Mugello This year the organization of Ferrari Corse Clienti had a difficult task with the Scuderia team still having 2 races to complete in the Formula One world championship. Having the Ferrari World Finals after the F1 season isn't an option due to the weather in Italy. They had two options; fly in F1 stars Alonso and Massa or come up with a plan B. For most of us, it will also be the first glance of the brand new Asia Pacific Series. We now will see if they can match the times from the European drivers. One thing is for sure, Ferrari chairman Luca di Montezemolo will be here to entertain the crowd, and he brought a special guest along.

Personally, this was a difficult choice for me; join the Ferrari World Finals or show my respect to the Canadian soldiers who lost their lives in the area where I live (The Netherlands) during World War II, to clear the path to the harbour of Antwerp (Belgium). (Read more in my blog from last year)

After visiting 'Ferrari town' aka Maranello, the day before we're facing a beautiful sunny day in the area of Scarperia. The weather forecast wasn't very promising for the rest of the weekend, so I tried to make sure to have every car on photo before the rain started to come down. Later that day, I saw on the news that cars were floating through streets, just a bit north of us.

Ready to expect the worse, a new day starts. Ya, a dark and depressing day, but not for Italian Trofeo Pirelli driver Stefano Gai. In race 1, he scored enough points to claim a back to back championship victory under damp conditions. Not much later, the European Series had their first race. As the race is ready to go, the track is turning from damp into wet. We were standing a bit shaky on the start/ finish straight, while thinking what went horribly wrong in 2008, and I could only capture the first 3 rows of cars. After that, it was just a big curtain of spray.

As the 25 minute race is ticking away Hisao Shigeta from Japan is parking his damaged 458 Challenge at a marshall post. A few laps later, he started to wave his fist and I thought that he was upset with someone, but no, he was just supporting the other Asian drivers.

After the race, one of the drivers told me: "I could hardly see the cars in front of me during the first laps. When the field was more spread out, I had some visibility again. If these are the conditions for the 'Finale' race, I won't join the race".

Saturday starts with damp conditions, but after lunch the track is dry. That's just perfect because I'm about to have a second go as a passenger in the #8 Ferrari 599XX. Last time we went pretty quick in damp conditions on the Belgium Spa Francorchamps circuit, but now I was about to experience the kind of forces on a human body when this 700BHP car can stretch her legs. As I enter the passenger seat, Leif (the owner from Norway) just took another person around so the car and tires were already on temperature. Then the first 2 laps I was sitting and wondering; man, when are you gonna use the breaks?!! But then Leif couldn't brake late enough for me. If you're behind the wheel of a fast car (or in my case go-kart) its better to judge the limits of it. But like I said, I had no doubt in Leif's driving skills and the strength of the car in case it should go horribly wrong.

It's already the last day, the day of Canadian liberty march at home. For a moment I hoped for some success from 'Ferrari of Ontario', but sadly it wasn't that case. Yesterday’s Ferrari Challenge North America race was also only Stars and Stripes on the podium in their Pirelli class. It would have been so nice to see the Maple Leaf waving from the top step podium flag pool, while hearing O'Canada.

In order to give the Ferrari fans something in return for the missing Alonso and Massa, they asked former Ferrari driver Gerhard Berger. Personally I was very pleased to see Berger doing a couple of laps in his old 412 T2 from 1995, currently owned by Pierre Schroeder from Luxembourg. As usual, my racing buddies Gianmaria Bruni and Toni Vilander did their show together with Giancarlo Fisichella in the GT cars from Risi Competitzione and AF Corse.

At the end of the show that same Fisichella and Ferrari test driver Marc Gene burned some rubber, before making the traditional team photo.

The season is over and a first glance of changes for the new season have been introduced. The Italian Series will join the European Series and Corse Clienti has a brand new hospitality. As before, there will be a separated website for Ferrari Corse Clienti next season, with much more information and cool features for the fans of Ferrari Challenge.

See my gallery: Ferrari World Finals 2011