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A life-size chocolate model of a Ferrari Formula 1 car has been unveiled in Italy. A life-size F1 car has been made out of chocolate for a Ferrari owners club party in Italy /Europics

Confectioners spent more than a year making the car out of 4,405lbs of Belgian chocolate. It has now been delivered to Sorrento, near Naples, where it will be the centrepiece of a Ferrari owners club party.

Luigi Liberti, president of the Scuderia Ferrari Club Napoli, said: "It will go on display and then will be smashed up with hammers and handed out to party guests - they will be given bits of the car to take home in a special bag."

The £12,000 chocolate Ferrari is based on an F2008, and has a red, edible coating. Liberti added: "The project started one year ago, just for fun, but then the Club Pasticceri Italiani started to get really enthusiastic and eventually it became a life-sized model.

"They started melting the chocolate in 2007, at first copying a small-scale model of the Ferrari F2008, then getting the full scale model done using chocolate imported especially from Belgium."
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