At 507bhp, comes close to Jaguar power, but uses V10 engine and high revs.
Given the constantly high revs, the fast Silverstone circuit is hard on the engine, however.
The exhaust, almost too polite in ordinary driving, starts to scream at high revs.
There's still a 4.2-litre petrol V8, and it still goes with the high revs approach, delivering 450PS at a staggering 8,250rpm.
But at high revs, the engine put a sympathetic buzz in the VIPs, that was much worse than dealing with wind noise.
The stiffest Track setting commands the transmission to hold gears at high revs while the driver manually controls the shift paddles or console stick.
Find the gap, slam your foot on the accelerator and zoom into lane – no run up, high revving or dodging lorries needed.
The handlebars have a very slight buzz at high revs, but for riders wearing a full-face helmet, gloves and earplugs the only indication that the motor is spinning rather quickly will be the tachometer needle.
It has almost no delay in its response to the accelerator, it pulls with the muscularity of a good diesel out of tight corners, it has lots of energy at high revs.
Start gently in second gear, avoiding high revs.
Ferrari purposefully engineered the gearbox to shift more quickly at higher revs, reckoning that at high revs you will be driving that much harder and truly need the next higher gear.
