Thursday, June 14, 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 (x195)
Pole Positions: 190
Fastest Laps: 196
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. Seven podiums, 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 both drivers' and constructors' titles three years in a row.
1999 Michael Schumacher misses six rounds after breaking leg at Silverstone. Team take constructors' championship in the last race but Eddie Irvine just falls short of drivers' title.
1983 Ferrari wins their eighth constructors' championship.
1979 Jody Scheckter wins the drivers' championship - it will be the team's last drivers' title for 21 years.
1975 Niki Lauda takes the 1975 drivers' championship and comes back from his horrific accident in 1976, going on to grab a second title for the team in 1977.
1964 John Surtees, a former world motorcycle champion, takes the drivers' crown. He remains the only man to achieve the feat on two wheels and four.
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 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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