F1: Cheever Enjoys Ferrari F1 Test

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F1: Cheever Enjoys Ferrari F1 Test

Italian F3 racer Eddie Cheever turned laps in a Ferrari Friday...

Adam Cooper | http://www.speedtv.com | Posted November 09, 2012 Balen (BEL)

From the left: Daniel Juncadella, Riccardo Agostini, ACI/CSAI president Angelo Sticchi Damiani, Eddie Cheever, the Ferrari Driver Academy's Luca Baldiserri, and ex-F1 boss Giancarlo Minardi. (Photo: Ferrari)

Italian F3 racer Eddie Cheever had his first F1 experience at the wheel of a Ferrari F60 at Vallelunga on Friday.

Also driving the 2010 car was the 19-year-old Cheever’s series rival Riccardo Agostini and EuroSeries F3 champion Daniel Juncadella.

Cheever’s test, arranged by the Italian sporting authority ACI, came some 35 years after his father had a run in a 312T2.

“At the beginning I was a bit nervous. This is a once in a lifetime experience,” said Cheever. “I hope this can happen more than once, actually, but doing it once is already quite a lot for a driver. The initial excitement being gone, I started to understand better the car and I managed to express my driving in the best way.”

Agostini noted: “It has certainly been a positive experience and I am quite happy about how things went. The approach to the Ferrari has been very good, and I found myself at ease with engineers and with their work method.”

Adam Cooper notched up his 27th season as a racing journalist in 2011. He has written about F1 for SPEED.com since 2005. Follow him on Twitter.