Along Italy’s Mediterranean coast, driver Fabio Barone raced across the flight deck of a Navy ship while chasing a world record: the fastest car on a boat. As the Top Gun theme song rang out from speakers, the carrier’s port side elevator lifted Barone’s team to the deck where journalists, naval officers and VIPs waited. Barone eased himself into the red-and-black Ferrari SF90, then drove back and forth along the length of the deck several times to warm up the V-8 turbo engine. Then he placed himself at the far end of the 774-foot flight deck and awaited the all-clear. The announcer shouted, “Here he goes!” and Barone took off, zipping past the crowd. Mere seconds later, he came to a safe stop and the crowd applauded. Barone had reached 101.9mph and it was declared the new speed record for a car on a ship. Barone’s team will now submit their certified result to Guinness World Records.