My Brother J and I recently went to the Design Museum in London to look at The Ferrari Under The Skin Exhibition and to watch a film that will be reviewed in a later blog post.
The exhibition is s a part of the 70th anniversary of Ferrari and as such has been dubbed one of the most important Ferrari exhibitions ever.
The exhibition contains cars worth £140 million and a myriad of documents, photo's and much more. It also goes through the full process of how Ferrari's are from technical drawings to using clay and wood to being the finished car.
The exhibition has 4 sections that give an amazing account of Ferrari's 70 years, scroll down to have a look at what they have.
Ferrari Daytona Competizione in the foyer of the Design Museum.
Section 1, Enzo Ferrari and his cars
1945 Ferrari 125 S Replica.
The V12 engine and gearbox of the Ferrari 125 S.
Technical Drawing of the engine of the Ferrari 125 S by Gioacchino Colombo from 1945.
Side view and engineering drawings of the Ferrari 125 S by Gioacchino Colombo from 1945.
Pictures, press of Enzo Ferrari with commercial documents from businesses from the 1920's and 1930's.
1933 Ferrari Yearbook.
A Ferrari Terzo Annual.
Some of the watches that Enzo Ferrari gave his clients and customers.
Francesco Baracca, the Italian Pilot who's family crest , the black prancing horse, is still used today by Ferrari.
Brochures for Ferrari and Auto Avio construction machine tools.
Enzo Ferrari's International Racing License.
Examples of typed and hand written documents.
A report regarding the Ferrari 166 including a hand drawn diagram of the exhaust.
A close up of the diagram.
2. The Form of a Ferrari
Technical drawing of a Ferrari 250 Cabriolet by Pininfarina.
Rendering of the Ferrari 250 GTO.
Technical drawing of a 1960 Ferrari Superamerica Coupe Speciale.
Technical drawing of a Ferrari 365 GTA by Pininfarina.
Technical drawing of the Ferrari 166 P.
Technical drawing of the Ferrari Dino Sport 1966.
Technical drawing of the Ferrari 312 F1.
Computer aided design for the 2000 Ferrari F1.
The shell of the Ferrari 250 LM.
Wooden model for the Ferrari 365P.
Wireframe model for the 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO.
This is a life size clay model of the Ferrari J50 and it shows the clay modelling process that is used by Ferrari. Everything from the way the car looks to how light reflects off of it is taken into consideration.
Wind Tunnel Models for the Ferrari 400 and 250.
Wind tunnel models of the Ferrari Sigma F1 from 1969 and the 1963 Ferrari 250 LM.
Wind tunnel Models of the Ferrari 599 GTB.
Wind Tunnel Models of the CR25 and P6. These were both experimental cars from the late 1960's.
3. Bones.
Engine and Body from the Ferrari 458.
Running Chassis from a 1957 Ferrari 250 LWB.
Crankcase and Cylinder Head from a Ferrari 488 GTB.
Pistons and Crankshaft from a Ferrari 250 GTO.
Brake components for Ferrari GT and F1 cars.
4 Clienti.
1950 Ferrari 166 MM ex Gianni Agnelli
1957 Ferrari 250 GT Cabriolet Ex Peter Collins.
1987 Ferrari Testarossa Spider Ex Gianni Agnelli.
1966 Ferrari 275 GTB/4, One like this was owned by Steve McQueen.
Nick Mason's 1987 Ferrari F40.
My brother J on the left and me on the right take a seat opposite the Ferrari F40. The seats are examples of from Ferrari cars and were very comfortable.
1952 500 F2 driven by Alberto Ascari.
Rob Walker 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO driven by Stirling Moss.
1961 Ferrari 250 SWB. Luigi Chinetti bought this from Ferrari in 1962.
David Piper 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO.
Ferrari F1 2000 driven by Michael Schumacher.
Crash Helmets throughout the years, these are the actual helemts worn by some of Ferrari's racing drivers.
Jose Froilan Gonzalez.
Alberto Ascari.
Juan Manuel Fangio.
Mike Hawthorn.
Phil Hill.
John Surtees.
Jody Scheckter.
Gilles Villeneuve.
Michael Schumacher.
Kimi Raikkonen.
Michael Schmacher's Racing Overalls.
Gordon Ramsay's 2017 LaFerrari Alperta.
If you can go to this exhibition, I highly recommend you do go, it's fascinating to see and walk around. The highlights for me were seeing the hand written documents and photo's as well as the cars. Give yourself a few hours to take it all in as there is lots to see. A ticket will set you back £18, for further information please visit
Thanks to Jordan Lewis at the Design Museum for helping me plan the visit.
