Nurburgring's Ferrari Racing Days
Schumacher at Nurburgring's Ferrari Racing Days
Saturday, 04 October 2008
Maranello (Modena), 2nd October 2008 - On the upcoming weekend the European division's of the Shell Ferrari Historic Challenge and the Ferrari Challenge Pirelli Trophy will be held at the Nurburgring - with the fourth and sixth races respectively.
There will be four free practice sessions, but also the historical single-seaters from Maranello's F1 Clienti department and the cars from the exclusive FXX Programme.
In the European racing series the German Bjiörn Grossmann leads the standings with 215 points, followed by the Austrian Phillip Baron (210) and the Italian Max Blancardi (208). The Englishman Michael Cantillon leads the standings amongst the Gentlemen drivers of the Shell Cup with 202 points, ahead of the Italian Walter Forer (160) and the Bulgarian Plamen Kralev (155).
The event will start tomorrow with the first practice sessions and the first qualifyings. On Saturday the last qualifyings will be held before the first races of the European Pirelli Trophy, Shell Cup and Shell Historic Challenge races; on Sunday the final races and nine free practice sessions will be held with the F1 Clienti and the FXX cars: amongst the client-test drivers Michael Schumacher will go on the track behind the wheel of his FXX and, at the end of the session, with the new California.
Check it out at the webcam.
Last edited by Testarossa6000; 7th October 2008 at 13:12.
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