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The Ferrari F40 wowed the motoring world when first unveiled in June 1987. The model took its name from the 'F' of Ferrari and '40' as a celebration of the 40th anniversary of Ferrari car production.
Customers could have an F40 in any colour they liked, as long as it was red! It was fast, radical in appearance, and bereft of interior appointments, with a totally minimalist approach and extensive use of composite components in its construction, with a 478bhp, twin-turbo, 2,963cc, 90° V8 engine.
Competition examples competed successfully in top-level national and international racing from 1989 to 1996.
● Lavish production, large-format, and extensively illustrated with over 400 images, including factory production, racing and 'under-the-skin' imagery showing the car's componentry.
● Fascinating and authoritative text from Ferrari marque expert Keith Bluemel.
● Appendices covering production data, specifications and the full racing history of the F40, event-by-event, and chassis-by-chassis.
● Interviews with Nicola Materazzi, widely regarded as the father of the F40, and Dario Benuzzi, Ferrari's F40 development driver.
● Comprehensive chapters covering Ferrari's roots, the F40's ancestry, design and production; under the skin of the F40; the F40 racing story and owning and running an F40 today.
About the author
Keith Bluemel started writing about Ferrari in 1980, initially as a contributor to the Ferrari Owners' Club magazine 'Ferrari', for which he still writes regularly, and then broadened out to work for many Ferrari-specific magazines around the world. He is a long-time contributing editor to the respected American Ferrari magazine 'Cavallino' and has been its competition editor since 2004. He also contributes to 'Ferrari Magazine (the official magazine produced for the factory by Condé Nast), 'Prancing Horse' (the official magazine of the Ferrari Club Of America) and 'Ferrari Club'.
