The 2026 Olympic Winter Video games are upon us with Italy taking the reins this 12 months. Each Kimi Antonelli and Stefano Domenicali have been concerned within the ceremony, carrying the Olympic torch throughout Palmanova and the Dolomites, however Formulation 1 was additionally closely concerned within the 2006 video games.
The Turin Winter Olympic Video games noticed a ceremony promoting the concept of design, business and velocity to not solely 35,000 individuals within the stands but in addition to an estimated two billion viewers globally by way of 32 cameras. A part of how they achieved this was by driving a Ferrari F1 automotive throughout the stadium.
It started with the 2005 Ferrari F2005 branded with the Olympic rings and Turin colors concerned in a makeshift pitstop. The Italian crew serviced the automotive earlier than the engine was began in entrance of a cheering crowd. Pushed by Italian driver Luca Badoer, the V10 machine was babied to a bigger space earlier than its 900 horsepower was unleashed in an almost-miraculous show of doughnuts.
‘Rhythm, ardour and velocity’ was promised by the producers of the present, and that was definitely fulfilled for these fortunate sufficient to breathe within the fumes of the final Ferrari V10 to compete within the championship.
Whereas it sounded the half, the F2005 solely scored one win out of the 17 races it took half in that 12 months, making it one of many least profitable Scuderia machines of that interval. But it surely did its job in Turin, particularly because it was a shock phase of the present that did not even seem on the programme.
“Ferrari and Torino 2006 are two symbols of Italy at its greatest,” stated Mario Pescante, Turin 2006 authorities supervisor, on the time. “Italy that desires to win, that joins model and ability, that loves nice challenges and fears no comparisons with the remainder of the world.”
This 12 months’s Video games did not characteristic any vehicles, regardless of the championship’s unbelievable recognition now, however Domenicali over the moon as he did his half.
Over time, various F1 names have carried the torch, together with Lewis Hamilton, Charles Leclerc and Alex Zanardi.
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