F1: FERRARI FETES CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM
Raikkonen to lead parade at Mugello Challenge finals
(ANSA) - Maranello, October 26 - Ferrari will celebrate its world championship team and driver on Sunday with a parade at the end of the Ferrari Challenge finals.
Leading the parade at the Mugello International Racetrack will the new Formula 1 world champion Kimi Raikkonen, who clinched the title by winning the season's all-or-nothing closing race in Brazil last Sunday.
Joining Raikkonen in the parade will be teammate Felipe Massa, Ferrari CEO Jean Todt and all racing team's mechanics, technicians and engineers.
The Finn said he was looking forward to going to the Mugello finals "to celebrate with all of Ferrari: it's my first time there and it's the perfect moment to go there". Ferrari easily won the constructors' championship when rival McLaren-Mercedes was stripped of all its season points after having been found guilty of industrial espionage.
Had the British team not been penalised it would have won the title thanks to the points racked up by drivers Fernando Alonso, the outgoing world champion, and Lewis Hamilton.
Both had a chance for the drivers' title and led Raikkonen in the standings before the Brazilian Grand Prix.
Hamilton, who had been poised to become the first rookie to win the Formula 1 title, finished seventh in Brazil while two-time champion Alonso placed third behind Massa, who was driving on his home turf.
Raikkonen repeatedly thanked Massa after Sunday's race and said "he did what he could do, just like a perfect teammate. As a team we couldn't do more than a double-win".
Raikkonen joined Ferrari this year from McLaren to replace seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher, who retired after the 2006 season.
FERRARI CHALLENGE FINALS IN 15TH YEAR.
The Ferrari Challenge world finals, which began on Wednesday, are an annual event to wrap up the three Ferrari Challenge Pirelli Trophy series - Italian, European and American.
It is capped by a final between participants from all three series to determine who is the world champion. Other events at Mugello include a run by Ferrari's F430GT, cars which won the 2007 Constructors' Cup in FIA's GT2 championship, and the crowd-pleasing Shell Ferrari Historic Challenge final for vintage cars.
The finals are also an opportunity for fans to see the prototypes of the exclusive FXX programme out on the track.
Also at the finals are 60 of the cars which best represented Ferrari's 60-year history, including the latest arrival: the 430 Scuderia The Ferrari Challenge series, now in its 15th year, was created for the private owners of the Italian sports cars to test their skills against each other on the track.
Races for the Italian and European Ferrari Challenge often coincide with those for the Grand Turismo (GT) championship.
(ANSA) - Maranello, October 26 - Ferrari will celebrate its world championship team and driver on Sunday with a parade at the end of the Ferrari Challenge finals.
Leading the parade at the Mugello International Racetrack will the new Formula 1 world champion Kimi Raikkonen, who clinched the title by winning the season's all-or-nothing closing race in Brazil last Sunday.
Joining Raikkonen in the parade will be teammate Felipe Massa, Ferrari CEO Jean Todt and all racing team's mechanics, technicians and engineers.
The Finn said he was looking forward to going to the Mugello finals "to celebrate with all of Ferrari: it's my first time there and it's the perfect moment to go there". Ferrari easily won the constructors' championship when rival McLaren-Mercedes was stripped of all its season points after having been found guilty of industrial espionage.
Had the British team not been penalised it would have won the title thanks to the points racked up by drivers Fernando Alonso, the outgoing world champion, and Lewis Hamilton.
Both had a chance for the drivers' title and led Raikkonen in the standings before the Brazilian Grand Prix.
Hamilton, who had been poised to become the first rookie to win the Formula 1 title, finished seventh in Brazil while two-time champion Alonso placed third behind Massa, who was driving on his home turf.
Raikkonen repeatedly thanked Massa after Sunday's race and said "he did what he could do, just like a perfect teammate. As a team we couldn't do more than a double-win".
Raikkonen joined Ferrari this year from McLaren to replace seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher, who retired after the 2006 season.
FERRARI CHALLENGE FINALS IN 15TH YEAR.
The Ferrari Challenge world finals, which began on Wednesday, are an annual event to wrap up the three Ferrari Challenge Pirelli Trophy series - Italian, European and American.
It is capped by a final between participants from all three series to determine who is the world champion. Other events at Mugello include a run by Ferrari's F430GT, cars which won the 2007 Constructors' Cup in FIA's GT2 championship, and the crowd-pleasing Shell Ferrari Historic Challenge final for vintage cars.
The finals are also an opportunity for fans to see the prototypes of the exclusive FXX programme out on the track.
Also at the finals are 60 of the cars which best represented Ferrari's 60-year history, including the latest arrival: the 430 Scuderia The Ferrari Challenge series, now in its 15th year, was created for the private owners of the Italian sports cars to test their skills against each other on the track.
Races for the Italian and European Ferrari Challenge often coincide with those for the Grand Turismo (GT) championship.
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