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 was over because it was impossible to work on the engine, because under the rules it was frozen. I think that was the moment Fernando said: ‘If I continue to stay at Ferrari, I will never again win a championship.’ Because it was really a shocking moment.”