Kimi Raikkonen will test a Ferrari F1 car for the first time at the Vallelunga circuit on Tuesday.

The Finn, who joined Ferrari at the start of the year, has yet to get behind the wheel of one of the Scuderia's F1 car even though his team-mate Felipe Massa has already tested the latest F2007.

Raikkonen, though, will have his first opportunity to experience Ferrari power at the Vallelunga circuit near Rome on Tuesday.

The 27-year-old will, however, be driving last year's 248F1 for the three-day test, while Massa continues working with the team's 2007 car, the F2007.

A Ferrari mechanic revealed that this was to make sure that the new F2007 will not have any mishap on it's testing run, unlike the ones that plauged the debut testing of the 2007 McLaren and the 2007 Renault

'Kimi will surely gun the car straight from the pit, and we are not ready for all the PR if he blew the engine during his first test.' he revealed

Kimi to debut this Tuesday

This season they have a Ferrari engine while the Red Bull uses Renault. Or it's the other way around.
Anyways, tunertube, I never heard or seen a rev limited F1 engine before, just the V10 of Torro Rosso last season. It's make no sense at all, and remember, more revs = more power. Which is why last season all the engine suppliers raced to reach the 20K RPM mark where it was first reached by COSWORTH for the Williams, and broken at the Brazillian race with the custom made Schumacher 22K special engine which incidently, the only V8 car in history that have used the engine (Massa only got the 19.5K RPM engine that day, which made Schummi's last race seems odinary by his standard) because of rule changes.

y kimi will always blow engine ?? issit the way he drive ? if this season also same always out means he have prob because ferrari car seldom blown

Kimi to debut this Tuesday

Maybe this year Toyota will win a GP 

hehehe...so funny laa u 

F1 teams do it all the time, like I said, to improve reliability. Yes higher revs will make more power but reliability decreases. For some races they do put rev limiter to their engines. Some teams may lower their revs when they see fit, such as when other teams are having engine failures as well.

Found this article, by 1st of March F1 engines will be limited to 19,000rpm. Is this true?
http://www.planet-f1.com/News/Story_Page/0...1843374,00.html
have a read under the section, "V8 reloaded".

If this was MOTO GP, yes, the power from the engine is limited by the engineer (if not, you'll see them flying off the track). But for F1, there is never enough power, and it's up to the driver to make the decision on what revs to use. There is a dial on the steering wheel for this. this is called 'Short Shifting', meaning shifting the gear earlier than the intended redline. Driver's do this when not under pressure or during the closing laps of the race. It saves fuel and engine, but like I said, engineers will have nothing to do with it.
And that's why I said that the Schumacher Ferrari last season will be the last car that have the 22KRPM engine.

We might not see Supa Aguri this season. They car just failed a crash monocouqe test

linkinstreet, you might want to correct the poll

"Honda Racing F1 Team - Jenson Button & David Coulthard"

I bet DC will smoke Jenson 
DC more experience 

DC drive for RBR rite? jenson will race along side barichello