F40 ON THE MOORS

Not even a Porsche 959 or McLaren F1 could thrill quite like a wrung-out F40

DAVID VIVIAN

AN INSANE, TWENTY-MINUTE blast across the North York Moors in a Porsche 959 had left me tense, twitching and close to visceral meltdown. My adrenalin-drenched state had more to do with what I’d managed to get away with than achieve, but the concentrated memory will stay with me forever. I repeated the exercise a few months later in a tweaked Ferrari F40 which, like the 959, belonged to John Mexborough, who lived just down the road in Hawnby. The experience was so intense, so wild and so sharply administered, it left me with an aching neck and tingling nerve-ends for hours after, despite John pouring me a Mackeson on my return. But then what did I expect from the F40, the most focused, the most arousing, the trickiest to master…

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