This Ferrari FXX Evoluzione Crash Sure Hurts to Watch

The world contains one fewer XX program car after this crash at Monza during one of Ferrari’s owner-drive program events.

That screenshot alone should cause a collective gasp. This Ferrari FXX Evoluzione crash happened at one of the XX program’s track days at Monza in early May 2017. And it looks brutal.

[Editor’s Note: The original video has since been taken down, we replaced it with another video taken of the crash.]

Italian YouTube aficionado 19Bozzy92 was on hand at Monza to capture the glory of Ferrari’s XX cars, all of which sound incredible. The V12 FXXs, in particular, shriek like a proper Ferrari should. It’s a solid video on that merit alone, really.

But then everything goes wrong for one driver into the Turn 1-2 chicane, aka the Variante. Things are way wrong even before he gets to the Turn 1 apex. As Bozzy’s camera picks up the Ferrari, one of its wheels has already departed the car. From there, the FXX slides into a big wreck outside of Turn 2.

We’re not sure where this one falls under the age-old “crashing a rental car” stories. On the one hand, the driver probably “owns” the car in that he has paid Ferrari a lot of money for exclusivity of the car. However, Ferrari does the maintenance on the cars and ships them to nine track days a year around the world.

Maybe it’s a philosophical question: If you drive a track-day-only car nine times a year for several years at more than $2.5M, is it just a pricey rental car? You don’t get to take it home and put it in your garage. You can’t show it off to your neighbor, although Ferrari has all kinds of personalized goodies for “owners,” one can be sure.

Knowing that the driver escaped without serious injury, we can’t help but feel a little Schadenfreude, right? The whole idea of it quite silly, unless of course, you live the “Ferrari Lifestyle.”

Whatever else we feel, a wonderfully complex driving machine has been mangled, if not destroyed. That’s reason enough to feel for the artisans who craft such a finely honed, 850-horsepower beast.