Reply #22: Didn't use the paddles myself....stuck with the 6 speed gated [View All]

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regular gearbox and tried to ensure I didn't throw it into reverse at 100mph!

I was on a track day that I won through work. Also got to drive an old 308 and managed to overtake a guy in the 360 'cause he was so damn slow. Why would you bother spending all that money to race Ferraris round a track and then stay below 80mph?

The gearbox broke in the 360 after I'd driven it......purely a coincidence! They say that if you own a Ferrari or a Maserati or a Lambourghini you spend the rest of your life wandering around it with a bit of plastic in your hand, trying to work out where it fell off from....

I also took a Landrover Defender around their offroad course which was lots of fun and really got me into the whole idea of offroading. I took it a bit more seriously last year when living in Australia and touring round....even if my vehicle weighed 2 tonnes and only had a 1.6L 20 year old engine in it!