---
title: "Ferrari LaFerrari Aperta Does Donuts on a Public Street During Gumball 3000"
description: "Not so close to the crowd, moron."
date: "2017-07-06"
modified: "2017-07-06"
authors:
  - name: "Will Sabel Courtney"
    job_title: "Contributor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/will-sabel-courtney"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/watch-this/12201/ferrari-laferrari-aperta-does-donuts-on-a-public-street-during-gumball-3000"
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  - "Ferrari News"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
  - "Watch This"
tags:
  - "budapest"
  - "Ferrari"
  - "Gumball 3000"
  - "laferrari"
---

# Ferrari LaFerrari Aperta Does Donuts on a Public Street During Gumball 3000

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Burnouts and donuts, like exotic supercars and outlandish liveries, are a staple of the Gumball 3000 and its associated events. Throw together high-horsepower sports cars, adventure-seeking rich guys, and crowds of onlookers desperate for YouTube-worthy clips, and you have a formula for burning rubber...as well as plenty of other types of, shall we say, less-than-responsible behavior. Case in point: This video from [the 2017 installment of the Gumball](<https://www.gumball3000.com/2017-riga-to-mykonos>), in which [a Ferrari LaFerrari Aperta](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/5450/watch-sebastian-vettel-drift-the-ferrari-laferrari-aperta>) rips off some donuts on a public street less than a yard from a crowd of spectators.

According to the video's description, the Ferrari in question was being piloted by Dutch DJ Afrojack and [Canadian sports car enthusiast-slash-social media celebrity Josh Cartu](<https://www.huffingtonpost.com/jack-choros/getting-to-know-ferrari-d_b_9534350.html>). (For what it's worth, [Cartu is well-known—and not particularly well-regarded—amongst the Ferrari fanatics at FerrariChat](<https://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/ff-gtc4lusso-f12-812s/502405-f12-tdf-17.html#post144729349>).) The donuts in question took place [in Budapest during the Gumball rally's stop there](<https://www.gumball3000.com/blog/budapest-2017-gumball-rally>), on what clearly seems to be a public street with flowing traffic. Interestingly enough, the LaFerrari doesn't wear the bright, obvious livery required [for Gumball entrants](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/3338/i-was-arrested-then-kidnapped-during-the-gumball-3000>); as [Cartu is listed as an entrant in this year's rally in his Ferrari 488 Spider](<https://www.gumball3000foundation.org/grid>), it seems he may have brought [his 949-horsepower hybrid hypercar just for fun](<https://www.thedrive.com/watch-this/9764/watch-a-ferrari-laferrari-drift-and-blast-through-an-australian-suburb>).

Look, many of us at *The Drive* are no stranger to committing acts of hoonage in public arenas. Your humble author, for example, was [a party to multiple epic burnouts](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P9rsGV7eRY>)

[while driving across the country in a Cadillac CTS-V during the 2012 installment of the Gumball](<https://youtu.be/1gCngyUIi3s?t=18>). (I'd like to point out to Time Inc.'s lawyers that this occurred years before I was in the employ of *The Drive*.) But those were all conducted with plenty of space between our stupidly-powerful speed machine and the excitable, camera-toting crowds. Doing it within literal spitting distance of pedestrians...that's a whole 'nuther ballgame.

https://youtube.com/embed/hVBJZSo3su0

https://youtube.com/embed/UWDZAaSuW5U

## Author
Will is the former managing editor of *RIDES Magazine* and the former online editor for *0-60 Magazine*. He has worked for *Time Out New York* and *Rolling Stone*, and was the creator of *College Cars Online*, the first automotive blog specifically targeted at college students and young professionals.

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