Since 1971, Dario Benuzzi has been a fixture at Ferrari. The factory test driver has played a key role in the development of every one of the company’s roadgoing supercars since the 246 Dino. While he handed over chief test driver duties to his hand-picked successor, Raffaele De Simone, in 2003, Benuzzi’s legend cannot be overstated for the Italian automaker—he was even chosen to be an Olympic torch bearer when the legendary totem passed through Maranello on its way to the 2006 Winter Games in Turin. Top Gear magazine described him as a “decisive, precise, and staggeringly fast-acting driver.” Now you can watch him hustle four of Ferrari’s most legendary supercars around the Fiorano test track.
-Benuzzi’s job earned him personal sign-off responsibility for every new model to come out of Maranello. His greatest hits list includes the BB, 288 GTO, F40, F50, Enzo, 458, FXX, and FF. As he pointed out to Top Gear magazine, the only absence from that list is the 348—which was widely criticized for un-Ferrari-like handling, and which Benuzzi immediately rectified with the updated and far superior F355.When we tested the F355, we said it put Ferrari “back on the most-wanted list.”
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Enough preamble. Here he is driving four generations of Ferrari supercars: the F40, F50, Enzo, and LaFerrari. Enjoy:
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