MARANELLO, Italy — The rococo Italian light glints off the rosso corsa flanks of the Prancing Horse-decorated Ferraris. A crowd holds its breath as the magnificent racing machines roar gloriously, ear-splittingly to life.
Wait, strike that last part. It's the first round of the 2008 Scuderia Soap Box, pitting crews of the Scuderia Ferrari Club against one another in team-built gravity-powered vehicles. The look is pure horsepower, but the sound effects are pure Soap Box.
The teams give their cars names redolent of the marque's glory: Squalo Rosso, Cavallo Volante 2, La Gialla (Yellow One), Diabolika, and the plain and simple Enzo Ferrari.
The Bologna Scuderia Ferrari Club, whose entry bears the cut-to-the-chase name XFX, took the first round. That opening race was staged, appropriately, at the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari in Imola this past weekend, where Bologna beat 14 other teams in a three-run final.
The next round takes place on Saturday, May 31, in Milan. The club will set up a starting ramp in the city's Piazza Cadorna that will give the cars a boost as they run along the Foro Bonaparte alongside the Sforzesco castle. Nice scenery, but who will see anything but the cars?
What this means to you: Of all tributes to Ferrari's racing pedigree, this just might be the most touchingly sincere. — Laura Sky Brown, Correspondent
Wait, strike that last part. It's the first round of the 2008 Scuderia Soap Box, pitting crews of the Scuderia Ferrari Club against one another in team-built gravity-powered vehicles. The look is pure horsepower, but the sound effects are pure Soap Box.
The teams give their cars names redolent of the marque's glory: Squalo Rosso, Cavallo Volante 2, La Gialla (Yellow One), Diabolika, and the plain and simple Enzo Ferrari.
The Bologna Scuderia Ferrari Club, whose entry bears the cut-to-the-chase name XFX, took the first round. That opening race was staged, appropriately, at the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari in Imola this past weekend, where Bologna beat 14 other teams in a three-run final.
The next round takes place on Saturday, May 31, in Milan. The club will set up a starting ramp in the city's Piazza Cadorna that will give the cars a boost as they run along the Foro Bonaparte alongside the Sforzesco castle. Nice scenery, but who will see anything but the cars?
What this means to you: Of all tributes to Ferrari's racing pedigree, this just might be the most touchingly sincere. — Laura Sky Brown, Correspondent
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