Saturday, March 3, 2007

Ferrari

Base: Maranello - Italy
Drivers: F Massa
K Räikkönen
Test Drivers: L Badoer
Chassis: F2007
Engine: 056
Tyres: Bridgestone Potenza
First Season: 1950
World Championships: 14
Highest race finish: 1 (x192)
Pole Positions: 186
Fastest Laps: 193

Race History
2006 Initially play second fiddle to Renault, but Michael Schumacher leads fightback with seven victories in his final Formula One season. Team move ahead of Renault with just three rounds to go, but rare reliability issues see them beaten to title by just five points.
2005 Struggle with new regulations, in particular those requiring tyres to last through qualifying and race. Make the podium at seven events, including one victory at Indianapolis, where Michelin withdrawal leaves six-car field. Finish third in constructors' standings.
2004 Lose just three times in 18 races to take the constructors' crown for the sixth year in a row. An incredible 13 victories for Michael Schumacher sees him take championship number seven.
2003 A much tougher season, but still ultimately unbeatable. A record fifth successive constructors' title, with Michael Schumacher the first man to take six drivers' crowns.
2000 Ferrari enter a period of total domination, winning Drivers' and Constructors' titles three years in a row.
1999 Ferrari takes the Constructors' Championship in the last race but Eddie Irvine just falls short of the Drivers' Championship.
1983 Ferrari wins its eighth Constructors' Championship.
1979 Jody Scheckter wins the Drivers' Championship driving a Ferrari. It will be the last Drivers' title for the team for 21 years.
1975 Niki Lauda takes the Drivers' Championship with the team and comes back from his horrific accident in 1976 to grab a second title for the team in 1977.
1964 John Surtees, a former world motorbike champion, takes the Drivers' Championship driving for Ferrari. He remains the only man to achieve both titles.
1961 Phil Hill leads Ferrari to the 'double' of both Drivers' and Constructors' Championships.
1958 Mike Hawthorn becomes the third Ferrari driver to win the Drivers' Championship.
1956 Juan-Manuel Fangio wins the his fourth Drivers' Championship with the Scuderia.
1952 Alberto Ascari wins first of two back to back Drivers' Championships in a Ferrari.
1951 Jose Froilan Gonzalez records Ferrari's first victory at the British Grand Prix.

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