Ferrari Enzo Crashes Into Ocean at Targa Newfoundland
Targa is the single most amazing automotive even in Canada, and possibly North America. Unique in its position as a timed, open-road race past bungalows and cabins, it's one of the last bastions of the purest form of motorsport, alongside the Isle of Mann TT. There's no prepared track surface, no nice gravel traps, and no safety barriers. Just houses, people, and a whole of ocean. And ocean that recently played home to a Ferrari Enzo.
Raced by Zahir Rana of Canada's ZR Auto Group, the owner of an exotic car dealership, the Edo Competition-prepared car can be seen in a Kia video (Kia's video crew were shooting video of the passing cars whilst awaiting the arrival of their luckier Koup that's entered in the race) coming out of a corner, struggling with the uneven road surface, a gravel-strewn exit, and Rana's seemingly heavy right foot. Sliding slightly on exit, Rana abruptly lifts off the gas, subsequently negating his correction and sending the car looping towards the ocean. On the way, it narrowly misses someone's house, destroys a handrail, and slides down the rocky shore. After being pulled safely from the wreckage (which was sitting in just a few feet of water), Rana remarks that now he'll simply have to replace the 850-horsepower near-FXX modified Enzo with a proper FXX. However, after a 2007 police investigation into a video Rana posted of himself and the same Enzo exceeding 339 kilometres per hour on a public highway outside Calgary, and a later arrest for exceeding 200 kph in another exotic, perhaps he'd do better with a Miata and some lessons. On a track.