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My Trip To The Ferrari Museum | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Tuesday morning, everybody.
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  We are at Ferrari in Maranello, Italy, basically Modena, so
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  unbelievable. I have so much to say.
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  We are at Ferrari and this is the museum, by the way, breaking
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  news in the garage area. Lewis Hamilton is here right now
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  and John and myself, we started up, we started our tour here.
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  There's buses over there. And I'm going to tell you what,
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  if if you ever come here, take a tour because the tour's
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  incredible. It's like it goes right through
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  the race team that's racing right now.
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  I'm sorry. They would not let us take any
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  pictures. They told us that right away.
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  No pictures. Formula One, man, they are
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  tight. They protect everything they
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  have. But this is the museum and gift
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  shop. It all starts right here.
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  I have so much to say. I'm trying to think of
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  everything, but I want to tell you the cool news right away.
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  Lewis Hamilton's here. And as we took the bus tour
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  through the new race shop and then Enzo Ferrari's old race
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  shop that got bombed during one of the wars, we watched the
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  manufacturing of you. We didn't watch it, but we saw
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  the body shells. So Lewis is here today and the
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  fans have found their way. John, come here.
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  John being shy on me. So how many fans do you think
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  were there at the gate trying to get a glimpse of thousands?
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  They had flags and T-shirts and hordes of screaming fans.
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  It was so they all tried to get a glimpse of Lewis Hamble.
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  Maybe it was 100. It was about 50 people, about 50
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  people and, and, and, and they OK the entry level.
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  Here's some information. The entry level like if you want
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  to buy a Ferrari, it's $300,000. That's the starter car.
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  Then the bad ass car goes up like 2.7 million.
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  They build 13,000 cars a year. Takes three days to assemble one
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  car. And I can tell you and John
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  interrupt me if I'm wrong. You're.
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  Never wrong. Yes, I am wrong.
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  My wife's always right. I'm wrong.
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  But the the shell of the car is is built down the road here, the
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  shell, the body shell is built by 1 of Enzo's longtime friend.
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  I think he's still alive yes and and it was a deal that Enzo made
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  with his friend to build the body shells and and they they
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  the body shells are brought here and the deal he made with Enzo
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  was number one to keep it there and 30 minutes down the road or
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  something, keep his keep his employees.
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  What was the third one? Keep the name, keep the name.
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  There's a name of the body shells.
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  You'll know respond right here. I you know, I'm the ADH got
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  attention deficit disorder ADD whatever.
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  So I was so much information, but they did let us see, you
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  know, the bodies with all the bolt on the, you know, the body
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  with the frame. They let us see that go in the
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  assembly department and it gets it takes three days to assemble.
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  What did they say? They assembled per day. 60 to
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  66. 60 to 66 cars per day. So if you times out by 365 days
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  that it sounds like they said they built 13,000, I don't know.
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  That's too. Much math?
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  Yeah, that's too much math. Respond right here.
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  But we did see one of their first SUVs, 4 doors.
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  We did see one of those. Saw some prototypes driving
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  around. Too, the prototypes drive
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  around. And here's the other deal,
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  although it's the factory. Oh, look, look, look, look, so
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  you know, you know, in NASCAR, if you go to like Rick Hendrick,
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  it's like it's nice. But this is oh, oh, here's the
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  other one. Ferrari employs 5000 people
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  because you got the race team, you got an in the man.
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  So the here's the other thing that I thought was exciting the
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  manufacturer, like if you own a Ferrari and the race team,
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  they're all in the same square. So like the race cars and where
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  they build the passenger cars are right there all together.
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  Everything you can't hardly see in anything.
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  The the race team is very up to date, very sophisticated kind of
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  glass you can't see in. I got some other really cool
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  information and all of you F1 fans know it.
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  They showed us their Formula One track.
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  So they had an incredible test track here, and Michael
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  Schumacher still holds the record to this day at the test
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  track, which is right behind her.
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  And I'm going to tell you what, this test track is badass.
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  And what did they say the record was?
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  50 point? It's a three mile track 50. 5
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  seconds. 55.99 but Michael Schumacher still owns the
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  record. But test tracks are illegal now,
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  Formula One said. Y'all are spending too much
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  money. No more testing.
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  So just like NASCAR, so as soon as soon as we trash NASCAR, talk
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  bad about them. Formula One does not allow your
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  own test track anymore. They got a a kick ass wind
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  tunnel here and the wind tunnel is illegal now.
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  So in Formula One to cut costs, this this test track is
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  unbelievable. That's illegal.
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  No more Formula One testing on your own track.
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  The wind tunnel's illegal. No more of that.
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  So what do they do with it all? They have this Ferrari team.
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  These people are extremely wealthy.
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  And you own the car, but you don't get to take the car with
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  you. The car stays here, over there
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  in this incredible big white building.
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  And let's say they're going to have an event in New York.
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  First of all #1 clients in the world on Globe earth #1 clients
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  for Ferrari. America #2 Germany, China's in
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  there anyway, this is like number six or seven.
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  Italy, the home of Ferrari is like #6 but America is the
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  number one buyers. So these these real wealthy
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  people, they buy these things, but they don't get to they don't
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  get to keep them. They're like a little miniature
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  race team, like a race club. And they come here and they're
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  the only ones that use the test track.
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  So the the make believe racers, sorry, don't get mad at me,
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  don't get mad at me. The make believe racers, they
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  own the car. They don't get the take it home.
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  It stays here. And it let's say the let's say
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  they're they're going to race in New York.
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  How many people go with that guy?
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  They send 20 people. So let's say a car from here is
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  going to go to America and race for a little, you know, Country
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  Club deal a little. It's a little more than that.
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  I'm not demeaning you. Calm down.
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  But buddy, you know the money out there.
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  You know how we all pour mouth this or that.
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  You haven't seen money until you deal with Formula One people.
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  They, they got a flock of $100 bills flying out their ass.
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  That's how wealthy they are around here.
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  It's unbelievable. And you know, in Formula One,
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  they just try to cut costs because I think their budget is
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  like 2300 million per year. NASCAR's like 20 million a year.
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  Like for Jimmie Johnson to win one of those 7 championships,
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  they spent like 20 million a year here.
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  They spent like 300 million a year.
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  The wind tunnel, they use that for some of their passenger cars
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  now. All right, I think that's it.
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  I said a lot. I hope it helped.
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  It was a little different than I thought.
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  It was much smaller. That's why those Ferraris cost
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  so much money. If you buy a Ferrari, they they
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  got their hands on them and they take three days to build.
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  So you're buying a car assembled by people.
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  There's no manufacturing to it. You buy a Ferrari, it's like men
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  are putting it together. There's none of this snap
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  together stuff. They're bolting it together.
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  They're torquing it. Are we gonna are we gonna go buy
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  a Ferrari T-shirt now? Let's.
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  Do it. We're gonna go buy a Ferrari
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  T-shirt, all right? Everybody, all you Ferrari
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  people I know, you know everything I get, you know
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  everything. Remember?
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  Respond right here. Tell us everything I said wrong
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  'cause you're such a bad ass. I always got to be a little
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  smart ass.