As a driver on the glamorous, jet-setting Formula One circuit, naturally the Austrian Gerhard Berger drove some serious iron, even away from the track: a red Ferrari 512M Testarossa.
So it was very likely with some dismay that he watched his car unexpectedly drive away with someone else behind the wheel.
Berger jumped in the path of the car, according to reports at the time, but had to leap out of the way as it zoomed off.
He then gamely gave chase in a friend’s Volkswagen Golf, which went about as well as you would have expected it to.
The Ferrari was gone.
Persons:
Austrian Gerhard Berger, Berger, gamely, Ferrari
Organizations:
Ferrari, San Marino, San Marino Grand Prix
Locations:
Austrian, San Marino Grand, Imola, Italy