Luca Badoer Finally Gets Ferrari Drive

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Originally Posted by Knock-on

Any time spent in the car will be better than none at all but I agree with ioan that it's going to have no real practical use. The tyres are harder than Vinny Jones and he has to keep to 60mph max.

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Yes, but that's still quicker than Bourdais could have managed.

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Originally Posted by tamburello

That was in October 08, and I don't recall seeing any details since then, so it would appear that it didn't happen.

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Ferrari's intentions may be good with their "young driver scheme" but they're a little late! The investment the likes of McLaren, Red Bull and Renault have made over the years has produced mixed results but also one or two gems.

Ferrari's focus on a certain Michael Schumacher for a decade may have produced spectacular results, but longer term they have no-one "in development". I suppose Felipe has been their "young driver scheme", but I do wonder why they didn't do more much sooner. For the amount of money they pay Kimi they could have developed a whole grid of drivers :p

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Originally Posted by ioan

It might help him understand the steering wheel layout and such other things he could have learned in the simulator, but that's it.

But no other use. Anyway according to some illuminated forum members Luca knows this car better than anybody else even though he'll be driving it today for the first time! ;)

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i'm glad you posted this little snippet again, and whilst i didn't have any reason to question it before, i thought it was a little odd that Badoer had never ever even sat in the car before, but from http://www.itv-f1.com/news_article.aspx?id=46612 (and a similar report on Autosport

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Originally Posted by Luca Badoer

“With testing being so restricted this year,” he explained, “it’s very difficult to step up to the race seat. I drove the F60 at Fiorano just for two filming days, on Monday and Tuesday, but it was good to get into a car that I haven’t driven for several months.”

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which seems to indidcate the contrary to your belief that he's bever driven the car previously.

Interesting find Robinho. Not quite cast iron conclusive evidence but it certainly suggests some mileage somewhere.

i don't doubt he's done bugger all in the car since preseason, and then possibly very little mileage even then, however that is not what "some illuminated forum members" would have us believe ;)

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Originally Posted by Robinho

i'm glad you posted this little snippet again, and whilst i didn't have any reason to question it before, i thought it was a little odd that Badoer had never ever even sat in the car before, but from http://www.itv-f1.com/news_article.aspx?id=46612 (and a similar report on Autosport



which seems to indidcate the contrary to your belief that he's bever driven the car previously.

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Well as you can see he first sat in the car this week on Monday and Tuesday.
I fail to see how I was wrong when I said previously that he never drove the car. :confused:

Also you are a bit late.
Posted almost 3 days ago by myself:

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Originally Posted by ioan

Badoer will drive the F60 today and tomorrow as part of some kind of a commercial program. He will be limited to 100 kms/day and will have to use the extra hard demo Bridgestone tires.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/77721

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It's on the previous page of this very thread! :D
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Originally Posted by Robinho

i don't doubt he's done bugger all in the car since preseason, and then possibly very little mileage even then, however that is not what "some illuminated forum members" would have us believe ;)

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As pointed out in my other post, you're mixing up the time stamps a bit. ;)

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Originally Posted by tamburello

Yes, but that's still quicker than Bourdais could have managed.

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where is the humor in that?

tell you what, Bourdais would be a better option for ferrari than either gene or badoer

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Originally Posted by ArrowsFA1

Ferrari's intentions may be good with their "young driver scheme" but they're a little late! The investment the likes of McLaren, Red Bull and Renault have made over the years has produced mixed results but also one or two gems.

Ferrari's focus on a certain Michael Schumacher for a decade may have produced spectacular results, but longer term they have no-one "in development". I suppose Felipe has been their "young driver scheme", but I do wonder why they didn't do more much sooner. For the amount of money they pay Kimi they could have developed a whole grid of drivers :p

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...and the money they paid kimi was well rewarded with an F1 championship right?

I've never been a fan of teams trying to look 6-10 yrs down the future, as an approach to running an F1 team. More so than any sport, F1 is about as real time as it gets in any sport. It's good that macs, RB and BMW have spent money on development programs. but when you have a car and budget like macs or Ferrari, you can pretty much get any driver you want and usually end up with the best. Replacing one top driver with another. Money is better spent developing a superior car and dropping in a top flight driver, than spending money on developing drivers who may or may not drive the car 10 years down the road. This isn't a soccer team, it's F1. Hamilton's rise in mclaren is more of an exception than the norm. Red bull's young driver program is a disaster (party due to self inflicted wounds and dumb decisions)

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Originally Posted by ArrowsFA1

Ferrari's intentions may be good with their "young driver scheme" but they're a little late! The investment the likes of McLaren, Red Bull and Renault have made over the years has produced mixed results but also one or two gems.

Ferrari's focus on a certain Michael Schumacher for a decade may have produced spectacular results, but longer term they have no-one "in development". I suppose Felipe has been their "young driver scheme", but I do wonder why they didn't do more much sooner. For the amount of money they pay Kimi they could have developed a whole grid of drivers :p

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You know that money does not produce drivers - in fact with Hamilton being the exception it has been the smaller less well-funded teams that have made the selections.

Alonso had Minardi, Raikonnen had Sauber, Schumacher had Jordan and Senna had Toleman - with Bernie hot in their heels to try and sign him for Brabham much to Piquet's alarm so he managed to put a stop to that.

The best driver finding scheme remains the Elf-Winfield scholarship which produced EIGHT drivers all on the grid at the same time. Alain Prost was the result of the Elf scheme.

If the money required today was neccessary then, and there was no Elf-Winfield program Prost himself said that he could never have moved beyond his karting.

I am happy for Badoer because it always makes me happy when I see people achieve dreams - and being a Ferrari driver in a grand prix regardless of what happens or if he will be driving at Spa, will have made everything worth it for Luca Badoer. Well done :-]