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Scuderia Ferrari is the name for the Gestione Sportiva, the division of the Ferrari automobile company concerned with racing. Though the Scuderia and Ferrari Corse Clienti continue to manage the racing activities of numerous Ferrari customers and private teams, Ferrari's racing division has completely devoted its attention and funding to its Formula One team,
Scuderia Ferrari. Scuderia is
Italian language for "Stable", and Ferrari is the name of its founder. The prancing horse was the symbol on Italian World War I ace Francesco Baracca's fighter plane, and became the logo of Ferrari after the fallen ace's parents, good friends with Enzo Ferrari, asked him so, to continue his tradition of sportsmanship, gallantry and boldness.
Scuderia Ferrari was founded in 1929, and raced for Alfa Romeo in motorsport until 1939. Ferrari first competed in F1 in 1948 (the team's first F1 car was the Tipo 125 F1), making it the oldest and arguably the most successful team left in the championship. The team's current drivers are
Felipe Massa and
Kimi Räikkönen, who has signed on to Ferrari for a three-year contract with the retirement of
Michael Schumacher after the 2006 season, and its test drivers are
Luca Badoer and Marc Gené. The team principal is Jean Todt, with
Stefano Domenicali as sporting director, and its technical director is
Mario Almondo. Both men are newly promoted following the promotion of Todt and the departure of
Ross Brawn, although Todt will remain as team principal for at least 2007. The team's numerous and ardent Italian fans have come to be known as
tifosi, though the team also has a vibrant international following.
History
1929-1950
Scuderia Ferrari was founded by
Enzo Ferrari in 1929 as a sponsor for amateur drivers in various races, though Ferrari himself had raced a bit in Fiat cars before that date. The idea came about on the night of
November 16 at a dinner in Bologna, where Ferrari solicited financial help from
Augusto Caniato and
Alfredo Caniato, textile heirs, and wealthy amateur racer Mario Tadini. He then gathered a team which at its peak included over forty drivers, most of whom raced in various Alfa Romeo 8C cars; Enzo himself continued racing, with moderate success, until the birth of his first son Dino Ferrari in 1932.
In 1933 Alfa Romeo experienced economic difficulties, and most Alfa racing was then done by Scuderia Ferrari. In 1935 Enzo Ferrari and Luigi Bazzi built the Alfa Romeo Bimotore which wore the Ferrari blazon on its flank. In 1935 Alfa Corse became active again. Ferrari managed numerous established drivers (notably
Tazio Nuvolari,
Giuseppe Campari, Achille Varzi and
Louis Chiron) and several talented rookies (such as Tandini,
Guy Moll, Carlo Maria Pintacuda, and Antonio Brivio) from his headquarters in
Viale Trento e Trieste,
Modena, Italy,
Italy, until 1938, at which point Alfa Romeo made him the manager of the factory racing division,
Alfa Corse. In 1939 he left Alfa upon learning of the company's intention to buy him out and absorb the Scuderia; his company became Auto Avio Costruzioni Ferrari, which manufactured machine tools. The deal with Alfa included the condition that he not use the Ferrari name on cars for four years.
Despite his agreement with Alfa, Ferrari immediately began work a racecar of his own, the Ferrari Tipo 815 (eight cylinders, 1.5 L displacement). The 815s, designed by
Alberto Massimino, were thus the first true Ferrari cars, but after
Alberto Ascari and the
Marchese Lotario Rangoni Machiavelli di Modena drove them in the 1940 Mille Miglia,
World War II put a temporary end to racing and the 815s saw no more competition. Ferrari continued to manufacture machine tools (specifically oleodynamic grinding machines); in 1943 he moved his headquarters to
Maranello, where in 1944 it was promptly bombed.
Rules for a Grand Prix World Championship had been laid out before the war but it took several years afterward for the series to get going; meanwhile Ferrari rebuilt his works in Maranello and constructed the 12-cylinder, 1.5 L Ferrari Tipo 125, which competed at several non-championship Grands Prix. The car made its debut in the 1948 Italian Grand Prix with Raymond Sommer, and achieved its first win at the minor Circuito di Garda with Giuseppe Farina.
1950s
Ferrari debuted in the
Formula One World Championship in the 1950 Monaco Grand Prix with the
Ferrari 125 F1, sporting a supercharged version of the 125 V12, and two experienced and successful drivers, Alberto Ascari and
Gigi Villoresi. The company later switched to the large-displacement naturally-aspirated formula for the
Ferrari 375 F1 cars. The Alfa Romeo team dominated the
1950 Formula One season, winning all eleven events, but Ferrari broke their streak in 1951 when rotund driver José Froilán González took first place at the
1951 British Grand Prix. Ferrari also won the 1950 and 1951
Mille Miglia sports car races, but was drawn into a lengthy litigation when Ascari crashed through a barrier and killed a local doctor.
After the
1951 Formula One season the Alfa team withdrew from F1, causing the authorities to adopt the Formula Two regulations due to the lack of suitable F1 cars. Ferrari entered the 2.0 L 4-cyl
Ferrari Tipo 500, which went on to win almost every race in which it competed in the
1952 Formula One season with drivers Ascari, Giuseppe Farina, and Piero Taruffi; Ascari took the World Championship after winning six consecutive races. In the
1953 Formula One season, Ascari won only five races but another world title; at the end of that season, Juan Manuel Fangio beat the Ferraris in a
Maserati for the first time.
The 1953 launch of the
World Sportscar Championship also appealed to Enzo Ferrari, and the company launched a dizzying array of sports racers over the next three years. This included the traditional compact V12-powered Ferrari 166 S and
Ferrari 250#250 MM, the larger V12
Ferrari MM, the four-cylinder
Ferrari Monza, and the six-cylinder Ferrari 118 LM. With this potent lineup, Ferrari was able to claim six of the first seven WSC titles: 1953, 1954, 1956, 1957, and 1958.
The 1954 Formula One season brought new rules for 2.5 L engines; Ferrari's new car, designated the Ferrari Tipo 625, could barely compete against Fangio with the Maserati and then the Mercedes-Benz W196 which appeared in July. Ferrari had only two wins, González at the 1954 British Grand Prix and
Mike Hawthorn at the 1954 Spanish Grand Prix. In 1955 Formula One season Ferrari did no better, winning only the 1955 Monaco Grand Prix with driver
Maurice Trintignant. Late in the tragic 1955 season the Ferrari team purchased the Lancia in Formula One team's D50 chassis after they had retired following Ascari's Death; Fangio,
Peter Collins (racing driver), and
Eugenio Castellotti raced the D50s successfully in the
1956 Formula One season: Collins two races, Fangio won three races and the championship.
In the
1957 Formula One season Fangio returned to Maserati. Ferrari, still using its aging Lancias, failed to win a race. Drivers
Luigi Musso and the Marquis
Alfonso de Portago joined Castellotti; Castellotti died while testing and Portago crashed into a crowd at the Mille Miglia, killing twelve and causing Ferrari to be charged with manslaughter.
In the
1958 Formula One season, a
List of Formula One World Constructors' Champions was introduced, and won by
Vanwall. Carlo Chiti designed an entirely new car for Ferrari: the Ferrari 246 Dino, named for Enzo Ferrari's recently deceased son. The team retained drivers Collins, Hawthorn, and Musso, but Musso died at the 1958 French Grand Prix and Collins died at the 1958 German Grand Prix; Hawthorn won the World Championship and announced his retirement, and died months later in a road accident.
Ferrari hired five new drivers, Tony Brooks,
Jean Behra,
Phil Hill,
Dan Gurney, and occasionally
Cliff Allison, for the 1959 Formula One season. The team did not get along well; Behra was fired after punching team manager Romolo Tavoni. Brooks was competitive until the end of the season, but in the end he narrowly lost the championship to
Jack Brabham with the rear-engined Cooper Car Company.
1960s
1960 Formula One season proved little better than 1959. Ferrari kept drivers Hill, Allison and Wolfgang von Trips and added
Willy Mairesse to drive the dated front-engined 246s and Richie Ginther, who drove Ferrari's first rear-engined car. Allison was severely injured in testing and the team won no race. A Ferrari did win 24 Hours of Le Mans, however, with
Paul Frere and Olivier Gendebien driving.
In the 1961 Formula One season, with new rules for 1500 cm³, the team kept Hill, von Trips and Ginther, and débuted another Chiti designed car, the
Ferrari 156 based on the Formula 2 car of 1960, which was dominant throughout the season. Ferrari drivers Hill and Von Trips competed for the championship.
Giancarlo Baghetti joined in midseason and became the first driver to win on his debut race (the
1961 French Grand Prix). However, at the end of the season, von Trips crashed at the
1961 Italian Grand Prix and was killed, together with over a dozen spectators. Hill won the championship. Ferrari also won Le Mans again, with Olivier Gendebien and Phil Hill driving.
At the end of the 1961 season, in what is called "the walk-out", car designer Carlo Chiti and team manager Romolo Tavoni left to set up their own team, Automobili Turismo e Sport. Ferrari promoted
Mauro Forghieri to racing director and
Eugenio Dragoni to team manager.
driving for Ferrari at the 1962 German Grand Prix. driving for Ferrari at the 1966 German Grand Prix.
For the 1962 Formula One season, Hill and Baghetti stayed on with rookies
Ricardo Rodríguez (Formula One) and
Lorenzo Bandini. The team used the 1961 cars for a second year while Forghieri worked on a new design; the team won no race. It did, however, continue to dominate at Le Mans, winning with the same team of Hill and Gendebien.
Ferrari ran smaller lighter 156 cars for the
1963 Formula One season, this time with drivers Bandini,
John Surtees, Willy Mairesse and Ludovico Scarfiotti. Surtees won the
1963 German Grand Prix, at which Mairesse crashed heavily, rendering him unable to drive again. Despite the team's lack of success in Formula One, it kept up its winning streak at Le Mans with Bandini and Scarfiotti at the wheel.
The new 158 model was at last finished in late 1963 and developed into raceworthiness for the 1964 Formula One season, featuring an eight-cylinder engine designed by
Angelo Bellei. Surtees and Bandini were joined by young Mexican Pedro Rodríguez (racing driver), brother of Ricardo (who had been killed at the end of 1962), to drive the new cars. Surtees won two races and Bandini one; the Ferrari was slower than Jim Clark's Team Lotus but its vastly superior reliability gave Surtees the championship and Bandini fourth place. In the last two races in North America, the Ferrari were entered by private team
North American Racing Team and painted in the US-color scheme of blue and white, as Enzo protest against the Italian sporting authority. Ferrari's sports car department won Le Mans for the fifth time in a row, this time with drivers
Jean Guichet and
Nino Vaccarella.
The
1965 Formula One season was the last year of the 1.5 L formula, so Ferrari opted to use the same V8 engine another year together with a new flat-12 which had debuted at the end of 1964; they won no races as Clark dominated in his now more reliable Lotus. Surtees and Bandini stayed on as drivers, with odd races for Rodriguez, Vaccarella and Bob Bondurant. Entered by private Ferrari team NART,
Jochen Rindt and Masten Gregory won the 1965 Le Mans 24 Hours, Ferrari's sixth in a row, though it would prove to be its last victory at that race.
For the 1966 Formula One season with new rules, the Ferrari 312 of Surtees consisted of a 3.0 L version of the 3.3 L V12 which they had previously used in
Ferrari P sports car racers, mounted in the back of a rather heavy F1 chassis. Bandini drove a Tasman Series 2.4 L V6 car early in the season. Surtees won one race, the
1966 Belgian Grand Prix, but departed after a row with manager Eugenio Dragoni; he was replaced by
Mike Parkes. Scarfiotti also won a race, the
1966 Italian Grand Prix at Autodromo Nazionale Monza, with an improved 36-valve engine.
In the 1967 Formula One season, the team fired Dragoni and replaced him with
Franco Lini;
Chris Amon partnered Bandini to drive a somewhat improved version of the 1966 car. At the
1967 Monaco Grand Prix Bandini crashed and suffered heavy injuries when he was trapped under his burning car; several days later he succumbed to his injuries. Ferrari kept Mike Parkes and Scarfiotti, but Parkes suffered career-ending injuries weeks later at the 1967 Belgian Grand Prix and Scarfiotti temporarily retired from racing after witnessing his crash.
The 1968 Formula One season was better; Jacky Ickx drove with one win in France and several good positions, which gave him a chance at the World Championship until a practise crash in Canada, and Amon led several races but won none. At the end of the season, manager Franco Lini quit and Ickx went to the
Brabham team. During the summer of 1968, Ferrari worked out a deal to sell his road car business to
Fiat for $11 million; the transaction took place in early 1969, leaving 50% of the business still under the control of Ferrari himself.
During 1969 Formula One season Enzo Ferrari set about wisely spending his newfound wealth to revive his struggling team; though Ferrari did compete in Formula One in 1969, it was something of a throwaway season while the team was restructured. Amon continued to drive an older model and Pedro Rodríguez (racing driver) replaced Ickx; at the end of the year Amon left the team.
1970s
driving for Ferrari at the
1976 German Grand Prix.In 1970 Jacky Ickx rejoined the team and won the Austrian Grand Prix, the Canadian Grand Prix and the Mexican Grand Prix to become second in the driver championship.
The 1970s were the last decade Ferrari entered as a works effort in sports car racing. After an uninspired performance in the 1973 F1 World Championship, Enzo Ferrari stopped all development of sports cars in prototype and GT racing at the end of the year, although, Enzo planned to pull out of F1, that year which was the year of the last "official" Targa Florio
road race Enzo regarded as more important to him.
After three poor years, Ferrari signed
Niki Lauda in 1974, and made the momentous decision to pull out of sportscar racing to concentrate upon F1. However, poor reliability with the 312B3 kept them from taking victory that year.
The new Ferrari 312T, developed fully with Niki Lauda, introduced in 1975 brought Ferrari back to winning ways. Niki taking the drivers' crown and Ferrari the constructors'.
In 1976 Lauda was also on course to win the title for Ferrari until his crash at the 1976 German Grand Prix.
Carlos Reutemann was hired as a replacement, so with
Clay Regazzoni driving the other car, Ferrari had to run three cars in the
1976 Italian Grand Prix when Lauda returned unexpectedly soon (only 6 weeks after his accident). Lauda scored points, but retired from the last race in Japan in heavy rain, thus allowing
James Hunt to take the title by just a single point.
In 1977 Lauda, having come back from his near fatal crash the previous year, took the title again for Ferrari (and the team won the costrucutors' championship), overcoming his more fancied, and favoured, team mate. His relations with the team, especially the team manager Mauro Forghieri continued to deteriorate, and he decided finally to leave for
Brabham.
In
1978 Formula One season, Ferrari raced with
Carlos Reutemann and
Gilles Villeneuve, and while they managed to produce a solid car it, like everyone that year, was outclassed by the ground effect
Lotus 79.
Jody Scheckter replacing the Lotus bound Argentinian in 1979, took the title, supported by Gilles Villeneuve (who dutifully followed the South African home at Monza, having been ordered to do so), won the last World Drivers' Championship in a Ferrari until
Michael Schumacher many years later. The car was a compromise
ground effect design due to the configuration of the Ferrari wide angle V12, which was overtaken in due course by the extremely successful Williams FW07, but not before racking up the necessary points to take both title that year.
1980s
was
Alain Prost's main challenger for the Championship in .
After finally having a competitive car and two fast drivers that competed against each other, team leader and favorite driver of
Enzo Ferrari, Gilles Villeneuve died in a crash during qualifying at the
1982 Belgian Grand Prix, while Didier Pironi suffered career-ending injuries before the 1982 German Grand Prix. Ferrari first called up
Patrick Tambay, in place of the late Villeneuve, and later Mario Andretti in an effort to protect Pironi's lead in the championship, but to no avail. In that same year the Formula One works moved partially out of the original Maranello factory into its own autonomous facility, still in Maranello but directly next to the
Fiorano Circuit.
Four wins by René Arnoux and Patrick Tambay won the team another constructors' title in 1983, but neither driver being consistent enough to challenge for the drivers' title. Patrick Tambay took an especially emotional victory at San Marino in front of the Tifosi.
Michele Alboreto was hired for 1984 following his impressive victory the previous year driving a Cosworth powered Tyrrell.
In 1985 Michele Alboreto ran
Alain Prost very close for the championship.
On August 14, 1988, Enzo Ferrari died at the age of 90. Fiat's share of the company was raised to 90% with Enzo's only remaining son, Piero Ferrari, inheriting the remaining share from his father. A week after Enzo's death,
Gerhard Berger and Michele Alboreto completed a historic 1-2 at the
1988 Italian Grand Prix, the only time a team other than McLaren won a Grand Prix in the
1988 Formula One season. Berger dedicated the win in memory of the late Enzo Ferrari.
1989 saw the end of turbo-charging in Formula 1. The formula was from this date for 3.5litre normally aspirated engines of no greater than 12 cylinders, which was a direct consequence of lobbying by Ferrari for the previous few years - they went so far as to construct an Indy car (which the factory refer to as the
Ferrari CART) as a threat to the organizers that if they did not get what they wanted, namely banning turbos, they would take their toys to a different arena. Due to the expected extreme high revs, and consequent narrow power band, expected of the new motors technical director
John Barnard insisted upon the development of a revolutionary new gear-shifting arrangement - the paddle operated semi-automatic gearbox. In pre season testing it proved extremely troublesome, with newly arrived driver Nigel Mansell being unable to compete more than a handful of laps, but nonetheless they managed a debut win at the opening round in
1989 Brazilian Grand Prix. Horrendous unreliability lead to Berger being unable to score a point until a run of podiums at Monza, Estoril and Jerez including a win at Estoril. Mansell scored a memorable win at Budapest where he overtook world champion Ayrton Senna for the win after qualifying far down the field in fourteenth. He then dedicated the race to the memory of Enzo Ferrari as the win came a year after his death.
1990s
driving for Ferrari at the 1995 Canadian Grand Prix. at the
1997 German Grand Prix during his second year with Ferrari.
The 1990s started in a promising way with Alain Prost winning 5 races and pushing
Ayrton Senna to the controversial final race, where a collision forced him to settle for second. After that it was a rapid downhill slide with no wins in 1991, 1992 or 1993, with Prost leaving calling the car a "truck". Gerhard Berger and
Jean Alesi did salvage some pride by winning a race each in 1994 and 1995. One of the reasons for this failure was the fact that Ferrari's famous V12 engine was no longer competitive against the smaller, lighter and more fuel efficient V10 engines of their competitors.
In 1996, Ferrari made a landmark decision in its history by hiring two-time defending world champion Michael Schumacher for an astronomical salary of around $30 million a year. Schumacher also brought with him the nucleus of his hugely successful Benetton Formula team, mainly in the form of Ross Brawn (technical director) and
Rory Byrne (chief designer). Teaming up with Jean Todt (team principal), they set about rebuilding the Scuderia. After Berger and Alesi, who were sent to Benetton in exchange, the traditional V12 had to go also, in favour of a more modern V10 engine, as the rules reduced the capacity from 3500cc to 3000 anyway. At the same time, Eddie Irvine from
Jordan Grand Prix was hired.
While these huge changes did result in a very unreliable car, Schumacher did manage to score 3 wins in the 1996 season, all of which were memorable. In torrential conditions at
1996 Spanish Grand Prix, after almost stalling and dropping to ninth, Schumacher went on to win the race by a comfortable margin to Jean Alesi. Following this, Ferrari had 2 incredibly embaressing retirements at France and Canada, both before the races had even started. However, at
1996 Belgium Grand Prix Schumacher used right timed pit-stops to fend off the Williams of Jacques Villeneuve. Following that, at Monza, Schumacher scored a momentous win in front of the tifosi. As reliability greatly improved the Ferrari became the second strongest looking package in the hands of Schumacher ending with a strong fight with the Williams on champion
Damon Hill for the win at Suzuka.
For 1997, the increased reliability of the previous year's development, the F310B, lead to some very strong performances when faster cars, notably the McLaren Mercedes of David Coulthard and Mika Hakkinen, retired. Schumacher took memorable wet weather wins at Monaco and Belgium to force the obviously superior
Williams F1 Renault F1 of Jacques Villeneuve to a last round title fight. However, Schumacher was disqualified from the 1997 standings for swerving into the path of Villeneuve who had just made a lunge down the inside of the Dry Sac corner of the
Circuito Permanente de Jerez circuit.
Following the dramatic 1997 season, Ferrari came out with an all new car to fit the new regulations for 1998 Formula One season. Although being a competitive package, the McLaren-Mercedes McLaren MP4/13 was stronger and won the opening race at Melbourne, whilst Schumacher suffered an engine retirement. Following another McLaren 1-2 at Brazil, Schumacher made a controversial pass on Coulthard to win the Argentinian race. He went on to win another five races that season including three in a row at Canada, France and England. The Hungarian Grand Prix was won after a tactical master-stroke by Brawn decided to make the car run a 3-stop strategy as opposed to McLaren's 2. Schumacher then went on to lead Irvine home to a Ferrari 1-2 at Monza for the first time since the memorable 1988 race after Enzo Ferrari's death. Despite a strong package, the Ferrari of Schumacher lost out to McLaren's Mika Hakkinen at Suzuka after he stalled on the front row then suffered a mid-race puncture. Irvine was fourth in the championship with Ferrari second in the constructors title.
Irvine had been forced to play second fiddle to Schumacher, losing out on points and positions in order to place Schumacher higher in the Drivers' Championship, in the rare occasions when he was in front, notably Suzuka 1997 which lead critics to remark "So Irvine can drive!". The leg injury of Michael Schumacher in 1999 reversed the roles however. It appeared to be the year Ferrari would regain the championship with Ferrari winning 3 of the first 4 races of the season. While Ferrari did win the constructor crown that year, a crash at the Silverstone Circuit in the British Grand Prix resulted in Schumacher breaking a leg and missing 7 races of the season, and being replaced by
Mika Salo. The new championship challenger was Eddie Irvine, who once again took the Ferrari challenge to the final round in Japan before missing out to Häkkinen who also scored more points in the races where Schumacher had taken part.
2000s
In 2000 Schumacher had a close battle with rival Mika Häkkinen of McLaren but won the championship in the Ferrari F1-2000, winning 9 races out of 17 that year. He was Ferrari's first driver champion in 21 years, since
Jody Scheckter in 1979. Teammate
Rubens Barrichello finished 4th in the championship, taking his maiden win at the German Grand Prix at the Hockenheimring after Schumacher was taken out in the first corner and Barrichello qualified 18th.
In 2001 Schumacher won the World Championship with 4 races to go, having claimed 9 victories. Teammate Barrichello finished 3rd in the championship. This was the first year in which the notorious A1-Ring incident occurred, where Barrichello was told to let Schumacher through for 2nd place by team boss Todt, to the consternation of the FIA, fans and media.
In 2002, Schumacher and Ferrari dominated F1, the Ferrari duo winning 15 out of 17 races (Schumacher 11, Barrichello 4), a record at the time. However, their run was tainted by a second A1-Ring incident. In a replay of 2001, Barrichello was asked to give way to Schumacher, except this time for the win. An embarrassed Schumacher then pushed Barrichello to the top step of the podium, and was subsequently fined $1 million by the FIA for interfering with podium procedures. This debacle eventually led to the banning of team orders. Schumacher matched Juan Manuel Fangio's record of 5 world championships, set back in the 1950s.
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In 2003, Ferrari's domination of F1 was brought to a halt at the first race, the 2003 Australian Grand Prix, where for the first time in 3 years, there was no Ferrari driver on the podium. Rivals McLaren had an early lead in the championship, but Ferrari closed the gap by the 2003 Canadian Grand Prix. However, their other rivals Williams won the next 2 races and the driver championship went down to the wire at the last race, the
2003 Japanese Grand Prix, between Kimi Räikkönen (McLaren) and Michael Schumacher; Schumacher eventually won the championship by 2 points, surpassing Fangio's record. In 2003, F1 magazine reported that Ferrari's budget was $443,800,000.
2004 saw a return of Ferrari's dominance. Ferrari teammates Schumacher and Barrichello finished first and second respectively in the
list of Formula One World Drivers' Champions, and Ferrari easily wrapped up the constructors championship. Schumacher won 13 of the 18 races, and 12 of the first 13 of the season -- both F1 records. Barrichello won two of the other races.
2005 saw a change of fortune for the previously dominant Ferrari. The team's practice of starting a new season with a modified version of the previous year's car (F2004M) pending full development of their new car (F2005) was one of the main causes for a poor start to the season. While this worked well in previous years, it seems Ferrari underestimated both the full effect of the new 2005 regulations and the pace of development of other teams (particularly McLaren and Renault who started the year with brand new cars). Alarmed by poor performances in Australian Grand Prix and Malaysian Grand Prix the new F2005 was rushed into service in
Bahrain Grand Prix (the introduction was previously scheduled to be race 5 in Barcelona). This move saw Schumacher retire for the first time due to mechanical failure since
2001 German Grand Prix ending a run of 59 Grands Prix without technical failure.
Another factor was the poor relative performance of the team's Bridgestone tyres, which failed to give performance for single lap qualifying and were not as durable as their Michelin rivals during races. However, the tyres provided for
2005 San Marino Grand Prix were more competitive, and the Bridgestone tyres supplied for the 2005 United States Grand Prix allowed the three Bridgestone teams to race, while the seven Michelin teams were forced to retire due to Michelin's advice that the tyres would not last the race distance.
Near the end of the 2005 season, Rubens Barrichello announced that he was leaving the team at the end of the year and joining the Honda F1 team. Barrichello's departure was partly due to his dissatisfaction with his continued "Number 2" status at Ferrari. At the 2005 Monte Carlo Grand Prix Schumacher forced his way past Barrichello (on a track where overtaking is highly difficult and dangerous) near the end of the race. This only netted the German one extra point during a season where Ferrari were uncompetitive. In response, Ferrari named former Sauber-Petronas driver Felipe Massa as Barrichello's replacement for the following season.
2006 Season
With the "one set of tyres per race" rule no longer in use, Ferrari, after a poor 2005 and a troubled start to 2006, were again close contenders for both Drivers' and Constructors' titles by the latter part of the 2006 season. Unlike some recent seasons, they started 2006 with their new car, the
248 F1.
At the 2006 Bahrain Grand Prix Schumacher finished second, with Massa further down the order. At the
2006 Malaysian Grand Prix problems with the engine's piston rings meant that both drivers had to change their engines, Massa needing two changes (a ten-position penalty at the start of the race is enforced for an engine change prior to a legal engine change). In Australia, they scored no points, with both drivers crashing out of the race.
At the
2006 San Marino Grand Prix Schumacher took pole position in qualifying and won the race. At the
2006 European Grand Prix, Schumacher won again, the first time this season the same engine won two consecutive races. At the 2006 Spanish Grand Prix Fernando Alonso won, with Schumacher finishing second.
At
2006 Monaco Grand Prix Schumacher's qualifying times were deleted for stopping his car during the qualifying session. Schumacher started from the back of the grid but finished fifth for four points. At
2006 British Grand Prix Schumacher finishing second from third place on the grid. The podium of the 2006 Canadian Grand Prix in
Montreal was: Alonso as race winner, Michael Schumacher second, and Räikkönen third.
At the
2006 United States Grand Prix, in Indianapolis, the Ferrari's of Schumacher and Massa were dominant all weekend. Ferrari achieved its first one-two (both of the team's cars finishing in the top two positions) since the same race 12 months beforehand. At the French Grand Prix with a second consecutive one-two in qualifying. In the race Alonso finished second with Massa taking third.
At the Hockenheimring in Germany Räikkönen took pole position in his last German Grand Prix for McLaren (he was signed by Ferrari for 2007). However in the race both Ferrari 248F1's overtook Räikkönen at the first round of pit stops, and subsequently Schumacher went on to win. At the Hungarian GP Massa qualified 2nd and Schumacher 11th due to a 2 second penalty from Saturday practice. At the start of the wet race the Ferraris initially struggled. Later in the race Schumacher continued to drive on intermediate tyres while other drivers on dries like Pedro De La Rosa (who replaced Juan Pablo Montoya at McLaren following his return to Chip Ganassi Racing Stateside for other racing duties) and Nick Heidfeld passed him easily. When Heidfeld passed Schumacher he collided with the BMW Sauber of Robert Kubica, and retired in 9th, promoting Massa to 8th. The subsequent disqualification of Kubica gave Massa 7th and Schumacher 8th, with two and one championship points, respectively.
At Turkey, Massa achieved his first ever pole and victory. What looked like a Ferrari 1-2 was disrupted by a caution which came out after Vitantonio Liuzzi's spin at Turn 1. Ferrari chose to stack Schumacher in the pits behind Massa (each team can use only one pit box, and cannot pit both cars at once). Renault were able to pit Alonso and he rejoined in second place. The three finished in this order.
At Monza, Schumacher scored a win in Ferrari's home Grand Prix, while Massa's solid fourth-place run was spoiled late when he ran over debris left behind by the failure of Alonso's Renault V-8, puncturing a tyre and forcing him to pit, which left him mired in ninth place at the finish. Despite Massa not being able to score any points, the combination of Schumacher's win, Alonso's DNF, and a mediocre fourth-place finish for
Giancarlo Fisichella allowed Ferrari to pull ahead of Renault in the World Constructors Championship for the first time in the 2006 season.
Following the race at Monza Ferrari announced Schumacher's retirement effective at the end of the 2006 season and that Räikkönen, whom they had signed months before, will replace him in 2007.
At the Chinese Grand Prix Ferrari and the other
Bridgestone-running teams again suffered in wet conditions. However, Schumacher managed to qualify ahead of Michelin drivers and seven places ahead of the next Bridgestone car. Despite taking pole position and setting the fastest lap, a poor tyre choice by Renault and a pit stop error allowed Schumacher to beat Alonso, his main rival for the Championship.
At the Japanese Grand Prix, Ferrari again showed superiority in the qualifying stages, lapping up to 1.4s faster than the nearest competitors. Massa qualified 1st and Schumacher 2nd. Alonso capitalised on Massa's early puncture and took 2nd place. However, on lap 34 Schumacher suffered his first in-race engine failure since 2000, forcing him to retire. Alonso won the race and opened a 10-point lead in the driver's championship with only one race to go. Massa finished 2nd, but with Renault's Fisichella in 3rd place..At the Brazilian Grand Prix, Ferrari showed a stunning performance with the Renault team playing it safe in order to avoid any break downs in their cars. qualifying was a mixed bag for Ferrari with Massa clinching pole position but Schumacher suffering a fuel pressure problem in the last session of the qualifying which left him unable to put in even a single lap in this session. Schumacher ended up at 10th on the grid with Massa on pole, Räikkönen 2nd, Trulli of Toyota 3rd and the championship leader Alonso at a comfortable 4th. The race itself was a dramatic one, with Schumacher making up 4 places in the first few laps, and then a safety car period followed. Once the race restarted Schumacher suffered a tyre puncture while trying to over take the Renault of Fisichella. This puncture virtually ended Schumacher's bid for the race lead and any hope of winning the 2006 Drivers' title. The final result saw the first victory for a Brazilian driver in home soil since Ayrton Senna in 1993. With Massa finishing 1st, Alonso 2nd, clinching the Drivers' title, followed by Honda's Jenson Button, who finished 3rd after putting in an impressive performance from 14th on the grid. Schumacher, after a stunning drive from the back of the grid (following his puncture), ended up 4th, but with Fisichella finishing 6th the Ferraris lost the Constructors title too.
Michael Schumacher retired at the end of the season and Kimi Räikkönen replaced him. Felipe Massa will continue his seat after a successful season.
2007 Season
The 2007 car was secretively unveiled on January 14
2007 with a ban on photographers, and testing continued the next day, with many tests outside of Europe in order to evade sponsorship bans because of their Marlboro sponsorship. Over the course of pre-season testing, the F2007 and its drivers have improved considerably and have headed the timing sheets at multi-team tests on various occasions. Kimi Räikkönen won the inaugural race of the 2007 season in a
Ferrari F2007 at
2007 Australian Grand Prix becoming the first Ferrari driver to win on his début since Nigel Mansell. After a disappointing 2007 Malaysian Grand Prix, the team recovered to finish first and third in
2007 Bahrain Grand Prix, with Massa taking his first victory of the season. Since then, however, the team has fallen behind McLaren and its drivers Fernando Alonso and
Lewis Hamilton in both championships.
The Salzburger Nachricht newspaper has quoted Luca Colajanni on the team's disappointing performance. The Ferrari PR manager claimed the team's factory owned wind tunnel was badly damaged in a testing accident, when a steel sheet conveyor belt, representing the road under the down-scaled F1 car replica, broke up at high speed and splattered debris at various instruments. Although the Ferrari team had received prior warning from F1 analysts to secure the use of an alternative, backup testing facility and/or invest more in computer simulations, such advice would appear not to have been not heeded. The Ferrari team may not introduce new aerodynamic refinements to its cars until the wind tunnel is rebuilt, which will take several weeks. Meanwhile, the Scuderia remains severely handicapped against McLaren. With the tunnel now rebuilt and a new aerodynamic package (notably adjustments to the front wing) the cars are seemingly on par with the McLarens, after rigorous testing at Silverstone Ferrari are predicted to be strong in Europe in upcoming races. It has been reported that a major aero upgrade is due for the upcoming event at Fuji. Recently they have resolved the problem of the front tyres not heating up quickly enough. On the 8 July, Kimi Räikkönen dominated the British Grand Prix at Silverstone with Massa coming 5th after stalling on the lights, he was placed 22th in the pit-lane and made a unbelievable come back mainly down to his one stop strategy.
Ferrari went to the European GP with arguably the fastest car, Kimi claimed pole position with Felipe third. At the start of the race, rain hit the track causing many cars to slide around because they weren't on intermediate tyres, this cause everyone to go and change in the pits, Kimi was heading for the pits when he veered off and continued on track by himself, leaving Felipe to pit, to stop a pile up and allowing Alonso who was in second place to take the lead. When Kimi came out of the pits, he re-joined third, and began to hound Alonso down by 0.5secs per lap, while Felipe was leading the way by a long margin. Around Lap 30, Kimi retired with hydraulic problems, leaving Felipe the sole remaining Ferrari, he led the way for the majority of the race, but on the last 5 laps, he was overtaken by Alonso, due to the fact that rain had hit the track in the last 7 laps, after Felipe pitted for wet tyres, he experienced large vibrations through the car which caused him to be extra cautious, he ended the race second, and 11 points a drift in the driver's championship to leader Lewis Hamilton.
The following Hungarian Grand Prix was riddled with scandal within the McLaren team. The team technicians forgot to fuel the car of Felipe Massa who was forced to start the race 14th, at a track where overtaking is very difficult. Kimi was going to start the race fourth, but following Fernando Alonso's relegation, he was moved up to third. He was also able to pass BMW's Nick Heidfeld going into the third turn. He would remain second till the end of the race, though challenging leader Hamilton on occasion. Felipe Massa came home 13th following a lacklustre performance.
At the Chinese Grand Prix, Ferrari achieved its 200th Formula One victory, and 599th and 600th Formula One podium finishes, by Kimi Räikkönen and Felipe Massa, respectively.
Espionage allegations
On 3 July
Nigel Stepney was dismissed by Scuderia Ferrari. Later the same day Ferrari announced it was taking legal action against Stepney and a McLaren engineer named by Autosport.com as
Mike Coughlan; A Ferrari press release stated: -->
On his return from holiday in the Philippines on July 5, Stepney was interrogated by the Italy police as part of the
industrial espionage case. On 6 July
Honda F1 released a statement confirming that Stepney and Coughlan approached the team regarding "job opportunities" in June 2007. Since the revelation of Coughlan's involvement in the affair McLaren provided a full set of drawings and development documents (estimated to be around 800 pages) to the FIA, detailing all updates made to the team's chassis since the incident occurred at the end of April.
McLaren was eventually excluded from the 2007 Conctructors' Championship, in breach of Article 151(c) of the
International Sporting Code, all but guaranteeing Ferrari the title. Ferrari won their 15th Constructors Title in 2007 Belgian Grand Prix the following weekend.
Sponsorship
Marlboro (cigarette) has sponsored Ferrari since 1984 and has been title sponsor since 1997 (prior to which it was the title sponsor of McLaren).In September 2005 Ferrari announced they had signed an extension of their sponsorship arrangement with Marlboro (Philip Morris) until 2011. This comes at a time when tobacco sponsorship has become illegal in the European Union and other major teams have withdrawn from relationships with tobacco companies, for example McLaren ended their eight year relationship with West (cigarette). In reporting the deal,
F1 Racing magazine judged it to be a "black day" for the sport, putting non-tobacco funded teams at a disadvantage and discouraging other brands from entering a sport still associated with tobacco. The magazine estimates that in the period between 2005 and 2011 Ferrari will receive $1 billion from the agreement.
Depending on the venue of races (and the particular national laws) the Marlboro branding will be largely subliminal in most countries
(:Image:Schumacher (Ferrari) in practice at USGP 2005.jpg). The Taiwanese computer company
Acer (company) is one of their sponsors (until 2008). In December 2005 Vodafone announced that it was withdrawing its sponsorship of Ferrari in favour of title sponsorship of McLaren beginning in 2007.
The Times said Ferrari were "stunned" by the decision. Vodafone's position on the car is assumed by Telecom Italia's broadband Alice brand.
Other companies sponsoring Scuderia Ferrari include: Fiat (car group),
Royal Dutch Shell - Royal Dutch/Shell Group, Telecom Italia, Bridgestone, AMD,
Martini (vermouth),
Acer (company), and several others among which Mubadala Development Company (an investment company owned by the Emirate of Abu Dhabi) also owner of 5% of Ferrari's stakes as of the 2007 season.
Apart from sponsors, Ferrari have the following companies as official suppliers:
Magneti Marelli,
Mahle (pistons),
IIR,
SKF, Europcar,
Iveco, NGK,
Infineon,
HN Meccanica, Puma AG, Sanbitter, Tata, Brembo,
BBS Kraftfahrzeugtechnik AG,
Selex,
Sabelt,
TRW Automotive Holdings, Microsoft (note: the sponsors/suppliers information is accurate for the 2007 season).
Ferrari's sponsorship earning for the years 2000-2005 were made public (http://www.myfilehut.com/userfiles/50511/21st/FerrariSponsors.pdf)
Records
The Ferrari team has achieved unparalleled success in
Formula One. Ferrari cars and Ferrari drivers have also won the
Mille Miglia 8 times, the
Targa Florio 7 times, and the 24 hours of Le Mans 9 times. In F1, Ferrari has the unique distinction of owning nearly all significant records (as of the 2007 Chinese Grand Prix), including:
- Most constructor championships: 15
- Most driver championships: 14
- Most wins (all-time): 200
- Most wins (season): 15 (tied with McLaren)
- Most podiums (all-time): 600
- Most podiums (season): 29
- Most pole positions (all-time): 194
- Most points (all-time): 4,694.27
- Most points (season): 262
- Highest winning percentage: ~26% (for teams with at least 10 wins)
In 2004, Ferrari also surpassed Ford Motor Company as the most successful F1 engine manufacturer, with 182 wins (to Ford's 176 wins). Due to the availability of the
Cosworth V8 to private teams, a total of 6,639 Ford-powered cars were entered between 1967 and 2004, compared to 1,979 starts for Ferrari and Petronas-badged engines during the same period.
Recent Formula One results
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{{F1 team | Short_name = Ferrari |
Long_name = Scuderia Ferrari [Marlboro (cigarette)[http://www.ferrariworld.com/FWorld/fw/index.jsp Ferrari's official website: Sponsors that collaborate with the Scuderia Ferrari Marlborohttp://www.fia.com/sport/Championships/F1/F1_Entry_List/Season_2007/entry.html FIA - F1 Season Entry List 2007: Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro |
Logo = ] |
Base = {{flagicon|Italy--> [Maranello, [Italy |
Principal = {{flagicon|France--> [Jean Todt |
Director = {{flagicon|Italy--> [Mario Almondo |
Drivers = 5. {{flagicon|Brazil--> [Felipe Massa
6. {{flagicon |
Test_drivers = {{flagicon|Italy--> [Luca Badoer
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Chassis = [Ferrari F2007|
Engine = [Ferrari 056 |
Tyres = [Bridgestone |
Debut = [1950 Monaco Grand Prix |
Final = [2007 Chinese Grand Prix |
Races = 757 |
Wins = 200 |
Poles = 194 |
Fastest_laps = 204 |
Last_season = 2006 |
Cons_champ = 15 (1961, 1964, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007) |
Drivers_champ = 14 (1952, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1961, 1964, 1975, 1977, 1979, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004) |
Last_position = 2nd (201 points)
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Scuderia Ferrari is the name for the Gestione Sportiva, the division of the Ferrari automobile company concerned with racing. Though the Scuderia and
Ferrari Corse Clienti continue to manage the racing activities of numerous Ferrari customers and private teams, Ferrari's racing division has completely devoted its attention and funding to its Formula One team,
Scuderia Ferrari. Scuderia is Italian language for "Stable", and Ferrari is the name of its founder. The prancing horse was the symbol on Italian
World War I ace Francesco Baracca's fighter plane, and became the logo of Ferrari after the fallen ace's parents, good friends with
Enzo Ferrari, asked him so, to continue his tradition of sportsmanship, gallantry and boldness.
Scuderia Ferrari was founded in 1929, and raced for
Alfa Romeo in motorsport until 1939. Ferrari first competed in F1 in 1948 (the team's first F1 car was the Tipo 125 F1), making it the oldest and arguably the most successful team left in the championship. The team's current drivers are
Felipe Massa and Kimi Räikkönen, who has signed on to Ferrari for a three-year contract with the retirement of
Michael Schumacher after the 2006 season, and its test drivers are
Luca Badoer and
Marc Gené. The team principal is Jean Todt, with Stefano Domenicali as sporting director, and its technical director is
Mario Almondo. Both men are newly promoted following the promotion of Todt and the departure of
Ross Brawn, although Todt will remain as team principal for at least 2007. The team's numerous and ardent Italian fans have come to be known as
tifosi, though the team also has a vibrant international following.
History
1929-1950
Scuderia Ferrari was founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1929 as a sponsor for amateur drivers in various races, though Ferrari himself had raced a bit in Fiat cars before that date. The idea came about on the night of
November 16 at a dinner in Bologna, where Ferrari solicited financial help from
Augusto Caniato and Alfredo Caniato, textile heirs, and wealthy amateur racer
Mario Tadini. He then gathered a team which at its peak included over forty drivers, most of whom raced in various Alfa Romeo 8C cars; Enzo himself continued racing, with moderate success, until the birth of his first son Dino Ferrari in 1932.
In 1933 Alfa Romeo experienced economic difficulties, and most Alfa racing was then done by Scuderia Ferrari. In 1935 Enzo Ferrari and Luigi Bazzi built the Alfa Romeo Bimotore which wore the Ferrari blazon on its flank. In 1935 Alfa Corse became active again. Ferrari managed numerous established drivers (notably
Tazio Nuvolari,
Giuseppe Campari,
Achille Varzi and
Louis Chiron) and several talented rookies (such as Tandini, Guy Moll, Carlo Maria Pintacuda, and
Antonio Brivio) from his headquarters in Viale Trento e Trieste,
Modena, Italy, Italy, until 1938, at which point Alfa Romeo made him the manager of the factory racing division, Alfa Corse. In 1939 he left Alfa upon learning of the company's intention to buy him out and absorb the Scuderia; his company became
Auto Avio Costruzioni Ferrari, which manufactured machine tools. The deal with Alfa included the condition that he not use the Ferrari name on cars for four years.
Despite his agreement with Alfa, Ferrari immediately began work a racecar of his own, the
Ferrari Tipo 815 (eight cylinders, 1.5 L displacement). The 815s, designed by
Alberto Massimino, were thus the first true Ferrari cars, but after Alberto Ascari and the
Marchese Lotario Rangoni Machiavelli di Modena drove them in the 1940 Mille Miglia, World War II put a temporary end to racing and the 815s saw no more competition. Ferrari continued to manufacture machine tools (specifically
oleodynamic grinding machines); in 1943 he moved his headquarters to Maranello, where in 1944 it was promptly bombed.
Rules for a Grand Prix World Championship had been laid out before the war but it took several years afterward for the series to get going; meanwhile Ferrari rebuilt his works in Maranello and constructed the 12-cylinder, 1.5 L
Ferrari Tipo 125, which competed at several non-championship Grands Prix. The car made its debut in the
1948 Italian Grand Prix with Raymond Sommer, and achieved its first win at the minor Circuito di Garda with
Giuseppe Farina.
1950s
Ferrari debuted in the Formula One World Championship in the 1950 Monaco Grand Prix with the
Ferrari 125 F1, sporting a supercharged version of the 125 V12, and two experienced and successful drivers, Alberto Ascari and Gigi Villoresi. The company later switched to the large-displacement naturally-aspirated formula for the Ferrari 375 F1 cars. The Alfa Romeo team dominated the
1950 Formula One season, winning all eleven events, but Ferrari broke their streak in 1951 when rotund driver José Froilán González took first place at the
1951 British Grand Prix. Ferrari also won the 1950 and 1951
Mille Miglia sports car races, but was drawn into a lengthy litigation when Ascari crashed through a barrier and killed a local doctor.
After the 1951 Formula One season the Alfa team withdrew from F1, causing the authorities to adopt the Formula Two regulations due to the lack of suitable F1 cars. Ferrari entered the 2.0 L 4-cyl Ferrari Tipo 500, which went on to win almost every race in which it competed in the
1952 Formula One season with drivers Ascari, Giuseppe Farina, and Piero Taruffi; Ascari took the World Championship after winning six consecutive races. In the 1953 Formula One season, Ascari won only five races but another world title; at the end of that season,
Juan Manuel Fangio beat the Ferraris in a Maserati for the first time.
The 1953 launch of the
World Sportscar Championship also appealed to Enzo Ferrari, and the company launched a dizzying array of sports racers over the next three years. This included the traditional compact V12-powered
Ferrari 166 S and
Ferrari 250#250 MM, the larger V12
Ferrari MM, the four-cylinder Ferrari Monza, and the six-cylinder
Ferrari 118 LM. With this potent lineup, Ferrari was able to claim six of the first seven WSC titles: 1953, 1954, 1956, 1957, and 1958.
The
1954 Formula One season brought new rules for 2.5 L engines; Ferrari's new car, designated the
Ferrari Tipo 625, could barely compete against Fangio with the Maserati and then the
Mercedes-Benz W196 which appeared in July. Ferrari had only two wins, González at the 1954 British Grand Prix and Mike Hawthorn at the 1954 Spanish Grand Prix. In
1955 Formula One season Ferrari did no better, winning only the 1955 Monaco Grand Prix with driver Maurice Trintignant. Late in the tragic 1955 season the Ferrari team purchased the
Lancia in Formula One team's D50 chassis after they had retired following Ascari's Death; Fangio,
Peter Collins (racing driver), and
Eugenio Castellotti raced the D50s successfully in the 1956 Formula One season: Collins two races, Fangio won three races and the championship.
In the
1957 Formula One season Fangio returned to Maserati. Ferrari, still using its aging Lancias, failed to win a race. Drivers Luigi Musso and the Marquis
Alfonso de Portago joined Castellotti; Castellotti died while testing and Portago crashed into a crowd at the Mille Miglia, killing twelve and causing Ferrari to be charged with manslaughter.
In the 1958 Formula One season, a
List of Formula One World Constructors' Champions was introduced, and won by Vanwall.
Carlo Chiti designed an entirely new car for Ferrari: the
Ferrari 246 Dino, named for Enzo Ferrari's recently deceased son. The team retained drivers Collins, Hawthorn, and Musso, but Musso died at the
1958 French Grand Prix and Collins died at the
1958 German Grand Prix; Hawthorn won the World Championship and announced his retirement, and died months later in a road accident.
Ferrari hired five new drivers, Tony Brooks, Jean Behra,
Phil Hill,
Dan Gurney, and occasionally Cliff Allison, for the 1959 Formula One season. The team did not get along well; Behra was fired after punching team manager
Romolo Tavoni. Brooks was competitive until the end of the season, but in the end he narrowly lost the championship to
Jack Brabham with the rear-engined Cooper Car Company.
1960s
1960 Formula One season proved little better than 1959. Ferrari kept drivers Hill, Allison and
Wolfgang von Trips and added
Willy Mairesse to drive the dated front-engined 246s and Richie Ginther, who drove Ferrari's first rear-engined car. Allison was severely injured in testing and the team won no race. A Ferrari did win 24 Hours of Le Mans, however, with Paul Frere and Olivier Gendebien driving.
In the 1961 Formula One season, with new rules for 1500 cm³, the team kept Hill, von Trips and Ginther, and débuted another Chiti designed car, the Ferrari 156 based on the Formula 2 car of 1960, which was dominant throughout the season. Ferrari drivers Hill and Von Trips competed for the championship.
Giancarlo Baghetti joined in midseason and became the first driver to win on his debut race (the
1961 French Grand Prix). However, at the end of the season, von Trips crashed at the
1961 Italian Grand Prix and was killed, together with over a dozen spectators. Hill won the championship. Ferrari also won Le Mans again, with Olivier Gendebien and Phil Hill driving.
At the end of the 1961 season, in what is called "the walk-out", car designer Carlo Chiti and team manager Romolo Tavoni left to set up their own team,
Automobili Turismo e Sport. Ferrari promoted Mauro Forghieri to racing director and
Eugenio Dragoni to team manager.
driving for Ferrari at the
1962 German Grand Prix. driving for Ferrari at the
1966 German Grand Prix.
For the
1962 Formula One season, Hill and Baghetti stayed on with rookies
Ricardo Rodríguez (Formula One) and
Lorenzo Bandini. The team used the 1961 cars for a second year while Forghieri worked on a new design; the team won no race. It did, however, continue to dominate at Le Mans, winning with the same team of Hill and Gendebien.
Ferrari ran smaller lighter 156 cars for the
1963 Formula One season, this time with drivers Bandini,
John Surtees, Willy Mairesse and
Ludovico Scarfiotti. Surtees won the 1963 German Grand Prix, at which Mairesse crashed heavily, rendering him unable to drive again. Despite the team's lack of success in Formula One, it kept up its winning streak at Le Mans with Bandini and Scarfiotti at the wheel.
The new 158 model was at last finished in late 1963 and developed into raceworthiness for the 1964 Formula One season, featuring an eight-cylinder engine designed by
Angelo Bellei. Surtees and Bandini were joined by young Mexican Pedro Rodríguez (racing driver), brother of Ricardo (who had been killed at the end of 1962), to drive the new cars. Surtees won two races and Bandini one; the Ferrari was slower than
Jim Clark's Team Lotus but its vastly superior reliability gave Surtees the championship and Bandini fourth place. In the last two races in North America, the Ferrari were entered by private team North American Racing Team and painted in the US-color scheme of blue and white, as Enzo protest against the Italian sporting authority. Ferrari's sports car department won Le Mans for the fifth time in a row, this time with drivers Jean Guichet and Nino Vaccarella.
The
1965 Formula One season was the last year of the 1.5 L formula, so Ferrari opted to use the same V8 engine another year together with a new flat-12 which had debuted at the end of 1964; they won no races as Clark dominated in his now more reliable Lotus. Surtees and Bandini stayed on as drivers, with odd races for Rodriguez, Vaccarella and
Bob Bondurant. Entered by private Ferrari team NART, Jochen Rindt and
Masten Gregory won the 1965 Le Mans 24 Hours, Ferrari's sixth in a row, though it would prove to be its last victory at that race.
For the 1966 Formula One season with new rules, the
Ferrari 312 of Surtees consisted of a 3.0 L version of the 3.3 L V12 which they had previously used in Ferrari P sports car racers, mounted in the back of a rather heavy F1 chassis. Bandini drove a Tasman Series 2.4 L V6 car early in the season. Surtees won one race, the
1966 Belgian Grand Prix, but departed after a row with manager Eugenio Dragoni; he was replaced by Mike Parkes. Scarfiotti also won a race, the
1966 Italian Grand Prix at Autodromo Nazionale Monza, with an improved 36-valve engine.
In the
1967 Formula One season, the team fired Dragoni and replaced him with Franco Lini; Chris Amon partnered Bandini to drive a somewhat improved version of the 1966 car. At the
1967 Monaco Grand Prix Bandini crashed and suffered heavy injuries when he was trapped under his burning car; several days later he succumbed to his injuries. Ferrari kept Mike Parkes and Scarfiotti, but Parkes suffered career-ending injuries weeks later at the 1967 Belgian Grand Prix and Scarfiotti temporarily retired from racing after witnessing his crash.
The
1968 Formula One season was better; Jacky Ickx drove with one win in France and several good positions, which gave him a chance at the World Championship until a practise crash in Canada, and Amon led several races but won none. At the end of the season, manager Franco Lini quit and Ickx went to the Brabham team. During the summer of 1968, Ferrari worked out a deal to sell his road car business to Fiat for $11 million; the transaction took place in early 1969, leaving 50% of the business still under the control of Ferrari himself.
During
1969 Formula One season Enzo Ferrari set about wisely spending his newfound wealth to revive his struggling team; though Ferrari did compete in Formula One in 1969, it was something of a throwaway season while the team was restructured. Amon continued to drive an older model and Pedro Rodríguez (racing driver) replaced Ickx; at the end of the year Amon left the team.
1970s
driving for Ferrari at the
1976 German Grand Prix.In 1970 Jacky Ickx rejoined the team and won the
Austrian Grand Prix, the
Canadian Grand Prix and the Mexican Grand Prix to become second in the driver championship.
The 1970s were the last decade Ferrari entered as a works effort in sports car racing. After an uninspired performance in the 1973 F1 World Championship, Enzo Ferrari stopped all development of sports cars in prototype and GT racing at the end of the year, although, Enzo planned to pull out of F1, that year which was the year of the last "official"
Targa Florio road race Enzo regarded as more important to him.
After three poor years, Ferrari signed Niki Lauda in 1974, and made the momentous decision to pull out of sportscar racing to concentrate upon F1. However, poor reliability with the 312B3 kept them from taking victory that year.
The new Ferrari 312T, developed fully with Niki Lauda, introduced in 1975 brought Ferrari back to winning ways. Niki taking the drivers' crown and Ferrari the constructors'.
In 1976 Lauda was also on course to win the title for Ferrari until his crash at the 1976 German Grand Prix.
Carlos Reutemann was hired as a replacement, so with Clay Regazzoni driving the other car, Ferrari had to run three cars in the 1976 Italian Grand Prix when Lauda returned unexpectedly soon (only 6 weeks after his accident). Lauda scored points, but retired from the last race in Japan in heavy rain, thus allowing
James Hunt to take the title by just a single point.
In 1977 Lauda, having come back from his near fatal crash the previous year, took the title again for Ferrari (and the team won the costrucutors' championship), overcoming his more fancied, and favoured, team mate. His relations with the team, especially the team manager Mauro Forghieri continued to deteriorate, and he decided finally to leave for
Brabham.
In 1978 Formula One season, Ferrari raced with
Carlos Reutemann and
Gilles Villeneuve, and while they managed to produce a solid car it, like everyone that year, was outclassed by the
ground effect Lotus 79.
Jody Scheckter replacing the Lotus bound Argentinian in 1979, took the title, supported by Gilles Villeneuve (who dutifully followed the South African home at Monza, having been ordered to do so), won the last World Drivers' Championship in a Ferrari until Michael Schumacher many years later. The car was a compromise
ground effect design due to the configuration of the Ferrari wide angle V12, which was overtaken in due course by the extremely successful Williams FW07, but not before racking up the necessary points to take both title that year.
1980s
was
Alain Prost's main challenger for the Championship in .
After finally having a competitive car and two fast drivers that competed against each other, team leader and favorite driver of
Enzo Ferrari,
Gilles Villeneuve died in a crash during qualifying at the 1982 Belgian Grand Prix, while
Didier Pironi suffered career-ending injuries before the
1982 German Grand Prix. Ferrari first called up Patrick Tambay, in place of the late Villeneuve, and later Mario Andretti in an effort to protect Pironi's lead in the championship, but to no avail. In that same year the Formula One works moved partially out of the original Maranello factory into its own autonomous facility, still in Maranello but directly next to the
Fiorano Circuit.
Four wins by René Arnoux and Patrick Tambay won the team another constructors' title in 1983, but neither driver being consistent enough to challenge for the drivers' title. Patrick Tambay took an especially emotional victory at San Marino in front of the Tifosi.
Michele Alboreto was hired for 1984 following his impressive victory the previous year driving a Cosworth powered Tyrrell.
In 1985 Michele Alboreto ran Alain Prost very close for the championship.
On
August 14,
1988,
Enzo Ferrari died at the age of 90. Fiat's share of the company was raised to 90% with Enzo's only remaining son, Piero Ferrari, inheriting the remaining share from his father. A week after Enzo's death,
Gerhard Berger and Michele Alboreto completed a historic 1-2 at the 1988 Italian Grand Prix, the only time a team other than
McLaren won a Grand Prix in the 1988 Formula One season. Berger dedicated the win in memory of the late Enzo Ferrari.
1989 saw the end of turbo-charging in Formula 1. The formula was from this date for 3.5litre normally aspirated engines of no greater than 12 cylinders, which was a direct consequence of lobbying by Ferrari for the previous few years - they went so far as to construct an Indy car (which the factory refer to as the
Ferrari CART) as a threat to the organizers that if they did not get what they wanted, namely banning turbos, they would take their toys to a different arena. Due to the expected extreme high revs, and consequent narrow power band, expected of the new motors technical director
John Barnard insisted upon the development of a revolutionary new gear-shifting arrangement - the paddle operated semi-automatic gearbox. In pre season testing it proved extremely troublesome, with newly arrived driver
Nigel Mansell being unable to compete more than a handful of laps, but nonetheless they managed a debut win at the opening round in 1989 Brazilian Grand Prix. Horrendous unreliability lead to Berger being unable to score a point until a run of podiums at Monza, Estoril and Jerez including a win at Estoril. Mansell scored a memorable win at Budapest where he overtook world champion Ayrton Senna for the win after qualifying far down the field in fourteenth. He then dedicated the race to the memory of Enzo Ferrari as the win came a year after his death.
1990s
driving for Ferrari at the 1995 Canadian Grand Prix. at the
1997 German Grand Prix during his second year with Ferrari.
The 1990s started in a promising way with Alain Prost winning 5 races and pushing Ayrton Senna to the controversial final race, where a collision forced him to settle for second. After that it was a rapid downhill slide with no wins in 1991, 1992 or 1993, with Prost leaving calling the car a "truck".
Gerhard Berger and Jean Alesi did salvage some pride by winning a race each in 1994 and 1995. One of the reasons for this failure was the fact that Ferrari's famous V12 engine was no longer competitive against the smaller, lighter and more fuel efficient
V10 engines of their competitors.
In 1996, Ferrari made a landmark decision in its history by hiring two-time defending world champion Michael Schumacher for an astronomical salary of around $30 million a year. Schumacher also brought with him the nucleus of his hugely successful
Benetton Formula team, mainly in the form of Ross Brawn (technical director) and
Rory Byrne (chief designer). Teaming up with Jean Todt (team principal), they set about rebuilding the Scuderia. After Berger and Alesi, who were sent to Benetton in exchange, the traditional V12 had to go also, in favour of a more modern V10 engine, as the rules reduced the capacity from 3500cc to 3000 anyway. At the same time, Eddie Irvine from
Jordan Grand Prix was hired.
While these huge changes did result in a very unreliable car, Schumacher did manage to score 3 wins in the 1996 season, all of which were memorable. In torrential conditions at
1996 Spanish Grand Prix, after almost stalling and dropping to ninth, Schumacher went on to win the race by a comfortable margin to Jean Alesi. Following this, Ferrari had 2 incredibly embaressing retirements at France and Canada, both before the races had even started. However, at 1996 Belgium Grand Prix Schumacher used right timed pit-stops to fend off the Williams of Jacques Villeneuve. Following that, at Monza, Schumacher scored a momentous win in front of the tifosi. As reliability greatly improved the Ferrari became the second strongest looking package in the hands of Schumacher ending with a strong fight with the Williams on champion
Damon Hill for the win at Suzuka.
For 1997, the increased reliability of the previous year's development, the F310B, lead to some very strong performances when faster cars, notably the McLaren Mercedes of David Coulthard and
Mika Hakkinen, retired. Schumacher took memorable wet weather wins at Monaco and Belgium to force the obviously superior Williams F1
Renault F1 of Jacques Villeneuve to a last round title fight. However, Schumacher was disqualified from the 1997 standings for swerving into the path of Villeneuve who had just made a lunge down the inside of the Dry Sac corner of the Circuito Permanente de Jerez circuit.
Following the dramatic 1997 season, Ferrari came out with an all new car to fit the new regulations for
1998 Formula One season. Although being a competitive package, the McLaren-Mercedes McLaren MP4/13 was stronger and won the opening race at Melbourne, whilst Schumacher suffered an engine retirement. Following another McLaren 1-2 at Brazil, Schumacher made a controversial pass on Coulthard to win the Argentinian race. He went on to win another five races that season including three in a row at Canada, France and England. The Hungarian Grand Prix was won after a tactical master-stroke by Brawn decided to make the car run a 3-stop strategy as opposed to McLaren's 2. Schumacher then went on to lead Irvine home to a Ferrari 1-2 at Monza for the first time since the memorable 1988 race after Enzo Ferrari's death. Despite a strong package, the Ferrari of Schumacher lost out to McLaren's Mika Hakkinen at Suzuka after he stalled on the front row then suffered a mid-race puncture. Irvine was fourth in the championship with Ferrari second in the constructors title.
Irvine had been forced to play second fiddle to Schumacher, losing out on points and positions in order to place Schumacher higher in the Drivers' Championship, in the rare occasions when he was in front, notably Suzuka 1997 which lead critics to remark "So Irvine can drive!". The leg injury of Michael Schumacher in 1999 reversed the roles however. It appeared to be the year Ferrari would regain the championship with Ferrari winning 3 of the first 4 races of the season. While Ferrari did win the constructor crown that year, a crash at the
Silverstone Circuit in the British Grand Prix resulted in Schumacher breaking a leg and missing 7 races of the season, and being replaced by Mika Salo. The new championship challenger was Eddie Irvine, who once again took the Ferrari challenge to the final round in Japan before missing out to Häkkinen who also scored more points in the races where Schumacher had taken part.
2000s
In 2000 Schumacher had a close battle with rival Mika Häkkinen of McLaren but won the championship in the Ferrari F1-2000, winning 9 races out of 17 that year. He was Ferrari's first driver champion in 21 years, since
Jody Scheckter in 1979. Teammate
Rubens Barrichello finished 4th in the championship, taking his maiden win at the German Grand Prix at the
Hockenheimring after Schumacher was taken out in the first corner and Barrichello qualified 18th.
In 2001 Schumacher won the World Championship with 4 races to go, having claimed 9 victories. Teammate Barrichello finished 3rd in the championship. This was the first year in which the notorious A1-Ring incident occurred, where Barrichello was told to let Schumacher through for 2nd place by team boss Todt, to the consternation of the FIA, fans and media.
In 2002, Schumacher and Ferrari dominated F1, the Ferrari duo winning 15 out of 17 races (Schumacher 11, Barrichello 4), a record at the time. However, their run was tainted by a second A1-Ring incident. In a replay of 2001, Barrichello was asked to give way to Schumacher, except this time for the win. An embarrassed Schumacher then pushed Barrichello to the top step of the podium, and was subsequently fined $1 million by the FIA for interfering with podium procedures. This debacle eventually led to the banning of team orders. Schumacher matched Juan Manuel Fangio's record of 5 world championships, set back in the 1950s.
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In 2003, Ferrari's domination of F1 was brought to a halt at the first race, the
2003 Australian Grand Prix, where for the first time in 3 years, there was no Ferrari driver on the podium. Rivals McLaren had an early lead in the championship, but Ferrari closed the gap by the 2003 Canadian Grand Prix. However, their other rivals Williams won the next 2 races and the driver championship went down to the wire at the last race, the 2003 Japanese Grand Prix, between Kimi Räikkönen (McLaren) and Michael Schumacher; Schumacher eventually won the championship by 2 points, surpassing Fangio's record. In 2003, F1 magazine reported that Ferrari's budget was $443,800,000.
2004 saw a return of Ferrari's dominance. Ferrari teammates Schumacher and Barrichello finished first and second respectively in the list of Formula One World Drivers' Champions, and Ferrari easily wrapped up the constructors championship. Schumacher won 13 of the 18 races, and 12 of the first 13 of the season -- both F1 records. Barrichello won two of the other races.
2005 saw a change of fortune for the previously dominant Ferrari. The team's practice of starting a new season with a modified version of the previous year's car (F2004M) pending full development of their new car (F2005) was one of the main causes for a poor start to the season. While this worked well in previous years, it seems Ferrari underestimated both the full effect of the new 2005 regulations and the pace of development of other teams (particularly McLaren and Renault who started the year with brand new cars). Alarmed by poor performances in
Australian Grand Prix and
Malaysian Grand Prix the new F2005 was rushed into service in Bahrain Grand Prix (the introduction was previously scheduled to be race 5 in Barcelona). This move saw Schumacher retire for the first time due to mechanical failure since 2001 German Grand Prix ending a run of 59 Grands Prix without technical failure.
Another factor was the poor relative performance of the team's Bridgestone tyres, which failed to give performance for single lap qualifying and were not as durable as their Michelin rivals during races. However, the tyres provided for
2005 San Marino Grand Prix were more competitive, and the Bridgestone tyres supplied for the 2005 United States Grand Prix allowed the three Bridgestone teams to race, while the seven Michelin teams were forced to retire due to Michelin's advice that the tyres would not last the race distance.
Near the end of the 2005 season, Rubens Barrichello announced that he was leaving the team at the end of the year and joining the Honda F1 team. Barrichello's departure was partly due to his dissatisfaction with his continued "Number 2" status at Ferrari. At the 2005 Monte Carlo Grand Prix Schumacher forced his way past Barrichello (on a track where overtaking is highly difficult and dangerous) near the end of the race. This only netted the German one extra point during a season where Ferrari were uncompetitive. In response, Ferrari named former Sauber-Petronas driver Felipe Massa as Barrichello's replacement for the following season.
2006 Season
With the "one set of tyres per race" rule no longer in use, Ferrari, after a poor 2005 and a troubled start to 2006, were again close contenders for both Drivers' and Constructors' titles by the latter part of the 2006 season. Unlike some recent seasons, they started 2006 with their new car, the 248 F1.
At the 2006 Bahrain Grand Prix Schumacher finished second, with Massa further down the order. At the 2006 Malaysian Grand Prix problems with the engine's piston rings meant that both drivers had to change their engines, Massa needing two changes (a ten-position penalty at the start of the race is enforced for an engine change prior to a legal engine change). In Australia, they scored no points, with both drivers crashing out of the race.
At the 2006 San Marino Grand Prix Schumacher took pole position in qualifying and won the race. At the
2006 European Grand Prix, Schumacher won again, the first time this season the same engine won two consecutive races. At the 2006 Spanish Grand Prix Fernando Alonso won, with Schumacher finishing second.
At 2006 Monaco Grand Prix Schumacher's qualifying times were deleted for stopping his car during the qualifying session. Schumacher started from the back of the grid but finished fifth for four points. At
2006 British Grand Prix Schumacher finishing second from third place on the grid. The podium of the
2006 Canadian Grand Prix in
Montreal was: Alonso as race winner, Michael Schumacher second, and Räikkönen third.
At the 2006 United States Grand Prix, in
Indianapolis, the Ferrari's of Schumacher and Massa were dominant all weekend. Ferrari achieved its first one-two (both of the team's cars finishing in the top two positions) since the same race 12 months beforehand. At the French Grand Prix with a second consecutive one-two in qualifying. In the race Alonso finished second with Massa taking third.
At the Hockenheimring in Germany Räikkönen took pole position in his last German Grand Prix for McLaren (he was signed by Ferrari for 2007). However in the race both Ferrari 248F1's overtook Räikkönen at the first round of pit stops, and subsequently Schumacher went on to win. At the Hungarian GP Massa qualified 2nd and Schumacher 11th due to a 2 second penalty from Saturday practice. At the start of the wet race the Ferraris initially struggled. Later in the race Schumacher continued to drive on intermediate tyres while other drivers on dries like
Pedro De La Rosa (who replaced Juan Pablo Montoya at McLaren following his return to Chip Ganassi Racing Stateside for other racing duties) and Nick Heidfeld passed him easily. When Heidfeld passed Schumacher he collided with the BMW Sauber of Robert Kubica, and retired in 9th, promoting Massa to 8th. The subsequent disqualification of Kubica gave Massa 7th and Schumacher 8th, with two and one championship points, respectively.
At Turkey, Massa achieved his first ever pole and victory. What looked like a Ferrari 1-2 was disrupted by a caution which came out after Vitantonio Liuzzi's spin at Turn 1. Ferrari chose to stack Schumacher in the pits behind Massa (each team can use only one pit box, and cannot pit both cars at once). Renault were able to pit Alonso and he rejoined in second place. The three finished in this order.
At Monza, Schumacher scored a win in Ferrari's home Grand Prix, while Massa's solid fourth-place run was spoiled late when he ran over debris left behind by the failure of Alonso's Renault V-8, puncturing a tyre and forcing him to pit, which left him mired in ninth place at the finish. Despite Massa not being able to score any points, the combination of Schumacher's win, Alonso's DNF, and a mediocre fourth-place finish for Giancarlo Fisichella allowed Ferrari to pull ahead of Renault in the World Constructors Championship for the first time in the 2006 season.
Following the race at Monza Ferrari announced Schumacher's retirement effective at the end of the 2006 season and that Räikkönen, whom they had signed months before, will replace him in 2007.
At the Chinese Grand Prix Ferrari and the other
Bridgestone-running teams again suffered in wet conditions. However, Schumacher managed to qualify ahead of Michelin drivers and seven places ahead of the next Bridgestone car. Despite taking pole position and setting the fastest lap, a poor tyre choice by Renault and a pit stop error allowed Schumacher to beat Alonso, his main rival for the Championship.
At the Japanese Grand Prix, Ferrari again showed superiority in the qualifying stages, lapping up to 1.4s faster than the nearest competitors. Massa qualified 1st and Schumacher 2nd. Alonso capitalised on Massa's early puncture and took 2nd place. However, on lap 34 Schumacher suffered his first in-race engine failure since 2000, forcing him to retire. Alonso won the race and opened a 10-point lead in the driver's championship with only one race to go. Massa finished 2nd, but with Renault's Fisichella in 3rd place..At the Brazilian Grand Prix, Ferrari showed a stunning performance with the Renault team playing it safe in order to avoid any break downs in their cars. qualifying was a mixed bag for Ferrari with Massa clinching pole position but Schumacher suffering a fuel pressure problem in the last session of the qualifying which left him unable to put in even a single lap in this session. Schumacher ended up at 10th on the grid with Massa on pole, Räikkönen 2nd, Trulli of Toyota 3rd and the championship leader Alonso at a comfortable 4th. The race itself was a dramatic one, with Schumacher making up 4 places in the first few laps, and then a safety car period followed. Once the race restarted Schumacher suffered a tyre puncture while trying to over take the Renault of Fisichella. This puncture virtually ended Schumacher's bid for the race lead and any hope of winning the 2006 Drivers' title. The final result saw the first victory for a Brazilian driver in home soil since Ayrton Senna in 1993. With Massa finishing 1st, Alonso 2nd, clinching the Drivers' title, followed by Honda's Jenson Button, who finished 3rd after putting in an impressive performance from 14th on the grid. Schumacher, after a stunning drive from the back of the grid (following his puncture), ended up 4th, but with Fisichella finishing 6th the Ferraris lost the Constructors title too.
Michael Schumacher retired at the end of the season and Kimi Räikkönen replaced him. Felipe Massa will continue his seat after a successful season.
2007 Season
The 2007 car was secretively unveiled on
January 14 2007 with a ban on photographers, and testing continued the next day, with many tests outside of Europe in order to evade sponsorship bans because of their Marlboro sponsorship. Over the course of pre-season testing, the F2007 and its drivers have improved considerably and have headed the timing sheets at multi-team tests on various occasions. Kimi Räikkönen won the inaugural race of the 2007 season in a Ferrari F2007 at 2007 Australian Grand Prix becoming the first Ferrari driver to win on his début since Nigel Mansell. After a disappointing
2007 Malaysian Grand Prix, the team recovered to finish first and third in 2007 Bahrain Grand Prix, with Massa taking his first victory of the season. Since then, however, the team has fallen behind McLaren and its drivers Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton in both championships.
The Salzburger Nachricht newspaper has quoted
Luca Colajanni on the team's disappointing performance. The Ferrari PR manager claimed the team's factory owned wind tunnel was badly damaged in a testing accident, when a steel sheet
conveyor belt, representing the road under the down-scaled F1 car replica, broke up at high speed and splattered debris at various instruments. Although the Ferrari team had received prior warning from F1 analysts to secure the use of an alternative, backup testing facility and/or invest more in computer simulations, such advice would appear not to have been not heeded. The Ferrari team may not introduce new aerodynamic refinements to its cars until the wind tunnel is rebuilt, which will take several weeks. Meanwhile, the Scuderia remains severely handicapped against McLaren. With the tunnel now rebuilt and a new aerodynamic package (notably adjustments to the front wing) the cars are seemingly on par with the McLarens, after rigorous testing at Silverstone Ferrari are predicted to be strong in Europe in upcoming races. It has been reported that a major aero upgrade is due for the upcoming event at Fuji. Recently they have resolved the problem of the front tyres not heating up quickly enough. On the
8 July, Kimi Räikkönen dominated the British Grand Prix at Silverstone with Massa coming 5th after stalling on the lights, he was placed 22th in the pit-lane and made a unbelievable come back mainly down to his one stop strategy.
Ferrari went to the European GP with arguably the fastest car, Kimi claimed pole position with Felipe third. At the start of the race, rain hit the track causing many cars to slide around because they weren't on intermediate tyres, this cause everyone to go and change in the pits, Kimi was heading for the pits when he veered off and continued on track by himself, leaving Felipe to pit, to stop a pile up and allowing Alonso who was in second place to take the lead. When Kimi came out of the pits, he re-joined third, and began to hound Alonso down by 0.5secs per lap, while Felipe was leading the way by a long margin. Around Lap 30, Kimi retired with hydraulic problems, leaving Felipe the sole remaining Ferrari, he led the way for the majority of the race, but on the last 5 laps, he was overtaken by Alonso, due to the fact that rain had hit the track in the last 7 laps, after Felipe pitted for wet tyres, he experienced large vibrations through the car which caused him to be extra cautious, he ended the race second, and 11 points a drift in the driver's championship to leader Lewis Hamilton.
The following Hungarian Grand Prix was riddled with scandal within the McLaren team. The team technicians forgot to fuel the car of Felipe Massa who was forced to start the race 14th, at a track where overtaking is very difficult. Kimi was going to start the race fourth, but following Fernando Alonso's relegation, he was moved up to third. He was also able to pass BMW's Nick Heidfeld going into the third turn. He would remain second till the end of the race, though challenging leader Hamilton on occasion. Felipe Massa came home 13th following a lacklustre performance.
At the Chinese Grand Prix, Ferrari achieved its 200th Formula One victory, and 599th and 600th Formula One podium finishes, by Kimi Räikkönen and Felipe Massa, respectively.
Espionage allegations
On
3 July Nigel Stepney was dismissed by Scuderia Ferrari. Later the same day Ferrari announced it was taking legal action against Stepney and a McLaren engineer named by Autosport.com as
Mike Coughlan; A Ferrari press release stated: -->
On his return from holiday in the Philippines on July 5, Stepney was interrogated by the Italy police as part of the industrial espionage case. On 6 July
Honda F1 released a statement confirming that Stepney and Coughlan approached the team regarding "job opportunities" in June 2007. Since the revelation of Coughlan's involvement in the affair McLaren provided a full set of drawings and development documents (estimated to be around 800 pages) to the FIA, detailing all updates made to the team's chassis since the incident occurred at the end of April.
McLaren was eventually excluded from the 2007 Conctructors' Championship, in breach of Article 151(c) of the
International Sporting Code, all but guaranteeing Ferrari the title. Ferrari won their 15th Constructors Title in 2007 Belgian Grand Prix the following weekend.
Sponsorship
Marlboro (cigarette) has sponsored Ferrari since 1984 and has been title sponsor since 1997 (prior to which it was the title sponsor of McLaren).In September 2005 Ferrari announced they had signed an extension of their sponsorship arrangement with Marlboro (Philip Morris) until 2011. This comes at a time when tobacco sponsorship has become illegal in the European Union and other major teams have withdrawn from relationships with tobacco companies, for example McLaren ended their eight year relationship with West (cigarette). In reporting the deal,
F1 Racing magazine judged it to be a "black day" for the sport, putting non-tobacco funded teams at a disadvantage and discouraging other brands from entering a sport still associated with tobacco. The magazine estimates that in the period between 2005 and 2011 Ferrari will receive $1 billion from the agreement.
Depending on the venue of races (and the particular national laws) the Marlboro branding will be largely subliminal in most countries
(:Image:Schumacher (Ferrari) in practice at USGP 2005.jpg). The Taiwanese computer company
Acer (company) is one of their sponsors (until 2008). In December 2005 Vodafone announced that it was withdrawing its sponsorship of Ferrari in favour of title sponsorship of McLaren beginning in 2007.
The Times said Ferrari were "stunned" by the decision. Vodafone's position on the car is assumed by Telecom Italia's broadband Alice brand.
Other companies sponsoring Scuderia Ferrari include: Fiat (car group), Royal Dutch Shell - Royal Dutch/Shell Group,
Telecom Italia,
Bridgestone, AMD,
Martini (vermouth), Acer (company), and several others among which
Mubadala Development Company (an investment company owned by the Emirate of Abu Dhabi) also owner of 5% of Ferrari's stakes as of the 2007 season.
Apart from sponsors, Ferrari have the following companies as official suppliers: Magneti Marelli, Mahle (pistons), IIR,
SKF, Europcar, Iveco,
NGK,
Infineon, HN Meccanica, Puma AG,
Sanbitter,
Tata,
Brembo,
BBS Kraftfahrzeugtechnik AG,
Selex,
Sabelt,
TRW Automotive Holdings, Microsoft (note: the sponsors/suppliers information is accurate for the 2007 season).
Ferrari's sponsorship earning for the years 2000-2005 were made public (http://www.myfilehut.com/userfiles/50511/21st/FerrariSponsors.pdf)
Records
The Ferrari team has achieved unparalleled success in
Formula One. Ferrari cars and Ferrari drivers have also won the
Mille Miglia 8 times, the Targa Florio 7 times, and the 24 hours of Le Mans 9 times. In F1, Ferrari has the unique distinction of owning nearly all significant records (as of the 2007 Chinese Grand Prix), including:
- Most constructor championships: 15
- Most driver championships: 14
- Most wins (all-time): 200
- Most wins (season): 15 (tied with McLaren)
- Most podiums (all-time): 600
- Most podiums (season): 29
- Most pole positions (all-time): 194
- Most points (all-time): 4,694.27
- Most points (season): 262
- Highest winning percentage: ~26% (for teams with at least 10 wins)
In 2004, Ferrari also surpassed
Ford Motor Company as the most successful F1 engine manufacturer, with 182 wins (to Ford's 176 wins). Due to the availability of the Cosworth V8 to private teams, a total of 6,639 Ford-powered cars were entered between 1967 and 2004, compared to 1,979 starts for Ferrari and
Petronas-badged engines during the same period.
Recent Formula One results
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