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Tifosi for Yourself; Want to spy on a new Ferrari driver or a car's first run? Head for Fiorano-and don't forget the vodka.(Competition)
Byline: Anthony Peacock
The flag is faded and torn; its grubby early-'80s script reading "Villeneuve" recedes into a dirty white background. But for Battista, who lives in a house overlooking Ferrari's hallowed Fiorano test track in Maranello, the trophy is as poignant as the tattered army flags that old soldiers
venerate in church halls.
Battista and his friends-Pippo, Lucio and Claudio, to name just three-have been coming here for longer than they care to remember. Known as Tifosi, they are fans-no, devotees-of all things Ferrari.
Names fall from their lips like a prayerful litany: Gilles Villeneuve, Didier Pironi, Jean Alesi, Michael Schumacher.
Before this Formula One season began in March, the group added another name to the list: Kimi Raikkonen. They saluted his arrival at Scuderia Ferrari with Finlandia vodka and a hastily painted "Welcome Kimi" banner. Pippo poured the vodka into an already potent mulled-wine concoction.
Most members of this group of Tifosi live about 75 miles away in Verona, so, after loading provisions into two vans-patriotically painted in a vague approximation of rosso corsa-they set off for Maranello at 6:30 a.m. to witness the first outing of Ferrari's new F2007.
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