Look! It’s the Ferrari F80 at Goodwood!

There’s a lot going on underneath the challenging, complex and nuanced surfaces of the new Ferrari F80. LaFerrari’s successor packs so much technology you’d need a degree to get the best out of it.

A 3.0-litre V6 turbocharged to within an inch of its life, derived from a sports prototype that’s handy at winning a really famous French endurance race. Three electric motors, supercharged by a tiny battery delivering four-wheel-drive and an additional 80bhp of forward momentum.

And lots and lots of forward momentum. This thing carries 1,183bhp. It’s the most powerful Ferrari road car ever devised and unleashed upon the world. And yet, for all its tech, complexity, engineering depth and nuanced surfacing… we found it to be “simply mesmerising”.

And look! It’s been busy mesmerising the crowds at Goodwood too, because Ferrari decided to bring its twin-turbo, electrified V6 plaything to last weekend’s Festival of Speed. Fitting, because the F80 has much speed.

As does the Daytona SP3 which – wouldn’t you know it – also made a guest appearance. As did the new Amalfi. And 296 Speciale. And 12Cilindri. Heck, even the oldtimers were woken up and given a shot of espresso: an F50, a 312T,640 and even a screaming F2007.

We were still trying to figure out what was going on underneath that F80, mind...