Maranello (Modena), 2nd September 2009

This coming weekend, the Masaryk Brno Circuit provides the setting for the sixth round of this season’s Ferrari Racing Days. It will be the first time that this event takes place at the circuit better known for staging the MotoGP and features the third round of the Shell Ferrari Historic Challenge and the fifth rounds of the Italian and European Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli. Alongside the F430 Challenge and the historic cars taking part in a busy race programme, also on the card will be no less than thirteen single seaters run by the F1 Clienti Department of Maranello, making it the biggest gathering of Ferrari cars ever seen in the Czech Republic.
Marc Gené, the official test driver for Scuderia Ferrari, will follow the drivers entered in the F1 Clienti programme in their free practice sessions over the weekend and will also drive a few hot laps at the wheel of two very special cars: the F2008, winner of last season’s Formula 1 Constructors’ title and a Ferrari FXX, the laboratory car which belongs to seven times Formula 1 world champion, Michael Schumacher, who is happy make the car available for such an amazing event.




Going into this round, Giorgio Sernagiotto (Motor/Piacenza) arrives as leader of the Italian Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli on 145 points, with the young Rossocorsa team racer, Stefano Gai, leading the gentlemen drivers in the Coppa Shell, on 155 points.
In the European leg of the one-make series, the French driver, Nicolas Misslin (Stradale Automobile) leads the Trofeo Pirelli with 130 points: on a tally of 140 points, the Coppa Shell is headed by the Motor/Piacenza crew of Frances Jean-Marc Bachelier and Yannick Mallegol.
Three months on from the round held at France’s Le Vigeant circuit, the classification amongst the historic cars sees Massimo Sordi still leading, thanks to the 60 points he picked up at the wheel of his 1957 Maserati 200 SI, followed by Nicolas Zapata and his 1956 Ferrari 625 on 54 points and Mister John of B, driving a 1980 Ferrari 512 BB LM, two points down.

The event gets underway on Friday 4 September, with the initial rounds of free practice, followed on Saturday by qualifying and the first round of races, ending on Sunday with the second set of races.

The two rounds of the Italian Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli will be shown live on Sky Sport 3, on Saturday 5 September at 18.10 (Race 1) and by Sky Sport 2, Sunday 6 September at 11.55 (Race 2.) Sky Sport 2 will show repeats of Race 1 on Saturday at 23.45 and Sunday at 11. The same channel will then repeat Sunday’s Race 2 at 15.30, 20 and 23.45.