$8Mil Ferrari Crashed at Monterey Historics Race

This past weekend at the Monterey Historic Races, part of the Famed Monterey Motor Week, a very very expensive 1958 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa decided to get into a pushing contest with a tire wall at the Leguna Seca corkscrew.  I know what everyone is thinking, why is a car smacking the tire walls at the corkscrew new news, it happens all the time.   In this case the car is one of very few in existence and is worth over $8,000,000 USD.  Ferrari only made 34 of these 250 Testa Rossas between 1956 and 1961 and some are valued at over the $12mil mark with a 1957 250 TR selling just months ago for $12.2mil.

I know some people are thinking, why on earth would you race or risk such a car.  Well Ferraris were bread from the mind of a race car driver to be driven by race car drivers and of course raced whenever possible.  Though I wish I had this car and the money to risk it, I cannot fault the man for racing it.  In fact I am happy to see someone using a car like this for what it was intended, and not as some monument or museum piece.

We were not there to get photos ourselves, these were found on the Autoblog site, where they have several articles on the crash.  They even took the time to clip together a nice stitch as a video LOL.