Fernando Alonso has appeared as an official Ferrari driver for the first time.
He donned Ferrari red at the team’s annual PR event at Madonna di Campiglio in Italy.
Update: Video and pictures of Alonso with his new team below.
Fernando Alonso’s first appearance for Ferrari: pictures
This week sees the 20th running of the Wrooom pre-season event which Ferrari holds with the Ducati motorbike racing team.
Alonso was joined by new team mate Felipe Massa and test driver Giancarlo Fisichella.
Alonso attended the Ferrari World Finals at Valencia last year, but as he was still under contract to Renault at the time he wasn’t allowed to appear in Ferrari team clothing and donned a rather fetching jumper instead.
Fernando Alonso’s first appearance for Ferrari: video
Images (C) Ferrari spa
Katy
11th January 2010, 18:14
There’s this one too http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/3094/n505791ducatiferrariori.jpg
James Bond
11th January 2010, 18:17
He & fisi look really nasty with all that red. Always preferred that mild seven Renault blue.
Hope Felipe wipes that smirk off his face by the end of the season.
James
11th January 2010, 19:24
I prefer the black and blonde colour scheme in that photo, personally…!
Emma Jane Bennett
11th January 2010, 21:02
I think Fernando does as well… XD
raja
12th January 2010, 17:45
yeah… FERRARI preferred a right person to DO…
Carl27
11th January 2010, 21:38
You can always hope…
Uncle
11th January 2010, 23:09
I’ll do it.
AP
11th January 2010, 23:26
LOL Massa looks like a geek…Looking at Fisi make you depressed…
Alonso is the only marketable person in Ferrari…My goodness looking at that pic above you can see why they canned Kimi and hired Alonso!
If Ferrari make a good car this year watch Massa be a wing man…and in reality thats all he has ever been…a #2 driver.
Macca
12th January 2010, 3:50
Massa WILL beat Alonso this year.
Fred
12th January 2010, 14:38
Correction… Massa WILL _NOT_ beat Alonso this year…
K
11th January 2010, 18:18
I don’t know why but looking at that picture I feel sorry for Fisichella. For a long time now I’ve found him a mournful figure!
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
11th January 2010, 19:22
He looks happy on his skis!
K
11th January 2010, 21:24
Very ‘appy ;)
James Bond
11th January 2010, 18:20
Whats Nicky Hayden doing there?
Sush Meerkat
11th January 2010, 18:39
He rides a Ducati in Moto GP.
Ducati is the Ferrari of the Bike world.
Tim
12th January 2010, 8:56
And Marlboro sponsor both Ferrari and Ducati.
DanThorn
11th January 2010, 18:25
Fantastic – I’ve been waiting years for this!
steph90
11th January 2010, 18:43
Well glad you got your wish Dan! Great to have Alonso at Ferrari :D
Buttonham
11th January 2010, 18:32
It looks a little bit like the Masons… but a bit more… red.
Hayden is a Ducati driver is he not?
James Bond
11th January 2010, 18:38
I’ve always found F1badger a funny site :)
Buttonham
11th January 2010, 18:32
It looks a little bit like the Masons… but a bit more… red.
Hayden is a Ducati rider is he not?
Gman
11th January 2010, 18:59
Yeah, this is his second year at Ducati after seemingly a million years in that Repsol orange and Honda red.
Grace
11th January 2010, 18:39
YES!!!
I beat you Keith! I posted these in the forum before you posted them on the blog! (by a whole hour)! lol
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
11th January 2010, 18:47
I’m sorry Grace but I’ll have to take them down. I did post on the forum the other day asking people not to hotlink images from other people’s websites. It just steals their bandwidth and it’s not fair on them.
See my post on the forum here: https://www.racefans.net/forum/topic.php?id=1344#post-15094
Racehound
11th January 2010, 21:39
oops! #:)
Oliver
11th January 2010, 19:33
“So long as you don’t go red”….
A comment made by Alonso 3 or 4 years back while on the radio to a departing team personnel. Seems he himself didn’t keep to that advice. But in all a welcome addition to the Ferrari family.
Becken
11th January 2010, 20:29
Maybe he had the 2006 Italian GP in mind when said that. That race was not good for him in any way:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M7t3m9uSJA
Juha
11th January 2010, 20:26
Kimi looked better ;)
CoolGav
11th January 2010, 21:42
Just wondering if Alonso requested Fisi to be at Ferrari. When Fernando won his 2 championships his team mate was Fisi, so perhaps there was free exchange of set-up data back then, and Alsono hopes it will help him to have a test driver who he knows. Just a thought…
Jay Menon
12th January 2010, 2:52
Never looked at it like that before.
Fisi is best suited to testing for now. He’s been off the pace for a couple years now, testing could be his forte from here on in.
He’s vastly experienced and his technical feedback on car setup would be invaluable to Alonso and Massa.
Tombong
11th January 2010, 22:23
To me Ducati’s jumper looks much more stylish than the ferrari’s… just hate the white color on the shoulders
gabal
11th January 2010, 23:07
I wonder shall we see more white in Ferrari livery based on the team gear we saw today?
AP
11th January 2010, 23:21
NO
Real Ferrari’s are red and black, the white they used in the late 80’s early 90’s (from memory?) just looked like crap.
gabal
12th January 2010, 7:43
That doesn’t mean they won’t use it… Besides, they only went back to their classic Ferrari red recently, they used ”Marlboro” red for a whole decade before that.
Uncle
11th January 2010, 23:08
Thats the fastest Giancarlo Fisichella will go this year.
BBQ2
11th January 2010, 23:14
Well CoolGav, if Fisico should give him his experience of the F60, then all will be well at Ferrari :-)……. Mhaahaahaahaaaa!!!!
And BTW, Ducati and Ferrari have the same sponsor. That is why they always celebrate together.
Icthyes
11th January 2010, 23:17
Alonso spots the Santander logo on his jacket. He rubs it, and some of the red falls off. He rubs it harder, with huge flakes of red falling off to reveal silver underneath. He spots a Mercedes logo and realises, too late, with a shriek of “NOOOOO…”, that this has all been an elaborate ruse to get him back at McLaren.
Sorry, my imagination can be quite sadistic sometimes!
Pink Peril
12th January 2010, 0:05
Is is just me, or is red really not Nando’s colour….
wasiF1
12th January 2010, 1:55
Alonso is looking very happy.
bwells
12th January 2010, 2:38
The long wait has finally come to an end… I think what you really have to look at is just how happy Fernando looks… he knows that he will be in a contender and love him or dislike him we all know what he can do… this year is shaping up to be one for the ages!! love it…
Jay Menon
12th January 2010, 5:17
FORZA FERNANDO!!
I cant wait for the season to start. I hope its going to be a straight fight between Alonso and Vettel!
Fred
12th January 2010, 14:46
totally man!!… Alonso and Vettel FTW!!
Dileep
12th January 2010, 7:45
I am a big Fernando Alonso fan. I hope he does well at Ferrari. A double world champion who is probably at the peak of his powers deserves a good car, and hopefully Ferrari can give him that this season. Alonso, Massa, Hamilton, Button, Vettel, and of course old Schumey in good cars is what I am waiting to see!!!
pitt layne
12th January 2010, 8:21
“Weed lika to welcoma Fernando to da Scuderia. Asa you can see, Alonso looksa right at home. We felta da timing wasa right to taka da icea pick to Kimi and lighta fire to da team. We stronga believe Fernando willa be da flame. Ofa coursa, Felipe will be ona backa burna helpinga Fernando achieve da ween. Ah yesa, do you smella thata? Ita smellsa lika victory.
HG
12th January 2010, 10:32
good to see alonso looking happy with his new team. I hop i work out.
For those motgp fans out there? how long will hayden last at Ducati? not long i don’t think, stoner has shown how good he is – really really good. Rossi or pedrosa to be his team mate in the future.
Pink Peril
12th January 2010, 23:12
I don’t know that its a failing of Hayden as such, because no one else seems to do well on that second Ducati. Stoner seems to be the only one able to ride it ! But I would dearly love to see Vale on the Duc taking Stoner on – that would be awesome !
HG
12th January 2010, 23:48
oh yes, no slight at Hayden he is a great rider and world champ, it just shows how hard that Ducati is to ride, and consequently how good stoner is. With spies at yamaha two team, and jorge rocking the boat in the main team, vale has made many noises about moving on, and could you imagine the ducati and rossi fans unite!? it would be crazzy :)
Platine
12th January 2010, 19:58
Teflonso at ferrari thats a scary sight, he will obviously destroy Massa.
Hamilton
Schumacher
Bring.It.On.
JUGNU
13th January 2010, 1:40
Can’t wait for Hamilton vs Alonso. I think in current drivers only Alonso can give real competition to Hamilton.
ukk
13th January 2010, 15:14
The only time Kimi out-entertained everybody: at this same event in 2008 and 2009 everybody was skiing and Kimi was snowboarding :-)
Ms.Butler
13th January 2010, 16:26
Ferrari is one grand machine for run in F1,Felipe Massa,Fernado Alonso e Giancarlo Fisichella the Best’s 1*
Chaz
14th January 2010, 18:46
All I can think when I see this is I wish I had shares in Santander. Does anyone know how much money they made last year…
Ms.Butler
15th January 2010, 15:15
Me look yesterday to Alonso with dogs of snow.
Pedro
15th January 2010, 21:02
Chaz, Santander is forecasted to have about 14 billion USD net profit in 2009. More than any other western bank.
Tanja
15th January 2010, 21:57
Fernando lokes great in Ferrari colors! Massa and Fisichella, who? I was just watching Alonso finally in Ferrari!
v
19th April 2010, 18:30
alonso is the best driver of all time,way better than massa….way better than hamilton