{"id":44044,"date":"2026-09-01T13:21:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T13:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/44044\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T13:21:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T13:21:16","slug":"sebastian-vettel-to-make-special-ferrari-return-at-italian-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/44044\/","title":{"rendered":"Sebastian Vettel to make special Ferrari return at Italian GP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sebastian Vettel will get behind the wheel of a Ferrari car once again at the Italian Grand Prix this weekend, the team has confirmed.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Vettel raced for the Italian squad for six years, winning 14 grands prix for the team – the most behind Michael Schumacher and Niki Lauda.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Schumacher is being honoured by Ferrari at the Italian Grand Prix this weekend with the team introducing a throwback livery<\/a> as it celebrates the seven-time champion’s highly successful 10-year stint.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

However, he his being celebrated even further as Vettel, along with Rubens Barrichello, will drive a lap around the track.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Barrichello, a long-time Ferrari team-mate of Schumacher, will get behind the wheel of the F2002 on Saturday around Monza.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Vettel, who has long shared a strong friendship with Schumacher, will have his turn in the same car prior to the start of Sunday’s grand prix.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Ferrari has detailed that the car will be operated by its F1 Clienti department and will use an \u201cadvanced sustainable fuel developed specifically by Shell, drawing on the know-how acquired this season to create the fuel being used in 2026.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Three of Schumacher’s Ferrari cars will also be on display throughout the weekend at Monza.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

They will be the 1996 F310 and the 2006 248 F1, Schumacher’s first and last cars with Ferrari, as well as the F2002.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sebastian Vettel will get behind the wheel of a Ferrari car once again at the Italian Grand Prix…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6175,6178,6176,6179,6177,2599,101,5,4646,6174,6173,6172],"class_list":["post-44044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-italy","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-italy","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}