A one-two finish for Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro in the Bahrain Grand Prix, the opening round of the 2010 World Championship.
After enduring a 2009 season well below its usual expectations, Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro has returned to a much more acceptable level, getting both F10s onto the front two rows of the grid for tomorrow’s opening round, the Bahrain Grand Prix.
After winter testing featured rain and below average temperatures, the first round of the World Championship, which got underway today at Sakhir, took place in hot and sunny conditions.
Fernando Alonso took part in his first FIA media conference as a Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro driver this afternoon, sitting alongside the man who took the Prancing Horse to so much success over the years – Michael Schumacher.
The Spanish driver Fernando Alonso answered numerous from the fans posted on the official Ferrari website this afternoon in a video chat session.
An important day for the Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro.
2,500 members of the Scuderia Ferrari Club, the Ferrari Club Italia and the Scuderia Ferrari Community participated today in the first Passion Day.
“That’s it with the exhibition games, now we’re getting serious.”
In the end there were over 21.000 spectators assisting Fernando Alonso’s last day of testing and the Spanish fans’ enthusiasm was altered by a good performance by the Ferrarista with a race simulation and the second fastest lap time of the day.
It was an intense morning for Fernando Alonso, working, together with ten colleagues and as many teams, at the Circuit de Catalunya on the second of four days of the fourth and last test session before the start of the 2010 F1 Championship.