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Conway, Ericsson to test for Mercedes

Briton Mike Conway and Japanese Formula 3 champion Marcus Ericsson will join Mercedes Grand Prix for the young driver test days at Jerez.

Full Story: Autosport.com

McLaren’s reserve driver Pedro de la Rosa says he is doing everything he can to secure a racing seat in Formula 1 next season.

Full Story: Autosport.com

The Formula One Teams’ Association (FOTA) has approved the membership applications of the Lotus and Manor teams, AUTOSPORT can reveal, meaning the organisation now features every team on the grid.

Full Story: Autosport.com

Fernando Alonso has completed his second semi-official visit to new team Ferrari’s headquarters – and completed more laps of its Fiorano test track.

Full Story: Autosport.com

Formula 1 circuit chiefs are the latest additions to the 2009 Motor Sport Business Forum, which takes place in Monaco on December 9 and 10.

Full Story: Autosport.com

Volkswagen is seriously evaluating a move into Formula 1 as an engine supplier from 2012, when new power unit regulations due to be introduced could make the sport attractive enough for the German car maker to get involved.

Full Story: Autosport.com

BMW has agreed to sell its Formula 1 team back to Peter Sauber, on condition that the team receives an entry for 2010, after announcing it’s original sale to Qadbak Investment Ltd. will not be completed.

Full Story: Autosport.com

The Force India team has confirmed it will retain both Adrian Sutil and Tonio Liuzzi as its racing drivers for the 2010 season.

Full Story: Autosport.com

The Renault team will test Bertrand Baguette, Lucas di Grassi and Ho-Pin Tung in the upcoming testing session at the Jerez circuit in Spain.

Full Story: Autosport.com

Mark Webber says his motivation remain as high as ever as he targets an even stronger championship challenge in the 2010 season.

Full Story: Autosport.com

Stefan Grand Prix, the Serbian team that is seeking a move into Formula 1, says it is still looking at opportunities to make it onto the grid next year – despite dismissing talk that it is about to buy Toyota’s F1 entry.

Full Story: Autosport.com

The Canadian Grand Prix’s return to the Formula 1 calendar in 2010 is now official, after the government stepped in to help secure a five-year deal for the race.

Full Story: Autosport.com

Photographed by VOD Cars

Going through time

– License

Fernando Alonso paid his first visit to his new Ferrari team today.

The double world champion has not yet been released from his Renault contract and cannot test for Ferrari until the testing ban ends in February next year, but went to Maranello to meet his new colleagues.

Alonso had meetings with team boss Stefano Domenicali, the Ferrari engineers, and chairman Luca di Montezemolo, as well as visiting the windtunnel to check progress on the 2010 car and working on his seating position.

He also took to the Fiorano test track in a Ferrari 458 Italia road car.

Reference: Autosport.com

Fernando Alonso has today visited the Ferrari base at Maranello, the team he will be driving for next season.

He went to meet his new colleagues but he wasn’t allowed to test for the team in an F1 car as the testing ban is not over until February 2010. However he did manage to get out on to the team’s Fiorano test track albeit in a Ferrari 458 Italia,

“naturally in red”

as the post on Ferrari.com read.

Alonso was still wearing a Renault t-shirt as he is not officially a Ferrari driver yet due to contractual commitments with former team Renault and other sponsors.

The full post on the official Ferrari website read:

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.

O programa britânico Evo levou a nova Ferrari 458 Itália para umas voltinhas na pista de Fiorano, casa da marca italiana. O sortudo piloto Chris Harris testou o modelo primeiro com o sistema de estabilidade e outros mecanismos eletrônicos ligados.

Depois foi a vez de brincar com o sistema desligado. E é claro que a Ferrari deu boas saídas de traseira. Mesmo não entendendo nada do que ele diz vale a pena assistir. Só o barulho do motor nas mudanças de marcha já é sensacional.

Massa: retorno em Abu Dhabi?

Esse é típico post quebra-cara-de-jornalista-metido-a-besta, mas, ai ai ai, vou arriscar. Eu aposto que Felipe Massa irá retornar ainda em 2009, para disputar a derradeira etapa do Mundial em Abu Dhabi. Hoje, o brasileiro da Ferrari completou 100km a bordo de um F2007 em Fiorano, e não sentiu absolutamente nenhum problema. Pelo contrário, Massa afirmou após o teste que teria condições físicas de disputar um GP inteiro se fosse preciso, e reiterou que o olho esquerdo não apresentou nenhum problema.

Agora Felipe jogou, literalmente, a bomba no colo da Ferrari, que é o que de melhor poderia acontecer. Um simples telefonema do Cordero para o velho Max resolveria a parada, pois os médicos da Federação são os únicos, na real, que ainda podem segurar a volta antes do previsto. E a Ferrari, meus caros, está sendo alcançada pela McLaren no Mundial de Construtores, uma vez que Kimi está brigando sozinho contra dupla Luisinho-Kovalento, mesmo que esta soma represente apenas um e meio.

Na minha cabeça, isto já seria motivo suficiente para a Ferrari pressionar a FIA em prol da liberação de Felipe. Não se esqueçam que cada posição no Mundial significa alguns milhões de dólares a mais no fim da temporada.

Porém, há também a motivação estratégica do próprio Felipe. Não é difícil imaginarmos que a Ferrari deverá fazer em 2010 um carro melhor que o deste ano. Portanto, também não é difícil imaginarmos que ele terá boas chances de chegar ao GP de Abu Dhabi brigando ponto a ponto contra gente como o futuro companheiro Fernando-eu-não-sabia-de-nada-Alonso e Luisinho World Champion. Será que Massa não se preocupa com a possibilidade de ter de enfrentar pressão tão forte em uma pista em que apenas ele nunca terá andando antes? Isto pode fazer muita diferença no resultado do campeonato de 2010. E Felipe não é bobo, sabe disso.

Portanto, fufeiros, aposto minhas fichas em um retorno em Abu Dhabi. E vocês? Concordam comigo ou acham que ainda estou sob efeito do vinho? Aliás, o Foie Gras francês que eu comi no fim de semana estava s… de f…!

Uma ótima semana para todos!

Bom dia, turma! Estou sumido – estes fins de semana sem GP têm sido de intensa atividade, mas quem há de me culpar? Rá.

Bem, o principal assunto do dia, salvo alguma eventual bomba, deve ser o retorno de Felipe Massa ao volante de um F-1. Nesta segunda-feira, o brasileiro guia um F2007 em Fiorano. Mais tarde, quando os detalhes do teste surgirem, a gente volta e faz um post dedicado apenas ao assunto.

Por hora, fiquemos com algumas curtinhas:

Bernie - faca na mão, prontinha...

1 – Bernie Ecclestone quer introduzir testes coletivos na F-1 nas segundas-feiras pós GPs. Seria uma forma de manter os testes durante a temporada, mas reduzindo drasticamente os custos com transporte e logística. Eu, particularmente, adorei a idéia e espero que vingue o mais depressa possível. F-1 sem testar não é F-1 de verdade.

2 – O mesmo tio Bernie está ameaçando processar Donington Park pela falta de recursos e atrasos para iniciar as obras no autódromo, que assinou com a FOM para receber o GP da Inglaterra a partir de 2010. A palavra aqui em UK é que a corrida deverá mesmo voltar para Silverstone. Não tenho opinião formada, só desejo que a Inglaterra tenha melhor sorte que a França, que está sem corridas até hoje…

3 – Timo Glock descobriu que sofreu também uma pequena fissura em uma vértebra na pancada em Suzuka e está, portanto, fora do GP do Brasil. O japonês Kamui Kobayashi correrá em seu lugar. Neste caso, é trocar seis por cinco, quatro, três…

4 – Rubens Barrichello assinou com a Williams (e confirmou no Fantástico, me alerta GD), embora a assessoria do piloto negue a informação em veículos ingleses. É, apenas, questão de tempo para o time de Grove soltar um anúncio oficial. Em breve vou falar sobre isso aqui, estamos combinados?

5 – A melhor do dia até o momento, porém, vem de Max Mosley. Em entrevista ao The Times (o FUK sempre dá a fonte, meus caros), o presidente da FIA garantiu que não irá interferir de forma alguma na escolha do novo presidente da Federação, que acontece no fim do mês. Mosley, porém, reitera seu apoio a Jean Todt. A parte legal da entrevista está no fim. A jornalista, sendo irônica, pergunta a ele o que  faria se não gostasse da matéria uma vez pronta, dado o recente histórico de Max processar quase todo mundo. Mosley, de bate-pronto, respondeu que ligaria para ela e a convidaria para levar umas palmadas. Caso a jornalista gostasse da idéia, o sacana Mosley ainda disse que eles poderiam contratar duas “ladies” para apimentar a coisa. Não é genial esse tal de humor britânico?

Mais tarde eu volto falando do teste do Felipe, okay?! Beijundas!

Con chi ci sarà ci si vede qui domani

Paint Work Takes Inspiration From Song Dynasty Porcelain

Lu Hao's one-off Ferrari incorporates many Chinese elements, from the jade start button to the cracked porcelain paint scheme

To build greater brand equity and strike a chord in the Chinese market, many companies have been known to create limited-edition “China only” versions of their products inspired by Chinese culture or history. Today, Ferrari announced its collaboration with the Chinese contemporary artist Lu Hao – “well known for his models of Beijing, his playfulness with architecture and geographical images in rapidly evolving modern China” (ArtZine) —  on a one-of-a-kind China edition of the 599 GTB Fiorano (the regular model will be limited to a run of about 12 in China). The one-off edition by Lu will be auctioned off at a charity function in Beijing later this month.

Lu’s Ferrari features a unique trompe-l’œil paint job incorporating the faint green hue and distinctive cracked pattern of Ge Kiln porcelain from China’s Song Dynasty (AD 960-1279), but some of the most fascinating elements of the “China” edition are in the car’s interior. From Auto Express:

The China edition of Ferrari's 599 GTB Fiorano features ancient Chinese accents

The ignition button is carved from jade and insribed with the ancient Xiao Zhuan symbols for ‘engine start’, while other novel additions include a rev-counter marked with Chinese characters, a matching luggage set embroided with the route of the silk road – traditionally the most important trade routes in China – and an engraved plaque unique to each car.

Attimi di tensione e paura questa mattina a Fiorano, dove un trentranovenne si è presentato in un cantiere armato di pistola (forse una scacciacani), ha esploso un colpo in aria e aggredito due operai.

Erano le 12 passate quando l’uomo, visibilmente in collera, ha fatto irruzione nel cantiere e ha iniziato a minacciare i due malcapitati, lamentandosi del rumore eccessivo causato dai lavori. Poi ha sparato in aria, colpito uno di loro con il calcio dell’arma e picchiato il suo collega, seminando il panico tra la gente che ha assistito all’aggressione.

Sono stati proprio alcuni dei presenti, spaventati, ad avvisare i carabinieri. I due operai feriti sono stati soccorsi da un’ambulanza e portati al pronto soccorso dell’ospedale di Sassuolo. Il trentanovenne, invece, è stato bloccato e arrestato dai militari.

07/09/2009 – fonte

Above: I love this image of the 1994 Malvasia by Fiorano, snapped by Tracie B in her apartment the other day. It’s a quasi-film-noir take on a hard-to-wrap-your-mind-around wine. One of the things that intrigues us about wine is its mystery: who made it and how and why? A glass of wine can be like Lacan’s hieroglyphs in the dessert.

Twentieth-century linguist, semiotician, and father of late-blooming French psychoanalysis Jacques Lacan famously asked his readers to consider how they would react in the following situation (perhaps a great premise for an ersatz reality show?):

Suppose that in the desert you find a stone covered with hieroglyphics. You do not doubt for a moment that, behind them, there was a subject who wrote them. But it is an error to believe that each signifier is addressed to you — this is proved by the fact you cannot understand any of it. On the other hand, you define them as signifiers, by the fact that you are sure that each of the signifiers is related to each of the others.

(This passage is often cited in explaining Lacan’s theory of the “precedence of the signifier,” in other words, the notion that the word or symbol or sign always exists before meaning does.)

In some ways, protohumanist Francis Petrarch said the same thing when he wrote that as a young man, he could read Roman orator Cicero’s writing and he was enchanted by the words, their sounds, and their elegance, even though he could not (yet) understand what they meant.

Above: Tracie B’s contribution to our dinner Saturday at Italian Wine Guy’s was her excellent carbonara. It paired stunningly with the vibrant 92 Fiorano Semillon. Carbonara is another example of a trace of the past that has lost its meaning. No one knows for sure the origins of the dish or they etymon of its name.

As with literature and writing (even writing on the wall), we sometimes assign meaning to things not because we know the meaning intended by their authors or creators but because we simply come into contact with them. Nietzsche wrote about this in The Twilight of the Idols as “the error of imaginary causes,” as in dreams, when, for example, external stimulus (like a canon shot, as Nietzsche put it, or perhaps the song playing on a radio alarm clock) enters our subconscious:

The ideas engendered by a certain condition have been misunderstood as the cause of that condition. We do just the same thing, in fact, when we are awake.

What do any of these things have to do with one another, beyond me stringing together a seemingly arbitrarily compiled handlist of philosophical and epistemological musings?

Every wine wine we approach and draw to our lips is a mystery, a riddle of the Sphinx. Every glass of wine is Lacan’s desert hieroglyph, Petrarch’s Cicero, and Nietzsche’s waking dream — ay, there’s the rub… And so were the three bottles of Fiorano white that Tracie B and I opened with Italian Wine Guy over the weekend as our birthday gift to him (and a thank you for all that he’s done for both of us, professionally and personally, over the last two years).

Above: Deciphering Fiorano through the prism of Italian Wine Guy aka Alfonso’s superb stemware, paired with his take on petto di pollo alla milanese. Photo by Tracie B.

A great deal has been written about the fascinating wines of Fiorano (Eric’s 2004 article was the first piece about these wines in English) but I think that Eric put it best when he called them “bygone wines”: they are wines that will never be made again. In part because wine is no longer produced in that fashion on the Fiorano estate (outside Rome) and in part because today, few if any would ever consider making white wines intended for such prolonged barrel aging. They are a trace of another time and era in winemaking. They are “classic” inasmuch as they will never be made again. They are a mystery, a conundrum that keeps us thinking. We know they exist and have existed (and we will know that even after we have drunk them all). We know someone made them but we will probably never know what he meant by them.

All we do know for certain is that they’re delicious.

Dois vídeos em HD com o mais novo lançamento da marca do cavalinho rampante, é só clicar na imagem.

O primeiro vídeo é promocional da Ferrari e mostra de dentro do carro (interior ousado para o padrão Ferrari) um passeio em um circuito;
O segundo vídeo mostras fotos em modo slide com o som original do carro.

Sempre gostei das pequenas Ferraris (as mais “acessíveis” e que possuem motor V8), desde o Dino 246 GT (que tinha motor V6), passando pela imortal 308 Quattrovalvole, a elegante 348, a perfeita F355 até as modernosas 360 Modena e F430.

A nova Ferrari 458 Italia não me surpreendeu, na matéria design. Gostei do desenho do cockpit, dos vincos laterais e da traseira, mas a parte frontal eu não gostei.
O capô sobrepondo ao farol é de um estilo duvidoso, parece que o Studio Pininfarina tirou a inspiração de alguma revista européia de tuning! A grade frontal poderia ter um desenho mais tradicional, como a da Califórnia e da Fiorano.

Como o carro é a evolução de uma linha, o desempenho também evoluiu. O seu antecessor, a F430, fazia da imobilidade até 100km/h o tempo de 4 segundos e tinha a velocidade máxima de 315km/h. Já a nova 458 Italia, leva 3,4 segundos de 0 até 100km/h e máxima de 325km/h.

Eben sind die neuen Jahrgänge von der Az. Agr. Fiorano aus den Marken eingetroffen.

Unser Tipp:

Donna Orgilla: Marche Weißwein I.G.T.

Dieser besondere Weißwein wird gewonnen aus der autochthonen Traube “pecorino”, einer “alten” Rebsorte aus der Provinz Piceno, in den Marken.

Die dichte, betonte Säure und der hohe Zuckergehalt machen ihn zu einem Wein mit besonders kräftiger Struktur. “Donna Orgilla” (die alte Herrscherin über Cossignano des Mittelalters) vermittelt intensive Noten von Blüten und, weißem Fruchtfleisch. Die Trauben werden ausschließlich von Hand gelesen. Die Weinreben werden nach der Art von Guyot kultiviert, in nord- östlicher Hanglage auf 300 Meter Meereshöhe.

Die Fermentierung erfolgt bei niedriger Temperatur, um ein intensiv frisches Aroma zu erhalten. Nach 5-6 Monate in Edelstahlfässern , wird der Wein abgefüllt, um noch 5-6 Monate in der Flasche zu reifen.

zum Wein

Hi,

As this is my first post I’m going to make it a big one. Firstly let me present myself, my name is Ben and I’m half Italian half British, I was born and have lived in Italy all my live. I’m currently studying Mechanical Engineering at Cardiff University. I would say I was too passionate about cars, if you can be. I follow quite a few blogs like Nori Yaro, SpeedHunters, The Real JDM and so on… and really do love them, but I thought about making my own to show different sides of motoring and maybe a more technical side. As much as I love looking at cars from the outside I am truly fascinated by the details, so that’s how I’m going to orient my posts.

I’ll start off with some old days at the track. My father used to work for a company called Fiorano Ferrari as he’s a racing instructor. He started off with motocross in Zambia, then moved to Italy and raced touring cars, rally and a few other things.
Fiorano Ferrari used to organize track days for lucky Ferrari owners all around Europe and I was lucky enough to attend two of these as a guest.

In 2006 I went to what I would call my local track, Monza. I got to the track early in the morning as the sun was rising with the rest of the instructors and staff. The track was bathed in mist; it was quite amazing to see this incredible and brutal track in such a peaceful setting.
As the crew was getting the cars ready a loud siren went off to warn that the track was opening. Before the cars get used, the instructors warm up the engines, brakes and check the track by running a few laps. So I hopped in for the ride.

I do love Monza; it really is a beautiful track. Especially when roaring round in an F430.

A Ferrari Challenge team was there that weekend testing as well, so I had a look around their pit area. I think the team was owned by one of the Fiorano Ferrari crew as my dad knew them and they were pretty relaxed for me to walk around.

Stunning carbon ceramic brakes.

Even though Fiorano Ferrari had quite a few F430s and F360 Challenges, some members have their personal cars brought to the event. There was quite a nice selection.

Two years later I got the chance to go to Paul Ricard and first thing I must talk about is how amazing this private track is. Everything within the gates was so spotless I could have licked it, the beautiful tarmac leading to the main buildings, the stunning gardens with perfect trees. If I were a millionare this is defenately were I would spend most of my time, I can’t imagine how amazing the hotel is in the grounds. I could hang out in the driver’s lounge were the was free food and drinks, I must have had about 5 ice-teas throughout the day.

Customer cars in the back, the selection had improved with an epic F40 and a F430 GT.

The Fiorano Ferrari F430s were replaced with Scuderias, I approve.

Nicely sculpted wing mirrors.

The back end of a Scuderia is all purpose, and the exhaust is so loud I don’t know how it’s street legal.

Another back end, this time of the F40.

The mechanics were kind enough to remove the bonnet of the F430 GT so I could have a look. Nice carbon extractor for the radiator.

Now onto the F430 Challenges which I was lucky enough to had a ride in one. This is how an interior should look like, all purpose yet still have some quality and styling.

The front of the Challenge isn’t as aggressive as it should be in my opinion. A sharp, evil looking splitter would look good here.

Another look at those carbon brakes. I like how the 430 Challenge wheels resemble the old 360 Challenge ones, just with a more modern look.

The 360 Challenge wheels in black, not bad. Just from these two shots you can tell how much the new Challenge has improved. Lighter single lug wheels and carbon ceramic brakes.

Well, that’s it for now. I’ll leave you with a video from the events.

Ben

The story has been told many times but was first recounted famously in English by Eric: somewhere in the 1960s and 70s, the eccentric Italian noble, Alberico Boncompagni Ludovisi, prince of Venosa, developed what are still undeciphered methods of vinification and aging that allowed him to create unique, powerful, nuanced long-lived expressions of Malvasia di Candia, Sémillon, and Sauvignon Blanc. The secret at the Fiorano estate (located in the region of Latium, just north of Rome)? Mold… mold on the covering the aging casks, mold covering the bottles aging in the cellar.

I’ve had the great fortune to taste the wines many times. The first occasion was when they arrived in the U.S. in 2005. They had been rebottled and relabeled expressly for sale in the U.S. market and they commanded and continue to command a price that reaches beyond my means. But, man, they were good and they still are.

Yesterday, my friend Susana Partida, owner of Salute Wine, who brokers the wines in Texas, generously brought a bottle of the 94 Malvasia to lunch in Dallas (she and I became friends because her sister Felice cuts my hair at the James Allan Salon in Austin!).

Above: We lunched yesterday at Adelmo’s in Dallas, the see-and-be-seen wine industry hangout, where the simpatico proprietor Adelmo allows trade to bring wine. Adelmo is originally from San Vincenzo in Maremma (along the Tuscan coast) and he grew up in Florence. It’s always great to taste with him and glean wine knowledge from his many years in the business. He sent over some pâté and crostini after he tasted the Fiorano with us — his recommended pairing.

Would the prince have called these natural wines? Probably not. But are they? I believe they most certainly are. When you drink these extraordinary (and extravagant) wine, you taste the hand of an Italian aristocrat who recognized the nobility of the grape and the place, who got out of Nature’s way and let her do her work.

This was a wine, as Tracie B put it last night over our dinner of quesadillas, that “speaks of a place, of tradition. It’s real and it’s a product of its environment and of the culture, not of technology and manipulation.”

Susana generously sent me home with a half a bottle (we each had a glass with our lunch) and Tracie B and I lingered over the wine through dinner and a movie: Il postino, also from the 1994 vintage. In my more militantly Marxist university days, I might have dismissed this poignant romance as cloyingly engagé. But now that I’m a “Brunello socialist,” I can openly say that I found the movie irresistibly charming and ingenuously touching. Maybe it was because I remembered what Brunetta said about Troisi’s performance, in his History of Italian Cinema (translated by yours truly). Troisi, he wrote, gave “the world his career’s most heartbreaking hymn to life and love.” Maybe it’s because Tracie B’s generosity of heart and her wonderful spirit are rubbing off on me… The answer probably lies somewhere between a glass of 94 Malvasia and a kiss…

In other news, more mazel…

Mazel tov, Ale! His Wine Advocate scores and reviews are in and Il Poggione’s current releases are enjoying high marks from Antonio Galloni. Any one who reads Do Bianchi knows how much I love Il Poggione’s traditional-style Brunello and it’s great to see the winery get the recognition it deserves. These reviews and notes are testament to Antonio’s love of terroir-driven Italian wine. Chapeau bas, Antonio. I’ve been a fan since the days of your Piedmont Report and I love what you’ve done with the Italian notes at WA.

Another Italian wine guy, whose palate I respect immensely, Tom Hyland, also posted recently on a vertical of Il Poggione here.

El Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano HGTE equipa nuevas llantas de 20 pulgadas, suspensión más rígida, frenos de carbono y un interior más deportivo. Monta el mismo propulsor V12 que rinde 620 CV.

Hace un año, tuve la suerte de poner mis manos en un vehículo de 620 CV. Más que potencia, lo que desprendía ese coche era historia, lujo y deportividad; hablo del Ferrari 599. Si ya de por sí era un coche excelente para los circuitos, ahora, con los cambios introducidos por la marca italiana en esta edición, tiene que ser un devorador de curvas.

El nuevo Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano HGTE (Handling GT Evoluzione) presenta ligeros cambios que le hacen ser, aún si cabe, más exclusivo. Su imagen exterior se diferencia del modelo base por las llantas de 20 pulgadas y los escapes cromados. La suspensión es más rígida y equipa frenos de carbono.

En el interior encontramos un volante con detalles en Alcántara y un nuevo tapizado en los asientos, más deportivo y con la inscripción “Handling GTE”. Los ajustes del Manetino se han modificado, con lo que el comportamiento del coche se ha mejorado.

Estos cambios permiten al conductor del Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano HGTE “domar” los 620 CV de su V12 con mayor facilidad.

(POR BOB) –  Página Inicial

Enquanto o mundo da Fórmula 1 passa por grandes momentos de turbulência e incerteza, Michael Shumacher, 7 vezes campeão do mundo, curti a sua aposentadoria de uma forma muito “dura”.

Shumacher foi flagrado testando a nova Ferrari 599 HGTE no circuito de Fiorano na Itália. O piloto deu 20 voltas e parece ter se divertido bastante. (Matéria completa e fotos)

Mając pracę która satysfakcjonuje trudno się z nią rozstać. Jeśli jeszcze na dodatek były pracodawca nas ceni i liczy się z naszą opinią to nie nudzimy się na emeryturze. Nie każdy z nas jest jednak  Michaelem Schumacherem. Ten facet ma szczęście. Przez wiele lat zdobywał tytuł mistrza F1, a teraz wciąż śmiga pojazdami z Maranello. Ostatnio przyłapano go na „zabawach” z 599 GTB HGTE. Ferrari w tym modelu zastosowało ten sam silnik co w zwykłej wersji 599 a mianowicie dwunastocylindrówke w układzie V dająca moc 620 KM mocy i 608 Nm momentu obrotowego. Zmiany w aucie dotyczą zawieszenia, innej stylizacji przodu samochodu. Ferrari posiada 20 calowe obręcze kół, a także sportowe opony. Wnętrze tego demona z Maranello opanował lekki i mody karbon. Były mistrz świata był widziany na fabrycznym torze w Fiorano, na którym są prowadzone kursy dla właścicieli pojazdów Ferrari.