After the Ferrari World Design Contest, our guys at Autoblog.it visited Maranello facilities, specifically taking a tour of the Ferrari customer racing department, in the first of four posts of a “day at Maranello”. And you can see just what that means in the pics. The spick and span department is a metaphor for the slick racing services and is probably where the heart of Ferrari really lies.

Despite its luxury car production and highly desirable street supercars, track racing is really the spirit of Maranello and at the Fiorano Ferrari racing facilities, silence reigns in the workshop. We think this gallery of the Ferrari customer racing department really gets that feeling of purity and quietness across.

The Fiorano F1 Ferrari garage has a lot to offer those who want to see behind the scenes of some of the world’s most famous race cars. There are plenty of Formula 1 vehicles to see, including some in the first room in various stages of maintenance. That’s before you get to a kind of garage where no less than 50 Ferrari Formula 1 race cars are parked.

Ferrari F1 Corse Clienti Fiorano garage

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The 2011 Goodwood Festival of Speed for Ferrari saw the company take its new Ferrari FF off to England, and in these videos we also get a drive of the Ferrari F10 Formula 1 up the Lord March hill with Marc Gené. Another video also shows a test of a 1953 Ferrari 375MM which an Austrian collector brought along to the festival. If you didn’t think the Ferrari FF was a “real” Ferrari, the video after the jump might nearly make you change your mind.

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“Bellissimo” speaks for itself really, as a lucky journalist gets a tour of the Fiorano track with Fernando Alonso at the wheel of a Ferrari 458 Italia. Apart from the fun the two clearly have, hearing that Ferrari rumble makes us jealous (did we say “very”?). Anyone who is the fortunate owner of a Ferrari will realise that this is how it should be driven (F1 capabilities aside). Through the giggling of the journalist, we can see why Fernando Alonso has been confirmed as a Ferrari F1 driver through to 2016. In the journalist’s words “che spettacolo”!

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The London Ferrari Store has this Ferrari “Cities of Tomorrow” exhibit on show, having collaborated with the Royal Institute of British Architects to build it. The display is supposed to demonstrate how architecture and buildings can draw inspiration from car design, and was created by Duggan Morris Architects. Components from Ferrari F1 and GT cars have been used and the exhibit is on show until May 29th at the Ferrari Store, London.

Ferrari Cities of Tomorrow exhibition

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We all know Alonso drives a Ferrari, but this is the Alonso 458 Italia, not the F1 version. Alonso will debut for Ferrari F1 on Sunday, and this is his official 458 Italia in a beautiful Bianco Fuji pearl white. The man has style - and his personal logo stitched onto the seats. Some people can just do these things…

Fernando Alonso Ferrari 458 Italia

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Ferrari’s first hybrid technology will debut at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show in the form of the Ferrari 599 hybrid. The confirmation comes from Luca de Montezemolo after the new Ferrari F1 car presentation in Maranello.

Original designs indicated that Ferrari would be developing a four-wheel-drive model, and since then subsequent reports have suggested that the drivetrain would be comprised of electric motors at the front wheels and a V12 or turbocharged V8 powering the rear wheels.

A hybrid vehicle would be the first real step in producing an ecological model at Ferrari, and reports say that a 35 percent saving in the fuel consumption of the 599 could be achieved. The hybrid technology has been developed from Ferrari’s Formula One KERS technology: or Kinetic Energy Recovery System.

Source | Autonews

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Here’s a huge gallery of Ferrari’s new F1 car, the F10. The Ferrari F10 was presented at Maranello and will be the new prancing horse on the track for 2010. It will be interesting to see how the Ferrari 2010 F1 season develops, but in the meantime, check out these pics of this beautiful F1 car. See more pics on Motorsportblog.it.

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While we now focus on Michael Schumacher returning to F1 racing, we have a fingers crossed that Felipe Massa will fully return to live his life as previously. Apparently his condition has improved such that he may soon be able to return home to start his rehabilitation.

According to reports, Massa is to check out of hospital on Monday and return to San Paolo for further treatment. His physician has said that Massa has no damage to his right eye and that he will go back to racing as soon possible, saying this is all we need to know of his condition.

Meanwhile, Michael Schumacher has started training for his first appearance in Formula One since he retired, getting some practice in before Valencia. Schumacher has driven the F2007 of a collector on the Mugello circuit, and been in a simulator to get his body used to this kind of driving again.

The aim is for him to be as prepared as possible for the physical forces of racing, without breaching the stringent testing guidelines of the Formula One competition. Schumacher will drive Massa’s F60 and the plan is to finish the season with the veteran German at the wheel.

Source | Autoblog and Motorsportblog

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