First races of Ferrari Racing Days at Hockenheim
The road continues to the Ferrari World Finals, at the Mugello
Circuit from 24 to 28 October, when also present for its traditional
demonstration will be Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro, the team
that has already taken the 2007 Formula 1 Constructors’
World Championship title.
This weekend’s “Ferrari Racing Days” event
at the German Hockenheim circuit is in fact the final round
on this year’s calendar for Corse Clienti of Maranello,
prior to the final party.
The first day of racing in Germany saw victory go to Philipp
Baron in the European Ferrari Challenge Pirelli Trophy for
the F430 cars. The Austrian Baron Service team driver managed
to get home ahead of France’s Ange Barde (Stradale Automobile)
and the German Bjorn Grossmann (Autohaus Gomm.)
The Shell Cup in the same one-make series, for gentlemen
drivers was run in two parts, because of a spectacular crash,
in which no one was hurt, but involved several runners. Overall
victory, calculated by adding the times together went to Angel
Santos (Spain – Cars Barcelona,) ahead of Wido Roessler
(Germany – Tamsen) and Ronnie Kessel (Switzerland –
Kessel Racing) in second and third places respectively.
In the other European series, the Shell Ferrari Historic
Challenge, featuring Prancing Horse jewels of the past, as
well as cars from the Trident marque, victory went to the
German, Stefan Schollwoeck (1932 Maserati 4CM) in Grid A and
Britain’s Irvine Laidlaw twice: at the wheel of a 1957
Maserati 250 S in the B race and with a 1972 Ferrari 312 PB
in the C class.
Sunday’s programme at Hockenheim includes the next
round of races as well as demonstrations from the single-seaters
prepared by Ferrari F1 Clienti, including around ten ex-Schumacher
cars.
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