The Scuderia Ferrari today announced that Giancarlo Fisichella will take over from Luca Badoer for the remaining of the season. But Stefano Domenicali also confirmed that the Italian driver will stay with the Maranello-based outfit in 2010, but than as a test and reserve driver.
agreed!mx_tifosi wrote:Funny how Fisichella beat Alonso to the Ferrari seat. Trully ironic.
Hard on Luca? Seriously? He got paid to be a test driver for 10 years by the most famous F1 team with absolutely no talent... He's gotten away with robbery. Loyal? He was probly just happy to have a job as a test driver, given his talent level he should have been pushing brooms at Monza, not testing the car.nipo wrote:That's a good laugh at first sight, but not so funny when I realized how hard it must be for Luca right now.
The poor guy's just been too loyal and too settled-down as a tester for Ferrari. He left his racing skills rusting... Maybe he could blame himself for that. The unfortunate situations with Felipe and Michael is just very bad timing. I assume he'd be happy to just sit on the Ferrari bench forever, but fate caught him off-guard and that's just tough luck.
Fisi is not the quickest man out there but at least he could drive comparable lap times. But, dude, an Italian driving a Ferrari in Monza! What else can you ask for? I wish him the best of luck - he'll need it.
siskue2005 wrote:
that smile on his face tells it all =D>
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There was a an article in F1 racing a fair while ago which did go over the teams and how quickly they were paying bills and it was quite surprising but I don't remember the more useful facts but if anyone knows/remembers the article...Ray wrote:Varsha said they were not really keen on opening their checkbook and paying bills right after Fisi got the pole I think. I distinctly remember him saying something along those lines. Does anyone know for sure if they pay thier bills, because I've not heard or read anything about them not doing so? And with all of Vijays money, why do they not pay them? If that's the case.
no but its a nice ease into retirement whilst not loosing faceraceman wrote:Yes, quite right!
Just warming up the bench isn't life for a race driver.
4 if you include Michael Schumacher as well.mx_tifosi wrote:So will there be three test/reserve drivers at Ferrari next year? How will this work exactly?
And will in-season testing be allowed? Otherwise Fisichella's role will be just like Badoer and Gene's at the moment.
It's strange how he'd rather live the dream of driving/testing for Ferrari than actually racing for another team.
Sorry to contradict you, but the last Italian to win at Monza was Ludovico Scarfiotti. He also won it on a Ferrari 312 (one of the most beautiful racing cars ever made).WhiteBlue wrote:There are few Italians who have achieved that and if he succeeds he will be a legend in his country. The last man to do it was Alberto Ascari 60 years ago.
Oops, I must have overlooked Ludovico. My bad! It is still an awefull long time since 1966 and an achievement worth going for.Miguel wrote:Sorry to contradict you, but the last Italian to win at Monza was Ludovico Scarfiotti. He also won it on a Ferrari 312 (one of the most beautiful racing cars ever made).WhiteBlue wrote:There are few Italians who have achieved that and if he succeeds he will be a legend in his country. The last man to do it was Alberto Ascari 60 years ago.
