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.

Footage has emerged of the crash that took out what is (was?) reportedly the highest-mileage Ferrari F40 in existence, and this quick clip reminds us just how much respect these old-school performance machines demand even in the most mundane circumstances.

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,

Pour one out for this Ferrari F40. The seven-figure supercar was crashed today in the United Kingdom while on a main road near the town of Markyate, north of London. According to kayash2000 on Instagram,