A wrecked Enzo, a McSteamy encounter, all on the Ferrari rally

“Did you hear about the Enzo?” somebody asks as I sit down to lunch.

The mere question causes a wave of cringes to circle the table. We all know what happens to Ferrari Enzos all too frequently: they crash. And the word is that the one Enzo on the Tributo Ferrari Pacific Coast rally is no longer — everyone’s all right, but it evidently went into a mountainside sometime after we left Pasadena this morning. Is it a little bit freaky that the day, August 14, was the 25th anniversary of Enzo Ferrari’s death? Yes, it is.

We move on to other topics, such as the growth charts that pediatricians hand out to make you feel like your child is somehow behind the curve. “I’m not interested in 95^th-percentile,” says Eric Dane, also known as Dr. McSteamy from "Grey’s Anatomy." “I want hundredth percentile.”

It’s safe to say that this is a competitive crowd.

McSteamy’s holding court at lunch, an Enzo crashed but everything’s OK, and I just drove a 731-hp Ferrari F12 around an autocross course set up in the Rose Bowl parking lot, because this is the alternate reality of a Ferrari owners’ group outing.