A yellow LaFerrari belonging to a Saudi billionaire broke down in Monaco's Casino Square, one of the principality's most recognisable backdrops, drawing a crowd of onlookers as recovery workers arrived to deal with the stranded hypercar. Footage of the scene, showing the car being winched onto a flatbed truck outside the Casino de Monte-Carlo, circulated on Instagram and quickly drew attention from car enthusiasts.
No details about what caused the breakdown have been shared, leaving the exact fault behind one of Ferrari's most powerful road cars unknown. The LaFerrari pairs a 6.3 litre V12 with an electric motor for a combined 950 horsepower, enough to send it from a standstill to 60 miles per hour in under 3 seconds and on to a top speed of 217 miles per hour, figures that made it one of the defining hypercars of its era when Ferrari introduced it as the marque's first hybrid flagship.
Recovery workers pulled the car onto the truck bed while a crowd gathered around the barriers to watch, a reminder that even a car built for extreme performance can end an evening on the back of a flatbed rather than under its own power. The location made the moment more visible than most breakdowns would be, with Casino Square's evening foot traffic and its usual gathering of visitors drawn to whichever exotic cars happen to be parked outside the casino that night.
Monaco's streets see a concentrated share of the world's rarest cars over the summer months, and a stranded hypercar being towed away is a rare enough sight to stop passersby regardless of who owns it. With no word yet on what went wrong or how long repairs might take, the LaFerrari's evening in Casino Square ended not with the roar its engine is known for, but with a quiet ride out on a flatbed truck.