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      01-23-2014, 04:27 PM   #17
TonySCV
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If you haven't read Chris Harris' report exposing Ferrari... it's worth your time...

http://jalopnik.com/5760248/how-ferrari-spins

Ferrari refused to let Harris drive their cars after that review - for almost 3 years. They got over it (just recently)...

"As-cool-as drifting a $300,000 supercar is it’s amazing that Ferrari let Chris Harris drive the car at all. A long-standing feud has existed between Chris Harris and Ferrari that resulted in Ferrari issuing a ban to Harris by refusing to allow Harris to drive any of its press cars, representing the biggest F-you that a manufacturer can send to an auto journalist. All of this tension that resides between Harris and Ferrari stems from a rant made back in 2011 where Harris reveled, among other things, that Ferrari “custom tunes” its vehicles for track testing and media purposes. Obviously this was more than enough for Ferrari to send Harris straight to the penalty box.

To illustrate just how serious this issue has became between Harris and Ferrari, in August of 2011 Ferrari refused to provide a Ferrari 559 GTB to Harris for review, so Harris sold his Porsche and bought one outright! The speeds of the Ferrari 559 are so quick that Harris fell in love with the car and decided to keep the vehicle as his personal car. Maybe it was Harris’s love for this 620-horsepower V12 supercar that brought Ferrari and Harris back together. Either way, it is great to see Harris and Ferrari back together again."

http://drive-a-ferrari.com/chris-har...12-berlinetta/

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