With testing prohibited by FIA rules until the first official session at Jerez on February 7, Ferrari’s Formula 1 team took a break from preparing its 2012 racer and as usual, visited the Madonna di Campiglio alpine ski resort.

It’s a tradition that’s being going on for many years now (if you’re an F1 fan, you’ll surely remember Michael Schumacher’s exploits) and this time the Scuderia F1 drivers, Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa, had a little fun on the snow-covered slopes.

Normally, the resort hosts World Cup downhill races but for the occasion, the skiers were replaced by Alonso and Massa, and the skis by Ferrari’s four-seater FF.

With the two cars doing slaloms and the drivers applying a lot of opposite lock, it was the perfect opportunity for the Maranello supercar maker to display its first-ever four-wheel drive model’s characteristics – although we can’t help ourselves pointing out that the “FF driven in the snow” thing is getting a bit old.

You can watch the video (in which, naturally, the race ended in a dead heat) right after the jump.

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