There are many places in Italy where you can enjoy a memorable drive, but nothing beats a Modena Ferrari driving experience. Rent the coveted sports car yourself and drive along the Amalfi Coast, or sit alongside a professional driver as they whisk you around one of Italy’s famous race tracks. It’s all up to you.
Modena is the home of Ferrari and the location of the incredible Enzo Ferrari Museum. The Emilia-Romagna region, or ‘Motor Valley region’ as it is affectionately referred to, has plenty to keep motorheads entertained, from visiting factories and car museums to race tracks.
One of the best things to do while here is to take a Ferrari test drive. You, too, can have this experience of a lifetime in northern Italy. Here’s how.
VIDEO: Driving a Ferrari in Modena
Essentials You Need To Know About a Modena Ferrari Drive at Autodromo Di Modena Srl
As mentioned, there are actually quite a few places around Italy where you can experience the thrill of a Ferrari driving experience. This post will focus on the Autodromo Di Modena Srl racetrack in Modena. The city is the home of Ferrari, after all, and this is a unique place to test-drive one of the most coveted sports cars in the world.
What To Expect on a Ferrari Driving Experience in Modena
Imagine this: The driver turns to you and flashes a cheeky smile. “Sure, you’re ready for this?” “Oh, I’m ready,” you reply. “Okay, let’s go!” he says as he slams his foot on the pedal. Suddenly, you’re gliding around the track at over 200km/h (124 mph), which is actually way below what this beast of a sports car can do when pushed harder.
Your heart pounds, your eyes bulge, and the seat belt digs tight against your chest. The world blurs into a streak of speed and roar, leaving you breathless and alive.
It’s all possible at the Autodromo di Modena track, sitting next to a professional race car driver.
As your mouth drops to the floor with a mix of excitement and adrenaline, there’s no wiping that smile off your face. The experienced driver is hellbent on glancing across to make sure you’re okay. As he expertly guides the car around corkscrew bends, your seat belt stays tight to keep you safe.
Feel the seat belt hug you tight for ultimate safety. It keeps you secure as you sink deeper into the ultra-low seat, gazing out the windscreen while the trackside scenery whips by like a high-speed blur.
How Long Does a Test Drive of a Ferrari in Modena Last?
The whole experience is over quicker than a rollercoaster ride, and I’m left sitting in the parked car trying to catch my breath. Depending on the type of experience you’ve booked, you can round the track up to 13 times or extend the experience to be a full-day experience.
What a rush!
Tip: Opt for more flexible clothing. Those ultra-low seats aren’t forgiving!
How Much Does a Ferrari Test Drive Cost?
This unforgettable Ferrari driving experience costs €879 ($1,045 USD) for three laps in a Ferrari 296 Challenge. For a Ferrari 488 Challenge, expect to pay €852 ($1,012 USD) for three laps. The maximum laps you can go around this track is five times, but this comes with a steeper price point, of course.
If you’re going to do it, do at least five laps. It would be way too fast with just three laps of the track, as it’s just 2.068 kilometers (approximately 1.28 miles) long.
Compare all the tour options below:
Self-Driving Race Track Experience
Fancy a self-drive in a Ferrari in Modena? Take this self-driving tour on the track. You can, with your pro instructor riding shotgun. But after seeing groups wipe out in our earlier simulator (yikes!), we always recommend letting the expert take the wheel. You’ll hit top speeds, soak in the ride, snap epic GoPro videos, and skip the panic over crashing a €189,500 – €239,900 ($226, 077 – ~$286, 205) beast.
Travel insurance probably won’t love that.
Prices to drive a few laps around the track start at €240 ($285 USD) for four hours. From there, the price increases for eight hours at €420 ($500 USD). For an 8-hour rate on the sports driving course (9:00-18:00), it will cost about €550 ($653 USD).
If your friends are racing around the track and you’ve opted not to, there are a few cool viewing platforms to watch the cars fly by. Once the Ferraris (they have 2 in total at this track in Modena) park up at the end, it’s a fun opportunity to get that once-in-a-lifetime shot posing next to a car. These can cost more than most normal houses.
Once the Modena Ferrari test drive experience has ended, expect the team to call out everyone’s name. This is to present you with a fun souvenir certificate to prove that you have completed the “Ferrari Challenge” here in Modena.
Practical Information about Autodromo di Modena Racetrack
If you plan to do a driving experience and want to drive yourself, you’ll need a driving license that is accepted in Italy. While many driving licences from other EU countries seem to be readily accepted, some international guests need a little add-on back home to ensure their licence is international and can be used in Italy.
It’s best to book in advance, and they’ll give you a time slot that hopefully suits you. They have two different Ferrari cars to choose from: a Ferrari 296 Challenge and a Ferrari 488 Challenge.
BONUS: Visiting the Enzo Ferrari Museum in Modena
While you’re in Modena, it’s a prime opportunity to visit the impressive Enzo Ferrari Museum. The larger part of the museum is housed in a new, very futuristic-looking building. The smaller part is in what was once the childhood home of Enzo Ferrari and his father’s steel workshop.
The museum offers guided tours, which are highly encouraged. It will better inform you about the life of Enzo Ferrari, how he started racing sports cars, and later built them. It also provides more complex information on the engines and the detailed history of every car currently in the collection, including how many were made and how much they’re now worth.
A figure which, as you can imagine, is just mind-boggling.
Learnings From the Enzo Ferrari Museum
A young Enzo was forced to grow up very fast after his father passed away when he was just 16 years old. He persuaded his mum to sell his father’s workshop and their family home simply so he could buy his first race car and start racing cars professionally.
All his life, he was only interested in race cars. In a super-fast sports car built for speed. He has no interest in building cars for everyday use, for leisure, or for collectors. The only reason he ended up making the type of Ferraris we’re all familiar with is that he needed to make money to continue racing and fund his race team.
In the early days, he loved competition, and he would do anything to:
- (A) Set up unique races and
- (B) Win by making his cars as light as possible through any means.
Once, he even raced a commercial jet on a track and won!
Some of the cars in the museum collection are one-offs. Some are part of limited collections. And others are examples of newer Ferrari models, including people carriers and SUVs, which would probably make Enzo Ferrari turn in his grave.
The guide will point you to one car from a collection that is still in use today (none were written off or crashed). This means the entire collection is pretty much priceless, and the car on display was worth close to €70 million ($83 million USD).
On the tour, you’ll also see which car was one of the first, which was Enzo Ferrari’s favorite, and slightly different models of the original Ferrari. These were designed and built by Enzo Ferrari’s youngest son, who sadly died before his first design came to fruition.
Enzo decided to continue the model in his son’s honor and even named it after him: the Dino.
Finally, your Enzo Museum tour guide will leave you with a nugget of information on why the Ferrari logo is that iconic rearing horse, and it’s not the reasons many people think.
When Enzo was quite young, he met the Father and Mother of Count Francesco Baracca. Francesco was an ace airline pilot from the Italian Air Force who died a National Hero after escaping death on dozens of flights in his fighter jet. He had painted a rearing horse on the sides of his planes for good luck, and his parents suggested that Enzo might copy the idea.
Enzo liked the idea and the horse emblem. Thus, the Ferrari horse logo, with an added splash of yellow and the initials SF (for Scuderia Ferrari), was born and has continued to this day.
Practical Information About Visiting the Enzo Ferrari Museum
Located in the center of Modena, it can be accessed on foot, by public transport, or by driving and parking in the museum’s lot. The museum is open from 9.30 pm—7 pm every day of the year except December 25, January 1, and February 17.
Tickets cost as little as €22 ($26 USD) for adults and €9 ($11 USD) for children in the off-season (October to April). Peak season is from May to September. Expect to pay €32 ($38 USD) for adults and €12 ($14 USD) for kids.
Staying for about 2 hours is more than enough time to do the tour, watch the mini documentary on Enzo Ferrari, and walk around and admire the cars on our own.
Last updated on February 11th, 2026 at 03:13 pm
