Ferrari Prez Smashes TV After F1 Final

By Wyatt Earp | November 11, 2008

I am going to go out on a limb and say that Luca was not all that happy with the results?

I mean, dude, you’re the president of Ferrari. Smash a car!

MILAN – Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo smashed a television set after seeing McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton snatch the Formula One world title from Felipe Massa in last weekend’s season-ending Brazilian Grand Prix.

“I broke the television, I must tell the truth,” Montezemolo told a news conference at a Ferrari event in Mugello on Sunday.

“When a television breaks it makes a terrible bang. My daughter in the other room was given an awful fright. Luckily we had another television so I was able to watch the podium ceremony, which I enjoyed.”

Ferrari’s Massa won his home grand prix and was poised for championship victory before Hamilton overtook a slowing Timo Glock on the final bend to finish in the fifth place he needed to clinch the title.

“I reckon that in the history of F1, we have never seen a world championship decided on the last bend of the last lap of the last grand prix,” added Montezemolo, who saw Ferrari driver Kimi Raikkonen steal the title last season in the final race. (H/T – Reuters)

Okay, I guess I would have been a little pissed, too. Of course, I wouldn’t break the TV. I love my TV.

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