set the speed record in the 800kg class by Cantieri Timossi and the Ferrari Scuderia F1 team.
Fitted with a race-prepped Grand Prix engine adapted to burn methanol, the 502bhp speedboat driven by Achille Castoldi set a 150.49mph (242.2km’h) record that still stands today.
Currently undergoing a complete restoration by Ferrari Classiche, it’s available to buy (complete with full documentation, hundreds of period photographs, handwritten notes from Ferrari’s engineers, and a copy of the U.I.M. record certification that attests to Castoldi’s 1953 speed record.)
Price on application
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That’s just terrifying
How to kill yourself in 60 terrifyingly wonderful seconds!
“… what we Spartans call ‘a beautiful death'” :)
( 300)
There are no, and never have been, and never will be, Spartans in Waterford.
Some footage of the boat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03Onlgc_hj4&feature=emb_logo