When two insanely sexy Italian supercars duke it out on a racetrack, it always makes for some good time-wasting on a Friday afternoon. (Or any time of the day or week, really.)

720 horsepower. 740 lb-ft of torque. $1.3 million dollars of carbon fiber extremism. It's all yours, but only for 24 hours.

"There's only so much talking you can do in the presence of a car like this," Chris Harris says in his latest video — the one in which he drives the Pagani Huayra in Italy.

If you can look past the comparisons to Renaissance era artists and disregard the self importance you might expect from a company that makes ultra exclusive supercars, this 15 minute video produced by Pagani offers an awesome behind the scenes look at the Huayra.

The Pagani Huayra isn't technically legal to drive on city streets in the U.S., but one of the Italian exotics is here for show/testing purposes until it can get around our pesky airbag laws. This didn't stop a cadre of local California law enforcement from stopping the car while being driven by founder Horacio Pagani…

The Pagani Huayra, the insanity-squared Italian supercar with a catfish front-end, a 700-hp twin-turbo V12 engine, and an unpronounceable name has now joined a distinguished group: Cars blocked by the United States government from being sold on these shores. The reason? Air bags for kids.

Owning a Pagani Zonda may be a pain when it comes to paying insurance or removing caked road salt from its intricate carbon fiber nooks, but it has its upsides, like doing 200 mph with the grace of a gazelle on drugs. That, and getting invited to Pagani owners’ events to hitch a ride at insane speeds in the new…

Until now, we hadn't heard Mr. Pagani's new Huayra catfish supercar take to a track in anger, but this Italian videographer not only captured it at full wail, he focused on the car's most appealing angle.