Alonso finally arrives in Maranello
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| Fernando Alonso (L) is greeted by Felipe Massa as he arrives at Maranello |
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(GMM) Fernando Alonso on Friday spent his first day at Ferrari's Maranello headquarters.
Although still under contract to Renault, the Spaniard arrived at his 2010 team's Italian base at 8am in time for a meeting with his new boss Stefano Domenicali.
Alonso, 28, also met with technicians, saw a wind tunnel model of the 2010 car, worked on his seating position, sampled the Fiorano test track at the wheel of a red 458 Italia, and closed the day with a 30 minute meeting with Luca di Montezemolo.
11/06/09 Today early in the morning, just after 8am. Fernando Alonso arrived at the gates of the Scuderia Ferrari for his first contact with the new team, although still not as an official member due to his contractual commitments regarding image management, which still tie him to his previous team and his sponsors.
The first meeting was with Stefano Domenicali, who then left him to the technicians, who started to work with the driver on the upcoming season’s program. Between meetings connected to the new single-seater’s project Fernando visited the wind channel to see the model and worked on the sitting position in the car’s cockpit, while the day ended just after 5pm. Before leaving Maranello, Alonso was received by Chairman Luca di Montezemolo, who personally wanted to welcome the Spaniard at Ferrari in a cordially meeting of around half an hour.
Today’s intermezzo was a couple of laps on the Fiorano race track with the 458 Italia, naturally in red: as he couldn’t yet drive a red Formula 1 car Fernando wanted to feel the emotion of driving a Ferrari on the track where all the Prancing Horse’s single-seaters are born and raised. Source: Ferrari