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Jeremy
Clarkson’s Ferrari F355 has a new home. The
Driving section’s competition to win the car
Clarkson calls “the best ever made” has been
won by Paul Kenyon, an accountant from
Bristol
.
Kenyon
picked up the Ferrari from the Sunday Times
offices last week before driving it home.
“It’s
a stunning, beautiful car,” he said. “Going
straight out into
London
was a bit of a baptism of fire, but it was fine.
It was surprisingly easy to drive around town
and then the motorway on the way back was great.
The performance is unbelievable.
“It’s
a very noisy car but it’s a lovely sound. When
we arrived at our friends’ house they heard us
coming and came out to watch. There was a lot of
envious attention.”
While
the winners of the previous Driving competitions
took a hard-headed approach and sold their
prizes, a BMW Z8 and Jaguar XKR, Kenyon has
decided to defy his profession’s reputation,
live a little, and keep the car.
“I’ve
always been a big-time driving fan, watching all
the grands prix and reading the car magazines.
Until now the best car I’ve owned is the
Peugot 205 1.9 GTI.”
His
wife Wendy is also insured to drive the Ferrari,
but was waiting until the weekend to find some
open space to go for a spin in it. Unfortunately
the family’s two children,
aged three and four, will not fit in. “My
daughter was saying we’d have to put two extra
seats in the back, but I had to explain we
couldn’t really do that.”
They
will still use their Mercedes E-class and Honda
Civic for family duties, but keep the Ferrari in
a friend’s garage away from the house.
“We’ve
had some offers from friends to look after the
kids for the weekend, so pretty soon we’ll
find somewhere nice to go and stay and take it
for a spin with the roof off.”
Jeremy,
meanwhile, says he is still missing it.
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