This looks good......

[FIRE]

We are sometimes talking about car liveries but this truck & trailer is also looking good.

Marino Franchitti is their new driver.


source: DSC

I find this sentence strange:

We have the Ferrari factory's full endorsement of our programme," said team owner Stewart Roden. "It's been a dream of mine since I used to race cars, so I'm delighted to see that dream turn into a reality.

I thought Ferrari doesn't support private teams. For example Prodrive didn't got support from Ferrari. Or am I wrong?


Has anybodey more pics of nice looking trucks & trailers?

[gttouring]

That does look great, racing is a gentlemans sport

[danhx]

Hmmm, that really is an interesting quote. Perhaps by "endorsement" they mean "moral support" because i really don't think they have actual financial or technical backing from the factory. I could be very wrong though and i would love it if we could find out if that statement can be taking exactly as it was said.

[Lee Janotta]

There's sponsorship, and then there's factory support. They might be getting direct access to the engineers in Maranello, or preference on development parts, or free replacement parts for the race cars, or some other such perk.

GM and Ford did things like that in the 1960s when they weren't allowed to have factory teams under a "gentleman's agreement" between the Big Three not to go racing. Instead they just lent a huge amount of technical support to privateer outfits like Shelby and Penske.

[kdr]

it could just mean they're not going to take them to court for using the ferrari name!

i "endorse" their programme as well!

[FIRE]

Such "support" is always interresting to attract sponsors.

[Danster]

Just noticed this, it does look very good but isn't that Ferrari's logistics centre in the backround? Either they do have a lot of Ferrari support or it's a photoshopped pic??

[C_g]

"Full endorsement" means they paid Ferrari a lot of money to buy a factory-built 360GT and will pay more money to keep getting all the latest bits for it from Michelotto.