To make things worse, the car isn’t yours. In fact, you’re a Ferrari technician, and you’ve just seriously wrecked the highest-mileage F40 in the world. That’s exactly what happened on January 16th in the UK, and there’s a video of the horrifying accident that’s one of the worst unforced automotive errors ever.

The whole clip is seven seconds long, but even that oversells how long it takes events to unfold. It opens with the Ferrari headed straight down the highway, and before we even have time to get a feel for the scene, the F40 is already sideways. How? I’ve got three words for you: lift-off oversteer.

Norris isn't believed to have been driving when the iconic Ferrari had its unscheduled meeting with a guardrail.

Norris reportedly bought the F40 in 2024, according to The Daily Mail, so he had little time to enjoy it before this crash. Hagerty currently values the model at $2.4 million in good condition, and prices can be even higher for pristine examples.

Lando Norris' Ferrari F40 ended up with the rear bumper cracked following a crash right outside Monaco. The F1 driver was out of the country at the moment

If you want to avoid putting your vintage supercar into a ditch, there are a couple of things to look out for.

The driver was transported to a local hospital following the incident.

It's been a rough couple of weeks for owners of the iconic Ferrari F40. Last week one of the multi-million-dollar exotics met what looked like its end in a drizzly crash where it flipped over and met a lamppost along the way. Now it's another car, this one belonging to Lando Norris, though the Formula 1 driver was not the one behind the wheel.

This Ferrrari F40 was reportedly crashed by a service technician during a test drive. Nobody was injured in the accident

The Ferrari F40, regarded by many as the pinnacle of the brand and the last model approved by Enzo Ferrari, is a rare and valuable car. Recently, Lando Norris' Ferrari F40, the Formula 1 driver, was involved in an accident in Monaco.