[V8slayer]

I read in a copy of Car last year that the track record at Ferrari's Fiorano test track are as follows:

Schumy's F2001: 55sec
Maserati MC12: 1min 13sec
Enzo: 1min 25sec
360CS: 1min 27sec
360: 1min 30sec

And the new F430 can apparently match the 360CS quite easily.

Now you're paying 117,000 pounds for a relatively comfortable, beautiful to look at exotic supercar in the F430.

You'd be paying over 420,000 pounds for an Enzo. It's only very marginally faster. And I'd dare say a two second a lap difference by someone like Luca Badoer hardly means an average driver will be consistently faster in the Enzo.

So aside from getting a wow while driving the 430 and a WOOOOW when driving an Enzo, you're way more out of pocket, less comfortable, probably less usable and not really faster.

What's the point?

And just out of curiosity, does anyone have stats on the times a 996 turbo or GT2 posted around the N'ring? I know the Carrerra GT did a 7min33.45sec.