Video: Ferrari Academy Driver and F3 champion Robert Shwartzman got behind the wheel of the powerful V8 on Italy’s icy Alpine roads. Power, control, precision and fun made for the perfect ‘test drive’.
Somewhere in Trentino-Alto Adige, the newly-crowned FIA Formula 3 champion Robert Shwartzman has just stirred. He dislikes early morning starts, so the 5.30 a.m. alarm isn’t ideal. But there’s a Ferrari F8 Tributo waiting and that’s one heck of a wake-up call.
The name says it all, really. The Ferrari mid-engined V8 bloodline stretches back to 1975’s 308 GTB, and has passed through numerous iterations since. The 3.9-litre twin turbo V8 that powers the F8 is the latest manifestation of an engineering miracle that has garnered a phenomenal number of industry awards since it arrived in 2014. Now’s the time to pay tribute to itself, and who could blame Ferrari for saluting it?
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