Talking to the media after joining the Ferrari squad in the Madonna di Campiglio ski resort – for the annual Ferrari presentation event, also called the Wrooom – team principal Stefano Domenicali revealed that the Italian company would actually give their 3rd team to a smaller outfit.
“When we're talking about a third car we don't necessarily mean that it has to be three cars in our team, but we might also give our single seater to be run by a small team,” said Domenicali, although he didn't mention exactly what he understands by the term “small team.”
While most of us are thinking of an existing team, Domenicali might have referred to a totally new team, formed around a single driver. As most of you know by now, Valentino Rossi was granted permission to do one more official test in a Ferrari F2008 at Barcelona, later this month. Any coincidences there?
In addition to expressing his view on the 3rd car per team idea, Domenicali also confirmed that the reason why the Formula One Teams Association (FOTA) decided to scrap KERS from the Formula One action next year was to develop a proper, functional and competitive unit in 2011.
“As far as the KERS is concerned all the teams decided that it won’t be used in 2010, but we’re working on an energy recovery system with decisively lower costs than those we had last year for the year 2011. We as Ferrari really believed in this solution and we would like to see it again in our single-seaters, because we think that it will influence road car production in a positive way: naturally it has to be reintroduced with rules equal for all the teams,” added Domenicali.
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