A special event will take place this coming weekend at the MotorSport Stadium track, put up for the 33rd International Motor Show, hosted by the city of Bologna. On Saturday, 6th December, fifteen cars from the Italian series of the Ferrari Challenge Pirelli Trophy will enter the arena used for the show's on-track events. At 9 o'clock, they will take part in a qualifying session, which will be followed by three races to be held during the course of the day.
 
Competitors from the Pirelli Trophy include: Nicola Gianniberti and Raffaele De Simone (Ineco/Ram), Giorgio Sernagiotto and Giuseppe Cirò (Motor/Piacenza), Andrea Belluzzi (Motor/Modena), Andrea Gilardi (Forza Service), Andrea De Lorenzi (Rossocorsa/Pellin) and Philipp Baron (Baron Service).
The gentlemen drivers in the Shell Cup will be represented by: Riccardo Ragazzi and Roberto Giacopuzzi (Ineco/MP), Giuseppe Fascicolo and Gianluca Carboni (Rossocorsa/Pellin), Davide D'Antuono (Motor/Modena), Vincenzo Sauto (Ineco/MP Racing) and Renato Di Amato (CDP).

Apart from the races on the programme, the MotorSport Stadium track will also play host to three demonstration runs featuring four of the laboratory-cars entered in the exclusive FXX Programme, as well as the traditional appearance from the Formula 1 team: Luca Badoer will take to the track in an F2008, the car which brought Ferrari its sixteenth Constructors' World Championship title, the eighth in the last ten years. At the end of the demonstration, Badoer will then get behind the wheel of a Fiat 500 Abarth which, in 2009, will make its competition debut alongside the Italian series of the Ferrari Challenge Pirelli Trophy, apart from the Valencia round, which will be held at the same time the event counting towards the European one-make series.