Jakob Ingebrigtsen has a 1989 Ferrari 348 GTB and he's just put in paperwork to upgrade it

... Rojo is still driving his 1999 "vintage" Subaru.

But can he drive it blindfolded?

You only put a half cage in a car if you're interested in tracking it. And what an impossibly dumb thing to do for an athlete at the peak of his athletic career to risk wrecking and injure yourself car racing.

Feels like I’m missing something…why does he need permission to upgrade his car?

Interesting. Not many 1989 348's as that was still a 328 year. Although registered end of 1989 it might be a 1990 model.

Half cage? In the 348 you don't have the room (especially behind the seats) to work with, like you would a 911. You also should never put in any cage that you will still drive on the street and unprotected head can come in contact with.

My final comment a 35 year old "manual" Ferrari can be fun as heck on the track, but any modern sports car will kick its butt and be easier to work on and handle.

I raced a 355 Challenge for over a decade.

Jakob moved up a notch in my book with this car. Still an insecure jackass, but at least he likes cool classic cars. I'll still root for the rest of the field in the Olympics, though.

He lives in Europe. It’s the way we’re going also. Soon thoughts will require permission.

A cool classic car that he intends to modify with gaudy impractical ugly modern modifications. His modifications to that car are from the same brain that decided on the tattoo modifications he made to his skin.

ok boomer

The 348 is a really nice underrated car. It was received badly when it came out because a Honda NSX could beat it. It does have a nice testarossy kind of style to it, which is the best style. If I had his money I would buy a 512TR from the early 90's. That is the best Ferrari. New Ferrari's are boring

Most European countries have strict vehicle inspections. Probably the most well known in the US among car enthusiasts is the TÜV inspection in Germany, which is famously comprehensive. They care not only about the condition of the stock parts of the car but every single third-party spare part (OEM part already approved) or modified part must be certified as meeting quality and safety standards by TÜV. So in Germany, you have to make sure that any car parts you buy have TÜV certification. It's probably similar in Norway. No coal-rolling diesel modifications in those countries.

Man, you don’t know much about Norway -here we need permission to release a fart…

Car racing is a non contact sport and statistically far safer than literally playing any other sport. Go ahead and name one athlete injured from racing a car on the track. You might spin out or drive into some grass if you take a corner too fast, big whoop. There's no money on the line so nobody's riding your ass that hard and everyone is 100x better at driving than the grandma's on public roads. It's the same reason the autobahn is way safer than american roads even though people are going 200+ mph

This is not true. Just in the pretty tiny, everyone-knows-each-other American Rally Association, there were three deaths last year (Erin Kelly, Kubo Kordisch, and Neil Thomas CarlinSchauer). Some of the most famous drivers ever died in racing crashes like Ayron Senna and Dale Earnhardt. Senna died just one day after Roland Ratzenberger died during qualifying at the very same F1 race.

Ferrari's what are boring?

I got to drive one of them as a present. I found it underwhelming. Should've got a 355.

But there is money on the line

calling it now. He is too distracted to win Olympic gold in the 1500 with the car and baby. I think he will still win the 5000 off ability but he isn’t winning the 1500

So true. A friend of mine has a Ferrari Testarossa and it feels slow as f ck.