(18 Sep 2025)
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Rome, Italy – 18 September 2025
1. Various of pilot Fabio Barone warming up on board of his Ferrari on the deck of Trieste ship
2. Mechanics checking brakes
3. Wide of Trieste aircraft carrier
4. Various of speed record attempt
5. Barone hugging his team
6. Aerial of flight deck – MUTE
7. Barone celebrating
8. SOUNBITE (Italian), Fabio Barone, pilot: “The main thing you focus on it’s concentration and then you realise that you are breaking the record only when you are halfway. Because once you are aware that the car departed well you know you will arrive well. If you start badly you will fail. (How was braking?) Quite well, very close to the limit, we got on the ski jump. (Concerned in that moment?) No, you just thing about what you need to do.”
9. Barone celebrating
10. SOUNDBITE (Italian), Admiral Francesco Marsi, commander of the Trieste aircraft carrier:
“With the Trieste ship we join any initiative like this that unites a successful sport record attempt with social inclusion and charity.”
11. Timekeepers getting off Ferrari
12. SOUNDBITE (Italian), Roberto Paolino, Italian timekeepers federation:
“We did not have any issues. We just had to check the speedometer and confirm the speed, which was 164 kilometres per hour, as recorded on the Ferrari’s speedometer. (So we have a record?) Yes we have an official record.”
13. Barone taking helmet off
14. Various of Ferrari car
15. Barone with ship commander
16. Aerial of Trieste Italian navy aircraft carrier – MUTE
STORYLINE:
Along Italy’s central coast on Thursday, driver Fabio Barone raced across the flight deck of a navy ship while chasing a world record: the fastest car on a boat.
Last year, Barone set the Italian Timekeepers Federation’s record on another aircraft carrier in southern Italy, hitting 152 kilometers per hour (94.4 mph).
On Thursday in Civitavecchia, on the coast near Rome, he aimed to reach 160 kph then hit the brakes before launching off the deck’s so-called “ski-jump” and smashing into the cruise ship stationed just fore.
Race engineer Alessandro Tedino told The Associated Press that he wasn’t sure the record was going to be attained.
The ship had been out on the Mediterranean Sea overnight, and the crew emerged in the early morning to find its flight deck wet.
They immediately set to drying it, with the job finished by late summer sunbeams. "If it remained wet, then of course it’s impossible to have the maximum speed and best brakes. It can be very, very dangerous," he said.
As the "Top Gun" theme song rang out from speakers, the carrier’s portside elevator lifted Barone’s team to the deck where journalists, naval officers and VIPs waited. A group of children with Down’s Syndrome, chosen to serve as honorary "mechanics for the day," removed the red, satiny cover to reveal Barone’s steed: a red-and-black Ferrari SF90.
Barone eased himself into the supercar then drove back and forth along the length of the deck several times to warm up its V8 turbo engine. It roared louder with each pass as he pushed its 1,085 horses harder and harder.
Then he stationed himself at the far end of the 236-meter flight deck and awaited the all clear.
"Here he goes! Here he goes!" the announcer called as Barone left his mark and zipped past the crowd.
Mere seconds later he came to a stop, and the crowd applauded haltingly — impressed by the speedy spectacle, but unsure if he’d beaten the record. The official timekeeper approached the car and inspected the gauges within.
Reporters swarmed.
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