{"id":2022630,"date":"2026-07-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2022630"},"modified":"2026-07-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T21:00:00","slug":"whatever-happened-to-the-v8-powered-fittipaldi-ef7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2022630","title":{"rendered":"Whatever happened to&#8230; the V8-powered Fittipaldi EF7?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-testid=\"HtmlContent\" class=\"MarkUpWrapper-sc-t20i90-0 hQwWlJ\">\n<h3><strong>What is it?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>A driving lesson from double F1 world champion Emerson Fittipaldi \u2013 so long as you chuck him a couple of million for a track-only V8 supercar bearing his name. Originally conceived as a virtual-only racer for the <em>Gran Turismo<\/em> universe, a real life static model was shown at the 2017 Geneva Motor Show.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Did they build any?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Despite Pininfarina design, German race team support from HWA Engineering and promises of a 4.8-litre atmospheric V8 cranking out 600 horsepower, Emmo\u2019s driving school hit the skids in 2019 and never saw the light of day. Shame \u2013 apparently the veteran racer had personally decreed his car should be styled to look like a shark.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"HtmlContent\" class=\"MarkUpWrapper-sc-t20i90-0 hQwWlJ\">\n<h3><strong>Where is it now?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>While track-only supercars are common as muck these days, Fittipaldi Motors is completely defunct. Emerson himself lives in Italy and ran for local office in 2022. Sadly, he failed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is it? A driving lesson from double F1 world champion Emerson Fittipaldi \u2013 so long as you chuck him a couple of million for a track-only V8 supercar bearing his name. Originally conceived as a virtual-only racer for the Gran Turismo universe, a real life static model was shown at the 2017 Geneva Motor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,237],"class_list":["post-2022630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-topgear-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2022630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2022630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2022630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2022630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}