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Google Exec Buys Wife A Ferrari FXX K 
We first heard about Google executive Benjamin Sloss and his admiration for the Ferrari brand in 2012 when he paid close to $1.8 million for a Ferrari 599XX Evo in a charity auction. Now he’s back in the headlines and proving his generosity once more, this time by presenting his wife Christine with a LaFerrari-based FXX K for her birthday.
The FXX K is sold out but for those lucky few invited to purchase one it came with a price tag of 2.5 million euros (approximately $2.8 million). The couple recently headed to Maranello to take delivery of their example at the factory and spend some time testing it out on Ferrari’s Fiorano test track.
It was a huge surprise as the birthday girl thought she was only flying to Maranello to drive the 599XX Evo, but when she arrived she was greeted with this yellow FXX K—the same shade of yellow the couple orders all their Ferraris in.
And before you start thinking Benjamin was really treating himself with the purchase, note that Christine is an accomplished GT driver and takes part in a number of track events each year. In fact, after a few laps of Fiorano in the FXX K, she was running 1:20 with a passenger on board. That comes close to matching the 1:19.70 that the LaFerrari set with official tester Raffaele De Simone at the wheel.
Of course, the FXX K is a much more extreme car than the LaFerrari on which it’s based. The track-only model, part of Ferrari’s XX rolling laboratory fleet, delivers as much as 1,035 horsepower from its hybrid powertrain. There’s also loads more downforce compared to the road car, plus slick tires and recalibration of the electronic systems such as the differential, traction control and SSC Side Slip Angle Control feature.
By V. Vijayenthiran
We first heard about Google executive Benjamin Sloss and his admiration for the Ferrari brand in 2012 when he paid close to $1.8 million for a Ferrari 599XX Evo in a charity auction. Now he’s back in the headlines and proving his generosity once more, this time by presenting his wife Christine with a LaFerrari-based FXX K for her birthday.
The FXX K is sold out but for those lucky few invited to purchase one it came with a price tag of 2.5 million euros (approximately $2.8 million). The couple recently headed to Maranello to take delivery of their example at the factory and spend some time testing it out on Ferrari’s Fiorano test track.
It was a huge surprise as the birthday girl thought she was only flying to Maranello to drive the 599XX Evo, but when she arrived she was greeted with this yellow FXX K—the same shade of yellow the couple orders all their Ferraris in.
And before you start thinking Benjamin was really treating himself with the purchase, note that Christine is an accomplished GT driver and takes part in a number of track events each year. In fact, after a few laps of Fiorano in the FXX K, she was running 1:20 with a passenger on board. That comes close to matching the 1:19.70 that the LaFerrari set with official tester Raffaele De Simone at the wheel.
Of course, the FXX K is a much more extreme car than the LaFerrari on which it’s based. The track-only model, part of Ferrari’s XX rolling laboratory fleet, delivers as much as 1,035 horsepower from its hybrid powertrain. There’s also loads more downforce compared to the road car, plus slick tires and recalibration of the electronic systems such as the differential, traction control and SSC Side Slip Angle Control feature.
By V. Vijayenthiran
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