The march towards innovation starts in New York
Posted: 05.06.2014
Source: Ferrari
Maranello, 5 June – Fernando Alonso’s trip to Canada for this weekend’s seventh round of the Formula 1 season included a stopover in New York. Together with Engineering Director Pat Fry, the Scuderia Ferrari driver was the star of a meeting organised at the Columbia University to mark the launch of a research project into technological innovation in the car world promoted by Banco Santander. Presenting the initiative was the bank’s president Emilio Botin who, via the Santander Universities Global Division, has already drawn up over 1,100 partnership agreements with universities and research centres – 32 of them with American universities. The bank will invest 150,000 dollars into the programme which, thanks to its collaboration with Ferrari, will allow one Columbia student to enjoy a period of internship at its factory in Maranello. The new rules, managing fuel consumption and the wind tunnel were among the issues confronted by the students who were invited to take part in a round table discussion as representatives of the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences. They were then immortalised in a photo with the backdrop of the famous university before saying goodbye to the two Ferrari stars as they headed to Montreal.
