Fernando Alonso in the Ferrari F10
Active years: 1950-present
History
The only team in Formula One today to have competed in the first World Championship in 1950. To many, Ferrari and Formula 1 are inseparable.
The first decade and a half of the world championship saw a string of Ferrari championships won by the likes of Alberto Ascari, Juan Manuel Fangio, Phil Hill and John Surtees.
Ferrari struggled from the mid-sixties to the mid-seventies, before the new partnership of Niki Lauda and Mauro Forghieri delivered more titles in 1975 and 1977. There would have been another in 1976 but for Lauda’s horror crash at the Nürburgring – and surely more had he and team founder Enzo Ferrari not fallen out.
Enzo died in 1988, nine years since the team’s last drivers’ title and five years since its last constructors’ championship. Throughout much of the 1980s and 1990s they looked like a spent force – although Alain Prost came close to winning the title for them in 1990.
It was only when Jean Todt recruited a swathe of staff from outside Italy – including Michael Schumacher – that the team began to taste championship success again. It began the 21st century with an unprecedented five consecutive championship doubles, and even after Schumacher’s departure the team claimed another double in 2007.
Cars
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Headquarters
Ferrari’s headquarters and Fiorano test circuit are at Maranello, Italy. Co-ordinates: +44° 31′ 59.25″, +10° 51′ 47.15″.
Major team personnel
President: Luca di Montezemolo
Team principal: Stefano Domenicali
Technical director: Aldo Costa
Engine and electronics director: Luca Marmorini
Chief designer: Nikolas Tombazis
Chief aerodynamicist: Marco de Luca
Sporting director: Massimo Rivola
Head of race engineers: Chris Dyer
Race engineer (Felipe Massa): Rob Smedley
Race engineer (Fernando Alonso): Andrea Stella
Previous identities: None
Ferrari is never the best team,but Michael Schumacher made it the finest team and then ferrari kicked him out as their advisor.great reward from Ferrari.But I believe that Schumacher will be champion again and alonso and his ferrari will be fallen.
ferrarri you are great and you are going to win
Forcia Ferrari they are going To Kick Ass This Year….. Go Massa And Alonso….
Ferrari are like any team in F1, they have their good and bad periods. But its true what they say, when Ferrari runs well, so does Formula 1. Its just a pity that they had their negative rant about the new teams in 2010. I don’t think it was warranted.