Ferrari and the Ferrari Owners Club GB joined forces at Silverstone on Saturday 9 June, 2007, to set an incredible new Guinness World Record for the ‘Largest Parade of Ferrari Cars’, with an astonishing parade of 385 Ferrari cars, more than triple the previous record. With road and race cars from every decade of the Prancing Horse’s proud and unique heritage, Ferrari owners from the UK and all over the world joined together to create an amazing spectacle to celebrate Ferrari’s 60th Anniversary and the Ferrari Owners Club GB’s 40th Anniversary.

With several rare and extremely valuable cars in the Guinness World Record parade, ranging from a 250 California Spider and a 275 GTB/C through to the ultra-desirable 250GTO and the ultra-exclusive FXX, as well as several examples of Ferrari’s iconic supercars, the F40, F50 and Enzo, a conservative estimate of the value of the cars in the parade on Saturday would be in excess of £60 million – a perfect number to mark the company’s anniversary year.

Massimo Fedeli, Managing Director of Ferrari GB Ltd, said: “What an amazing sight… We are proud to have the support of so many Ferrari owners today in setting a new Guinness World Record. We would like to express our sincere thanks to the Owners Club, our Sponsors and everyone who has been working behind the scenes for months to achieve this fantastic record.”

Peter Everingham, Secretary of the Ferrari Owners Club GB, was equally effusive: “I’m so proud to have been asked by Ferrari to help set a new Guinness World Record. What our members achieved here today on the Club’s 40th Anniversary is quite remarkable – with over 1000 Ferrari cars from every era here this weekend. We have so many enthusiastic owners, and I want to thank them for their support as we couldn’t have achieved this without them. I’m sure this one will take some beating.”

In order to comply with the Guinness World Record’s rules for such an attempt, the cars must all travel over a minimum 2 mile distance, no more than two car lengths apart, and must be counted at the beginning and the end of the parade. With a starting grid of Ferrari cars stretching from Becketts all the way to Copse on the Silverstone Circuit, the cars completed one full lap and covered a distance of 3 miles, driving two abreast around the entire circuit. At the head of the parade was a 599 GTB Fiorano driven by Bruno Senna, nephew of three-time World Champion Ayrton Senna, driving in the Ferrari Challenge as a guest driver this weekend, and a specially-liveried 612 Scaglietti which was driven by PC Paul Atkin who recently joined the Ferrari 60 Relay as it toured around the UK.
 

Behind the lead cars were a fleet of Fiorano Ferrari F430 cars driven by Ferrari GB’s VIP guests and sponsors who all had the unique opportunity to participate in setting a new Guinness World Record. Then came the extensive stable of Prancing Horses from the Ferrari Owners Club GB which made up the bulk of the 385 cars on track on Saturday. After double-checking her count, both at the start and the end of the parade, Nadine Causey, Adjudicator for the Guinness World Record, presented Massimo Fedeli and Peter Everingham with a Certificate to mark the occasion.

Ferrari’s 60th Anniversary worldwide celebrations culminate on 23 June when the Ferrari 60 Relay baton, which has been carried around the world by enthusiastic Ferrari owners from every country, arrives in Maranello, Italy, the historical and present home of the Prancing Horse.

The European series of the Ferrari Challenge Pirelli Trophy and the Shell Ferrari Historic Challenge on Sunday staged their second races of the weekend. In the main class of the one make series for the F430 cars, Bruno Senna (guest driver for Ferrari GB Dealer Team) finished first, followed by Giacomo Piccini (Motor) , Ange Barde (Stradale Automobile) and Michael Cullen (Rossocorsa.) Among the gentlemen drivers in the Shell Cup, the winner was Ronnie Kessel (Kessel Racing) who beat Michael Cantillon (Ferrari GB Dealer Team) and Thomas Wille (Kessel Racing.)

In the Shell Ferrari Historic Challenge, which since 1999 has also been open to Maserati cars, first place in Grid A went to Stefan Schollwoeck, while Irvine Laidlaw took the top slot in Grid B (sports prototypes and GT cars fitted with drum brakes,) after the win in Race 1 yesterday. In Group C (cars with disc brakes,) the 1972 Ferrari 312 PB of Irvine Laidlaw came out on top in both races. There was more spectacular action on track thanks to a demonstration of historic single-seaters prepared by the Maranello F1 Clienti department and by the FXX cars driven by the Ferrari "Owner Test Drivers."

The next event for Ferrari Corse Clienti is scheduled to take place over the weekend of 17 June, with the Italian series of the Ferrari Challenge Pirelli Trophy, at the Roman Vallelunga circuit.