Valencia, 3rd June 2006

Ferrari Racing Days got underway today at the Circuit de la Communitat Valenciana Ricardo Tormo di Valencia in Spain. This weekend's event features races in the European championships for the Ferrari Challenge Pirelli Trophy and the Shell Ferrari Historic Challenge, the series for historic Ferraris, that since 1999 has also been open to Maseratis. There are also demonstrations from a variety of historic single-seaters coordinated by the Maranello F1 Clienti department.

Today featured qualifying for the one-make series which this year sees the F430 make its debut, alongside a few 360 Modenas, still eligible for 2006.
In the main class, the fastest times in their respective sessions went to Philippe Favre (Kessel Racing) and the crew of Case/Passuti (Ferrari GB Dealer Team,) while among the gentlemen drivers in the Shell Cup, it was Nicolas Misslin (Team FWE) and Ettore Contini (Kessel Racing) who start from pole position on the two grids.

Tomorrow's action gets underway at 9.00 with the first race of the Ferrari Challenge Pirelli Trophy.