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Ferrari is fully booked up for F1 next year – so perhaps a role with the road cars would suit?

So you want to be a Ferrari test driver, eh? The good news, says the man who would be making this irresistible job offer, is that you have longer than you perhaps thought: Raffaele de Simone’s recruiting cut-off is 40 years old.
But note that it could then take you a decade to join the programme for something serious like the 296 Speciale. Ferrari’s chief test driver since 2014, who I was lucky enough to have dinner with on the Speciale launch, started earlier than most. He was just 19 and still an engineering student when he joined Dario Benuzzi’s team. His first project? The Enzo. Hard to believe.
Events were put in motion during a race weekend at Misano. It was the first semi-public outing for an Enzo prototype, with Benuzzi at the wheel and Piero Ferrari riding shotgun. Benuzzi, if you need reminding, had signed off the dynamics of every Ferrari since the Dino and is still Maranello’s