What is the fastest way to waste a lot of money? Drive full speed ahead after the tire flew off. If it is a Ferrari SF90 Stradale, that is a few tens of thousand of dollars affair.
What you are looking at is not explainable. It happened on California State Route 73 near Bonita Canyon Drive. The footage shows a Ferrari SF90 Stradale painted in Blu Tour de France driving on a highway. So far, so good. But a few seconds into the video, and the left rear tire flies off.
The driver does not seem to mind and goes on driving as if they don’t have a care in the world, not showing any sign of slowing down and pulling over. This is indeed the kind of emergency that emergency lanes are made for.
It is impossible for anyone inside a car to fail to realize that they missed some rubber along the way. A whole tire, actually. Imagine the noise and the vibrations felt on board at that speed driving on bare metal. Or carbon fiber, as is the cafe of this Ferrari. Why they chose to ignore what happened and keep on driving
Witnesses claim that the driver had been driving with a flat tire for quite a while before the rubber launched off the wheel like that, jeopardising the safety of other traffic participants. The video ends that very moment, so we hope that the tire did not end up hitting the car of the one filming the whole thing, which was reportedly a Lamborghini.
What this SF90 Stradale seems to wear are the multi-spoke 20-inch carbon fiber wheels. A set of such wheels is around $50,000. So this is how $50,000 going down the drain look like.
We can just assume that the owner of this supercar has a lot of money to spare. In the United States, the Ferrari SF90 Stradale starts at over half a million dollars: $518,691, to be precise. That is the money the buyers pays to drive home a car powered by a plug-in hybrid system which integrates a 4.0-liter twin-turbocharged V8 engine and three electric motors, plus a 7.9-kWh battery pack.
The system generates a total of 986 horsepower (1,000 PS) and 590 lb-ft (800 Nm) of torque, delivered to both axles via an eight-speed dual-clutch transmission. Those make the SF90 Stradale to accelerate from 0 to 62 mph (0-100 kph) in just 2.5 seconds and hit 124 mph (200 kph) in 6.7 seconds. The top speed of the supercar is electronically limited at 211 mph (340 kph).
If you want to go green in this supercar, you can drive as far as 16 miles (26 kilometers) on electric power only. If you want to go on three wheels only, we bet that won’t take you very far.
