A BRITISH Ferrari owner has had his new ride go up in flames – an hour after he’d picked it up.

South Yorkshire police reported earlier today that they’d received a callout to a single-car crash along the M1 that had created traffic chaos for commuters.

“Officers were deployed to a single-vehicle collision with reports that the vehicle had left the carriageway and burst into flames,” a social media post from the Yorkies says.

“As we are an inquisitive bunch we found the driver and were amazed to see he only had minor cuts and bruises.”

But then comes the bit that hurts, and something that’s, well, not surprising given the rate at which they’ve previously been known to flame out.

“Officers asked the driver what sort of car he had to which he replied: ‘It was a Ferrari.’ Detecting a sense of damaged pride, he then said: ‘I’ve only just got it, picked it up an hour ago’.”

Unmelted, they still swap hands here for about $500,000. Without the charred bits and molten metal, it should look like this.

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Only about 1600 of the lighter, more powerful 375kW version of the 4.3-litre V8-engined Scuderia – meant to go head-to-head with the Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera – were made. Before its sacrifice to the gods of flaming supercars, this particular one was capable of bursting from rest to 100km/h in around 3.6sec, and winding out all the way to 319km/h.

Thankfully for the driver, testimonies from witnesses grilled by the South Yorkshire rozzers led them to believe that speed wasn’t a contributing factor to the fire.