15.10.2003 THE FERRARI F1 TEAM WILL BE GUESTS OF HONOUR AT THIS WEEKEND'S FERRARI-MASERATI WORLD FINALS

On Sunday 19th October, the team’s official drivers, Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello and the test drivers, Luca Badoer and Felipe Massa will take to the track for a demonstration run at the wheel of the F2003-GA F1 cars. They will also take part in a special challenge at the wheel of Maserati Trofeos, the cars used in the Trident marque’s one-make series.

The event gets underway on Friday 17th October with the first timed practice for the various international championships, which reach their final rounds on the Tuscan track. In the Ferrari Challenge Pirelli Trophy-Shell Cup, around eighty 360 Modena from the Italian, European and American series will be taking part. Eighty three historic cars will liven up the decisive race in the Shell Historic Ferrari Maserati Challenge. The Trofeo Vodafone Maserati Europa, using cars based on the road-going Coupe Cambiocorsa sees twenty seven crews in action, with a special appearance from Rene Arnoux and Ivan Capelli, who drove for Scuderia Ferrari from 1983 to 1985 and in 1992 respectively, along with former rally star, Andrea Zanussi.

The Ferrari F1 Clienti department is organising a parade of twenty five Prancing Horse single-seaters from the past.