Luca Badoer

Luca Badoer is a racing driver Italy N born the January 25th 1971 with Montebelluna, in the Province of Trévise, in Venezia, Italy). It is since 1998 the pilot tester of the Scuderia Ferrari in Formule 1.

Biography

Revealed by its championship of Formula 3000 in 1992, Luca Badoer reaches the following year the Formule 1 within the stable Scuderia Italia, which engages then of the Lola to engine Ferrari. Its car proves slowest by far of the plate, but Badoer shows a very satisfactory level of competition while doing better than good match with its tested team-member Michele Alboreto. However, at the end of the year, when Scuderia Italia amalgamates with the Scuderia Minardi, it is Alboreto which is selected. Without wheel, Badoer misses an occasion to start again its career by crashing to pieces during the winter a single-seater of the team Benetton, which planned to establish it near Michael Schumacher. For 1994, Badoer must be finally satisfied with a role of pilot of reserve at Minardi.

1995 should be waited until to see Badoer of return on the grids of F1, at Minardi initially, then at Forti in 1996, always in bottom of grid. After one white season in 1997 (marked by some appearances in WP TRUSTED) it is recruited in 1998 by the Scuderia Ferrari as a third pilot (or pilot tester). Parallel to its new functions, the race in 1999 finds, for a new passage at Minardi. This year there, it passes near to the exploit to GP of Europe, when it occupies the 4th place before being constrained with the abandonment on mechanical breakage. But its season 1999 is also marked by the snub inflicted by Scuderia Ferrari, which instead of him to make confidence to replace Michael Schumacher, inalienable following a fracture with the leg, prefers to call upon the Finn Mika Salo.

In spite of this tear, Luca Badoer remains pilot tester of Scuderia Ferrari, station which it always currently occupies.

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