ItaliaspeedTV: Ferrari has taken centre stage at the Bologna Motor Show with F1 and Challenge Trofeo action on track in the motor sports arena and in its booth the world debut of the 458 Challenge alongside the 599XX and FXX

Wednesday was a special day for Ferrari fans attending the Bologna Motor Show: on the day traditionally dedicated to the Prancing Horse in the motorsports arena it was time to say goodbye to test driver Luca Badoer after 13 seasons

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: The motorsports arena in Bologna was given over to Ferrari yesterday with sixteen F430 Challenge runners in action while outgoing test driver Luca Badoer demonstrated last year's F60 single-seater 

The first "Ferrari Pit Stop", a new concept store completely dedicated to fans of Scuderia Ferrari, has opened in Nola, at the Vulcano Buono service centre, a point of reference for the territory commercially and socially

Vallelunga was the scene of an F1 test for the top three in the Italian F3 Championship organised by Scuderia Ferrari along with the ACI-CSAI and under the supervision of the head of the Ferrari Driver Academy, Luca Baldisserri

Ferrari makes a different contribution to the 35th edition of the Bologna Motor Show with a stand devoted entirely to its racing activities, led out by the debut of the new 458 Challenge racer, plus an intense track programme

ItaliaspeedTV: Bringing the curtain down on the celebrations in Valencia were Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso at the wheel of two F10s with Luca Badoer driving an F60 completing several laps of the track as well as simulating pit stops

ItaliaspeedTV: "I am proud of what the Scuderia managed to achieve," said Fernando Alonso in Valencia, "In a year when we did not have the best car, we managed to get to the last race still in with a great chance of winning the title"

ItaliaspeedTV: "My approach always remains the same," said Scuderia Ferrari driver Felipe Massa at the Finali Mondiali Ferrari 2010 in Valencia, "starting the championship with the aim of winning as many races as possible

ItaliaspeedTV: Interviews with Scuderia Ferrari Team Principal Stefano Domenicali and Test Driver Giancarlo Fisichella during the Finali Mondiali Ferrari 2010 held at the Valencia circuit in Spain over the weekend

ItaliaspeedTV: The final day parade in Valencia got underway with Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa, driving a 1954 375 Indianapolis and 1957 500 TRC respectively, led out a 1961 California driven by Luca di Montezemolo

ItaliaspeedTV: Ferrari President Luca di Montezemolo believes that this season has been a positive one for the Scuderia despite losing the F1 title at the last moment and is confident that the team is well prepared for next season

"For 2011 there will be various technical changes from the return of KERS to the arrival of Pirelli tyres and an adjustable rear wing," Ferrari President Luca di Montezemolo noted in Valencia, "We are starting from a solid base"

Yesterday saw the last day of the Finali Mondiali Ferrari which for the past eighteen years has given fans from all over the world the opportunity to see gathered together those involved in all Ferrari’s racing and sporting activities

ItaliaspeedTV: Ferrari President Luc di Montezemolo believes that this season has been a positive one for the Scuderia despite losing the F1 title at the last moment and is confident that the team is well prepared for next season

Daniel Ricciardo will be Scuderia Toro Rosso’s third and reserve driver for 2011 with the 21 year old Australian set to drive in the Friday morning free practice sessions at all the grands prix replacing each of the current two drivers in turn

Finali Mondiali Ferrari, the event that traditionally brings the Prancing Horse’s season to an end kicked off yesterday with a parade of road and racing cars through the streets of Valencia while today the track action winds up in earnest

Just as Felipe Massa went fastest on the opening day of the two day Pirelli tyre test in Abu Dhabi Scuderia Ferrari team mate Fernando Alonso ended the final track session yesterday firmly at the top of the timesheets

Today saw the start of a new era as it marked the return of Pirelli tyres to an official test on track and for Ferrari it denoted a return to the Italian tyre brand more than half a century after its rubber was last shod on a Prancing Horse F1 car

Jules Bianchi has wrapped up two days behind the wheel of the F10 single-seater for Scuderia Ferrari at the F1 official "young driver" test, the Frenchman's first track action for the team since being promoted to a full test driver for 2011

Ferrari Chairman Luca di Montezemolo and Vice Chairman Piero Ferrari have hit back at Italian Minister Roberto Calderoli who called on the former to quit after the pit stop call that cost Fernando Alonso the world championship title

"What happened was a negative episode but it can’t cancel out all the good things that we’ve seen this season," said a disappointed Scuderia Ferrari Team Principal Stefano Domenicali as he left the Abu Dhabi circuit

An early pit call that dramatically turned out to be the wrong way to go cost Fernando Alonso his F1 world championship points lead and unable to finish any higher than seventh the title was wrested away from Ferrari's grasp

Ninth place for Spanish youngster Jaime Alguersuari in Abu Dhabi last night and a resulting two championship points meant Scuderia Toro Rosso ended the F1 season with thirteen points and tenth place in the constructors' standings

One car on the second row and one on the third: that was the outcome of the final qualifying session of 2010 for Ferrari; Fernando Alonso was third fastest in Q3, Felipe Massa sixth at the end of a very closely contested session

Toro Rosso look set to end the season on an uncompetitive note as neither of its drivers showed any speed in Abu Dhabi this afternoon, Jaime Alguersuari eventually pipping his team mate to seventeen place on the grid

A good first day of free practice for Scuderia Ferrari in Abu Dhabi, the final and, at least in the case of the drivers’ title, decisive race of the 2010 season, with championship leader Fernando Alonso having a trouble free day

Ferrari has announced that young Frenchman Jules Bianchi, who was the first driver to join its new "academy" when it was formed late last year, will take on the role of an official test driver for the Scuderia for the 2011 season

ItaliaspeedTV: Scuderia Ferrari's Luca Colanjanni reflects on the result in Brazil last weekend and looks forward to this Sunday's season closing grand prix in Abu Dhabi and the task ahead of Ferrari if it is to secure the drivers' title

“We must do the maximum we can,” said Ferrari's Stefano Domenicali before leaving Brazil. “It’s clear that at this point we still haven’t achieved the most difficult part of all but we will do everything that we can until the very end”

Eleventh for Jaime Alguersuari and thirteenth for Sebastien Buemi was the best that Toro Rosso could manage in Brazil on a day when just one retirement limited the team's chances of moving up to the points paying positions

Fernando Alonso fought his way from fifth on the grid to third at the flag in Sunday's Brazilian Grand Prix, to keep his lead in the drivers’ championship at eight points with one more race remaining in Abu Dhabi next weekend

Qualifying definitely did not live up to expectations for Scuderia Ferrari which will see its cars line up in fifth and ninth places on the starting grid for the Brazilian Grand Prix, for Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa respectively

ItaliaspeedTV: Scuderia Ferrari's Team Principal Stefano Domenicali looks forward to this weekend's Brazilian Grand Prix and relates how the team is keeping its feet on the ground and focused as the title showdown looms

The scenic and spectacular Interlagos circuit hosts the penultimate round of the season this weekend and the battle for the drivers' crown could not be closer with Ferrari's Spanish driver, Fernando Alonso, just ahead

Fernando Alonso steered his Ferrari F10 to his fifth win of the season in the maiden Korean Grand Prix this afternoon a result that elevates the Spaniard to the top of the points standings while team mate Felipe Massa was third

Despite showing some promise, at the end of the 55 lap inaugural Korean Grand Prix this afternoon neither Scuderia Toro Rosso driver made the points: Jaime Alguersuari finished eleventh, while team mate Sebastien Buemi crashed

One car on the second row and the other on the third: this was the outcome of this afternoon's qualifying for the first ever Korean Grand Prix for Scuderia Ferrari, with Fernando Alonso in third place and Felipe Massa sixth

F1 made its debut in Korea yesterday with a day of practice during which the track conditions evolved constantly as more rubber went down and the two F10s of Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso completed a total of 108 laps

ItaliaspeedTV: Scuderia Ferrari's Sporting Director Massimo Rivola discusses the challenges posed by the addition of a new circuit to the grand prix calendar and the detailed preparation work that is carried out in advance

In two days time F1 teams will take to the track for the first ever grand prix to be held in Korea; a new circuit always makes the headlines, but this week, everyone’s attention will focus mainly on the championship battle

ItaliaspeedTV: The newest addition to the Formula One calendar is the Korean International Circuit: This video explores the challenges presented to Ferrari's lubricant supplier Shell by this brand new racing circuit

Another podium finish for Fernando Alonso who was third this afternoon at Suzuka and that sees him hold onto second place in the championship standings but no points for Felipe Massa who went out at the start of the opening lap

Sebastien Buemi raced to a tenth place finish in the Japanese Grand Prix in Suzuka this afternoon to collect the final world championship point on offer and break Toro Rosso's point scoring duck that had extended to six races

The Ferrari Driver Academy has just added a sixth young driver to its roster: Sergio Perez, a twenty year old driver from Guadalajara in Mexico, who is set to make his F1 debut next year with Ferrari-powered at the Sauber team

With rain likely for tomorrow the F1 action got underway at Suzuka today and after the two free sessions the Ferrari drivers' were fourth and fifth quickest with the in-form Fernando Alonso leading out team mate Felipe Massa

Scuderia Toro Rosso drivers' Sebastien Buemi and Jaime Alguersuari showed little turn of competitive speed in free practice at Suzuka today as they got to grips with the Japanese race track in the Ferrari V8-powered STR5

ItaliaspeedTV: Ferrari's Head of Track Operations Diego Ioverno discusses the challenges posed by the series of flyaway rounds which don't allow the team the luxury of returning its equipment to Maranello in between races

The F1 season is now reaching its climax with only four races remaining and it is not just the fight for both titles, balanced on a knife edge, which makes it such a tense time as the teams prepare to tackle the Japanese Grand Prix

ItaliaspeedTV: Ferrari realises extra engine potential due to unrestricted lubricant development allowed in F1; video with insight from key team members including Chris Dyer, the Scuderia's Head of Race Engineering

"Having been confronted with making up as big a gap as the one we faced the effort becomes even more arduous as one gets closer to our goal and when every point seems as heavy as a rock," says Ferrari's Stefano Domenicali

Scuderia Toro Rosso showed little competiveness under the floodlights in Singapore last night with Jaime Alguersuari and Sebastien BuemI, who were both lapped, finishing in twelfth and fourteenth places respectively

Fernando Alonso did his championship chances a world of good under the Marina Bay floodlights last night by leading all 61 laps of the Singapore Grand Prix to take the win, his fourth of the season and his second at this track

One car at the head of the field as Alonso powered to a second straight pole position but the other at the bottom of the time sheet: that was the bitter-sweet outcome of last night's qualifying in Singapore for Scuderia Ferrari

Fernando Alonso ended the three hours that made up the first night of practice sessions in Singapore for the fifteenth round of the world championship in fourth place with his Scuderia Ferrari team-mate Felipe Massa seventh

As Singapore revs up for the grand prix weekend Ferrari has opened its latest store on the island; the 170 square meters space is situated on one level in the spectacular ‘triple towers’ of the Marina Bay Sands Resort

ItaliaspeedTV: Scuderia Ferrari' Brazilian driver Felipe Massa looks forward to this weekend's Singapore Grand Prix and believes that the Italian team can continue its recent run of pace-setting competitive form

Ferrari will take to the track in Singapore tomorrow for the first practice session ready to resume the title fight with new modifications to the F10 mainly on the aerodynamic side with updates to the front wing and the floor

ItaliaspeedTV: The logistical challenges Shell faces when supplying fuels and lubricants to Scuderia Ferrari and an insight into the blends of Shell V-Power race fuel for the range of circuits on the Formula One calendar

More than ever before on Sunday Formula 1 really proved to be a team sport as Fernando Alonso’s win was not just down to his abilities as a driver and the fact his car was competitive but a pitstop completed in just 3.4 seconds

Scuderia Toro Rosso's Sebastien Buemi just missed out on the points positions in yesterday's Italian Grand Prix, finishing in eleventh place, while team mate Jaime Alguersuari was four places further back at the chequered flag

ItaliaspeedTV: Ferrari has unveiled its first online virtual simulator; developed in collaboration with Alonso, Massa and Fisichella as well as its engineers it enables users to experience all the sensations of driving an F10 virtually

Fernando Alonso produced a stunning drive to give Ferrari its first win on home turf since 2006 and to add to the delight for the thousands of tifosi who filled the grandstands opposite the podium; Felipe Massa claimed third place

Fernando Alonso set the fastest time in this afternoon’s qualifying session to take pole position in just the right place, this being Scuderia Ferrari's home race at the Monza circuit, and end a pole drought that stretches back to 2008

Toro Rosso's Sebastien Buemi and Jaime Alguersuari will start tomorrow's Italian Grand Prix in line astern with the former on row seven and the latter right behind him on row eight after a solid qualifying performance this afternoon

Yesterday morning in the evocative setting of grandiose Villa Reale in Monza Scuderia Ferrari drivers' Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso were each presented with an Abarth 695 Tributo Ferrari, the fastest-ever Fiat 500

With the "team orders" cloud lifted Ferrari is all set for this weekend’s fourteenth round of the F1 World Championship takes place in the historic Royal Park in Monza, one of the most beautiful and charismatic venues on the calendar

Ferrari won't face any further sanction for its use of team orders during July's German Grand Prix, that was the verdict of the FIA World Motor Sport Council during a hearing held in Paris yesterday to discuss the controversy

ItaliaspeedTV: Scuderia Ferrari's Chief Track Engineer Chris Dyer and the head of the engine department Luca Marmorini look forward to the challenges of this weekend's "home" Italian Grand Prix at Monza

Scuderia Ferrari's Felipe Massa was the star turn during the Ferrari Racing Days event at the Hungaroring over the weekend, the Brazilian driver wowing the crowd by demonstrating a California road car and an F1 single-seater

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: Felipe Massa on-track demonstrating last year's F60 grand prix single seater, meeting the fans and in action at the wheel of the California during Ferrari Racing Days at the Hungaroring

ItaliaspeedTV: With Scuderia’s home race at Monza very close on the horizon this video looks back at the heritage of Ferrari and its long standing technical partnership with Shell which now runs to over 450 grands prix

"It was not the Belgian Grand Prix we were expecting, that’s for sure," says Ferrari's Fernando Alonso after a no points showing dented his title hopes, "I think the key moment in my race came on the very first lap"

Ferrari will conduct a straight-line aero test at Vairano this week as it tries to analyse where it went wrong at Spa last weekend and bounce back in time for the next grand prix, the team's "home" race at Monza in 11 days time

Scuderia Ferrari came away from Spa with just a fourth place, thanks to Felipe Massa in a race that was incident filled and run in changeable weather while an error from Fernando Alonso ended his race on the kerbs late on

Jaime Alguersuari survived the chaos in Belgium to cross the finish line in tenth spot and earn Toro Rosso's first championship point in four races - although it was short lived as the stewards later docked him 20 seconds

Ferrari failed to pay due respect to the legendary Spa circuit in qualifying yesterday and as the rain spluttered down the red cars wound up in fifth and tenth places on the grid with Massa getting the better of his team mate

Jaime Alguersuari and Sebastien Buemi made it through to Q2 in qualifying at Spa this afternoon as the conditions wavered from wet to dry and back, but neither Toro Rosso driver could make any impression on the top-ten

Fernando Alonso went fastest as Spa wasted no time in keeping up with tradition, serving up rain of the light and heavy variety, even a thunderstorm early yesterday morning and moments of hot weather with sunny skies

Toro Rosso made a solid start to the weekend at Spa on Friday: Jaime Alguersuari enjoying driving in the rain and hoping wet race tomorrow while Sebastien Buemi was slowed slightly in his preparations by a gearbox problem

ItaliaspeedTV: Ferrari Team Principal Stefano Domenicali looks forward to this weekend's Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps and he expects the Italian team to continue its recent return to front-running form

Ferrari's final preparations for Spa-Francorchamps this weekend is being overshadowed by the continuing row over its use of team orders to decide the finishing order of its drivers at last month's German Grand Prix

Even if the second week of the summer break is just coming to an end Scuderia Ferrari’s thoughts are already focused on the next challenge: the Belgian Grand Prix to be held at the legendary Spa-Francorchamps circuit

ItaliaspeedTV: With a constant battle for competitive advantage in Formula One the Shell Trackside Laboratory has a key role in acting as a real-time early warning system for Scuderia Ferrari at every grand prix of the season

Pirelli is set to begin its first Formula One tyre development test with German driver Nick Heidfeld, who is to be Pirelli’s official test driver, as the Italian firm prepares for its return to Formula One for the first time in 20 years

"This is the Ferrari I like to see and the one our fans want to see: a team that can fight and deliver the results," says Luca di Montezemolo as the FIA sets September 8 as the date it will examine the German GP "race fixing" row

Sebastien Buemi brought the sole surviving Toro Rosso home in a lapped 12th place in the Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday afternoon after his younger team mate Jaime Alguersuari retired on just the second lap with engine failure

One Ferrari on the podium and the other at the foot of it: that was the outcome of this afternoon's Hungarian Grand Prix for the Scuderia which saw Fernando Alonso finish in a strong second place and Felipe Massa fourth

Toro Rosso's Sebastien Buemi and Jaime Alguersuari made it through to Q2 in yesterday's qualifying session in Hungary but progressed no further and will start today's grand prix from 15th and 17th spots on the grid respectively

Scuderia Ferrari was pleased with this afternoon’s qualifying performance in Hungary which saw Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa lock out the second row of the grid for tomorrow's race with third and fourth places respectively

With the controversy over last Sunday's "team orders" that gifted Fernando Alonso victory in Germany still raging Scuderia Ferrari appears to have made a competitive start to the Hungarian Grand Prix weekend today

Scuderia Toro Rosso had a very busy opening day in Hungary as the Italian team tested out a number of new component updates for the Ferrari-powered STR5, completing back-to-back evaluations as well a long run simulation

ItaliaspeedTV: Following last weekend's controversial 1-2 finish in Germany, Ferrari Team Principal Stefano Domenicali and drivers Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso look forward to this Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix

I simply reaffirm what I have always maintained, which is that our drivers are very well aware, and it is something they have to stick to, that if one races for Ferrari, then the interests of the team come before those of the individual

Ferrari rebooted its challenge for the title with a one-two finish in yesterday’s 67 lap German Grand Prix which unfortunately came in controversial fashion with the Italian team adjudged to have issued team orders to manipulate the result

The Scuderia Toro Rosso drivers', Jaime Alguersuari and Sebastien Buemi effectively ended any challenge for points paying positions when the tangled on the first lap of this afternoon's German Grand Prix at Hockenheim

For the first time since the Bahrain Grand Prix, Scuderia Ferrari has got one of its cars onto the front row of the grid: in Sakhir, it was Felipe Massa who was second fastest in Q3 and yesterday it was Fernando Alonso’s turn

In a week that Toro Rosso confirmed that Sebastien Buemi and Jaime Alguersuari will be retained for next year the pair were again unsplittable in qualifying, this time the Spaniard getting the advantage over his Swiss team mate

With Ferrari's Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa first and third fastest in Friday's F1 practice sessions which were held in mixed weather conditions at Hockenheim the Italian team appears to be close to the front running pace

Hockenheim, on paper at least, is more likely than recently visited venues to play to the strengths of the Ferrari F10 and the Scuderia is confident that with an improving car it can bring home a big points haul this weekend

The new track use only Ferrari 599XX and Marc Gené demonstrating last year's F60 single-seater were amongst the highlights as the second Ferrari Racing Days of the year took place at the Valencia circuit in Spain over the weekend

Anyone who does not believe that we can win the world championship would do better looking for another job," says Stefano Domenicali, "no one here is giving up: there are still nine races to go and anything can happen

The ninth edition of Podio Ferrari, the annual awards for partners and suppliers, have been presented to those companies that distinguished themselves for their technological excellence, innovation and product development

This is definitely not an easy time for Ferrari: In the last three races, the F10 has demonstrated an increased level of competitiveness even on tracks which in the past had not been particularly favourable for the cars from Maranello

There were no points on offer for Toro Rosso at Silverstone as Sebastien Buemi was the only representative of the team to be running at the finish, in twelfth place, while team mate Jaime Alguersuari retired with brake problems

If the fact that Fernando Alonso recorded the fastest race lap confirms how much the F10 has improved in recent weeks, Sunday’s result did not reflect this: He finished fourteenth, with team-mate Felipe Massa one place behind

Fernando Alonso secured a strong third place in yesterday's final qualifying session to decide the grid for today's British Grand Prix while Felipe Massa very slightly underperformed but nevertheless took a solid seventh place

Once again the two Toro Rosso drivers were evenly matched in a qualifying session and they will line up together on row nine for tomorrow's British Grand Prix after the Ferrari-powered cars showed little pace as Silverstone this afternoon

A total of 92 laps were covered by the Ferrari F10s, split equally between Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa, in the first three hours of free practice held yesterday for Sunday’s British Grand Prix which saw them on the pace

ItaliaspeedTV: Scuderia Ferrari Team Principal Stefano Domenicali and drivers' Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso offer their own views on the challenge to win that the Italian team will pose at this weekend's British Grand Prix

The F1 season reaches its halfway point this weekend with the sixty first running of the British Grand Prix and with a new front wing and further revisions to the rear wing amongst the updates in store Ferrari is looking to be competitive

ItaliaspeedTV: Scuderia Ferrari's Spanish Test Driver Marc Gene demonstrates last year's F60 grand prix single-seater up the "hillclimb" at the Goodwood Festival of Speed today during the modern Formula 1 car runs (II)

ItaliaspeedTV: Scuderia Ferrari's Spanish Test Driver Marc Gene demonstrates last year's F60 grand prix single-seater up the "hillclimb" at the Goodwood Festival of Speed today during the modern Formula 1 car runs (I)

While Ferrari continues to print more opinions from its forum Fernando Alonso stepped back from his comments that the race was "manipulated", saying his "anger has been transformed into positive energy driving a desire to fight back"

After stoking up its anger at events surrounding the Safety Car in Valencia and provoking a storm of controversy Ferrari's top management have softened their stance on a scenario that cost the team the chance of shooting for the podium

Two of Ferrari’s latest sports cars will be making their UK public debuts at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, the 458 Italia and 599 GTO while the line-up will include a bi-colore roofed California and from the Scuderia, the F60

Ferrari lashed out at the end of Sunday's 57 lap European Grand Prix after a controversial Safety Car period that turned their race upside down, eventually Alonso was classified eighth while Massa finished outside the points in eleventh

Sebastien Buemi crossed the finish line in eighth place in Valencia although the Toro Rosso driver lost one place on the very final corner after was caught napping by the similarly Ferrari-powered Sauber of Kasumi Kobayashi

One driver on the second row and the other on the third, that was the outcome of qualifying in Valencia this afternoon for tomorrow's European Grand Prix for Ferrari with Fernando Alonso one place ahead of team mate Felipe Massa

Fernando Alonso was the fastest of the field of twenty four in Valencia today while Felipe Massa who lost some track time this afternoon when his engine cut out after a spin eventually got going again to post the seventh quickest time

The chairman of the Pirelli Group, Marco Tronchetti Provera, and Pirelli Tyre’s managing director, Francesco Gori, have outlined the company’s plans for supplying tyres to F1 for the three-year period of the new contract

ItaliaspeedTV: Fernando Alonso explains a lap Ferrari's Fiorano test track talking about the challenges it poses, his attitude and driving style behind the wheel of the single-seater he is racing in the 2010 Formula 1 Championship

ItaliaspeedTV: Ferrari drivers Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa look forward to this weekend's European Grand Prix in Valencia, a second 'home' race of the year for the former while the latter is a previous winner on the street track

ItaliaspeedTV: Fernando Alonso drove several laps behind the wheel of the F10 on the Fiorano circuit a couple of days ago; the video, shot from a helmet camera, shows a lap on the test track from a very special perspective

Following the team's return to form in Montreal Ferrari continues to talk up its prospects ahead of this weekend's European Grand Prix in Valencia with the first of a series of upgrades, focused around Red Bull-style exhausts, due

A busy three day test session for young drivers of the Ferrari Driver Academy, Jules Bianchi, Mirko Bortolotti and Daniel Zampieri, has come to an end with the trio taking turns behind the wheel of an F2008 around the Fiorano circuit

Buoyed by a welcome return to form and a podium in Canada on Sunday afternoon Ferrari is set to debut of a significant update package at the next grand prix in Valencia and then others will follow in immediately at the next races

Toro Rosso's Sebastien Buemi had an eventful but very rewarding afternoon in Montreal, leading the Canadian Grand Prix for a lap, passing the Michael Schumacher and collecting four points after crossing the line in eighth place

For the first time since the Spanish Grand Prix, a Ferrari driver has stepped onto the podium yesterday in Montreal, as Fernando Alonso finished third for the back in form Scuderia behind a second consecutive one-two finish for McLaren

It was a very good qualifying session for Scuderia Ferrari in Montreal yesterday and when the Canadian Grand Prix gets underway today at noon local time Fernando Alonso will be in fourth place on the grid with Felipe Massa seventh

Sebastien Buemi and Jaime Alguersuari will line up on the eighth row of the grid when the Canadian Grand Prix gets underway this afternoon, the Toro Rosso drivers having been unable to find any fresh pace during yesterday's qualifying

The Canadian weekend got underway with a busy work schedule on the first day for Ferrari: Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa completed 110 laps of the “Gilles Villeneuve” circuit: 56 for the Spaniard and two fewer for the Brazilian

Toro Rosso's drivers, Sebastien Buemi and Jaime Alguersuari, spent Friday getting to grips with Montreal on their first visit to the track, while the team looked to improve on an unimpressive pace ahead of qualifying today

ItaliaspeedTV: Ferrari Team Principal Stefano Domenicali looks forward to this weekend's Canadian Grand Prix an event he enjoys and a track that he believes will be much better suited to the currently-off-the-pace F10 single-seater

After protracted negotiations Felipe Massa, whose contract was ticking down to expiry at the end of this season, has today signed a new two-year extension that will see the Brazil racing in the red colours of Ferrari until the end of 2012

The Ferrari Driver Academy has taken on a prospective new talent, this time coming from Canada: at just eleven years of age, Lance Stroll, born on 29 October 1998 in Montreal is the youngest driver to enter the Maranello program

After a year off one of the most popular races on the calendar returns in the shape of the Canadian Grand Prix with Ferrari looking to end an unlucky run: the Scuderia's last victory, courtesy of Michael Schumacher, dates back to 2004

Ferrari continues to have a great attraction in Japan, where over the weekend just gone the annual Ferrari Festival 2010: Fuji drew 600 owners' as it took place at its usual home at the grand prix circuit in the shadow of Mount Fuji

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: Ferrari Festival 2010: Fuji

"We have to react immediately and show what we can do," says Ferrari Team Principal Stefano Domenicali, "The ability to develop the car has always been a strong point for Ferrari and there is no reason why that should not be the case now"

There was no reward for Scuderia Toro Rosso in Turkey with neither Jaime Alguersuari or Sebastien Buemi ever looked like troubling the point scoring positions the duo eventually coming home in twelfth and sixteen places respectively

Celebrating Ferrari’s eight hundredth Grand Prix in style was always going to be difficult for Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso after a poor qualifying yesterday and and so it proved, as they finished seventh and eight respectively

A bad result for Ferrari in qualifying in Turkey with Felipe Massa the only driver to get through to Q3 but he could do no better than eighth while Fernando Alonso was eliminated at the end of Q2 having set only the twelfth fastest time

The Toro Rosso drivers' Sebastien Buemi and Jaime Alguersuari will start tomorrow's Turkish Grand Prix from fourteenth and sixteenth on the grid respectively as the team struggled to keep up momentum in today's qualifying sessions

The first day of Ferrari’s eight hundredth grand prix weekend was a particularly busy one in Turkey as with the current ban on in-season testing any new components get their first track test during Friday’s three hours of free practice

With the first free practice session just completed in Istanbul Niki Lauda pays tribute to Ferrari on the threshold of the team's 800th grand prix while Felipe Massa indicates his desire to continue driving one of the red cars next year

The Turkish Grand Prix this weekend will be a landmark event in the history of Scuderia Ferrari: the race at Istanbul Park will be the 800th Formula 1 World Championship Grand Prix in which the team from Maranello has taken part

ItaliaspeedTV: Ferrari's Felipe Massa looks forward during an interview to this weekend's Turkish Grand Prix, a race he has won three times, and which will also be a milestone eight hundredth grand prix for the Scuderia

The long awaited return of legendary Italian single-seater chassis constructor Dallara to F1 this year after an absence of almost two decades is to fizzle out as it won't continue supplying cars to the Spanish Hispania Racing Team

The seventh round of the F1 season will place in Istanbul and it is an appointment that Ferrari is looking forward to given that its cars have been first past the chequered flag three times out of a total of the five Turkish GPs held to date

Today is an important day in the history of Scuderia Ferrari as exactly sixty years ago in Monte Carlo, the Prancing Horse cars were making their debut in the Formula 1 World Championship in round two, the Monaco Grand Prix

Today saw the third stage of this year’s programme for drivers in the Ferrari Driver Academy, taking place as as a trio of youngsters took to the Vallelunga track in training sessions in the F2008 run by the F1 Clienti department

Ferrari's traditional post-race debrief was held this afternoon at the Gestione Sportiva and focused very much on the future with the analysis of the result at the Monaco Grand Prix having to take into account Fernando Alonso's accident

A lacklustre Monaco GP for Toro Rosso saw the Italian team with the only running cars not to score points, however a post race penalty for another competitor meant that Sebastien Buemi was able to collect his first point of the year

Felipe Massa started the Monaco Grand Prix yesterday from fourth place and that’s where he finished the 78 lap race, which ended behind the Safety Car while team mate Fernando Alonso battled up from last place to finish sixth

Only one Ferrari will start the Monaco Grand Prix from the grid tomorrow, that of Felipe Massa who set the fourth fastest time in this afternoon’s qualifying session, after Fernando Alonso took no part in the proceedings

The Toro Rosso drivers remained rooted in the middle of the field during qualifying in Monte Carlo this afternoon with Sebastien Buemi eventually getting the edge on Jaime Alguersuari to line up on the seventh row of the grid

Scuderia Ferrari has announced that after two sessions last March and April at Fiorano, the Ferrari Driver Academy's trio of young pilots will be back on track for the first time at the Vallelunga track near Rome next week

Fernando Alonso won't take part in qualifying in Monaco this afternoon after the damage caused to his F10 during the final practice session this morning proved too much to repair and the team is now building up a new car for tomorrow

Ferrari secured double top billing in free practice with Fernando Alonso steering his F10 to the fastest time in both the morning and afternoon sessions while team-mate Felipe Massa was fifth in the first session and fourth in the second

The two Scuderia Toro Rosso drivers, Sebastien Buemi and Jaime Alguersuari, took up their usual midfield positions in the Ferrari-powered single seaters during the opening day of Formula 1 practicing in Monte Carlo today

A year goes by very quickly in Formula 1 but one can still remember the events of last year and comparing the first five races of 2009 to this season's same grands prix and the turnaround for Scuderia Ferrari leaps off the page

ItaliaspeedTV: Scuderia Ferrari drivers' Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso and Technical Director Aldo Costa look forward to the most glamorous race on the F1 calendar, the Monaco Grand Prix this weekend

After the shortest back-to-back in the history of the sport round 6 of the Formula 1 World Championship sees Ferrari and the other teams set up camp at the most famous, glamorous and charismatic venue on the calendar – Monte Carlo

Sixty years ago tomorrow Alfa Romeo completed an historic 1-2-3 finish in the first ever Formula One World Championship race, which was held at Silverstone, as Giuseppe Farina led out team mates Luigi Fagioli and Reg Parnell

Toro Rosso suffered a drama-filled Spanish Grand Prix at Barcelona with collisions, drive through penalties and mechanical issues, however Jamie Alguersuari successfully survived the mayhem to collect the final championship point on offer

Scuderia Ferrari has closed the gap to McLaren, the current leaders of the Constructors’ classification from nineteen to just three points, thanks to a generous haul of twenty six points picked up in this afternoon’s Spanish Grand Prix

Fernando Alonso produced a perfect example of his skill behind the wheel to put his Ferrari F10 on the second row of the grid in Barcelona this afternoon by setting the fourth fastest time in the final qualifying top ten shoot-out

The Toro Rosso drivers both made it through to Q2 although they were unable to make little further impression, Sebastien Buemi getting the edge on Jaime Alguersuari and they will both line up side-by-side on the eighth row of the grid

On the day that the two Scuderia Ferrari cars carried decals celebrating one and a half centuries of Italian Unity, between them, Felipe Massa and Fernando completed nearly a century of laps during the three hours of free practice

Ferrari has backed down in the face of growing pressure from health campaigners and possible legal ramifications over its "barcode" livery, the F10s appearing in the Scuderia's pit garage with the controversial decals having been removed

ItaliaspeedTV: Scuderia Ferrari drivers Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso and Technical Director Aldo Costa look forward to this weekend's Spanish Grand Prix and discuss the car and new changes to be introduced in Barcelona

Ferrari President Luca di Montezemolo has waded into the row that has erupted over the Scuderia's "barcode" livery which some physicians and advertising industry figures have said represents potentially illegal tobacco advertising

Ferrari heads to Barcelona this weekend for the first European grand prix of the season confident that it has resolved the engine reliability problems that has bugged it during the first three races and ready to introduce a blown rear wing

Ferrari has hit back at media reports this week after a leading physician condemning Ferrari's "barcode" decals as representing subliminal advertising and calling on governments to open enquires to see if its breaches EU anti-smoking laws

ItaliaspeedTV: Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso explain how the new refuelling regulations have changed their driving techniques and the cockpit devices which control fuel usage and how optimising fuel performance impacts strategy

Ferrari has been stung by media reports of bad blood between its drivers following the incident in last Sunday's Chinese Grand Prix where Fernando Alonso barged his way past team mate Felipe Massa on his way into the pitlane

Exactly predicted at the start of the week, rain arrived just before the start of the Chinese Grand Prix and the weather gods did not help Scuderia Ferrari as Fernando Alonso came home in fourth place and Felipe Massa was ninth

There were to be no points for Toro Rosso in China this afternoon as Sebastien Buemi was eliminated in a lap one incident and Jaime Alguersuari, although he climbed into the points positions, dropped back to finish in thirteenth place

Fernando Alonso is in confident mood after he secured a place on the second row of the grid, with a fine drive to third in qualifying this afternoon for tomorrow’s Chinese Grand Prix while team mate Felipe Massa will start from row four

Both Toro Rosso drivers made it through to the second qualifying session in China this afternoon to end up with a solid mid-table grid position, Jaime Alguersuari eventually pipping his team mate Sebastien Buemi by a tenth of a second

Engine issues reared their head at Ferrari once again in yesterday's opening day of practice in China as just six laps into the first session of the day Fernando Alonso's V8, a suspect unit used and changed earlier this season, failed

Toro Rosso's Sebastien Buemi made the headlines this morning in the first free practice session for the Chinese Grand Prix when he suffered a spectacular double front suspension failure as he braked over the bump for Turn 14

ItaliaspeedTV: Scuderia Ferrari's engine chief Luca Marmorini discusses the engine problems that have affected the team and Sauber so far this season and he is confident that the issues are both unconnected and resolved

Going into the fourth round of the 1 World Championship in China, Scuderia Ferrari heads both the Constructors’ and Drivers’ classifications, with the team confident that it has got to grips with the reliability problems it has incurred

ItaliaspeedTV: Scuderia Ferrari Team Principal Stefano Domenicali reflects on a disappointing Malaysian Grand Prix albeit with a result that leaves the team still at the top of the drivers' and constructors' championship title races

Ferrari look back on a difficult Malaysian Grand Prix weekend which saw the team starting near the back after a qualifying gamble went wrong and then a late race engine failure for Alonso as well as for both customer Saubers

Jaime Alguersuari scored his first ever F1 championship points and got Scuderia Toro Rosso off the mark for the season after the Spanish youngster put in a fighting drive to finish in ninth place in the 56-lap Malaysian Grand Prix today

Only seven points in the bag for Scuderia Ferrari at the end of this afternoon's Malaysian Grand Prix, courtesy of a seventh place for Felipe Massa, as team mate Fernando Alonso had to retire two laps from the flag when the engine broke

The Toro Rosso drivers, Sebastien Buemi and Jaime Alguersuari, will start side-by-side on the seventh row of the grid in tomorrow's Malaysian Grand Prix after a solid qualifying performance at a rain-soaked Sepang this afternoon

A bad afternoon for Ferrari as another qualifying gamble failed to pay off meant that both drivers failed to get through to the second part of the session which leaves Fernando Alonso nineteenth on the grid with Felipe Massa twenty first

"I hope we can beat the Red Bulls and all the other cars in fact," says Ferrari's Felipe Massa in Sepang, "It will be tough, because, as I said this is a very challenging circuit, which is difficult from the physical point of view"

ItaliaspeedTV: Scuderia Ferrari Team Principal Stefano Domenicali looks forward to this weekend's Malaysian Grand Prix and reflects on Melbourne and is pleased to come away with the result the team achieved after a difficult race

Scuderia Ferrari is already hard at work at the Sepang circuit outside the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur preparing for the third round of the world championship which it currently leads in both the drivers' and constructors' categories

Jaime Alguersuari was the best-placed finisher for Scuderia Toro Rosso, the Spaniard crossed the line eleventh in Melbourne on Sunday, just one place off the points, while his team mate Sebastien Buemi was eliminated on the first lap

Felipe Massa on the podium in third and his Ferrari team-mate Fernando Alonso right behind him in fourth ensures that the team and its drivers continue to lead both the Drivers’ and Constructors’ World Championships after two rounds

Scuderia Toro Rosso's youngsters, Sebastien Buemi and Jaime Alguersuari, will start today's Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne from twelfth and seventeenth on the grid after a solid performance during Saturday's final qualifying session

Third and fifth places: that was the end result for Ferrari in qualifying for the Australian Grand Prix; Fernando Alonso will start from third spot on the starting grid, just ahead of his team-mate, Felipe Massa, who posted the fifth fastest time

Toro Rosso's Sebastien Buemi posted times comfortably inside the top-ten during both of today's two opening practice sessions in Melbourne while his team mate Jaime Alguersuari got to grips with the Australian track on his first visit

Massa and Alonso set the fourth and sixth fastest times respectively in the first practice session while in the second the Spaniard was fifteenth and the Brazilian seventeenth as mixed weather conditions made times unrepresentative

Australia is the 450th race of Shell with Ferrari and the occasion was marked by an announcement that the relationship is being extended to 2015, a technical collaboration that began over sixty years ago at the instigation of Enzo Ferrari

ItaliaspeedTV: Behind-the-scenes look at the Scuderia Ferrari pit garage complex in action during a race weekend, including the car bays, the team's engineering and technical staff at work, operation rooms and the trucks

The win gave us confidence and was a great result for the hard work during the winter," says Fernando Alonso, "but we can't take anything for granted, we have to stay with our feet on the ground, keeping calm and staying concentrated"

Scuderia Ferrari is the most popular Formula 1 team in the world, as if a look at the grandstands where the Prancing Horse flags outnumber the others everywhere wasn't enough, now it has been officially confirmed by a new FOTA survey

ItaliaspeedTV: With spirits high and a competitive car Ferrari Team Principal Stefano Domenicali is looking forward to this weekend's Australian Grand Prix, a different type of race which he says will need a lot of work and concentration

Scuderia Ferrari arrives in Australia this week on the back of a solid one-two finish in the opening round in Bahrain, which will be good for morale, given that for the past two years, the team failed to score a single point in Melbourne

Ferrari has held a test day at Fiorano for the young pilots of the Ferrari Driver Academy: Jules Bianchi, Mirko Bortolotti and Daniel Zampieri, who went onto Maranello's private track behind the wheel of an F2008 from the F1 Clienti department

ItaliaspeedTV: Shell will be celebrating the 450 races with Scuderia Ferrari at this weekend’s Australian Grand Prix and the landmark race will see both Ferrari F10s carrying unique 450 Races with Shell branding on the sidepods

Fresh from his debut win for Scuderia Ferrari last Sunday in Bahrain, two-times Formula One World Champion Fernando Alonso, driver for Scuderia Ferrari, has "unveiled" in Fiorano the Maserati GranCabrio that he has selected

ItaliaspeedTV: Post race debrief with Scuderia Ferrari Team Principal Stefano Domenicali who reflects on an "excellent" result in Bahrain, believes there are lots of "little problems" to be solved and is pleased that the new F10 is "competitive"

When the Hispania Racing F1 Team's cars stuttered out of their garage last Sunday to take the start of the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix it signalled the return of a Dallara-built single-seater to the F1 grid after an 18 year absence

Ferrari is satisfied with the one-two win at the first race of the season but says it is also clear that the championship will be long and difficult, while away from the F10s in the grand prix historic Scuderia cars also shone on track

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: In Bahrain there were also four historic Ferraris…and a half: as together with a 375 F1, a 500 F2, a 158 F1 and a 312 T4 there was also the chassis from a 125 GPC reinterpreted as a Thinwall Special

Scuderia Ferrari’s championship got off to the best possible start as it secured maximum points when, after 49 laps, Fernando Alonso marked his race debut with the team by zigzagging his F10 to the pit wall, as he took the chequered flag

Jaime Alguersuari was the best placed of the Toro Rosso drivers in today's season-opener Bahrain, he finished thirteenth, three places ahead of team mate Sebastien Buemi who was classified although he retired close to the end of the race

The Ferrari F10s with Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso will start from second and third place on the grid in this afternoon's Bahrain GP after they posted the second (1.54.242) and third fastest time (1.54.608) with 16 and 20 laps respectively

Just as Felipe Massa plants the F10 on the front row in Bahrain, Shell has revealled that the fuel that powers the cars this year contains an advanced biofuels component derived from cellulosic ethanol, a fuel that is made from straw

The Toro Rosso's of Sebastien Buemi and Jaime Alguersuari will line up fifteenth and eighteenth on the grid for tomorrow's season-opening grand prix in Bahrain after final qualifying saw only the Swiss driver make it out of the Q1 session

After the "phoney war" that is winter testing, the real battle for the 2010 Formula 1 World Championship got underway on Friday, with three hours of free practice for Ferrari and the other teams at the revised and lengthened Sakhir Circuit

ItaliaspeedTV: Shell 3D animation video explains the new refuelling regulations, their impact on the design of the Ferrari F10 and the challenges the Shell team have had to overcome to deliver the best fuel formulation for the season ahead

Toro Rosso kicked off its participation in the new Formula 1 season in Bahrain today with a steady performance by both drivers, Sebastien Buemi and Jaime Alguersuari, with the latter pipping the former to the better time of the day

ItaliaspeedTV: Fernando Alonso is pleased with how the pre-season testing went and is in upbeat mood as he prepares to start his first grand prix weekend as a Scuderia Ferrari driver in Bahrain this morning

Today's FIA press conference in Bahrain was a star-studded affair, with the returning Michael Schumacher, both McLaren drivers and both of the Scuderia Ferrari drivers, Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso, sharing the podium

ItaliaspeedTV: Scuderia Ferrari's Brazilian driver Felipe Massa looks forward to making his grand prix return this weekend after half a seaon out with injury and he is satisfied by a positive winter test programme

"I know that there are great expectations from our fans," says Fernando Alonso, "I can confirm that I feel that we are well prepared, the team has worked with great attention and dedication and we could see the results"

This weekend sees the start of the 2010 Formula 1 World Championship and for the sixtieth consecutive year, Scuderia Ferrari will heed the call to arms, with this year’s car, the F10 and its two drivers, Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso

The weather forecast spoke about rain over the previous days but there was lots of sun in São Paulo on the occasion of a special event organised by Ferrari's new sponsor, Santander, that focused around Felipe Massa on the Interlagos circuit

Juan Manuel Fangio II, nephew of five-time F1 World Champion Juan Manuel Fangio, will take to the track at the wheel of a Maserati 250F as the championship kicks off its 60th anniversary year at the Bahrain Grand Prix this weekend

ItaliaspeedTV: Shell video explores the challenges of this Formula One season - including the new refuelling restrictions and the new fuel formula that has been laid down by the FIA - for Shells technical partnership with Scuderia Ferrari

The pre-season Formula 1 testing programme concluded yesterday with the fifteenth and final day of on track which took place at the Barcelona circuit and for Ferrari the portents were good as the favourite teams finally showed their hand

Yesterday in Barcelona Sebastien Buemi wrapped up Scuderia Toro Rosso's pre season testing programme with the STR5 which has covered more than five-and-a-half thousand kilometres as the team gears up on track for the new season

The penultimate day of Formula 1 testing before the Bahrain Grand Prix was hit by rain, which slowed down the programmes of Scuderia Ferrari and the other ten teams present yesterday at the Circuit de Catalunya near Barcelona

In the end there were over 21,000 spectators assisting Fernando Alonso's last day of testing at the wheel of the Ferrari F10 before the new season gets underway, a day which included a race simulation run as well as the second fastest lap time

ItaliaspeedTV: Fernando Alonso discusses the challenges of the 2010 season including the new ban on race refuelling and also describes the vital role played by Shell in its technical partnership with Scuderia Ferrari

Yesterday the last test session before the 2010 Formula 1 season got underway in Montmelò just outside of Barcelona with Fernando Alonso undertaking driving duties for Ferrari on a day when he covered 74 laps with a best time of 1:24.170

A satisfied Fernando Alonso left the Circuito Permanente de Velocidad last night after two days and almost 1,200 kilometres behind the wheel of the new Ferrari F10 single-seater as the four-day official test session came to a conclusion

It was a very positive penultimate day of testing in Jerez for Fernando Alonso and Scuderia Ferrari, working, like the other ten grand prix teams, at the third pre-season test session with the start of the F1 World Championship now in sight

There was more rain in Jerez yesterday along with strong winds which once again disrupted Scuderia Ferrari's testing and development with Felipe Massa again at the wheel of the F10, the day's programme modified to suits the conditions

It was a day of hiccups for the Ferrari as the eighth day of F1 testing, the fifth day at the Circuito Permanente de Velocidad in Jerez de la Frontera, the third test of the pre-season and the second consecutive at this track, got underway yesterday

Next month's Bahrain Grand Prix will mark the beginning of the 60th anniversary of Formula 1 and three evocative Italian winners from that first decade - the Alfa Romeo 158, Ferrari 500 F2 and Maserati 250F - will be honoured at the race

"It felt very special – the more I drove it, the better it got and the more the memories came flooding back," said Chris Amon as he reflected on being reunited with a great love of his life, a 57-year-old Maserati 250F grand Prix single seater

Ferrari has wrapped up four days of testing in Spain where both Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso have put many more kilometres on the new F10 which has proved reliable throughout both the official test sessions held so far this year

Scuderia Toro Rosso has completed the official four-day Jerez F1 test with Sebastian Buemi behind the wheel of the new Ferrari-powered STR5 for the opening two days while Jaime Aluguerusai took over for the final half of the test

It was another positive day for the Scuderia Ferrari and Fernando Alonso yesterday at work with the new F10 on the second day of the official F1 test sessions this week on the "Circuito Permanente de Velocidad" in Jerez, in Andalusia

The rain was the main protagonist on the first day of test sessions in Jerez de la Frontera in Andalusia yesterday as the second F1 test of the year got underway with Fernando Alonso back in the cockpit of the new pace-setting Ferrari F10

Following a highly impressive debut for its new F10 in Valencia last week Scuderia Ferrari is now preparing for this season’s second official F1 sessions which will take place from 10 to 13 February at the Spanish Jerez de la Frontera circuit

ItaliaspeedTV: Scuderia Ferrari Technical Director Aldo Costa reflects on the team's blistering pace during last week's Valencia test, where the new F10, debuted and looks forward to more developments appearing on the car next week in Jerez

Chris Amon’s Maserati 250F, the car that launched the Kiwi driver’s legendary career, is ready for next weekend’s reunion with its most famous driver since its total rebuild by the Southward Collection and a successful track shakedown test

The message from Scuderia Ferrari's Team Principal Stefano Domenicali after the first 2010 test session is very clear, to stay realistic and concentrate on the work the road of recovery from last season which is still very, long and difficult

After Sebastien Buemi drove for the opening two days of the first winter test session in Valencia, yesterday's final day on track saw team mate Jaime Alguersuari get his turn in the Faenza-based Toro Rosso's new Ferrari-powered STR5

At 6:30 PM yesterday Fernando Alonso’s first day as an official Scuderia Ferrari came to an end, that was when the Spanish driver left the circuit at the end of an intense day with lots of work done, surrounded by huge interest and incredible sensations

After two days with Felipe Massa behind the wheel of the F10 it’s Fernando Alonso’s day today the Spanish driver finally making his official debut behind the wheel of a Ferrari Formula 1 single-seater this morning in front of a huge media scrum

The second day of official F1 testing at Valencia on Tuesday saw another positive day's work for Scuderia Ferrari running alongside six of the other teams with Felipe Massa again positing the fastest time of the day in the new F10

ItaliaspeedTV: Official Launch of the new Ferrari-powered Scuderia Toro Rosso STR5 single-seater at Valencia on Monday, including interviews with drivers Sebastian Buemi and Jaime Alguersuari and Technical Director Giorgio Ascanelli

The brand-new Ferrari F10 turned its wheel for the first time yesterday and by the end of the opening day's action of F1 testing in Valencia Felipe Massa, who was fresh from trying the 599 XX on the track the day before, was the fastest driver

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: Felipe Massa on-track at the Valencia circuit with the new Ferrari F10 single-seater (Monday) and with the Ferrari 599 XX (Sunday)

Scuderia Toro Rosso launched its new Ferrari-powered 2010 F1 single-seater yesterday in Valencia, the STR5 being significant as it is the first car to be built entirely in-house by the Faenza-based team since it was bought out by Red Bull

After four seasons using BMW engines the BMW Sauber team, now back in the hands of its founder Peter Sauber, yesterday unveiled its new 2010 season F1 car, the C29, which returns the Swiss team once more to using Ferrari power

ItaliaspeedTV: Ferrari F10 Launch, Maranello (IV) - Interview with Scuderia Ferrari Chief Designer Nikolas Tombazis who discusses the design aspects of the new car and how the new rule changes have deeply impacted on the design

ItaliaspeedTV: Ferrari F10 Launch, Maranello (III) - Interview with Scuderia Ferrari Technical Director Aldo Costa who discusses how all the new rules changes for this year have affected the car's development programme

After the appearance of the Chairman, the drivers and the technicians, talking about the new F10, Ferrari presented a new and very important initiative for young drivers: the Ferrari Drivers Academy – a programme to be used to invest in the future

ItaliaspeedTV: Ferrari F10 Launch, Maranello (II) - Interview with Luca Marmorini the new head of Engines and Electronics at the Scuderia who rejoined the Italian team after a spell with Toyota

Following the launch of the F10 on Thursday morning Scuderia Ferrari's three top technicians, Aldo Costa, Nicolas Tombazis and Luca Marmorini, met the journalists who were curious about the the single-seater's technical characteristics

ItaliaspeedTV: Ferrari F10 Launch, Maranello (I) - All-round views of the new F10 single-seater on the temporary stage in the new road car assembly section during the presentation event yesterday

"What we can see here today is the result of many months of hard work on the car," Felipe Massa told the press at the launch of the new Ferrari F10 single-seater today, "let’s hope that we’ll be competitive right from the start"

"I’m very calm regarding the work done by all the technicians at Ferrari," said Fernando Alonso at the launch of the F10 today as he appeared in the full colours of Ferrari for the first time, adding: "we have the best technicians in the world

This is a very emotional moment I’m confronting with anticipation, but I won’t know where we stand before the Saturday of the qualifying in Bahrain," said Ferrari President Luca di Montezemolo at the launch of the new F10 this morning

The brand-new Ferrari F10 single-seater revealled this morning in Maranello will be used by Scuderia Ferrari drivers' Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso to contest the 2010 FIA F1 World Championship: Technical Specifications

On the second floor of the new assembly lines for Ferrari road cars in Maranello in the building designed by French architect Jean Nouvel, the last details are being defined for today’s presentation of the Scuderia's new single-seater, codenamed 281

Legendary New Zealand racing driver Chris Amon will be reunited with the Maserati 250F that kick-started his career when he demonstrates the fully restored car at the New Zealand Grand Prix at the Manfield race track on 13-14 February

With the new Formula 1 season less than two months away Scuderia Toro Rosso has announced that Spanish youngster Jaime Alguersuari, who joined the Faenza-based outfit mid-last year, will continue with the team for a second season

ItaliaspeedTV: Reigning MotoGP World Champion Valentino Rossi has just spent two days testing at the wheel of a Ferrari F2008 single-seater run by Maranello's F1 Clienti department at the Circuit de Catalunya (II)

"We kept the last three quarters of an hour to try a time attack with little petrol and fresh tyres," said Valentino Rossi after posting a 1:21.900 best lap around the Barcelona circuit, "I would have given anything for such a lap time"

ItaliaspeedTV: Reigning MotoGP World Champion Valentino Rossi has just spent two days testing at the wheel of a Ferrari F2008 single-seater run by Maranello's F1 Clienti department at the Circuit de Catalunya (I)

The start of the test session this morning was slightly postponed due to thick fog at the Catalan circuit, however it lifted and Valentino Rossi was able to carry out his second and final day of testing in Spain behind the wheel of an F2008

As Valentino Rossi prepares for his second day testing at Barcelona in an F1 Ferrari it has been revealed that Felipe Massa will take over the wheel tomorrow for another acclimatisation run as the Brazilian continues to get ready for his F1 comeback

ItaliaspeedTV: "It’s great to be back here year after year," said Felipe Massa in interviews during Vrooom 2010 at Madonna di Campiglio, "this is the best possible way to start the season, absolutely unique, working and having fun"

ItaliaspeedTV: Video footage from the final day's programme of the 20th edition of Wrooom 2010 including the Scuderia Ferrari drivers in ski-slalom action and ice circuit racing with specially-prepared Fiat Panda 4x4s and karts

The ‘veteran’ Brazilian driver concluded the media section of the 20th edition of Wrooom: Felipe Massa is now in his fifth season as an official Scuderia Ferrari driver, while his relationship with Maranello and the world of Ferrari is even older

ItaliaspeedTV: General views from the 20th edition of Wrooom 2010 the Formula 1 and MotoGP Press Ski Meeting involving Scuderia Ferrari and Ducati Corse which is held at the Madonna di Campiglio resort each January (III)

Formula 1 is going through a phase of great structural changes, there are new challenges ahead and Ferrari is laying the foundation to tackle them in the best possible way, as Stefano Domenicali underlined at Wrooom 2010 in Madonna di Campiglio

ItaliaspeedTV: General views from the 20th edition of Wrooom 2010 the Formula 1 and MotoGP Press Ski Meeting involving Scuderia Ferrari and Ducati Corse which is held at the Madonna di Campiglio resort each January (II)

ItaliaspeedTV: Scuderia Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso at Wrooom 2010 along with the new Ducati Desmosedici GP10 racing bike which Ducati Corse will campaign in the MotoGP World Championship this year

ItaliaspeedTV: In the location of Madonna di Campiglio’s congress centre during a press conference dedicated to the Scuderia's drivers, new signing Fernando Alonso spoke to the media for the first time as an official Ferrari F1 driver

ItaliaspeedTV: General views from the 20th edition of Wrooom 2010 the Formula 1 and MotoGP Press Ski Meeting involving Scuderia Ferrari and Ducati Corse which is held at the Madonna di Campiglio resort each January (I)

"Racing with Ferrari was my objective and I’ll certainly end my career with this fantastic team," said Fernando Alonso as he was officially introduced as a Ferrari driver today, "I think that it’s impossible to find the same passion somewhere else"

ItaliaspeedTV: During a press conference held on the occasion of Wrooom 2010 which is taking place this week in Madonna di Campiglio, Ferrari Team Principal Stefano Domenicali spoke about his outlook for the new F1 season

It has been in the planning for quite a while and today at Wrooom 2010 Ferrari Team Principal Stefano Domenicali officially confirmed that Valentino Rossi will be back behind the wheel of a red F1 single-seater at Barcelona in a just week's time

Today during a press conference held on the occasion of Wrooom 2010, the F1 and MotoGP press ski meeting held in Madonna di Campiglio, Ferrari Team Principal Stefano Domenicali revealed that the new F1 car will be launched on January 28

ItaliaspeedTV: A relaxing opening day of Wrooom 2010 was spent in the snow for Felipe Massa, Fernando Alonso and Giancarlo Fisichella; the three Scuderia Ferrari drivers taking to skis on the slopes of Madonna di Campiglio

Fernando Alonso will make his debut in the red colours of Scuderia Ferrari today; the Spaniard will arrive at Madonna di Campiglio this afternoon where he will take part along with his new team-mate Felipe Massa in the twentieth running of Wrooom

Scuderia Ferrari's new simulator has been unveiled; the inauguration ceremony took place in the structure built to accommodate the new machine in the presence of Ferrari CEO Amedeo Felisa and the Scuderia Team Principal Stefano Domenicali