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August 18th, 2026 | Ferrari Magazine
V10 Out of 10
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Ferrari Westlake's Mitchell Green experiences the incredible performance of his V10-powered Ferrari F300 at Monaco.
Ferrari Magazine
August 18th, 2026
Mitchell Green, knows how to push Ferrari race cars to the limit, having secured last year’s Ferrari Challenge North America Coppa Shell championship. But the American driver happily acknowledges his Ferrari F300 Formula 1 car – run through the F1 Clienti programme – is something else entirely. Not least because of the ferocious 3.0-litre V10 sitting immediately behind him.
'This car is amazing – it's raw, the V10 sounds incredible and revs to around 17,000rpm, it brakes so well, and the grip is mind-blowing once you've got tyre temperature,’ reveals Green from the harbourfront of the Monaco Historique Grand Prix. ‘But it’s also a little nerve-wracking if you don’t because you can get a tonne of wheelspin.’
In a few minutes, Green will join 11 other F1 Clienti participants in a high-speed demonstration of Scuderia machinery from the late 1990s to early 2010s. His 1998 F300 is the earliest example here, and represents a crucial milestone in Scuderia history – not only because it debuted the new Typo 047 V10 and was built to new regulations mandating 20cm narrower wheel tracks, but because it was the first Ferrari created under the Todt-Schumacher-Brawn-Byrne team structure that would go on to dominate the sport.
As crowds gather, the cars are released onto the circuit one-by-one, like a Ferrari Formula 1 highlights reel brought to life: Michael Schumacher and Kimi Räikkönen title winners among machinery sharing the same Monaco tarmac for the first time in history.
Clearly gaining confidence, Green quickly progresses from initial build laps to push harder and harder, flowing through Casino Square, clipping the apex at Mirabeau and smoothly carrying speed into Sainte Dévote to begin another charge uphill. Even among Monaco's usual soundtrack of exotic machinery, the shriek of a late-1990s Ferrari Formula 1 V10 seems utterly otherworldly here, hanging over the Principality long after the car has vanished between the maze of hotels and apartment blocks.
After a successful session, Green climbs from the cockpit looking equal parts energised and exhausted, still processing what he’s just experienced around motor racing's most famous street circuit.
'To drive a track that doesn’t normally exist for most of the year is just incredible,' he grins. 'And very few people have actually driven Monaco, you know. It's unheard of.'
Mitchell's F300 was the earliest of 12 cars in the Monaco demonstration, and helped lay foundations for the Scuderia's most successful era.
'The track is such a mix – so tight in places you get the anti-stall kicking in, but super fast and flowing around the Hôtel de Paris, really fast around the Swimming Pool and of course the run through the tunnel – these cars were flat there in period but I definitely lifted today! To think they raced them around here at those speeds is just unreal,' he enthuses.
Nearly three decades after the first Ferrari ten-cylinder engine arrived in Formula 1 and almost two decades since they last raced, the streets of Monaco have once again been alive with the sound of Ferrari V10 music.
