It certainly had some hard acts to follow – the 288 GTO and the F40 – and its successor was the superb Enzo, but the F50 has always struggled to establish its identity in this revered company.

Ferrari’s own description of the Enzo was ‘the closest you can get to the F1 experience in a road car’, generously referring to the noise of the engine, the paddle-shift gearbox and the feel ...