Filed under: Motorsports , Hirings/Firings/Layoffs , Ferrari Jules Bianchi tests for Scuderia Ferrari – Click above for high-res image gallery Ferrari got seriously caught with its pants down last year in Formula One. When Felipe Massa was sidelined with a head injury halfway through the season, the Scuderia found itself without a viable replacement after Michael Schumacher proved unfit to take his place, veteran test driver Luca Badoer failed to rise to the challenge and Giancarlo Fisichella didn’t manage to score a single point. But the venerable F1 team is learning from its mistakes with the launch of the Ferrari Driving Academy.
Filed under: Motorsports , Classics , Auctions , Ferrari 1963 Ferrari 250 GTO #4675GT – Click above for high-res image gallery Very rarely does a Ferrari 250 GTO come up for sale, and if it does, you’ll probably never hear about it.
Filed under: Motorsports , Ferrari , Racing Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso lap Valencia in the 2010 Scuderia Ferrari F10 – Click above for high-res image gallery We know, we know. The pace set on track tests doesn’t necessarily indicate how a given team, car or driver will perform in an actual race, let alone across a whole season.
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Filed under: Car Buying , Performance , Ferrari A couple of years back, Ferrari was widely rumored to be working on an “entry-level” model to slot in below the F430 (since replaced by the 458 Italia ).
Filed under: Motorsports , Coupe , Ferrari , Racing Ferrari 599XX at Valencia – Click above for high-res image gallery It’s been almost a year since the Ferrari 599XX made its debut at the Geneva Motor Show , and we’ve seen the factory-fettled racer quite a few times since. Each of those times has been either in a dealership or on a show floor, though, and the 599XX has yet to be seen running in anger. Until now.
Filed under: Motorsports , Hirings/Firings/Layoffs , Ferrari , Motorcycle , Racing MotoGP racing star Valentino Rossi has ventured from two wheels to four a few times in the past , and he’s always come away smiling when given the chance to strut his stuff on a Formula One track. This latest testing session, though, has left many highly impressed and others understandably worried. Various reports have put Yamaha’s star rider into the Ducati paddock come 2011 or so, but after registering times around the Mugello circuit in an F2008 racer that were just two-tenths of a second behind Kimi Raikkonen’s outright lap record of 1:21.67 (set in the same car, for what it’s worth), Yamaha team manager Davide Brivio said, “The greatest danger is Ferrari …