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The F1 great who couldn't catch a break - part four: a cheeky box of chocolates
Luca Di Montezemolo led Ferrari for 23 years from 1991-2014 and he says his final year in charge was "maybe the worst season of my career". The nightmare started on the day he realised the team had "heavily underestimated" what was required of the new hybrid engines in F1. This did not just mean a season of uncompetitiveness; he knew it meant a serious problem with Fernando Alonso. The first pre-season test was in Jerez in Spain. Alonso's team-mate Kimi Raikkonen drove the first two days. "He told me: 'There is no power in the engine,'" Di Montezemolo says. "And the third day was Fernando and he told me exactly the same. And I understood that the season...
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