Luca Badoer
Luca Badoer (born 25 January 1971) is an Italian Formula One driver. He was born in Montebelluna. He has raced for the Scuderia Italia, Minardi, Forti Corse and most recently, Ferrari teams. In addition to his racing duties, Badoer has been active as one of the test and reserve drivers for Ferrari since 1997 and in 2009 stood in for Ferrari's regular race driver Felipe Massa at the European Grand Prix and the Belgian Grand Prix, after the Brazilian was injured during qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix and his original replacement, Michael Schumacher, pulled out due to injury.
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Badoer driving for Minardi at the 1995 British Grand Prix.
Badoer testing for Ferrari at the Circuit de Catalunya in 2008
Badoer took part in his first Formula One race in ten years at the 2009 European Grand Prix.
Badoer was dropped in favour of Giancarlo Fisichella after the 2009 Belgian Grand Prix.