Fiat Freestyle Team

04.11.2005 Representatives of the Fiat Freestyle Team visited Ferrari's Maranello factory this week

Representatives of the Fiat Freestyle Team visited Ferrari's Maranello factory this week. The squad was created in 2004 and includes athletes from various freestyle sporting disciplines: snowboarding, freestyle skiing, skateboarding, surfing and kitesurfing. The Prancing Horse visit came after the team had been to the Skipass di Modena event, an exhibition dedicated to promoting the 2006 Winter Olympics to be held in Turin. Claudio Bosia (2005 ski freestyle Italian champion and Olympic athlete), Mattia Pegorari (runner-up in the 2005 Italian freestyle ski championships and Olympic athlete), Simone Malusą (2004 runner-up in world boardercross - snowboard - and Olympic athlete), Piercarlo Ricasoli (third in the 2004 Italian kitesurfing championship) all had the chance to take a close up look at the production line.
 

Ferrari 612 Scaglietti

At the end of the visit the four athletes gathered for the traditional photograph, it was taken in the showroom with a splendid V12-engine 612 Scaglietti the Ferrari flagship model

Ferrari 612 Scaglietti

Representatives of the Fiat Freestyle Team, made up of athletes from various freestyle disciplines including snowboarding, freestyle skiing, skateboarding, surfing and and kitesurfing, visited Ferrari's Maranello factory this week


They also visited the selleria, where all the leather Ferrari interiors are put together, and the Nuova Meccanica building that designs Ferrari's GT engines. At the end of the visit the four Fiat Freestyle Team athletes gathered for the traditional photographs. This time it was taken in the showroom with a splendid V12-engined 612 Scaglietti, the Ferrari flagship model.
 

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