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A number of drivers defended Badoer's performance. Lewis Hamilton said: "I think he's done a good job. He's not put it in the wall; he's kept it on the track. It's an incredibly tall order to jump into the footsteps of Felipe Massa. He hasn't even raced for ten years, so I think anyone who has taken that long out of the car is going to struggle, but instead I think he has done a good job just to keep it on the track and bit-by-bit he will catch up".<ref name="Good job"/> Heikki Kovalainen stated, "I don't know what else you could have expected. Sometimes the tyres warm up, or they overheat or they don't warm up, and it's much more complicated than a few years ago where they brought out tyres that worked straightaway in different conditions. I think that knocks the driver's confidence very easily – if the tyres are not working 100 per cent you can't push if you don't feel you have the grip".<ref name="Good job"/> |
A number of drivers defended Badoer's performance. Lewis Hamilton said: "I think he's done a good job. He's not put it in the wall; he's kept it on the track. It's an incredibly tall order to jump into the footsteps of Felipe Massa. He hasn't even raced for ten years, so I think anyone who has taken that long out of the car is going to struggle, but instead I think he has done a good job just to keep it on the track and bit-by-bit he will catch up".<ref name="Good job"/> Heikki Kovalainen stated, "I don't know what else you could have expected. Sometimes the tyres warm up, or they overheat or they don't warm up, and it's much more complicated than a few years ago where they brought out tyres that worked straightaway in different conditions. I think that knocks the driver's confidence very easily – if the tyres are not working 100 per cent you can't push if you don't feel you have the grip".<ref name="Good job"/> |
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In racing at Valencia, Badoer became the first Italian to drive for Ferarri in 15 years.<ref name="Excited">{{cite news|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/aug/19/luca-badoer-ferrari|title=Luca Badoer excited by Ferrari chance ahead of European grand prix|date=2009-08-19|work=The Guardian|accessdate=2009-08-23}}</ref> BBC commentator and former F1 driver [[Martin Brundle]] argued in ''[[The Sunday Times]]'' that the inclusion of Badoer and [[Romain Grosjean]] in the race was dangerous, since new rules that ban further testing until 1 January 2010 mean that they have been unable to gain the experience necessary to race.<ref name="Brundle">{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/formula_1/article6806467.ece|title=Unprepared substitutes put lives in danger|last=Brundle|first=Martin|date=2009-08-23|work=The Sunday Times|accessdate=2009-08-23}}</ref> Elsewhere, Brundle stated: "It is surprising to some that Ferrari has not elected to use fellow tester [[Marc Gené |
In racing at Valencia, Badoer became the first Italian to drive for Ferarri in 15 years.<ref name="Excited">{{cite news|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/aug/19/luca-badoer-ferrari|title=Luca Badoer excited by Ferrari chance ahead of European grand prix|date=2009-08-19|work=The Guardian|accessdate=2009-08-23}}</ref> BBC commentator and former F1 driver [[Martin Brundle]] argued in ''[[The Sunday Times]]'' that the inclusion of Badoer and [[Romain Grosjean]] in the race was dangerous, since new rules that ban further testing until 1 January 2010 mean that they have been unable to gain the experience necessary to race.<ref name="Brundle">{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/formula_1/article6806467.ece|title=Unprepared substitutes put lives in danger|last=Brundle|first=Martin|date=2009-08-23|work=The Sunday Times|accessdate=2009-08-23}}</ref> Elsewhere, Brundle stated: "It is surprising to some that Ferrari has not elected to use fellow tester [[Marc Gené]] who once stood in pretty successfully at Williams. The problem is that, with the testing ban for 2009, none of the test drivers are really up to speed. I personally would have tried a sharp and fit up-and-coming star of which there are many around".<ref name="BBC profile">{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/drivers_and_teams/8194061.stm|title=Luca Badoer|date=2009-08-21|publisher=BBC Sport|accessdate=2009-08-23}}</ref> During his race commentary, Brundle suggested that Ferarri should use Massa's absence to give a potential future star a drive.<ref>{{Cite episode|title=The European Grand Prix: Part 2|series=Formula 1|series=2009|network=BBC One|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mlxm7|airdate=2009-08-23}}</ref> Badoer finished in 17th place out of 18 finishers.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/results/7921161.stm|title=Valencia results: Full race timings|date=2009-08-23|publisher=BBC Sport|accessdate=2009-08-23}}</ref> |
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==Complete Formula One results== |
==Complete Formula One results== |
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Revision as of 14:31, 23 August 2009
| Formula One World Championship career | |
|---|---|
| Nationality |  Italian |
| Entries | 57 (49 starts) |
| Championships | 0 |
| Wins | 0 |
| Podiums | 0 |
| Career points | 0 |
| Pole positions | 0 |
| Fastest laps | 0 |
| First entry | 1993 South African Grand Prix |
| Last entry | 2024 São Paulo Grand Prix |
Luca Badoer (born 25 January 1971) is an Italian Formula One driver who has raced for the Scuderia Italia, Minardi and Forti Corse teams, and is presently a test driver for the Ferrari team. He is currently standing in for the injured driver Felipe Massa, returing to racing at the 2009 European Grand Prix in Valencia after the planned replacement driver, Michael Schumacher, withdrew owing to a neck injury.
Career
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Badoer was born in Montebelluna, Veneto.[1] Prior to reaching Formula One, he followed the traditional route of starting with karting, in which he was Italian champion.
1990s: Formula 3000 to Formula One
Badoer beat Alex Zanardi in the final round of the 1990 Italian Formula Three Championship. In 1991 he won four races in a row, but was disqualified after a technicality concerning his tyres. For 1992 he was picked to drive by Crypton Engineering for the Formula 3000 Championship, in which he emerged as champion.
His debut Formula One season in 1993 was mired by BMS Scuderia Italia's uncompetitive Lola chassis, which, despite Ferrari engines, was the slowest car in the championship in terms of qualifying pace. He regularly beat his experienced team-mate Michele Alboreto, but lost out to him for the second drive when Scuderia Italia merged with Minardi for the 1994 season. He was retained as test driver, and took over in 1995 when Alboreto retired. In the underfunded team his best results were eighth places in Canada and Hungary and ninth in Japan. In 1996 he switched to Forti Corse, where he was only able to qualify for six of the ten races the team entered. Forti Corse folded after that year's British Grand Prix.
In 1997 Badoer moved to the new FIA GT Championship, driving a Lotus Elise GT1 for GBF Engineering with codrivers Mimmo Schiattarella. While driving for GBF, Badoer was hired as Scuderia Ferrari's test driver, a role he continues to perform. He returned to racing for one season in 1999, with the Minardi team. In the July of that season, Ferrari's number one driver Michael Schumacher broke his leg in an accident at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. As Ferrari's test driver, Badoer expected to be promoted to the race seat in Schumacher's absence, but the team opted for Mika Salo instead, prompting criticism from former Ferrari driver Jean Alesi.
Badoer started 48 races for backmarkers Scuderia Italia, Minardi and Forti Corse between 1993 and 1999, without scoring any points.[2] As of August 2009[update], he holds the record for the most Grand Prix starts without a point,[2][3] although all of his races before his comeback came during a period when only the top six finishers scored points.He nearly achieved his first points finish in the 1999 European Grand Prix when a strong drive saw Badoer lying in fourth place, but with only 13 laps remaining, the gearbox on his Minardi failed and television cameras showed Badoer weeping by his stricken Minardi.
2000s: Ferarri test driver
Unable to find a satisfactory race seat in Formula One after 1999, Badoer became a permanent test driver for Ferrari. He covers thousands of kilometres at the Mugello and Fiorano test circuits each year and has probably driven more kilometres in a Ferrari Formula One car than any other Italian in history. He is credited with making a vital contribution to Ferarri's first F1 Drivers' Championship win for 21 years in 2000.[4]
At the opening ceremonies of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, Badoer demonstrated one of the team's 2005 cars in the centre of the stadium, revving the engine, and performing several doughnuts, creating a large cloud of tyre smoke, and leaving circular black marks on the white platform. The event was witnessed by millions of television viewers worldwide.
Return to Formula One racing
On 11 August 2009 it was confirmed that Badoer would return to Formula One racing after almost 10 years, to replace the injured Felipe Massa at the 2009 European Grand Prix in Valencia.[5] Massa was injured during the qualifying session for the 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix when a piece of suspension fell from the rear of Rubens Barrichello's Brawn GP car and struck Massa's helmet, knocking him unconscious and causing him to crash into a tyre wall. Michael Schumacher was set to replace Massa, but a neck injury Schumacher sustained in a German superbike test earlier in the year forced him to pull out.[6] Ferrari confirmed that Badoer (Ferrari's longest-serving test driver) would replace the injured Massa instead.[7]
In the first practice session for the 2009 European Grand Prix at the Valencia Street Circuit, where he had never driven before, Badoer came last and was three seconds off the pace of fastest man Rubens Barrichello and 2.5 seconds down on team mate Kimi Räikkönen. He was 1.3 seconds down on Räikkönen in second practice, and 1.9 seconds off in final practice.[8] He qualified 20th and last for the race, with a time almost 1.5 seconds slowest than Scuderia Toro Rosso driver Jaime Alguersuari, who was 19th.[9][10]
He was also caught speeding in the pit-lane four times during Friday practice.[11] These offences earned him a reprimand and three separate fines totalling €5,400. Badoer explained: "I am used to a 100kph limit in testing and so when I pressed the speed limiter button at the usual point in the pitlane, it did not give the car enough time to slow to the right speed".[12]
A number of drivers defended Badoer's performance. Lewis Hamilton said: "I think he's done a good job. He's not put it in the wall; he's kept it on the track. It's an incredibly tall order to jump into the footsteps of Felipe Massa. He hasn't even raced for ten years, so I think anyone who has taken that long out of the car is going to struggle, but instead I think he has done a good job just to keep it on the track and bit-by-bit he will catch up".[10] Heikki Kovalainen stated, "I don't know what else you could have expected. Sometimes the tyres warm up, or they overheat or they don't warm up, and it's much more complicated than a few years ago where they brought out tyres that worked straightaway in different conditions. I think that knocks the driver's confidence very easily – if the tyres are not working 100 per cent you can't push if you don't feel you have the grip".[10]
In racing at Valencia, Badoer became the first Italian to drive for Ferarri in 15 years.[13] BBC commentator and former F1 driver Martin Brundle argued in The Sunday Times that the inclusion of Badoer and Romain Grosjean in the race was dangerous, since new rules that ban further testing until 1 January 2010 mean that they have been unable to gain the experience necessary to race.[14] Elsewhere, Brundle stated: "It is surprising to some that Ferrari has not elected to use fellow tester Marc Gené who once stood in pretty successfully at Williams. The problem is that, with the testing ban for 2009, none of the test drivers are really up to speed. I personally would have tried a sharp and fit up-and-coming star of which there are many around".[15] During his race commentary, Brundle suggested that Ferarri should use Massa's absence to give a potential future star a drive.[16] Badoer finished in 17th place out of 18 finishers.[17]
Complete Formula One results
(key)
| Year | Entrant | Chassis | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | WDC | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Lola BMS Scuderia Italia | Lola T93/30 | Ferrari V12 | RSA Ret |
BRA 12 |
EUR DNQ |
SMR 7 |
ESP Ret |
MON DNQ |
CAN 15 |
FRA Ret |
GBR Ret |
GER Ret |
HUN Ret |
BEL 13 |
ITA 10 |
POR 14 |
JPN |
AUS |
NC | 0 | |
| 1995 | Minardi Scuderia Italia | Minardi M195 | Ford V8 | BRA Ret |
ARG DNS |
SMR 14 |
ESP Ret |
MON Ret |
CAN 8 |
FRA 13 |
GBR 10 |
GER Ret |
HUN 8 |
BEL Ret |
ITA Ret |
POR 14 |
EUR 11 |
PAC 15 |
JPN 9 |
AUS DNS |
NC | 0 |
| 1996 | Forti Grand Prix | Forti FG01B | Ford V8 | AUS DNQ |
BRA 11 |
ARG Ret |
EUR DNQ |
NC | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Forti FG03 | SMR 10 |
MON Ret |
ESP DNQ |
CAN Ret |
FRA Ret |
GBR DNQ |
GER DNP |
HUN |
BEL |
ITA |
POR |
JPN |
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| 1999 | Fondmetal Minardi Ford | Minardi M01 | Ford V10 | AUS Ret |
BRA |
SMR 8 |
MON Ret |
ESP Ret |
CAN 10 |
FRA 10 |
GBR Ret |
AUT 13 |
GER 10 |
HUN 14 |
BEL Ret |
ITA Ret |
EUR Ret |
MAL Ret |
JPN Ret |
NC | 0 | |
| 2009 | Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro |
Ferrari F60 | Ferrari 056 2.4 V8 | AUS | MAL | CHN | BHR | ESP | MON | TUR | GBR | GER | HUN | EUR 17 |
BEL | ITA | SIN | JPN | BRA | ABU | 23rd* | 0* |
*Season in progress.
References
- ^ "Luca Badoer". Formula 1. Retrieved 2009-08-23.
- ^ a b Noble, Jonathan (2009-08-11). "Ten facts about Luca Badoer". Autosport. Retrieved 2009-08-23.
- ^ Foster, Michelle (2009-08-11). "Badoer factfile". Sky Sports. Retrieved 2009-08-23.
- ^ "Luca Badoer". Crash.Net. Retrieved 2009-08-23.
- ^ "Journeyman Luca Badoer rewarded for loyalty". The Times. 11 August 2009. Retrieved 11 August 2009.
- ^ "Schumacher calls off F1 comeback". BBC Sport. 11 August 2009. Retrieved 11 August 2009.
- ^ "Badoer set to race for Ferrari in Valencia". Formula1.com. 11 August 2009. Retrieved 11 August 2009.
- ^ Llewellyn-Stevens, Gareth (2009-08-23). "Ferrari's F1 gamble on Badoer in Massa's car is doomed for disaster". Sportingo. Retrieved 2009-08-23.
- ^ "Valencia results: Qualifying". BBC Sport. 2009-08-22. Retrieved 2009-08-23.
- ^ a b c "F1 rivals defend Badoer's 'good job' in 'impossible' situation". Crash.Net. 2009-08-23. Retrieved 2009-08-23.
- ^ "Badoer fined four times for pit-lane speeding in practice". Eurosport. 2009-08-22. Retrieved 2009-08-23.
- ^ McKenzie, Bob (2009-08-22). "Badoer's fine and Button's dandy". Daily Express. Retrieved 2009-08-23.
- ^ "Luca Badoer excited by Ferrari chance ahead of European grand prix". The Guardian. 2009-08-19. Retrieved 2009-08-23.
- ^ Brundle, Martin (2009-08-23). "Unprepared substitutes put lives in danger". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 2009-08-23.
- ^ "Luca Badoer". BBC Sport. 2009-08-21. Retrieved 2009-08-23.
- ^ "The European Grand Prix: Part 2". 2009. 2009-08-23. BBC One.
- ^ "Valencia results: Full race timings". BBC Sport. 2009-08-23. Retrieved 2009-08-23.
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