3 years ago
In the foyer you are greeted by a F1 car hanging v...
In the foyer you are greeted by a F1 car hanging vertically on the wall! 'Cheapness' and unbecoming a Ferrari. BUT I pressed on and don't let this ominous distasteful sign ruin my excitement. At the giant desk with two ladies, of which one was busy doing Italian 'busy' looking stuff, I stand in line for the other lady who indeed was selling tickets. She told me I don't need to pay the parking fee on the parking lot as the machine breaks down often and they don't enforce any fines. Thanks for the tip and I pass it along to you, potential visitor. (we are in Italy after all).
I proceed to the entrance of the exhibition (as it is now suddenly presented on the wall) What? I thought this was a museum! Ten minutes later I find myself standing at a merchandise shop with a 'supermarket' gate telling me it was the end of the exhibition and the exit both at the same time. So I scratched behind my ear and I decided to ask one of the crew people, who were all wearing F1 overalls, where I could find the Gilles Villeneuve F1 car (which is presented on the museum website). He did not know who that was BUT he could tell me where was the room where they had 'some' F1 cars.
Just to name a few of the absentees in the 'museum': No 70s nor 80s F1 /Le Mans cars. No F40, Testarossa, Daytona, Berlinetta Boxer, GTOs. There is not even a Dino! No F1 cars driven by Schumacher/Villeneuve/Lauda/Prost/Alesi/Berger. No F1 640 John Barnard car!! There is more important and historical cars missing but I won't boor you any further.
There are some modern cars which do not belong in a museum yet (nor maybe ever). However they provided accurate miniature models for your viewing pleasure (wow) and 6 historical real F1 cars exhibited in slanted, weird angles. For the average tourist it should be just fine and great to keep the kids busy for a while, you can take pictures seated in modern Ferraris and there are some simulators which were all empty. (No wonder at 25 euros for 10 minutes.....right. )
For petrol-heads who want to witness the history and passion 1st hand it will be a total letdown.