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| June 8 th , 2008 From the coming race in the Adria's Endurance GT Series, Davide Amaduzzi is going to have a new team-mate: Arturo Merzario, ex driver of Formula 1, prototypes and another important Car Series, will finalize the season at the wheel of the Team La Na's Ferrari 550. The official character of the news will be done tonight during the “Processo al GP” on air on Odeon TV and Sky Channel 827 at 9 pm o'clock. “ I'm very glad and happy to have such a mate like Arturo. He's a great character indeed. It'll be a pleasure to race and vie with him. I think we are going to form a very competitive couple. ” June 8 th , 2008 Today, Davide Amaduzzi will guest on the “Processo al Gran Premio”, on the air on Odeon TV and Sky Channel 827. Also all the members of the La Na Team, who Amaduzzi races with in the Endurance GT Series , at the wheel of the Ferrari 550, will be present at this TV programme. J une 8 th , 2008 Engine breaking. That was the response of the Davide Amaduzzi's Italian Championship race. Forced to start in the last position because of a penalty (due to a team's mistake for a wrong utilisation of the tyres), Amaduzzi was one who makes an impressive recovery. Despite the 27 th position forced him to overtake many cars any lap, his time-laps were always in the top 3. But, just in 5 th position, his engine broke up without warning. “ What a pity! The car was very fast. Today the podium was affordable for us, starting from the end as well. I was enjoying myself a lot overtaking so many cars. Then all went down the drain ! Never mind ! That's the way of races ! I'm looking forward to go back to the track in Adria, the 20 th of June, for next GT race. June 7 th , 2008 In the qualifying session of the first race, which starts today at 5.10 pm, live on Nuvolari TV, Davide Amaduzzi got a very great second time with the BMW M3 3.0 of the Wheels Racing team. But, at the end of the turn the commissioners pointed out a width of the rear tires not in keeping with regulations, so Amaduzzi will be forced to start from the last row, that is to say 27 th . “ It was a blunder of the team. They put up the tires of another car in the garage. The rim is the same, but just the width is larger of only 4 mm. That was impossible for them to distinguish from the other ones. A blunder may happen. But the regulations are clear, so it was a right penalty. A pity only because Magione is really difficult overtaking. Catching up with the others will be possible, but reaching the top won't be easy. Obviously I'll try to. ” June 6 th , 2008 Good performance of Amaduzzi in the debut on the track of Magione with the BMW M3 of the Wheels Racing Team. Third overall time, only behind Seat ST of Roberto Colciago and new M3 of the Duller Team. First overall in the class 3.0. “ I'm very satisfied. We ran with used tires. In tomorrow's Qualifying Session I should improve the lap-time a bit. The first two were able to afford more powered cars, but today they weren't so far. I think we can be a beautiful surprise tomorrow”. Francesco Merendino took the track in the second practice session, but after some laps, he had to come back to the garage due to a gear failure. June 5 th , 2008 Davide Amaduzzi will take part in both of the two Magione's races, in the IT Championship, at the wheel of a BMW M3 of the Wheels Racing Team. The Ferrari 550's driver of the La Na Team, in the Endurance GT Series, was contacted at the last minute in order to replace Max Colombo, incompliant due to personal commitments. He'll partner with Francesco Merendino. “ It pleased me that Tricarico called me. With Wheels' I raced and won the two GT races we ran last year in Monza. Afterwards my way took me towards the Ferrari 550. But going back to friends makes me happy. A strange thing is also the fact that I'm going to replace my dear friend Colombo who's coming back to Valencia's next race and, as particular, the fact that I'll partner with Francesco Merendino, who was the most fierce contestant back in the days when we both ran in Formula 2000. I think we'll pair up definitely competitive. ” June 1 st , 2008 The Magione's race of 15 June was confirmed made up on the Adria's track for 21 June. That race will take place on the World FIA GT weekend May 29 th , 2008 The news has travelled for some time: it seem that the Magione's race, come out in June, will be put off the week after on the Adria's track along with the FIA GT Series or in September on the truck of Imola. “ That's very good news indeed. I have nothing against Magione which is very close to me emotionally and were I got many successes. But Adria with the FIA GT and even the new Imola are decidedly more interesting. ” In few days there will be the official character of the news. May 25 th , 2008 Double success in GTS class for Amaduzzi on the Brno track who ran, for the occasion, with Gianluca Nattoni. It was a positive weekend, but troubled due to many tyre problems. In fact, in the Sunday's overall-race, an abnormal wear of the tyres ended in the frightful blow-out of one rear tyre, coming close to disaster, at the end of the straight stretch during an overtaking of the University Ferrari 430. “ I had been having some big tyre problems for 20 laps. My tyres kept exfoliating more and more. I could see clearly, in the rear-view mirrors, some little pieces of gum flying away. Two laps to go one tyre suddenly blew while I was running at the maximum speed. I lost control of the car. It was impossible to me any kind of maneuver. I avoided two cars and the guard-rail by pure chance. I succeeded to restart, even if in the worst conditions, just for bringing home another win of class. For the moment we didn't understand the reason of those several tyre problems. We'll have to put the car through new tests and surely, for next race in Rijeka, we'll be ok.” At the moment Amaduzzi leads solitary the GTS table. Vettore and Nattoni follow him in second position . April 27 th , 2008 The Endurance GT 2008 Series adventure started with a double win for Davide Amaduzzi and Oscar Vettore in the GT5.5 class, at the wheel of the Ferrari 550 of the Team La.Na. They were placed 8 th in the overall-standings where the faster GT2 and GT3 are there. In addition, at the moment of the driver change, Amaduzzi handed the car over to Vettore in 4 th position. April 18 th , 2008 After that the important weekly AUTOSPRINT put him in a very closed number of favourite drivers for the EGTS Championship title, Davide Amaduzzi is now “the figure of the week” on the authoritative web-site ITALIARACING.NET Read the interview on: http://www.italiaracing.net/pezzi_personaggi/news.asp?id=220 or on www.italiaracing.net and click on the option “ personaggi ”- April 13 th , 2008 The race 2 script was quite similar to race 1 in the EGTS Championship in Vallelunga's track for Davide Amaduzzi. At the wheel of the Ferrari 550 of the Team La.Na, he got another success of class and another 8 th place in the overall table with his mate Oscar Vettore. Anyway, the 'overall' performance was very prominent. Till the moment of the driver change, Amaduzzi maintained easily the 4 th position in front of a lot of cars faster than his 550. “ In the Saturday's evening we made modifications to the car stability which improved our velocity. The engine was still a bit weak at low speed, but we should have an electronic evolutive steep for next race in Brno. Staying in 4 th position all my round long was a pleasant surprise and a great satisfaction to me. All the 430, the Gallardo, a Porsche and a Corvette are superior than ours, at the moment. It would be vain to deny it, but I think we are working very well, at the moment ” April 12 th , 2008 The Endurance GT 2008 Series adventure started with a double win for Davide Amaduzzi and Oscar Vettore in the GT5.5 class, at the wheel of the Ferrari 550 of the Team La.Na. They were placed 8 th in the overall-standings where the faster GT2 and GT3 are there. In addition, at the moment of the driver change, Amaduzzi handed the car over to Vettore in 4 th position. Then, place lost due to a Porsche's accident and the consequent entry into the track of the safety car. “ I am quite satisfied since we didn't take any winter test and we didn't turn any lap this morning due to a banal gear problem. Moreover, during the qualifying session we ran out of the petrol just in the best lap. It's the first race of the year and all needs to be well-oiled and improved. First the car stability and our twelve-cylinder engine power at low speed. All things considered the beginning wasn't such a failure at all : class victory and surprising position in the overall table. Anyway, there is already race 2, tomorrow ! “ April 1 st , 2008 It will be a very tempting offer, without parallel in the national context, that one submitted by Peroni Race Group about his 2008 Championships. The ETGS Championship, where Davide Amaduzzi will race, definitely fulfils to be one of the most interesting and spectacular Series. All the season images and races will be showed in clear by satellite and on the Internet. Weekly, from April to November, on the occasion of the broadcastings presented by Franco Bobbiese on Telenova ( Start Grid and Top Fuel ) it will go on, in clear, for 45 minutes, all the race images and the developments of the Peroni Race Group's Championships. Moreover, through a Syndication of local stations, those broadcasts will be showed in clear across Italy. In addition, the agreement, that has permitted to follow on TV the most Peroni's events since a few years, has been redoubled. In the 2008 their usual programs of 52 minutes will even become 15. The TV coverage will be complete about the ETCS, EGTS, Italy Formula Master and ITCC and “in air” with periodical windows, for the other Series: March 30 th , 2008 Davide Amaduzzi took to the Magione's track (where the 3 rd EGTS race will take place) for the first test. It was the first taste without purporting to realize the best lap-time and without utilizing necessarily a low load of gasoline or new tires. Nevertheless Davide already proved high-level-performance running very interesting laps even if the track was very crowed and dirty of oil in a couple of points due to some mechanical troubles of other cars. Best lap: 1'16”.7 “I'm very satisfied and happy. We still have to work hard. A lot remains to be done, but the car potential is already very high” . The first race is 13 April onto the Vallelunga's track. March 1 st , 2008 Over the last few days, Davide Amaduzzi formalized an agreement with the Team La Na for the 2008' season. So, he is going to race in the EGTS Championship with the Ferrari 550 GTE. After the last Monza's race experience, where Davide, at the wheel of a Viper GT3, won two races peremptorily, the Amaduzzi's aim - of running for a whole season at the wheel of a GT car - is really materializing after many seasons racing on single-sit cars. “I was about to go back in Formula 3000 in Australia when this occasion arose. It is the reaching of a dream from the time I was a child: racing with the 'rampant little horse' – Ferrari' symbol – stitched on my tracksuit! Right now I'm waiting for the first test of March.” November 15th, 2007 The 2007 Season is over, but Davide Amaduzzi, after the two victories in Monza with a Viper GT3, is thinking of his 2008. The final decision will be taken before Christmas. The chances are: Fia GT with a Corvette GT1, Argentinian TC 2000 and Australian V8. October 15th, 2007 Great weekend for Davide Amaduzzi in his first race in EGTS with the Viper of Wheels Racing Motorsport in Monza. He got 2 pole positions in the 2 races and won both of the races in GT3 Series. October 9th, 2007 Davide Amaduzzi will race in Monza the last race of the Endurance GT Series with a Dodge Viper for the Wheels Racing Team. After the last 2 races with a BMW M3, with the same team, he goes through a new experience, the 6th this year after the Australian 3000, European, Bmw M3, Bmw M3 GTR and Corvette in FIA GT. He will christen it for the first time on Friday of the race weekend. September 28th, 2007 The satisfaction for the best time in his stint didn't mitigate the disappointment of a missed win due to an equipment malfunction when he led the race by a wide margin. At the wheel of the BMW M3 GTR of the Wheels Racing Team with the quick mates Moccia and Facchetti, Amaduzzi, started with the 5 th time, realized his good performance in his stint lasting 1h:40min as anticipated, but before, he had to stop caused by a broken ball bearing and then, he had to give up, definitively, because of the breaking of a particular part of the system-brake. September 17 th , 2007 They were two difficult and productive weeks for Davide Amaduzzi, involved in the important races of the ETCS in the Mugello's track last Sunday and in the Adria Italian GP in the World Fia GT, the Sunday before. Two new experiences which laid the foundation of his 2008. He made his debut in Adria on the Corvette GT1 of the Belgian Selleslagh Racing Team. A very powerful car with more than 600cv which Davide first drove in the Friday's Practice, obtaining good time laps immediately. After the excellent Qualifying Session (2 nd in Citation Cup) and the first very competitive stint, he had to reckon with the pneumatic wrench with several problems during the tyre-change. The team-mate Tom Cloet didn't turn out as much quick. So Amaduzzi finished second in the Citation Cup without never changing his tyres due to the aforesaid problem. The satisfaction for the best time in his stint didn't mitigate the disappointment of a missed win due to an equipment malfunction when he led the race by a wide margin. At the wheel of the BMW M3 GTR of the Wheels Racing Team with the quick mates Moccia and Facchetti, Amaduzzi, started with the 5 th time, realized his good performance in his stint lasting 1h:40min as anticipated, but before, he had to stop caused by a broken ball bearing and then, he had to give up, definitively, for the breacking of a particular part of the system-brake. August 30th, 2007 Like all the Fia GT World Series, also the Adria Race will be live. Live also the Qualifying Session and more news in the Pre-race. August 28th, 2007 Davide Amaduzzi will be one of the Adria's party, next September, in the Fia GT race. At the wheel of the Corvette C5 GT1, powered by 618hp, with the SRT Team ( www.selleslaghracing.com ), Davide will be immediately called to express high performances in this world race for GT cars. Actually the agreement is born to help the Belgian driver Tom Cloet, at the moment second in the Citation Cup standings, behind the Maserati MC12 of the JMB Team. The aim is to win the race in order to close the gap of 4 points which divides Cloet from the Maserati in first position. Amaduzzi have to provide a great performance. August 10 th , 2007 Davide Amaduzzi is really a globetrotter. The agreement with Wheels Racing Team has just been finalized (in order to race, in September, on the Mugello's track with ETCS, but, this time, with the competitive BMW M3 GTR ), and it is coming the sign on a multi-international contract with a pool of sponsors which are going to take him to Moscow (to race in Formula RUS) at the end of September, to Buenos Aires, in October (to race in the very important TC2000 Championship) and in South Africa in November (in the Can Am National Championship). Without considering the strong possibility, in the late November, to see Davide racing in Australia in the national Formula 3000. July 23 rd ,2007 Positive debut for Amaduzzi in ETCS Championship driving the BMW M3 of Wheels Racing Team. Without ever having seen both the new demanding track and the new car, Davide reaches at once a good 2nd position. In the 3000 cc, he keeps the top of the standings all the weekend long and he put himself as the reference point from very the beginning of the practice session. It was a pity he had left the race after only 3 hours caused by a broken gear. Race over, but no disappointment. “ Races are just the way they are. But I'm completely satisfy. As first experience with this car, I can say, it was all right. We're ready to win, and next race, on Mugello's track, I'll have the GTR M3 version at my disposal, even more powerful and speeder. I'm very satisfy with the choice and the team did an amazing job. At present, during the summer break, we are going to plan several test so much so that, in September, we'll be for the better for the latter part of the season.” July 16 th , 2007 Davide Amaduzzi, after careful and long deliberation, drops the F. Euro 3000. At the moment he'll centre upon ETCS Championship driving a BMW M3 of the Wheells Racing Team ( www.wheelsracing.it ), even if it can't be ruled out that, after the summer, he could come back in the F. Euro 3000 or in another interesting plan. “ When I decided on leaving the Australia for the Euro 3000, the conditions were very different. Then, for many reasons, mainly of organization, those assumptions were running out. So, I left the Australian F. 3000 when I was at the top and, unfortunately in Europe, I did find a satisfactory situation. Anyway, I have to thank the Coloni Motorsport Team for doing so much for me. If in the future I consider that Series again, will be certainly due to all they showed me and especially after the dire travel in Hungary. From now onwards I'll collect my thoughts to drive the BMW M3 GTR of the Wheels Racing Team as from the 6 hours under floodlights in Misano. It's a new adventure that arouses me so much. With the Wheels Team I think I can open a new page of my career”.
June 24 th , 2007 The double Hungarian race travel turned out a tragedy, sportingly speaking, for Davide Amaduzzi. He carried out even 6 laps in the entire weekend with the Lola 99 of the Dueppi Team! After having missed his first practice session turn, Amaduzzi goes in the track for the second turn, but the engine breaks after only 4 laps. Then, in the qualifying session he has to stop the car due to an oil pressure. In the race 1, he starts from the pit-lane, then, after only one lap, he has to go back to the garage due to clear signs of power weakness of his engine car. To be on the safe side, the Zytek's technical staff dropped out the car, in the race 2. “ I think I have never had a weekend like that. It was a great disappointment. I didn't leave Australia, where I was leading the F3000 V6 Championship, and then to find myself in such a situation. Certainly something will change very quickly!”
April 22nd, 2007 Hard weekend for Amaduzzi in the Vallelunga first races in in the Euroseries Formula 3000. In race 1, a collision against an Elk's Team car broke a part of the left front-wheel suspension. He finished the race in 10th position not without trouble.
March 20th, 2007 Amaduzzi will not race the next races in the Australian F3000 V6. Amaduzzi and Mumbo Racing tried to find , till the end, a new budget for the rest of the season (Amaduzzi is a pro-driver) and tried to make full use of the race one victory in W akefield last F ebruary, but it didn't work. March 13th, 2007 Within the space of a few days Davide Amaduzzi will know his future. It's possible that, after the victory at the first race of the F.3000 Australian Series in Wakefield , the program had a stop or a rest. Mumbo Racing is trying to do all possible to keep racing and fighting for the championship. Amaduzzi and Rod Dale, the Mumbo Racing' s owner, want to race together again, but the last decision will be made within two or three days . Next races should take place the 25th of March in Calder Park, Melbourne.
February 25th, 2007 - Davide gets the first win in F3000 V6 Race 1 - Davide made his first appearance in the Australian Formula 3000 V6 on the Wakefield racetrack. February 24th, 2007 The qualifying day was negative for Amaduzzi. In the single qualifying round session, just a few instants from the green flag, a coolant leak held up the Amaduzzi's entrance in the track. When the problem had been resulted, there were still three laps left, before a summer thunderstorm beat down on the racetrack. So, Davide grab only the fourth position in the standings. Pole for Ty Hanger followed by his team-mate Chris Farrel (Powergarde) and Adam Proctor February 23rd, 2007 The Italian driver Davide Amaduzzi had a good start in the new Formula 3000 V6 in Australia. On the Wakefield Park track, near Sydney, Amaduzzi set the record (58”80) driving the Mumbo Racing Team's Reynard. Only ninety thousandth of second between Davide and the 2006 champion's number-two Ty Hanger who drove his new Ralt Toyota and over half a second between the Mumbo Racing team-mate Sam Dale. “Obviously I'm very satisfy.This year I know the tracks and even if my car is extremely different and I am a new team support, everything is more simple. It doesn't mean it'll be easy, quite the opposite! Today, those were just free practises and this evening I had a serious problem with the clutch and I was quite worried. Now that seems a thing settled. Both my team-mate Dale and Hanger in particular, drove very quickly. Ty impressed me because he was as quite quick as me, but with a not expanded new car. This year, different chassis and different engines are allowed in the Australian F3000 . My Holden 3.8, for example, the Hanger's Toyota and the new Lexus 4000 of the Team Spert. A lot of power, but yet to develop. Such a wide range of chassis and engines makes all more precarious. Right now I am delighted for this result, but tomorrow we'll need to do our best if we want to stay on the top.”
Genuary 30 th , 2007 After a long time making up his mind, Davide Amaduzzi confirmed his presence for the second consecutive year in Australia, where he'll race in the Oceania' single-seater top league, which , this year too and as it happened last year, changed sports federation, the organisation and the name as well. So, the old denomination “Formula 4000”, which had already replaced the older “Formula Holden”, disappears and a much more European “Formula 3000 V6” starts. The series ' name changes for Amaduzzi, but also the team, in fact Davide signed an agreement with the Rod Dale's Mumbo Racing Team which will put a Reynard Holden V6 at his disposal. The first championship race will take place in two weeks' time on the Wakefield Truck, where Amaduzzi, as beginner, was right on target of the podium. "After the last year's experience I wanted to stay there anyway, but there were several organizational and federal problems, which were cleared up over the last few days. I signed for the Mumbo Racing Team because we managed to draft a contract very customized and realized depending on my future plans which I'm going to reveal in the short. Plans which will take me to start at the top of an important European car factory. My present is here in Australia, but my next future will be much more international. It is also structured into a much more extensive professional program, not only bound up with the races, but always in car racing. On the other hand we grow up and mature always, so also our plans have to follow this course of action. Going back on the F3000 V6, even if I get to the first races without winter's test, I believe I will able to have my say. Let's say that if I am not in the top three, I will be the most disappointed.” December 2nd, 2006 The F4000 2006 season has already finished, but the Amaduzzi's commitments have not. As a matter of fact, according to schedule, at once, Davide let himself down into the cockpit of the US prototype West for a first test. Both the time-lap and the car-feeling were excellent. The Amaduzzi's time (1 01.798) became the record of the Wakefield 's track for the prototype cars with motorcycle attrib engine. Last weekend the official driver Ben Farrel won the race with the record-lap 1 02.021. Awaiting the confirmation of the 2007 West's official program about the Italian Championship, Amaduzzi has thereby been contacted. However his involvement, as official driver in Australia as well, can't be ruled out, besides if he keep on racing in the F4000 and F3. “ The West Car is really exceptional. I had no experiences with similar cars, but it seemed to me very fast in the direction changes and, moreover, the electronic gear like the F1 one. Now, let me see what comes out from this contact. Here, in Australia, I am involving in more programs, but, honestly, if had I to go back to race in Italy, just once as well, in the trophy of these prototypes, I would like to drive an Italian car.November 26th, 2006 Bittersweet weekend for Davide Amaduzzi on the Wakefield 's track in the Australian F 4000. After the very positive Friday's free-qualifying, many engine problems (oil pressure, high temperature and, in addition, some problems in the gas-pump), have heavily slowed down the Team Sydney's car. Consequently, in race 1, Davide is only fourth and third in race 2. 25th November 2006 After having been in the lead throughout the free-qualifying (first in front of the championship leaders Ty Hanger and Derek Pingel), Davide Amaduzzi runs into big difficulties during the qualifying session. Just third behind the pole-man Derek Pingel (56.0 sec.) and Ty Hanger (56.1) with only 57.0 seconds due to a considerable engine drop. " I'm a little worried . Yesterday, with worn tires, I was the fastest, but, taking a close look at the telemetry, we noticed the corner speed was the best but, in the straight stretches, the engine went through a strange stall. Then I had a problem with the oil pressure: it's not a good signal and, above all, since the team has not another spare one this weekend. I hope they will able to solve this problem. Definitely they will.” 20th October 2006 The Italian driver Davide Amaduzzi is on the brink again of leaving for Australia to enter the fourth and the third to last race of the F4000 Australian Championship. In the Calder Park 's race track, near Melbourne , Amaduzzi will try to narrow the gap from the top of the standings. At four races from the end of the Championship, despite the first three missed race-travels due to some problems of the team (we remind you that each race-travel is made up of two races), Amaduzzi is still in the mathematical struggle for the title also owing to the role of the four required discarded race points in the standings. Points that everyone has to discard except Davide who scored “nil” in the first six missed races. Besides, in August, Amaduzzi took a test on the Calder Park track, so it will not be bad to race on a familiar track since the other ones were totally unknown. There, moreover, Amaduzzi got the best lap-time. So, the expectations sound good. The latest news is the confirmation that the Sydney Team, where Amaduzzi drives in F4000, in the 2007, is going to vie in the local F3 as well. In this connection, Amaduzzi, on Monday after the Sunday's race, is trying out a Dallara 304 Opel. The 2007 motorization is still not sure as well as the 2007 Amaduzzi's future. He has been confirmed by the Sydney Team, but he is considering other options as well. September 8th, 2006 . The year 2007 will be very busy for the Italian driver Davide Amaduzzi if he races in the F4000 and F3 in the same season. But there is another “series” that Amaduzzi is looking at : the A1Gp August 1st, 2006 The Italian driver Davide Amaduzzi, after the positive debut in June, is going back to Australia for two testing days and vying in two races.
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