Luca di Montezemolo demonstrated his driving skills yesterday by parking a Ferrari in a gravel trap, with his two bemused race drivers perched on the back. Class. (see video)
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Posts Tagged ‘Valencia’
Badoer begged by team not to make any pit stops at Spa
Luca Badoer, who has recently committed more motoring offences than George Michael, has been instructed by Ferrari to take a radical approach to the Belgian Grand Prix - by running on a zero stop strategy.
At the Valencia race, Luca was… done four times for speeding in the pitlane, he managed to get overtaken by another car, in the pitlane and then got penalised for crossing the white line exiting, you guessed it, the pitlane. As if that wasn’t enough, he also managed to pile into Adrian Sutil’s stationary Force India…in the pitlane.
The team have therefore decided that as he is so slow on the track he is not a danger to anybody there, but keeping him away from the pitlane is definately a very good idea.
Force India forced to find new home
The rarefied atmosphere of the F1 paddock was somewhat spoilt today with the discovery of a positively down at heel motorhome, parked in the spot where Force India’s opulent glass palace normally sits.
Apparently there was not enough time between the… Valencia and Spa events for the team to reconstruct VJ Mallya’s luxury pad, so there was a last minute panic to find an alternative, which was not easy with the Belgian Bank Holiday weekend fast approaching.
Grosjean’s bit on the side
With the arduous task of having to drive a car around for a bit every fortnight, you would have thought that F1 drivers have little spare time for anything else. Not so, as when he is not putting Brazilians out… of work, Renault pedaller, Romain Grosjean, is a banker.
We have already reported about Timo Glock’s sideline as a scaffolder and now we can reveal that Romain has a part time job at a Geneva bank* where he is in charge of keeping the cash machine operational and watering the pot plants.
Say’s Grosjean; “On the Tuesday after the Valencia race, I went back to work at the bank to keep in touch with reality, I think it’s important to continue like this as I enjoy working there and this routine has always worked well for me in the past.”
Mind you, being the No2 driver at Renault has never been a job with much long term security, so maybe Romain is sensible in keeping his options open.
*Renault themselves confirm that Romain still has a job at a bank but we think this is just an example of the legendary humour of the French. Watch this space.
European Grand Prix puts man to sleep
A London man today awoke from a 19 year coma to find the European Grand Prix on the television. He watched for half an hour before begging to be put under again.
Slowhand meets Slowfoot
Eric Clapton was seen with Luca Badoer in the Ferrari garage before the race in Valencia so we thought we’d use this headline before ‘The Sun’ does.
Badoer makes history in Spain
Michael Schumacher thought he held all of the records at Ferrari but today Luca Badoer found one of his own, by becoming the only driver for the Scuderia in 59 years to qualify last for a Grand Prix. Ooops.
Buemi has a close shave
Valencia. While Romain Grosjean is about to debut the worst hairstyle in F1 since Minardi mop top, Fabrizio Barbazza, gave us the wild man look in 1993, spare a thought for Toro Rosso star Sebastien Buemi, who due to a… misunderstanding with his barber is now incapable of a hairdo of any sort.
Buemi visited a barbershop near the team factory in Faenza on Tuesday for a quick tidy up, but translation problems with the snipper resulted in a scalping that means that he’ll have to keep his noddle covered all weekend or face breaking out the factor 60.
Could be just the one weekend he does not want to get on the podium…
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