Marlboro Scuderia Ferrari
Ferrari is Formula 1's oldest and most famous team. The team has achieved legendary status worldwide over the past fifty years as Enzo Ferrari's company has produced some of the most evocative and famous racing cars ever built.
The team's first grand prix car was the pre-world championship 125 of 1948. Their first world championship grand prix win came in the 1950 British Grand Prix with Argentine Froilan Gonzalez at the wheel.
The Prancing Horse took its first world championship victory with Alberto Ascari in 1952
with the neat-little Ferrari 500. From there the team went from strength to strength, with Ascari again taking the title in 1953.
The Argentine master Juan-Manuel Fangio took his only title for the Scuderia in 1956 and the Britain's first-ever title winner Mika Hawthorn taking the championship in 1958 followed this victory. Ferrari were slower than most to react to Formula 1's mid-engined revolution but the team soon mastered the technology as Phil Hill triumphed in the shark-nosed 156 in 1961 John Surtees became the first driver to win the world title on both two and four wheels in 1964 although Ferrari then went into something of a slump, which the team was only rescued from when engineer Mauro Forghieri rejoined the team in 1973.
Forghieri was the father of the T-series of cars which revitalised the team's fortunes in the mid-Seventies. The combination of a team managed by Luca di Montezemolo and Niki Lauda's driving brought massive success to the team, with constructors' and drivers' championships following in 1975 and 1977. Lauda left to replaced by Jody Sheckter who took what stands as Ferrari's last world title in 1979. The team found success in the turbo-era, taking constructors' titles in 1982 and 1983, although Ferrari legend Gilles Villeneuve was killed during practice for 1982 Belgium Grand Prix.
The team went into one of its periodical fallow periods in the mid-Eighties as its chassis technology became outmoded.
Enzo Ferrari died in 1988, which signaled a strengthening in the Fiat groups stranglehold over the team. The John Barnard-designed 640 series of cars brought a brief renaissance in the hands of Gerhard Berger, Nigel Mansell and Alain Prost.
However, it's only in recent-years that the team has become a consistent force again. With the return to the team of Luca di Montezemolo and the acquisition of Michael Schumacher and Ross Brawn the team has been in the thick of the championship action again, finishing runner-up in the drivers' title for the past three years and winning the constructors championship last year, the first since 1983.
|
|
|
|
Chassis
Carbonfibre Monocoque
Engine
Ferrari type 049
Power
810bhp approx
Tyres
Bridgestone
Car Name
F1-2000
|
|
|
|
|
GP Debut
Monte Carlo 1950
GP Points
3259.8
GP Victories
125
Constructors Titles
9
|
|
|
|
|
