A video has surfaced on Instagram of what looks like the end of a well-known and extremely valuable Ferrari F40, which, unlike today's 296 GTB, for example, has no special electronic aids to save you from bad driving.

A Ferrari F40 worth around £1 million was wrecked after it smashed into a lamppost on a test drive. The rare supercar was reportedly being driven by a technician when they lost control of the vehicle on the A5 near Markyate,

The whole clip is seven seconds long, but even that oversells how long it takes events to unfold. It opens with the Ferrari headed straight down the highway, and before we even have time to get a feel for the scene, the F40 is already sideways. How? I’ve got three words for you: lift-off oversteer.

Remarkable images posted online show how the £1million Ferrari F40 was being taken for a test drive on the A5 near Markyate, north of London, before losing control and crashing

A Ferrari F40 flipped onto its side and was mangled practically beyond recognition on Thursday in a crash outside of a North-West Hertfordshire village in the United Kingdom. The highly-desirable supercar icon was being driven by a service technician at the time of the wreck,