Fernando makes first trip to Ferrari
November 6, 2009 by SJ Skid
Filed under People & Events, SJ Skid
Just when some of you were starting to appreciate Ferrari’s press releases, well, I think the team may be back on your bad side.
Fernando Alonso took his first trip to Maranello today, and Ferrari offered up the following:
Alonso’s first day in Maranello
Maranello, 6 November 2009 – Today early in the morning, just after 8am. Fernando Alonso arrived at the gates of the Scuderia Ferrari for his first contact with the new team, although still not as an official member due to his contractual commitments regarding image management, which still tie him to his previous team and his sponsors.
The first meeting was with Stefano Domenicali, who then left him to the technicians, who started to work with the driver on the upcoming season’s programme. Between meetings connected to the new single-seater’s project Fernando visited the wind channel to see the model and worked on the sitting position in the car’s cockpit, while the day ended just after 5pm. Before leaving Maranello, Alonso was received by Chairman Luca di Montezemolo, who personally wanted to welcome the Spaniard at Ferrari in a cordially meeting of around half an hour.
Today’s intermezzo was a couple of laps on the Fiorano race track with the 458 Italia, naturally in red: as he couldn’t yet drive a red Formula 1 car Fernando wanted to feel the emotion of driving a Ferrari on the track where all the Prancing Horse’s single-seaters are born and raised.
Good to see the team is back with the safe corporate speak. Those literary allusions and veiled comments about Max Mosley killing off Formula 1 were too much.
More seriously — Alonso is not wasting any time, is he? I wonder though if that is enthusiasm for his new team or worry about just how bad the car really is.
Final side note and fun fact: When I got contracted on to F1B and made my first visit to the mid-America corporate HQ, I also got an opportunity to take to the track. Of course, it was in an old Yugo with the F1B logo. Still, pretty fun to throw it around.
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Alonso will make the best of this opportunity, that`s for sure. I liked the way Ferrari press release pointed out their Red affinity.To add to this, history is gonna repeat itself, just like Schumi, Alonso won two championships under Flavio and has now moved on to the Prancing Horses and while he might not have someone like Irvine but has a Brazilian of Sao Paulo as his team mate, and that comes at a time when Ferrari is struggling on the grid. One more thing is that, Just like Schumi and (somewhat forgotten) Alex Wurz, Alonso has the quality of inspecting the smallest of the intricacies of the racing circuit, he gives importance to track inspection and uses every bit of the tarmac for achieving the maximum. Hoping for the best for now.Let us see what happens next.