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[BEST OF] – The Ferrari Story You Didn’t Know You Needed — 4/16/24
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- It's Not the Car
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- Sep 2, 2025
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Summary
While the INTC gang is on a short break, we're dishing up an encore presentation of some of our favorite stories! This episode originally aired in April of 2024. *** Once, in the 1990s, an Italian carmaker hadn’t gone sports-car racing in 20 years. Maybe they were too busy figuring out new ways to make a 348 catch fire or something. Then some influential folks made a few expressive hand gestures and the Italians agreed to do it—but just this once, and then you gotta vaffanculo , alright? Hold onto your butts: Today, we tell the story of the Ferrari 333 SP, the last purpose-built Ferrari prototype before the Le Mans Hypercar they’re running now. Ross raced one of these flying pasta-saucers in IMSA. Jeff engineered them in the same series. The car’s 11,000-rpm V-12 came from a Formula 1 car. It’s a good story. This show’s format rotates weekly, because squirrel. We call this format “It’s Not Not the Car.” This episode was produced by Mike Perlman. ** Support It’s Not the Car: Contribute on Patreon www.patreon.com/notthecar ** Who We Are + Spicy Merch: www.ItsNotTheCar.com ** Topic suggestions, feedback, questions? Let us know what you think! [email protected] ** Check out Sam's book! Smithology: Thoughts, Travels, and Semi-Plausible Car Writing, 2003–2023 ** Where to find us: https://www.instagram.com/intcpod https://www.instagram.com/thatsamsmith/ https://www.instagram.com/j.v.braun/ https://www.instagram.com/rossbentley/ https://rossbentley.substack.com/ https://speedsecrets.com/ ** A…