{"id":220971,"date":"2025-10-17T19:56:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T19:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/220971\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T19:56:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T19:56:13","slug":"when-an-aussie-v8-racer-drove-a-piece-of-ferrari-f1-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/220971\/","title":{"rendered":"When an Aussie V8 racer drove a piece of Ferrari F1 history"},"content":{"rendered":"

MICHAEL Schumacher\u2019s failed attempt to take Jacques Villeneuve out at Jerez in the title-deciding European Grand Prix in 1997 is one of the big-ticket moments of the German\u2019s legendary, albeit sometimes controversial career.<\/p>\n

The move failed and Villeneuve drove on to clinch his first and only Formula 1 World Championship, with Schumacher\u2019s Ferrari parked off track, damaged by the collision its pilot had instigated.<\/p>\n

In the aftermath Schumacher was found guilty of deliberate dangerous driving and stripped of his runner-up result in the championship.<\/p>\n

But did you know the same Ferrari that Schumacher drove that day in controversial fashion (that also won the Japanese Grand Prix that year) was sampled by an Aussie just a few years later and sent Down Under?<\/p>\n

Mark Noske, an original Holden Young Lion in 1997, drove the ex-Schumacher Ferrari 310B at Fiorano in September 2000 after it had been purchased by Tony Raftis from Prancing Horse Racing.<\/p>\n

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Noske was racing for the team at the time in a Ferrari 360 Challenge in the then-new Nations Cup series run by PROCAR Australia.<\/p>\n

His time in the Ferrari F1 car was limited to just eight laps while test driver Luca Badoer was busy testing for the remaining Grands Prix of that season.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe horsepower wasn\u2019t what I expected,\u201d Noske told Motorsport News at the time in Issue 189, available here to get access to via the MN archives.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI thought it would be quite aggressive with the throttle, but the brakes just blew my mind. Those things stop something severe.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI can see why (Mark) Webber\u2019s pushing so hard to get into them. You just don\u2019t want to get out of them.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey do a client-spec car, so there\u2019s less likelihood of it blowing. The engine has four hours of life, goes back in a box and gets rebuilt.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ex-Schumacher Ferrari was sent to Australia and was used for various demonstrations and displays, though was later sold back overseas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MICHAEL Schumacher\u2019s failed attempt to take Jacques Villeneuve out at Jerez in the title-deciding European Grand Prix in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-220971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}