Wouldn't the testing ban forbid Alonso from driving the car? perhaps they gave his helmet to a young driver???
I certainly didn't hear of Alonso driving a Ferrari yet outside the new simulator.

Nope. Alonso drove the F60 in Paul Ricard some days ago for a promotional event.

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It's not that bad but an all red ferrari will always look better (funny how fans forget the old vodafone livery )

I suppose they photoshopped the F60 both in full red and in white and red and Santander logo was better to spot on a white background

Poor guy.

..... the F60

http://www.ferrari.com/English/News/Pages/...Barcellona.aspx

I wonder what their testing on the car??!!

they are or they're

Testing rules need to be changed because it's ridiculous . Gaining confidence my ass, Felipe will probably test improvements in fuel consumption and some minor parts.

Well anything is better than his Renault from last year.

According to EFE Fernando drove the car specifically for this Santander event today, so the livery is legit.

I think it would have looked much better with red wings, but i guess being white it hits you right away.

Good god, how much is Santander paying? Every part of the car is filled with a sticker...

Marlboro and Shell look like small sponsors compared to Santander.

Valid point. Still not much of an upgrade tho.

And I like it. Maybe i have something f*cked up with my head, but I like changes.

Holy mother of christ... talk about overkill...

holy cow thats ugly

What's the difference?

Nothing?

It looks really cool now, much better than all red.

Be it an F60 or an F281, how is that in agreement with the test ban ? I thought there was simply no running whatsoever before 1st Feb.
Then we got the Schumacher exception who was allowed to drive a GP2. Then Rossi driving a Ferrari clienti fitted with GP2 tires.

I fail to understand how Alonso doing one or two laps at Paul Ricard could suit FOTA and the FIA?

That's how

You're allowed to do a limited amount of promotional stuff. You also have to chug around with the pit limiter on and tyres made of granite.

* edit: You only need the limiter when turning around on straight line testing.

It's all in the regulations. AFAIK there would be absolutely no rule bending involved here..

Look for article 22 of the sporting regulations.

http://www.fia.com/en-GB/sport/regulations...ampionship.aspx

Thanks for the clarification.

But how does this one is legal then?



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Probably because that car no longer conforms to the current technical regulations, so running it provides absolutely **** all towards the development of the current car. If you feel that it's illegal, then you can extrapolate and say that running a 412T1 or a 641 in a historic F1 event would be breaking the testing ban as well. But... okay, maybe it's not good to extrapolate like that.

Client car, (2008), fitted with GP2 tyres.

I quite like the new livery. (Unlike many here)

But how about a two minute photoshop to evaluate black or red wings...

According to El Mundo Santander pays 40 millions per year.

I imagine that all the teams had to agree to let Massa do the tests, and I doubt any of em had any problem with it due to the circumstances AND because the car is fairly irrelevant to this year's.

Where the hell is Santander ever going to use pictures of last years car with this years livery in their promotional material?
This years car is probably going to look a lot different to last year, so those photos are useless to Santander.

If they just wanted to see how the desgin layout would look it could have been done in half an hour with photoshop.

This all seems very fishy.

with all respect, it looks like shit. I mean, black wings wold be great, but we need a proper photo or more realistic photoshopped one;)

Its one way round the testing ban in a fashion. Although they aren't testing the 2010 car, at least they are getting themselves back into F1 mode. Didn't Senna mentionn one time that he felt rusty after the winter break?

There is nothing to stop any team from running a 2 year old car with GP2 tyres. When Williams and Red Bull prevented Michael from testing prior to his aborted comeback, he was still able to use a client car with GP2 tyres. It has no impact on their car improvement, so nobody cares or could do anything about it. Any driver could pay to drive a Formula 1 car around a number of tracks. It costs a couple of thousand quid, and is available to buy as an "experience" voucher.

It just wouldn't be a current F1 car with current F1 tyres, so would be useless to car development.

Does that mean that Marlboro are gone? Or is this a Santander advert they're filming with the logos replacing the Marlboro ones?

I really don't like that livery. Too much white on the wings, at least with the Marlboro, it was mixed in better and the 04 car livery looked better than this.

This year's car may look a lot different(or may not), but the front and rear wings will not change drastically to where this 'livery' would be misleading, ya know? There will still be large planes on both wings where advertising space will be clear and visible. Saying they're useless is quite dramatic, I'd say.

Anyways, I'm in agreement that white-on-red isn't Ferrari's best look, but I can tolerate it. But if I had my way, I'd go back to black-on-red. Just looks so eeeevil.

I thought I remember something where the teams had to agree to let (somebody) test with a couple year old car, but I could be wrong.

seems odd. i guess felipe is not convinced he is back to his old self or ferrari would like to evaluate some internal parts for fuel efficiency.

http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/wp-content/uplo...eralls_2010.jpg

No, the teams need to agree to let anybody test with a current car, (which Williams and Red Bull declined to do for MS, hence him having to test a client car with GP2 tyres).

Alonso

Agreed. They are taking advantage of justifiable need to get Massa more mileage, but I'm sure they are trying out new stuff for 2010. I would, if I were them.

I wonder if this livery was devised only for the Santander event. I'm wondering if the real livery will be different when they unveil the car next week. I hope so. I do hate white on F1 cars.

i thought barge boards were banned? how come that picture has them

Barge boards as such are not banned. Bodywork in certain area's such as where bargeboards used to be is banned, however this bargeboard as shown above is allowed because it is not in the area where bodywork is banned. Most the teams have them/

who knows they are testing various new internal components on F2008 and F60?

i'm sure they are!

Massa has been getting quite a lot of testing time now... I'm surprised the other teams have not complained. The other drivers haven't driven an F1 car in the last 3 months, I guess Massa will be quite prepared physichally for the February test!

I guess prolly they gonna try some internal solutions (like it was reported during last f2007 test), oil compositions, stuff around/regarding engine, etc...

+ Mclaren deal

+ title sponsor of Great Britain, Italia, Brasil, España and European GPs


that's a lot of money, but hey, they're a bank

The marketing guys of Santander have seen something in F1 that gives them a big return and profits

Livery looks great! Much better than boring all-red

I hate the new livery, but your photo shop with black wings looks great! Like the 80's Ferrari F1's.