New sculpture captures the terrible beauty of a Ferrari Enzo crash

Director Michael Mann’s new film, Ferrari, opened in theaters yesterday, and the world of prancing horses is abuzz. Now, there’s more Ferrari magic to add to the chatter.

Last year, Hagerty reported the story of Ferrari Enzo owner Utahan Richard Losee, who has put more than 100,000 miles on his rare supercar—65,000 of which have been added since a 30-month total rebuild following a 200-mph crash back in 2006. Though Losee was injured in the accident, he recovered fully and has since gone on to set a world land speed record for the marque by clocking 237.7 mph in his Enzo on the Bonneville Salt Flats.

These days, Losee uses the Enzo as a smile-maker, with his close friend Clarence Habovstak most often at the wheel. When he’s not using the car as his daily driver, Habovstak is using it to bring joy to Make-A-Wish kids. “It just represents so much more than what people may perceive as a pretentious object,” Habovstak said in our story. “I had a young man who was struggling through high school and he had some serious health issues. He joined me for a ride, and we literally did a 500-mile road trip just to go get root beer floats and chat. It’s not just about putting miles on the car for the sake of tallying up the most miles we can on a Ferrari. We want each mile to mean something.”

Losee’s efforts with the Enzo have meant so much to so many, in fact, that he commissioned a statue to memorialize it. The 7-by-8-foot bronze statue, The War Horse—Rising from its Ashes, by artist Stanley Wanlass, was unveiled November 18 at Ferrari of Salt Lake City and then placed permanently outside the Cirque Lodge addiction treatment facility in Orem, Utah, which Losee owns.

The piece depicts Losee’s Enzo mid-air, flying on the wings of a Pegasus, with the car’s destruction visible from behind while the front end emerges anew. The transition from ruin to rebirth, this triumph of the human spirit over adversity, is a fitting tribute not only to the car itself but to the many patients seeking treatment at Cirque Lodge.

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