"Don't disappoint me, prodigy. Show me something, even a glimpse, to make my travel from Maranello worth it," Luca Baldisserri, the head of the Ferrari Driver Academy, said, having traveled more than 950 kilometers following the continued insistence from his junior scout.
As the one responsible for all the final decisions made at the academy, he couldn't make any decisions without first witnessing the talent for himself. Depending on the performance Fatih showed this weekend, it might decide whether the FDA would take an interest in him or just wait for him to mature and prove himself in the future before recruiting him.
"Looks like we are not the only ones watching him," Davide Colleoni, the junior FDA scout who had discovered Fatih, said as he looked at the people spread over the grandstand, many of them with cameras and notebooks in their hands. Nearly all of them were focused on Fatih, who had just come out of the pit lane and started his tire warmup sequence.
