All Posts Tagged With: "Ferrari"

Fernando Alonso has insisted that Ferrari must win more races this season if they want to win the title.  Read more... (228 words, estimated 55 secs reading time)

Ferrari is using a clever foot-activated switch to trigger the drag-shedding ‘DRS’ system in 2012, it has emerged.

Germany’s Auto Motor und Sport said drivers for most other teams trigger the rear wing flap with a button on the steering wheel. But renowned F1 technical illustrator Giorgio Piola has learned that, when Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa are between corners and therefore not braking, their left foots can trigger ‘DRS’ with a switch to the left of the brake pedal.  Read more... (115 words, estimated 28 secs reading time)

Luca di Montezemolo has dealt a knockout blow to speculation Sergio Perez could be set to replace Felipe Massa at Ferrari next year.

After his second place at Monza last Sunday, rumours that Sauber’s Mexican Perez is now set to step up to Ferrari are rife.  Read more... (166 words, estimated 40 secs reading time)

After his second place at Monza, all eyes are on Sergio Perez’s next move.

So the rumour-mongers will have a field day to learn that Sauber’s Mexican will be at Maranello this week. However, Ferrari insisted that Perez – Ferrari’s leading driver ‘academy’ member – has been scheduled to visit the team in mid September “for months”.  Read more... (117 words, estimated 28 secs reading time)

Even suffering an illness all weekend at Monza, Sergio Perez still managed a performance that prompted podium-interviewer Niki Lauda to offer a rare dip of his famous cap.

“I take my hat off, Sergio. You did an incredible job,” legend Lauda, whose scalp is scarred from his fiery 1976 crash, said.  Read more... (218 words, estimated 52 secs reading time)

Robert Kubica has dropped a big hint that, were it not for the sad events of early 2011, he might now be Fernando Alonso’s Ferrari teammate.

This weekend, more than 18 months after his horror crash and injuries in a minor rally, the talented Pole is finally back in action. He is driving a Subaru in the Italian Ronde Gomitolo di Lana rally.  Read more... (318 words, estimated 1:16 mins reading time)

Fernando Alonso insists he would have been on pole for Sunday’s Italian grand prix.

The Spaniard has had a dire run at Monza this weekend, suffering brake, gearbox and engine problems in practice, and a broken roll-bar in the crucial ‘Q3′ qualifying segment.  Read more... (170 words, estimated 41 secs reading time)

Felipe Massa has the perfect chance to race for his career at Monza.

After a miserable 2012 in which rumours began to swell about his impending Ferrari exit, the Brazilian qualified third in front of the team’s loyal ‘Tifosi’ at Monza. So even if teammate Fernando Alonso would almost certainly have been ahead of him if the Spaniard’s F2012 had not faltered in Q3, it is Massa’s best qualifying result since Canada last year.  Read more... (175 words, estimated 42 secs reading time)

The Spanish bank Santander has extended its sponsorship deal with Ferrari through 2017. Fernando Alonso’s Ferrari deal also runs for several more years. To mark the Santander extension, Ferrari will run a rear wing at Singapore with the words ‘World’s Best Bank’; a title dreamed up by the financial magazine Euromoney.  Read more... (154 words, estimated 37 secs reading time)

McLaren has questioned Ferrari’s slipstreaming tactics during qualifying for the Italian Grand Prix. The Ferrari paid attempted to give each other aerodynamic ‘tows’ down their home circuit’s long straights on Saturday, but it went awry when Fernando Alonso’s car developed a problem in Q3. And Felipe Massa, who qualified a season-best third, said he got in his best lap once the towing was all over.  Read more... (225 words, estimated 54 secs reading time)