All Posts Tagged With: "Ferrari"

McLaren-Mercedes are adamant they can take the fight to rivals Ferrari at the forthcoming ‘power circuits’ of Spa and Monza, despite the Scuderia‘s ominous advantage in the speed traps at Valencia.  Read more... (474 words, 1 image, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

Reigning world champion receives Ferrari backing, but questions still hang over the Finn’s hunger for Formula One.

When the scarlet cars arrive on his patch, Luca di Montezemolo is always a notable presence. It is rare, though, for the Ferrari president to show his face at testing.  Read more... (627 words, 1 image, estimated 2:30 mins reading time)

Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo has paid tribute to 1961 world champion Phil Hill who died on Thursday after battling with Parkinson’s disease.

Hill was the only American-born Formula One driver to have won the world championship. He did so in 1961, fittingly, for Ferrari, the team he debuted with and famously won the hearts of after letting team-mate Mike Hawthorne past at the 1958 Moroccan GP to take the world championship.  Read more... (281 words, estimated 1:07 mins reading time)

Felipe Massa may have romped to victory in Sunday’s European Grand Prix at Valencia, but it wasn’t all plain sailing for the Brazilian after stewards called the win into question by investigating his near coming-together with Adrian Sutil in the pit-lane.  Read more... (460 words, 1 image, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

Kimi Raikkonen’s engine failure at Valencia, which was triggered by a broken con rod – the same problem that caused Felipe Massa to retire in a cloud of smoke at Hungary – did not come as a complete surprise, Ferrari have disclosed.  Read more... (315 words, 1 image, estimated 1:16 mins reading time)

Ferrari have been fined 10,000 Euro for Felipe Massa’s pit-stop, with the Brazilian driver receiving no further punishment.

Massa’s victory in Valencia was in doubt after stewards announced they would be investigating his second pit-stop after he was released into the pit-lane at the same time as Sutil was passing his pit-box, with the pair almost clashing.  Read more... (89 words, estimated 21 secs reading time)

There may not have been an appearance from the safety car, but the inaugural European Grand Prix at Valencia was by no means spared from incident and drama as Felipe Massa shook up the world championship with a field-destroying charge to victory.  Read more... (1109 words, 1 image, estimated 4:26 mins reading time)

Ferrari are under no allusions that they must conquer the problems they have been having on their Bridgestone tyres if they are to take the fight to McLaren at Valencia.

The F2008 has been notoriously unkind to the standard issue Bridgestone Potenzas over the course of the single lap, while rivals McLaren have mastered the art of generating heat into their rubber quickly.  Read more... (576 words, 1 image, estimated 2:18 mins reading time)

Felipe Massa has said that Ferrari cannot afford to make any more mistakes or throw away any more points. His remarks come after a dismal Hungarian Grand Prix which saw the Brazilian driver leading the race until three laps from the end when his engine failed, forcing him to retire.  Read more... (303 words, 1 image, estimated 1:13 mins reading time)

Ferrari have dismissed fears that the tyre problems they experienced in Hockenheim have reared their head again this weekend after both their drivers struggled on the super-soft tyres in Friday practice.

A chief cause of the Italian squad’s disastrous showing in the German Grand Prix a fortnight ago was the way the Ferrari F2008 used the hard compound Bridgestone Potenzas in cool temperatures.  Read more... (351 words, 1 image, estimated 1:24 mins reading time)