Bahrain’s GP ended in the best possible way for Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro: Felipe Massa won the race, for the first time this year and for the 6th in his career, and Kimi Raikkonen was second, going back on the top of the Drivers’ Championship.

It was an important day for the italian team for many more reasons, as that it was the 100th victory with Luca di Montezemolo as President of Ferrari. Moreover, the 18 points gained by the two pilots let the team reach the second position in the Teams Standing, just one point behind the remarkable BMW.

Anyway, what should be underlined as basic for the future of the Scuderia Ferrari during this season, is the different approach showed by both the pilots and the team, that permitted them to rule the race since the first until the last lap, a change of mentality from the previous weeks that lets us wait for the next races more confidently, as done by the protagonists of the victory:

“We are very happy about this wonderful one-two finish,” said team boss Stefano Domenicali. “After a bad start to the season, we have proved we know how to react with our actions, as usual. We worked well all weekend and the results therefore followed. Now we have to continue down this road, without allowing our absolute concentration to slip for a moment, because in a championship that looks like being very close, it takes almost nothing to lose precious points.”

Felipe Massa commented, “Sensational! Finally, after a start to the championship under dark clouds, I can see the sunshine again. We kept our concentration all weekend long and this is the result. We knew we could count on a great car and that certainly proved to be the case, given that I never had to push to the maximum once I was in the lead…….I always had in mind what happened in Malaysia and so I tried to pay attention all the time, to ensure I brought the car home.”

The past 28th October 2007 Scuderia Ferrari published that the FXX Programme is being extended another year. SF took this decision because in the past two years, with help of the seven times Formula 1 World Champion Michael Schumacher, the car has improved constantly.

The biggest changes are in the aerodynamics and in the gearbox; changes that make the car a whopping 3 seconds faster around the Fiorano Race Track.
Ferrari engineers, though, think that they will be able to make the car some 2 second faster during the course of the next year.

This new iteration of the already staggering FXX is called FXX Evoluzione, and it sports trimmed shift times, and a boosted 6.3-liter V12, upping its output to 860 horsepower.
Also on board, a new traction control system, upgraded Brembo brakes and a modified front suspension geometry, resulting in longer life for the 19-inch Bridgestone racing tires.
On the aero front, the FXX gets a new rear diffuser and rear flaps as well as modifications to the active front spoiler control system, all of which help to increase efficiency by 25 percent.

Check out a LOAD of pics of the “old” FXX when we met her at the Goodwood Hill!

This is the monstrous F430 Scuderia.

Taking on the recent fashion of picking a mind-boggingly fast car, scraping off a couple hundred kilograms and giving it a fancy surname, THIS is the lighter, slightly more powerful version of the already amazing F430.

It weighs a mere 1.250kg and its Ferrari 4.3L V8 produces 510 horsepower instead of 483.

Other improvements are F1-grade gearbox (with 60 milliseconds gearshifts), stability and traction controls.

This jewel has been unveiled by none other than Michael Schumacher, in September at the Frankfurt Auto Show.

So, to sum it all up, if you’re a millionaire track-junkie, it’s time to upgrade.

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