00:00Here are five things I bet you didn't know about the Ferrari F40 LM.
00:03Now if you don't know, the F40 LM was the track-only variant of the Ferrari F40 and with
00:07everything turned up to 11 to be one of the wildest cars Ferrari has ever made.
00:11But the first thing you'll see on it that's different than a regular F40 is that you'll
00:14see it has a huge front splitter on the front end for additional aero and downforce, plus
00:18extra knack-a-ducks, and the fun fact being that although the F40 has pop-up headlights,
00:22the F40 LM's have these closed static headlights.
00:24The second fun fact you'll find on the F40 LM is that if you look right here on the rear,
00:27you'll see a little air intake jack.
00:29That's because the car has an air jack system where if you plug in compressed air, struts
00:33will shoot down from the car, lifting the whole car up, making it easier to swap out tires
00:37or service the car while at the racetrack.
00:39The third fun fact is that if you look at the car, you'll see that there are no roll-down
00:42windows like there are on the standard F40s, but instead it has these Lexan sliding windows.
00:46And since there's no air conditioning in the car, you'll see the only way you can get some
00:49interior air is through this little vent right here, because more often than not, you're
00:52going to have this closed while you're actually on the track.
00:54And for the fourth fun fact, say you wanted to start up your F40 LM while you might need
00:58the key.
00:59Well, actually, it's a race car, so there is no key on this.
01:01All you need to start it up is actually this battery cutoff switch right here and your ignition
01:05switch and the car will actually fire, so it might be one of the easiest cars ever to
01:08steal.
01:09Now, another fun fact is that there are no door handles in this car, similar to a standard
01:12F40, it just has these little drawstrings right here.
01:15And everything in this car is in the name of saving weight, especially in the interior where
01:19everything is completely stripped out with your transmission linkage totally exposed,
01:22no floor mats, and everything out in the open, because this is pure-blooded race car.
01:26And the last fun fact would be that typically this is where you'd fill up a normal F40,
01:30but you'll see it's actually screwed down, and this does not open.
01:33So if you want to put fuel in your car, what do you do?
01:35Well, actually, if you come over to this side, you'll see that it has fast fueler caps over
01:39here so you can get as much fuel as possible into it as quickly as possible while on the
01:42racetrack.
01:42You're not going to a normal gas pump.
01:44This is race fuel only.
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