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”The world saw the debut of the latest Ferrari sports racing
car, this week, along with the team debut of a very gifted
young driver, Jaime Melo,” says Team Managing Director
Giuseppe Risi. “We’re delighted with the overall mechanical
performance of the car and the Michelin tyres were superb.
It’s been very satisfying debut for the F430GT.” Brazilian
Jaime Melo joined Risi Competizione for this race and has
been a real revelation here, one of the drivers who stood
out. An official Ferrari test driver, he has brought
valuable knowledge gained during the car’s development
programme to the team. He also set the fastest GT2 lap of
the race, breaking the official circuit record in the
process.
Meanwhile, Chief Engineer Rick Mayer was also impressed by
the new Ferrari F430GT, commenting: “We only had the car for
a couple of days before we went to Sebring. Our team did a
great job of preparing the car at short notice. We had no
reliability problems whatsoever. It’s very solid, dependable
and fast new race car.”
54th Mobil 1 12 Hours of Sebring, GT2 race result:
1st (15) David Brabham, Sebastien Bourdais,
Scott Maxwell, Canada (Panoz Esperante GTLM) 320 laps; 2nd
Marc Lieb, Johannes van Overbeek, Jon Fogarty (Porsche 911
GT3 RSR) + 5.365 seconds; 3rd Ralf Kelleners, Jaime Melo,
Anthony Lazzaro (Ferrari 430 GT) + 49.013 4th Darren Law,
Seth Neiman, Lonnie Pechnik (Porsche 911 GT3 RSR) + 5 laps;
5th Richard Dean, Tom Kimber-Smith, Lawrence Tomilson (Panoz
Esperante GTLM) + 8 laps; 6th Mike Rockenfeller, Klaus Graf,
Graham Rahal, (Porsche 911 GT3 RSR) + 9 laps
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