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Ferrari

FIA Entry: Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro
Drivers Car 5: Fernando Alonso
Car 6: Felipe Massa
Engine: Ferrari V8
Chairman: Luca di Montezemolo
Team Principal: Stefano Domenicali
Technical Director: Aldo Costa
Race Engineer Car 5: Andrea Stella
Race Engineer Car 6: Rob Smedley

Stats as of end 2010 Season

First Entered: 1950
Races Entered: 813
Race Wins: 215
Pole Positions: 205
Fastest Laps: 224
Driver World Championships: 15
Constructor World Championships: 16

Team History

Ferrari are the only team to have taken part in the F1 World Championship since it's inception in 1950. They are synonymous with F1 and, for many, the reason why they follow the sport. Ferrrai fans, or Tifosi, have clubs across the World and can be see supporting their beloved red cars from China to Brazil.

Pre-War

Enzo Ferrari founded Scuderia (Italian for Stable) Ferrari in 1929 as the race entrants for Alfa Romeo. In 1938 Alfa decided to create their own race team and Scuderia Ferrari became part of the Alfa Course team. Disagreeing with the decision Enzo Ferrari was dismissed. As part of his contract he wasn't allowed to enter motor sport under his own name for 4 years. Ferrari started to build his own car in 1939 but the start of WWII meant the Ferrari factory was used for other purposes

Before the World Championships

The first racing Ferrari was the Tipo 125 with a 12 cylinder 1.5 litre engine developed in 1947. This was the first car to bear the now legendary Ferrari name. In 1948 the 125 F1 was built with a supercharged version of the 12 cylinder engine which won 5 Grands Prix in 1949.

The 1950's

Ferrari missed the first race of the first World Championship season with their first entry being at Monaco with the 125 F1. The first V12 powered Ferrari appeared at the Belgian Grand Prix that year and Ascari finished 5th.

Ferrari's first F1 win came at the British Grand Prix in 1951 with the Tipo 375 in the hands of Froilan Gonzales. With F1 run to F2 regulations in 1952 and '53, causing the withdrawal of Alfa Romeo, Ferrari dominated and Alberto Ascari in the Tipo 500, with a 4 cylinder 2 litre engine, won the Drivers World Championship both years.

1954 saw the introduction of the 2.5 litre formula and Ferrari had new competition from Maserati, Lancia and Mercedes. The new Mercedes team were too strong and Ferrari could only manage two races wins.

Ferrari only won one race in 1955 and for 1956 used chassis bought from the now defunct Lancia team. With Mercedes withdrawal Fangio moved to Ferrari and duly won his 3rd consecutive championship. Still using the ageing Lancia chassis in in 1957 Ferrari failed to win a race. 1958 saw Mike Hawthorn win the Drivers Championship in the new 246 Dino, named after Enzo Ferrari's recently deceased son. Ferrari missed out to Vanwall in the inaugural year of the Constructors Championship.

1959 saw Tony Brooks, in the Top 246 just miss out on the Drivers Championship to Jack Brabham in a rear engined Cooper.

The 1960's

Slow to react the the obvious advantages of the rear engined cars Ferrari continued with the 246 in 1960 and only managed a single victory.

For 1961 engines sizes were limited to 1.5 litres and Ferrari entered their first rear engined car, the Tipo 156. Based on the previous years F2 car Phil Hill took the Drivers Championship and Ferrari their first Constructors title. With little development to the 156 Ferrari failed to win a race in 1962.

In a season dominated by Jim Clark and Lotus, John Surtees put Ferrari back in the winners circle in 1963 with a win Germany following the introduction of the "Aero" 156 semi-monocoque car. With 3 wins in 1964 Surtees won the Drivers titles by a single point from Graham Hill in the last race of the season and Ferrari took their 2nd constructors title.

Clark and Lotus dominated again in 1965 and Ferrari couldn't compete against the British Garagerists. The new 3 litre engine regulations for 1966 proved more successful and John Surtees won in Belgium and Mexico to take 2nd place in the Drivers Championship. The Tipo 312 didn't do well for Ferrari in 1967 with a highest position of 3rd. Jacky Ickx managed a single win for the Scuderia in 1968 at the French Grand Prix. Continuing with the 312 into 1969 Ferrari again had a barren year.

The 1970's

With Ickx back at Ferrari for 1970 and a with B spec version of the 312 Ferrari won four races, three for Ickx and one for young Swiss driver Clay Regazzoni, in his début year in F1. Ickx finished 2nd in the Drivers Championship to Jochen Rindt, F1's first posthumous World Champion, and Ferrari managed the same position in the constructors title race.

Ickx and Mario Andretti won races in 1971 but the season was dominated by Jackie Stewart and his Tyrrell car. Ickx won a single race in 1972 but, as the team continued with the 312B, they were outpaced but Lotus and Tyrrell in 1973.

A young Austrian driver by the name of Niki Lauda was partnered with Regazzoni for 1974 and the team regrouped under the leader ship of Luca di Montezemolo. Lauda won his first race, and Ferrari’s first win since 1972, in Spain. Lauda won again in Holland and Regazzoni in Germany to place Ferrari 2nd in the constructors championship.

Ferrari’s decision to sign Lauda was justified in 1975 as he won the Drivers with some ease, taking 5 race wins. Regazzoni also won the Italian Grand Prix and Ferrari won the Constructors title.

Lauda missed out on the drivers title by a single point to James Hunt in 1976. His season was "interrupted" by an horrific crash at the German Grand Prix at Nurburgring which nearly cost the Austrian his life. Astonishingly Lauda only missed two races but retired at the last race of the season believing the soaking conditions to dangerous to race in. Ferrari won the constructors title.

Lauda was Champion again in 1977 but left the team before the end of the season unhappy at the team's decision to run a 3rd car for Gilles Villeneuve at the Canadian Grand Prix.

For 1978 Ferrari paired Villeneuve alongside Argentine driver Carlos Reutemann. The 312T3, with it's flat 12 engine, wasn't ideal for the new "wing" car technology but Reutemann still managed 4 race wins and Villeneuve took a début win at his home race in Canada.

Reutemann was replaced by Jody Scheckter for 1979 and with the 312 now in T4 guise won the Driver Championship with 4 wins. Villeneuve contributed a further 3 races victories and Ferrari ran away with the Constructors title.

The 1980's

Struggling on with their flat 12 engine for 1980 Ferrari had a dreadful season with 5th place being the best the could manage. Scheckter retired from F1 at the end of 1980 and was replaced by French driver Didier Pironi.

Ferrari moved into a new era in 1981 and introduced a V6 turbo powered car. Although the engine produced plenty of power the 126CK chassis was not quite as good but, in Villeneuve’s hands, Ferrari took two races wins including Monaco, the first for a turbo car in the modern era.

1982 saw a new car designed by Harvey Posthelthwaite which gave their drivers a chassis which could match the engine. However it proved to be a tragic season with Villeneuve losing his life in qualifying at the Belgium Grand Prix and Pironi having an accident which would end his career during practice in Germany. Finishing the season with replacement drivers Patrick Tambay and Mario Andretti, Ferrari won the constructors title.

For 1983 Ferrari had an all French driver line up with Rene Arnoux joining Tambay. Tambay won one race and Arnoux 3 giving Ferrari a 2nd consecutive Constructors title. Michele Alboreto joined Arnoux at Ferrari for 1984 and managed a solitary win at the Belgian Grand Prix.

Arnoux was dismissed from the team after only 1 race in 1985 and was replaced by Swede Stefan Johansson. Alboreto was leading the Drivers championship at the half way point of the season but unreliability cost him the title as he failed to finish the last 5 races of the season.

Ferrari failed to win a race in 1986. For 1987 Gerhard Berger took Johansson's seat and and proved his worth by winning the last two races of the season. Berger won the Italian Grand Prix in 1988 and was the only driver, other than Prost and Senna in McLaren's, to win a race that year.

Nigel Mansell was singed to partner Berger in 1989 and won the opening race of the season. He won again in Hungary and Berger won in Portugal but the Ferrari cars were outclassed by the McLaren machines.

The 90's

1989 World Champion joined Mansell at Ferrari for 1990. Prost and Senna diced for the drivers title through to the Japanese Grand Prix where his hoped were ended when Senna drove into him as they braked for the first corner on the first lap.

Mansell Left Ferrari in 1991 to be replaced by Jean Alesi. Ferrari failed to win a race and Prost's criticism of the team resulted in him being replaced for the last race of the season by Gianni Morbidelli.

1992 to 1995 were lean times for Ferrari win only two wins, Berger in Germany 1994 and Alesi Canada 1995 before double World Champion Michael Schumacher joined the team from Benetton for 1996.

The Schumacher Era

Schumacher won 3 races for Ferrari in 1996 and in 1997 was joined by ex-Benetton engineers Rory Byrne and Ross Brawn. It proved to be an astonishingly successful partnership. Between 1997 and 2006, when Schumacher retired, they dominated the sport. From 149 races Schumacher won 63, took 51 poles, 43 fastest laps and 98 podiums. Schumacher won 5 five successive Drivers Titles between 2000 and 2004 and the team took the Constructors Title from 1999 to 2004.

During his time at Ferrari he was partnered by Eddie Irvine, '96 to '99, Rubens Barrichello, 2000 to 2005, and Felipe Massa for his final season. The period wasn't without controversy as Schumacher had a clause in his contract classifying him as Number 1 driver and on a number of occasions his team mates were required by the team to move aside and let Schumacher gain a higher place resulting in a change to the regulations by the FIA outlawing team orders.

Schumacher retired at the end of 2006 having placed 3rd and 2nd in the Driver title race to Fernando Alonso in 2005 and 2006.

From 2006

Kimi Raikkonen took on the task of filling Schumacher's place in the team for 2007 and duly won the Drivers Title and Ferrari the Constructors. 2008 saw Felipe Massa lose out on the title to Lewis Hamilton as Hamilton took the 5th place he needed two corners from the end of the last race of the season. Ferrrai had the consolation of the Constructors Championship.

Raikkonen and Massa raced together in 2009 and Raikkonen took a single win at the Belgian Grand Prix. Massa was injured in a freak accident at the Hungarian race and his place was taken by Luca Badoer and Giancarlo Fischella. The replacement drivers showed the short comings of the Ferrari 056 chassis and were some distance behind Raikkonen in the races they competed in.

Double World Champion Fernando Alonso took Raikkonen's place for 2010 and, like Mansell in 1989, won a place in the hearts of Ferrari supporters by winning his first race. With 5 wins through the season, including Ferrari’s home race in Italy, he was challenging for the title through to the final round but could only manage 7th in Abu Dhabi losing out on the title to Sebastien Vettel by 4 points.

2011 sees Ferrari continue with Alonso and Massa as their drivers and have named their car the F150th Italia to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Italy's foundation as a nation.
 
It's better for the team if their drivers get along I would imagine. Seb knows and gets along with Kimi hence keeping him as a team mate rules out one kind of issue within the team. Who is to say he and young Charles can't get along equally as well? Only time will tell on that one.

The point of being there isn't to get along with your team mate though, it's to win, sometimes that can lead to terrible friction between drivers as we've all seen too often before. That can be exciting for the fans at times, but I am guessing the teams could live without the added drama and tension.
 
Some people are hoping for la répétition of 2014. That would give Hamilton good chance for next WDC, however I think today Vettel has a different mindset. What I am not sure about are Ferrari's plans beyond 2019. If they have made their mind already it will be future without Vettel, then they will treat him accordingly, and it might turn into difficult year for Seb, and a good one for Leclerc.
 
Some people are hoping for la répétition of 2014. That would give Hamilton good chance for next WDC, however I think today Vettel has a different mindset. What I am not sure about are Ferrari's plans beyond 2019. If they have made their mind already it will be future without Vettel, then they will treat him accordingly, and it might turn into difficult year for Seb, and a good one for Leclerc.

It is possible that Alonso will return to Ferrari in 2020. No way? I would not be actually surprised over that. Several cryptic remarks from Alonso that his return to F1 is quite possible only supports my speculative scenario that someone placed an exploratory phone call to him from Ferrari top brass. I do not know actually anything about relationship between Binotto and Vettel and neither about Bin and Alonso. Binotto is however with Ferrari "forever", and went through period when Alonso badmouthed Ferrari left, right, and at the centre. Forgive and Forget? Maybe so, we will see.
 
Decision to change management:
"Everything happened before Christmas, then for various reasons we decided not to reveal the decision," said Piero Ferrari.
"I don't want to go into details, also because I can only speak as a shareholder, but I only say that there was a confrontation between us members and in the end we acted in the exclusive interest of Ferrari," he added.

How significant is this revelation in terms how much support Bin has among people who do own the team? OK, he was chosen from necessity avoiding him leaving, thus preserving technical continuity, however now when vote is in, is support of him by some at the top conditional, or full and without reservation? Lets hope people will keep their egos in check, and do what is needed to succeed (as opposed to coming up with "I told you so").

Arrivabene meanwhile rides rollercoaster. One day he is a manager of a footbal team, next day he follows Kimi to Sauber.

Rosberg too seems to have too much of free time on his hands, and coming up with thousand and one stories concerning Vettel. My advice, hey bud, take a break, or find some other ways to grab headlines.

Winter break is far too long.
 
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well I said 1 thing this has proved Ferrari are really private because nobody had a sniff of fuss happening, the arguments between arrivabene & binotto, how disliked arrivabene was within his own team at the track & factory
 
Going back to Seb I can;t remember which practice session it was but he had both Ricciardo and Verstappen sitting next to him at the press conference and the names he touted for future Ferrari drivers were Le Clerc and Giovinazzi in trying to play mind games with Ricciardo and Verstappen who he would prefer Ferrari to announce as someone who drives alongside him. So be careful what you wish for Seb , then again he's had Raikkonen as his teammate for 4 years because he thought he was undisputed No 1 but it turns out it was not like that from Monza onwards

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Ricciardo did say he got tired of the chess games during the silly season when he was pushing hard for the drive at Ferrari but had hoped he may drive for them in the future. I am not sure if Daniel has missed the boat then if he felt he got fed up that forced him to sign with Renault
 
Going back to Seb I can;t remember which practice session it was but he had both Ricciardo and Verstappen sitting next to him at the press conference and the names he touted for future Ferrari drivers were Le Clerc and Giovinazzi in trying to play mind games with Ricciardo and Verstappen who he would prefer Ferrari to announce as someone who drives alongside him. So be careful what you wish for Seb , then again he's had Raikkonen as his teammate for 4 years because he thought he was undisputed No 1 but it turns out it was not like that from Monza onwards

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Ricciardo did say he got tired of the chess games during the silly season when he was pushing hard for the drive at Ferrari but had hoped he may drive for them in the future. I am not sure if Daniel has missed the boat then if he felt he got fed up that forced him to sign with Renault

Ferrari was not interested in DR, as he himself confirmed in one interview, when he with somewhat forced smile on his face said, that they (Scuderia) probably lost his phone number. They never placed a call, nevermind launch negotiations.

Media, and consequently fans, insist on theory that Ferrari has No. 1 and 2 policy. It si a claim Arrivabene repeatedly denied.
I for one believe that a season begins without labels, and only in-season as points begin to accumulate, a driver who has chance to rise onto podium by the end of the season receives focused support. Any claims that Vettel was blocking DR's sign-up is I think made-up theory to put sweet cream on what was basically unkind rejection of him with roots in upper echelons of Ferrari hierarchy. (i) SM would not ask Vettel what to do, and (ii) SM wanted Leclerc, not DR.
 
Ferrari did well to keep that quiet didn't they? MInd you there was talk of Maurizio being on the way out towards the end of last season as I recall. Seems that was true then.

I hope Ferrari can produce a car which can fight for wins and more to the point, I hope the team can avoid the silly msitakes they all made in 2018. All this changing around of personnel isn't good for any team but with any luck they will gel and make 2019 worth watching. If Mercedes start to run away with it yet again, I'm not sure I can stand it!!
 
Bottom line - I don't believe Vettel will be recipient of similar quality support Hamilton is enjoying at MB, and if this is last year for him with Ferrari, than it will be Leclerc who will be groomed for "better things" at the expenses of his teammate. Not too many people care how Bottas is treated, but they care whether Leclerc will receive equal status within the team operational envelope. That's my take what's ahead na drivers side.
 
"Who will negotiate the Concorde Agreement with Liberty Media? Binotto will have other things to do," Italian journalist Fulvio Solms pointed out.

Other outlets in Italy report similar, with the sharing of the team boss role deemed a likely possibility. Domenicali currently presides over Lamborghini as CEO and during his tenure has seen sales rise by 50% according to reports.

Corriere dello Sport also tipped Domenicali to replace Louis Camilleri as Ferrari CEO. According to them, Ferrari chairman John Elkann is reportedly eager for the appointment of Domenicali as a replacement.

Sounds good to me, and to be frank, better than expected. Management needs to settle in. Drivers aren't problem, despite all nonsense we hear on sidelines. Schumacher has taken several years before winning a lot, Alonso couldn't do it, and Vettel's so called "errors" have their core roots in a car being driven beyond its capabilities. Dome coming back could be a good thing, however whether he will be the one pushing for re-hiring Alonso remains to be seen.
 
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Sounds good to me, and to be frank, better than expected. Management needs to settle in. Drivers aren't problem, despite all nonsense we hear on sidelines. Schumacher has taken several years before winning a lot, Alonso couldn't do it, and Vettel's so called "errors" have their core roots in a car being driven beyond its capabilities. Dome coming back could be a good thing, however whether he will be the one pushing for re-hiring Alonso remains to be seen.

Clarification by Elkann

Elkann strongly denies those reports, in an open letter in Gazzetta dello Sport, the Ferrari president has reassured there is not to be any major changes taking place at the Italian side.

He really scolded the Italian media.
 
I have my doubts whether dominical would take the job, because I was listening to the beyond the grid podcast & he seems really happy at Lamborghini as you say he doing very well sales are up, he lives local, is happy that he gets to spend more time with his family, working in a less stressful & pressurised environment. also he enjoying planning the future appartantly a new lambo SUV is coming out.

you've got to remember that he was in that team for 23 years & was the team manager for 6. I dont think he has any unfinished business
 
There was the other Italian who said - I make you an offer you can't refuse... :)

Sorry for resorting to a cliche, but money combine together with an ambition to win with Ferrari is a strong incentive. Dome is hungry for that elusive win. The man is really intelligent too, and forging a new agreement with Liberty would be his forte. (IMO)
 
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Dome?
MB?

I really struggle to read your posts Izumi

i know who/what you mean but as you're the only person who I see referring to Domenicali as Dome and Mercedes as MB (rather than Merc) you tax my brain. Might stave off the dementia I guess, though.
 
Dome?
MB?

I really struggle to read your posts Izumi

i know who/what you mean but as you're the only person who I see referring to Domenicali as Dome and Mercedes as MB (rather than Merc) you tax my brain. Might stave off the dementia I guess, though.

I see, however trust me, there is bunch of people I know in person who affectionately use both acronyms without reservations (and if you address Domenicali that way, he will answer to you). On the internet (outside of F1 domain) the definition of Merc is actually "Mercenary" or "Injure or kill", That is not Mercedes Benz (MB) I know.

My intent is however not to intentionally confuse anyone, thus I apologize for any hardship this has caused here.
 
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Lol, don't accomodate me mate, I just need to exercise my brain more.
The Domenicos I know answer to "Dom" but maybe I'm insulting them every time!
 
There was the other Italian who said - I make you an offer you can't refuse... :)

Sorry for resorting to a cliche, but money combine together with an ambition to win with Ferrari is a strong incentive. Dome is hungry for that elusive win. The man is really intelligent too, and forging a new agreement with Liberty would be his forte. (IMO)

i still think he will short term unless he is absolutely commited which after 23 urs i feel it closed in his eyes. its like have 2nd stint as England manager
 
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