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The Ferraris have all gone. So have the wild, customized Chevy pickups, and the garage full of Harleys. These days you’ll find the man they call “The Great White Shark” behind the wheel of more sedate transportation, a stealthy black, supercharged Range Rover. Aussie golfing great Greg Norman now gets his driving fun by going off road. At his sprawling 13,000-acre ranch in Colorado, he says he loves taking his Range Rover along a boulder-strewn creek bed on the property.
 

As for the most fun he’s had behind the wheel, he’ll tell you it was at the Indianapolis Speedway in 1998. Chevy had asked him to pilot the Corvette pace car for that year’s Indy 500 and he flew in a few of weeks before for some practice laps.
 
“I proceeded to do about 120 laps, much to the chagrin of those who wanted this to be a largely ceremonial experience,” he says. “Let me tell you, opening up a Corvette on that historic track was far more exhilarating than anything I had ever experienced behind the wheel.”
 

So how did he acquire his original Ferrari collection and what happened to it? He started by simply always buying a new one and keeping the old one. Well, at least until the market for Ferraris started going ballistic. Then he unloaded as fast as he could.
 
“Sure, I enjoyed driving my Ferraris, but I also meticulously maintained each and every one, and eventually sold them at a profit.”
 
Don’t get the impression Norman no longer owns any fast cars. Talk to him long enough and you’ll hear him casually mention some of the toys he still has, like the V-12-engined Aston Martin Vanquish sitting in his garage back in Florida.