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[AustinF1]

Lorenzo De Luca @LorenzoDL83

#Arrivabene "#Rivola stayed home due to personal problems. He took a week off. As did Massimo Balocchi (logistics). Then we'll see"

[Gilles4Ever]

Verena @miezicat1

@LorenzoDL83 Bild wrote they fired the cook because of financial inconsistencies..

[Owen]

I hear Bertrand Baguette is picking up the crumbs as the interim sporting director.

best. thread. ever.

[teejay]

 

Verena @miezicat1

@LorenzoDL83 Bild wrote they fired the cook because of financial inconsistencies..

 

 

Cooking the books for sure

[ensign14]

It's a recipe for disaster.

[teejay]

The whole episode has left a sour taste in the teams mouth

[kosmos]

 

Verena @miezicat1

@LorenzoDL83 Bild wrote they fired the cook because of financial inconsistencies..

 

 

The Spanish TV said that Rivola was suspended (work and salary).

[ionutz2oo0]

the quantity of food served didn't match the amount of food orderd...damn someone overcooked the books.

[Haribo]

The cook got confused by the mention of Pirelli "cheese" tyres and ended up literally with rubbery pasta.

[hansmann]

Cook -> food, people fired, and no Clarkson jokes yet ?

 

You guys are slacking ...

[swerved]

Cooking the books for sure

 

To enhance his celery.

[Kimble]

creaming off the top

[RA2]

Chef being called a cook is a insult by itself

[Watkins74]

Kimi didn't like the feel of his fork.

[oetzi]

To enhance his celery.

Financial saucery.

[ViMaMo]

Rumours were he was trying to stir the pot, might have landed Benne in the soup. 

[Jvr]

To be a bit more serious, Turrini suggests that Rivola has told him the reason but promised not to publish it and continues that the three persons suspended / dismissed at the same time have nothing in common.

 

http://blog.quotidia...bere-di-spagna/

 

My bet is that Rivola will leave Ferrari to join another team by his own decision.

[AustinF1]

Interestingly, imho, Will Buxton says Rivola is a big  Vettel ally from way back, and that this might have something to to do with that.

[wrcva]

When you have an organizational direction and philosophy change you need to get rid of the old guard at every level.   They must have had such a messed up organization and toxic loyalty dynamics that firings are keep producing even better results in such a short time.   

[LORDBYRON]

Shenanigans...

[Chubby_Deuce]

I hope all is well for Massimo as he's either out of a job or going through some sort of personal issue and neither of those are fun. I had a chance to meet and spend some time with him back in 2005 and he was a really cool guy.

[f1RacingForever]

has this team ever heard of, you know....giving their employees different positions within the team? Is it any wonder engineers have been conservative with this sort of management?

[jonpollak]

To be a bit more serious, .....

Really?

Jp

[grunge]

Kimi didn't like the feel of his fork.

Yup, no grip on the pasta.

[eronrules]

FERRARI PICKS COLETTA TO REPLACE OUSTED RIVOLA

 

http://www.grandprix...-ousted-rivola/

 

 

Gazzetta said Rivola will be replaced by Antonello Coletta from the GT programme, although for now operations manager Diego Ioverno is stepping in at short notice.

Germany’s Kolner Express tabloid suggested Rivola and the other two Ferrari team members’ absence is connected to an accounting anomaly regarding catering supplies.

 

but the most important thing is ...

 

 

team boss Maurizio Arrivabene is shedding no light and told La Gazzetta dello Sport, “He needed a week off and we gave it to him.”

“All of us here at Ferrari have a backup, and this applies to me as well. As for the cook, I think we are all eating regularly and well, but thank you for your concern,” Arrivabene added.

[OssieFan]

Nothing gets pasta the management at Ferrari...

[wj_gibson]

It was a dough decision:

Wherever that "great images of F1" thread is, this belongs well inside the top 3!

[blacky]

Rivola is (maybe was) sporting director. Would be the first time that a sporting director is responsible for an accounting anomaly of the cook...

 

Or is Matthias Sammer at Bayern München responsible for that the cleaning women always forget to clean the toilets?

[KnucklesAgain]

Danner on Sky RTL Germany alluded this as well in the quali: Some food supply accounting anomalies in the range of a few 10,000 Euros. Hard to see for me what Rivola could have to do with this.

 

Edit: OTOH we don't really know for sure that the two suspensions are for related offenses, do we? Maybe Arrivabene is having a detailed assessment of the whole Scuderia conducted, and during this they found the kitchen supplies anomaly which lead to the cook's (edit: and logistics manager's) suspension dismissal as well as something else entirely which brought Rivola under whatever suspicion.

Edited by KnucklesAgain, 10 May 2015 - 13:06.

[BRG]

Accounting irregularities at an Italian company?  Who would ever have thought that could happen?

[Pyrone89]

Apparently there is a correlation issue between the new Pasta recipe made in Maranello and the end-product at the track-kitchen.

[jiber172r]

 

>Insert Ravioli joke here<

 

I heard the sauce was more of a 

 

and the logistics manager brought the wrong type of pasta

 

I heard the Bolognese sauce turned out more of a Marussia red, rather than a Ferrari red. Kimi was heard complaining "Leave me alone...I know what I'm eating"

Edited by jiber172r, 10 May 2015 - 19:31.

[Gilles4Ever]

Dimi PAPADOPOULOS @f1enigma

Leo Turrini suggests that Massimo Rivola is returning to his duties from Monaco GP onwards #F1

[ensign14]

I heard that he built a car out of spaghetti because his wife said it was impossible.  You should have seen her face when he drove pasta.

[Vesuvius]

Gianlu D'Alessandro‏@Gianlu_DAle

After long discussions with the team, Rivola will be in Monaco with the role of Sporting Director #Gazzetta

[Gilles4Ever]

Albert Fabrega ES @AlbertFabrega

Massimo Rivola en Mónaco y en Ferrari.

 

[tmekt]

And the cook?

[InfectedPsy]

And the cook?

 The cook got replaced by a Cotoletta.

[four1]

And the cook?

After realizing that his signing with a British team also meant that he has to endure British cuisine, Alonso secretly recruited the Ferrari cook. The cook happily accepted Fernando's strict condition that he is not to prepare any "second" course, only "first" courses will do. The cook now works less and Fernando is one step closer to achieving his stated target of nothing but first. A true win-win situation.

[turssi]

An excellent strategy that ia also good for keeping his weight under control!

[rodlamas]

A 3 way affair?

[garagetinkerer]

the pasta was not cooked al dente

You don't joke about bad Pasta in an Italian team, it's blasphemous.

 

Well, not unless you want to wake up to a broken front wing in your bed.

Edited by garagetinkerer, 20 May 2015 - 15:22.

[MrEfz]

Well, not unless you want to wake up to a broken front wing in your bed.

 

Did the Cook make them an Offal they couldn't refuse?

[teejay]

Maybe Ferrari upped the ante-pasto on the investigation and found more rotten figures

Edited by teejay, 21 May 2015 - 02:58.