Get to know F1 Teams: Ferrari
Hi, I am introducing the teams of Formula 1, first up is the Scuderia Ferrari.
Ferrari is the oldest and the most successful team in F1 history.
Ferrari is Based in Maranello, Provence of Modena, Italy
The current team members:
Team Principal- Mattia Binotto
Deputy Team Principal- Laurent Mekies (Racing Director)
Technical Directors-
Enrico Cardile (Performance of Chassis), Enrico Gualtieri (Power Unit), David Sanchez (Concept of Vehicle), Fabio Montecchi (Project of Chassis) and Enrico Racca (Head of Supply Chain & Manufacturing)
Drivers- Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz Jr.
Founder- Enzo Ferrari
History.
Scuderia Ferrari was founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1929 to enter amateur drivers in various races, though Ferrari himself had raced in CMN (Costruzioni Maccaniche Nazionali) and Alfa Romeo cars before that date. The idea came about on the night of 16 November at a dinner in Bologna, where Ferrari solicited financial help from textile heirs Augusto and Alfredo Caniato 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; Ferrari himself continued racing, with moderate success, until the birth of his first son Dino in 1932. The well-known prancing horse blazon first appeared at the 1932 Spa 24 Hours in Belgium on a two-car team of Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Spiders, which finished first and second. Enzo Ferrari disagreed with this policy change and was finally dismissed by Alfa in 1939. In October 1939 Enzo Ferrari left Alfa when the racing activity stopped and founded his own company Auto Avio Costruzioni Ferrari, which also manufactured machine tools. The deal with Alfa included the condition that he would not use the Ferrari name on cars for four years.
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 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 Giaseppe Farina.
The team was initially based in Mondena from its pre-war founding until 1943, when Enzo Ferrari moved the team to a new factory in Maranello in 1943,and both Scuderia Ferrari and Ferrari's road car factory remain at Maranello to this day. The team owns and operates a test track on the same site, the Fiorano Circuit built in 1972, which is used for testing road and race cars.
The team is named after its founder, Enzo Ferrari. Scuderia is Italian for a stable reserved for racing horses and is also commonly applied to Italian motor racing teams.
The prancing horse was the symbol on Italian World War 1 ace Francesco Baracca's fighter plane and became the logo of Ferrari after the fallen ace's parents, close acquaintances of Enzo Ferrari suggested that Ferrari use the symbol as the logo of the Scuderia, telling him it would 'bring him good luck'.
Ferrari has always produced engines for its own Formula One cars, and has also supplied engines to other teams. Ferrari has previously supplied engines to Minardi (1991), Scuderia Italia (1992–1993), Sauder (1997–2005 with engines badged as 'Petronas', and 2010–2018), Prost (2001, badged 'Acer'), Red Bull Racing (2006),Spyker (2007), Scuderia Toro Rosso (2007–2013, 2016), Force India (2008) and Marussia (2014–2015). When regulations changed in 2014, Cosworth decided not to make the new V6 turbo engines. Marussia, the only team that Cosworth supplied at the time, signed a multi-year deal with Ferrari, starting in 2014. As of 2021, Ferrari supplies the Haas F1 Team and Alfa Romeo Racing.
Ferrari did not enter the first-ever race of the championship, the 1950 British Grand Prix due to a dispute with the organisers over "start money". In the 1960s Ferrari withdrew from several races in 'strike' actions.
In 1987, Ferrari considered abandoning Formula One for the American IndyCar series. This threat was used as a bargaining tool with the FIA – Enzo Ferrari offered to cancel the IndyCar Project and commit to Formula One on the condition that the technical regulations were not changed to exclude V12 engines. The FIA agreed to this, and the IndyCar project was shelved, although a car, the Ferrari 637 had already been constructed.
In 2009, it had emerged that Ferrari had an FIA-sanctioned veto on the technical regulations.
Formula 1 Results
| Most Constructors' Championships | 16 | 16 |
| Most Drivers' Championships | 15 | 15 |
| Most Grands Prix participated | 1033 | 1033 |
| Most Grands Prix started | 1030 | 1031 |
| Most wins | 240 | 241 |
| Most podium finishes | 778 (in 590 races) | 783 (in 593 races) |
| Most 1–2 finishes | 85 | 86 |
| Most Pole Positions | 232 | 232 |
| Most qualifying 1–2s | 79 | 79 |
| Most Constructors' Championship points | 8844 | |
| Most Drivers' Championship points | 9436.79 | |
| Most fastest laps | 256 | 257 |
| Most consecutive seasons with at least one victory during a season | 20 (1994–2013) | 20 (1994–2013) |
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