Fisichella's problem with Ferrari - 3rd June 22:59pm GMT

Earlier on in the year reports started to emerge that Giancarlo Fisichella will test for Ferrari sometime during the season. Of course the rumours will helped by the fact that Massa was backing testing for Ferrari and Ferrari needed more drivers to help develop the Bridgestone tyres. Sauber were not prepared to do that much testing and save costs so the logical thing would be to have Giancarlo come over over to Maranello and test the Ferrari.

This whole subject was bought up in the Friday press conference at the European GP last week and Brawn and Peter Sauber were abit sketchy about the subject.

Ross was asked what the problem was with Giancarlo's overalls that stops him from testing for Ferrari. His reply to that was: "Technically there just has not been an opportunity for him to run so from the point of view of the programme we have so there has not been a convenient time for him to run, but I am not aware of any commercial issues."

While Peter Sauber replied with: "Yeah, it is a small problem, but it is an internal problem".

Well I can reveal the answer and yes it is to do with the overalls, in some way. Felipe Massa is owned by Ferrari so he can wear Ferrari overalls and Sauber overalls while Fisichella is contracted to Sauber only which means he can only wear Sauber overalls. The reason this is a problem is because Shell sponsor Ferrari and thus the sponsor is on the overalls while Petronas sponsor Sauber and again the logo is on the overalls. So if Giancarlo was to test for Ferrari he would be wearing a race suit sponsored by Shell and promoting that oil instead of Petronas which his contract states him to do.

So until Petronas and Sauber work out some sort of deal whereby Fisichella is allowed to be seen with the Shell logo on this overalls then he won't be testing for Ferrari.