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Championship Year

Car:  Ferrari 500 F2 (Tipo)
Driver:  Alberto Ascari
Nationality: Italian

Career Highlights
World Championships:  2
Grand Prix Entries:   32
Grand Prix Wins:   13
Pole Positions:   14

In 1949 Ascari joined Ferrari, where his dominance would make him Formula One racing’s first back-to-back champion. In 1952 he drove his Ferrari 500 to victory in six of the eight championship races. 

Championship Fact
In comparison to previous seasons, the 1952 Formula One season consisted of a relatively small number of Formula One races, following the FIA's decision to run the World Drivers Championship to Formula Two regulations instead.

Ferrari 500 (Tipo)

Designed by Aurelio Lampredi, the Ferrari 500 was one of the simplest yet most successful racing cars ever built. It was powered by an in line four cylinder engine that was mounted behind the front axle, improving weight distribution and handling.

Piero Taruffi raced the car with Ascari winning 9 straight races over the 1952 and 1953 season – a drivers’ world championship record that clearly defined the Ferrari 500’s status in motor racing history.

The car dominated both the 1952 and 1953 F2 seasons and Ascari   took the two first world titles for himself and for Ferrari with a lead that was not often matched until the season at the start of the new millennium (2000-2001).

Engine facts
Type:   front, longitudinal in-line four
Maximum power:  136 kW (185 hp) at 7,500 rpm
Power per litre:  93 hp/l

Chassis facts

• Frame:   tubular steel chasis

• Fuel tank:   capacity 150 litres

Bodywork facts

• Type:   F2 single-seater

• Wheelbase:   2160mm

• Weight :  560 kg (dry) 

Performance facts

• Top speed:   260km/h

Play this short video and relive the glory of Ferrari’s 1952 Championship year

Championship Year

Car:  Ferrari 246 F1 (dino)
Driver:  Mike Hawthorn
Nationality: British

Career Highlights

• World Championships:  1

• Grand Prix Entries:   45

• Grand Prix Wins:   3

• Pole Positions:   4

Mike Hawthorn began racing in 1950 but it wasn’t until 1953 that Enzo Ferrari hired him to drive a Formula One car. 
After a three year break racing for the Vanwall and BRM teams Mike returned to Ferrari in 1958. It would be his most successful racing year but also a tragic one as the championship was mared by a fatal crash at the Nurburing involving his friend and team mate Peter Collins.

Devastated by the death of his friend, Mike raced on and finished the season one point ahead of Stirling Moss to become the first British Formula One Drivers’ World Champion.

Championship Fact
As well as being the first car with a V6 engine to win a Formula One Grand Prix (the French Grand Prix at Reims) the Ferrari 246 F1 was also the last car with a front-mounted engine to win a Grand Prix.

Ferrari 246 F1

The Ferrari 246 F1 was designed and built by Vittorio Jano and Carlo Chiti. Due to regulations for the 1954 – 1960 seasons limiting the use of naturally aspirated engines to 2500cc, Jano and Chiti set the car up with a 2417cc Dino V6 engine with a 65º angle between the cylinder banks. 

This was the first V6 engine ever used in a Formula One racing car.

Engine facts

• Type:   front, longitudinal 65 degree, V6

• Maximum power:  206 kW (280 hp) at 8,500 rpm
• Power per litre:  116 hp/l

Chassis facts

• Frame:   tubular steel chassis

• Fuel tank:   capacity 160 litres

Bodywork facts

• Type:   Formula 1 single-seater
• Wheelbase:   2160mm
• Weight:  560 kg (with liquids)  

Performance facts

• Top speed:   280km/h

Take a look at the1958 championship winning year in action.

Championship Year

• Car:  Ferrari 156 F1
• Driver :  Phil Hill
• Nationality: American

Career Highlights

• World Championships: 1 
• Grand Prix Entries:   49 
• Grand Prix Wins:   3 
• Pole Positions:   6

Rising to stardom as America's best sportscar racer, Hill was originally invited to join Ferrari’s endurance racing rosta at Le Mans.
However, after the tragic deaths of Luigi Musso and Peter Collins in 1958, he was promoted to Ferrari's Formula One team where he helped Mike Hawthorn to win the 1958 Drivers’ Championship.

By 1961 Hill had become a Formula One star in his own right. A terrific season-long battle with his Ferrari team mate, Count Wolfgang von Trips, ensued with Hill winning the Championship by a single point.

The Ferrari 156 F1 was designed and built for the 1961 World Championship by Carlo Chiti. New Formula One regulations meant that the engine – the V6 “Dino” engine named after Enzo Ferrari’s late son – needed its displacement lowered from 2.5 to 1.5 litres. 

The Ferrari 156 F1 is one of the most iconic racing car shapes ever to grace Formula One racing and is considered by many to be the most distinctive of all the Ferraris. 

Engine facts

• Type:   rear, longitudinal 120 degree, V6
• Power per litre:  129 hp/l

Chassis facts

• Fuel tank:   capacity 150 litres

Performance facts

• Top speed:   260km/h

Watch Ferrari’s outstanding performance in the 1961 Championship.

Championship Year

Car:   Ferrari 158

• Driver:   John Surtees
• Nationality:  British

Career Highlights

• World Championships: 1 
• Grand Prix Entries:   112 
• Grand Prix Wins:   6 
• Pole Positions:   0

John Surtees had already won seven motorcycling World Championships before Enzo Ferrari, a great admirer of his passion, hired him as his number one Formula One driver in 1963. In that year's German Grand Prix at the mighty Nurburgring John Surtees had his first championship win for Ferrari.

In Italy, the former motorcycle hero known as 'Son of the Wind' and 'John the Great' was hailed as Ferrari's saviour, a sentiment that was repaid in full as Surtees won brilliant victories at Monza and the dangerous Nurburgring to help clinch the 1964 Drivers’ World Championship.

Championship Fact
In the last two races of the 1964 Championship, Ferrari broke with tradition and competed in blue and white cars rather than their famous racing red. This was done as a protest to the Italian Racing Authorities regarding the homologation of a new mid-engine Ferrari race car.

Ferrari 158

The Ferrari 158 was built as a successor to the Ferrari 156 F1 that had dominated Formula One in 1961. Designed by Mauro Forghieri and driven by John Surtees and Lorenzo Bandini, the Ferrari 158 featured a light and powerful V8 engine.

John Surtees drove the 158 to its debut victory in the Syracuse GP and then went on to record a string of podium finishes that earned him the 1964 Drivers’ World Championship.

Engine facts

• Type:   rear, longitudinal 90 degree, V8
• Maximum power:  154 kW (210 hp) at 11,000 rpm
• Power per litre:  141 hp/l

Chassis facts 

• Frame:   semi-monocoqur and tubular steel chassis with riveted aluminium panels 
• Fuel tank:   capacity 125 litres

Bodywork facts

• Type:   Formula 1 single-seater
• Wheelbase:   2380mm
• Weight:  468 kg (dry)  

Performance facts

• Top speed:   270km/h

Recapture the thrills of Ferrari’s 1964 Championship year here.

Championship Year 

• Car:   Ferrari F1-2000
• Driver:   Michael Schumacher
• Nationality:  German

Career Highlights

• World Championships: 7 
• Grand Prix Entries:   250 
• Grand Prix Wins:   91 
• Pole Positions:   68

Although a badly broken leg sustained in a crash at the British Grand Prix had cut Michael Schumacher’s 1999 season short, Ferrari had made up a lot of ground on the teams at the front of the grid and they began their challenge for the 2000 World Championship with renewed optimism.

Sure enough the team’s positive approach quickly bore fruit with Schumacher storming to victory in the first three races of the season.

From then on there was no stopping 'Schumi' – who went on to win nine of the season’s seventeen races and become Ferrari's first World Champion in 21 years. 

Championship Fact
The F1-2000 proved to be one of Ferrari’s most competitive cars ever with Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barichello scoring a combined 170 points to secure the 2000 Constructors’ World Championship."
Winning nine of the seventeen rounds of the 2000 season, Michael Schumacher and Scuderia Ferrari began their domination of Formula One.

 
The 2000 season bought an end to Scuderia Ferrari’s 21 year Drivers’ Championship drought.

Ferrari F1 2000

The Ferrari F1-2000 was designed by Rory Bryne for the 2000 Formula One season and, although similar in design to the previous season’s car the F399, Bryne’s new design featured  improved aerodynamics and a V10 engine displaced just under three litres.

The F1 2000 was driven by Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello.
The F1 2000 was operated with a seven-speed longitudinal semi-automatic sequential gearbox.
Constructors title, Drivers title, 10 wins and 3 one-two finishes were the prestigious results obtained by the F1-2000.

Engine facts

• Type:   rear, longitudinal 90 degree, V10
• Maximum power:  592 kW (805 hp) at 17,300 rpm
• Power per litre:  269 hp/l

Chassis facts Frame: honeycombe and carbon-fibre composite monocoque 

• Steering: electric power-assisted rack-and-pinion

Bodywork facts

• Type:   Formula 1 single-seater
• Wheelbase:   3010mm
• Weight:  600 kg (dry)

Ferrari is back on the Championship podium. View the winning year in action. 

Championship Year

• Car:  Ferrari F2007
• Driver:  Kimi Räikkönen
• Nationality: Finnish

Career Highlights

• World Championships:   1 
• Grand Prix Entries:        153 
• Grand Prix Wins:        18 
• Pole Positions:   16

In 2007 Kimi Räikkönen, nicknamed ‘Iceman’ due to his calculated and focused driving style, was hired by Ferrari to replace Michael Schumacher.

Stepping into the shoes of Schumacher should have been a daunting task but the cool Finn took the role in his stride and won the opening race of the 2007 season from pole position.

Although Räikkönen won more races than his closest rivals, a series of poor races early in the season meant that he was the long-shot for the title coming into the final race. Never one to give up the Finn drove brilliantly, winning the race and the 2007 World Drivers’ championship by a single point.

Championship Fact
In the 2007 Chinese Grand Prix, Kimi Räikkönen drove a brilliant race to give Scuderia Ferrari their 200th Formula One GP victory. Team-mate Felipe Massa also drove well, finishing third giving the team their 600th podium place.

Ferrari F2007

Aldo Costa and Nicholas Tombazis designed the Ferrari F2007 but new safety regulations meant the pair had to make significant changes to the previous seasons car; the most drastic being to the chassis where they extended the wheelbase from 3050mm to 3135mm.

This modification maximized the cars aerodynamic performance to such a degree that it helped the team win the Constructors’ Championship by a clear 100 points.

The F2007 is the fifty third single-seater built by Ferrari specifically to compete in the Formula One World Championship.

The F2007 was driven by Kimi Räikkönen and Felipe Massa, and carried Kimi to his first Drivers’ World Championship and the Scuderia to its first Constructors’ title since Michael Schumacher.

The F2007 represents the Scuderia’s interpretation of the technical regulations that applied for 2007 with changes principally concerning safety.
 
Engine facts

• Type:   rear, longitudinal 90 degree, V8
• Total displacement: 2398 cc"

Chassis facts

• Frame:   honeycombe and carbon-fibre composite monocoque 
• Steering:  mechanical power-assisted rack-and-pinion

Bodywork facts

• Type:   Formula 1 single-seater
• Wheelbase:   3135mm
• Weight :  600 kg (with liquids and driver)

Watch Kimi Räikkönen and Felipe Massa lead Ferrari to glory again in 2007.

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