Ferrari is the oldest and most prestigious team in Formula One. In the past 50 years, Ferrari has produced a large number of the most creative racing cars in history, which has made Ferrari team create fabulous achievements.
1948, the first Ferrari model to participate in the world championship was 125. 1950 British Grand Prix, Argentine Froilan Gonzá lez represented Ferrari for the first time. 1952 alberto ascari won the world championship for the first time in a small Ferrari 500. From then on, Ferrari became the strongest team, 1953, and askari won the championship again. Argentine Juan Manuel 1956 won the only championship in his life, and former British champion Mika Hawthorne 1958 won the Ferrari again.
During the engine modification of Formula One, Ferrari's reaction speed was a little slow, but the team quickly mastered this technology. Phil Hill returned triumphantly with a shark's nose 196 1. In 1964, john surtees became the first racing driver to win two and four rounds. Although Ferrari was once in a slump, after the engineer Mauro Forghieri joined in 1973, Ferrari regained its vitality.
Forghieri is the father of Model T racing car. Luca Montezemolo's management and Niki Lauda's driver combination have brought even greater victory to the team, and won the structure award and driver award of 1975 and 1977. After Lauda left, Jody Scheckter took over and won the last world championship with 1979.
In the turbine era, the team was a great success, and 1982 and 1983 won the structure award. Unfortunately, in the Belgian Grand Prix of 1982, Ferrari legend Gilles Villeneuve was killed in practice. Due to outdated chassis technology, Ferrari entered the finishing period in the mid-1980s. Enzo Ferrari died in 1988, which is also the symbol that Fiat Group controls Ferrari. It was not until Ferrari designed the 640 series cars that the team regained some vitality.
In recent years, Ferrari has gradually recovered its strong strength. With the return of Luca di luca cordero di montezemolo to the team and winning such an excellent driver as michael schumacher, the team once again entered the championship competition.
An analysis of the history of McLaren F 1 team
Bruce Bruce McLaren, the son of a repair shop owner in Auckland, grew up in an environment that fascinated him with racing. He decided to become a motorcycle racer, but when he was nine years old, he suffered from a rare disease, which made him unable to walk for two years and caused him to be permanently lame.
1953, his father gave him an Austin 7 as a birthday present on his 16 birthday, when his major was engineering. 1957, joined Cooper -Climax mechanical super-running and single-seat events. The following year, he was sent to Europe by a local competition organization, so he was included in the starting list of European reserve drivers. At that time, he also achieved good results in the F2 competition. Therefore, in 1959, he partnered with Jack Brabham to become the driver of F 1 team. Braham won the world championship that year, while McLaren won the American GP held by Sebring before the end of the season. 1960 season, he was the king in Argentina with a similar driving style, but since then Brabam still dominated the race all the way. Due to the change of race specifications of 196 1, the team lost its competitiveness, and Braham created another team in 1962, and McLaren became the soul of the team at this time. But at that time, because Lotus and BRM were very strong, McLaren 1962 only won the Monaco race. He continued to stay in Cooper, but until the end of 1965, victory was always out of reach. During the winter of 1964 to 1965, he founded Bruce mclaren racing co., ltd, and joined hands with troy to build the first mclaren racing car M 1 < 1964 >, which is a CanAm racing car with an Oldsmobile engine. At the same time, he also improved the brand-new Cooper chassis for himself and Tim Mayer. Unfortunately, Tim Mayer was killed in an accident in Tasmania, Australia. McLaren continued the racing operation of the team alone and quickly won the GP in New Zealand.
His next plan is to buy a Zerex sports car. Soon, he and Roger Panshi tasted victory in America. After that, the car was renovated and equipped with an Oldsmobile engine, and began to participate in the American race on 1965. At the same time, he also participated in the F 1 competition as Cooper. Firestone wanted McLaren to help his company develop new tires, so he began to build single-seater cars to match the testing work. At that time, he rented a Ford GT40 sports car and won the 24 Hours of Le Mans with 1966. In the same year, he developed his first F 1 chassis, designed by Robin Herd and equipped with Ford engine. However, the engine was not successful, and McLaren began to try the SerenissimaV8 engine in the middle of the season.
In 1967, their team F 1 continued to compete with BRM engines except CanAm racing cars, but CanAm dominated in the next four years. Bruce mclaren not only participated in F 1 events, but also participated in USAC events, even including F2, but his performance did not improve. It was not until 1968 that the Cosworth DFV engine was adopted that he and denny hulme began the road to victory for McLaren. Since then, McLaren has won the championship in Italy, Canada and Belgium, and denny hulme won the championship in Mexico with 1969. Because of McLaren's high finish rate, he became the third in that season. 1in June, 970, when McLaren was testing the CanAm car in Goodwood, a part of the car broke down and had a serious collision, which became the end of his life journey.
McLaren lost its founder, who not only became meaningful in the history of F 1, but also became an extremely important role in the development history of F 1 today.
Williams F 1 Team History
Williams team was founded in 1977. At the beginning of the team, including drivers, there were only 17 people. Williams has developed from designing the first FW06 car to now, and has become a powerful force that cannot be ignored in the F 1 Grand Prix.
The 1980s was a glorious period for Williams. Finnish driver Keke Rosberg entered the race on behalf of the team, which was a blockbuster and won the first driver's championship of the year. 1983, Williams made great achievements. 1980, 198 1, 1986 and 1987 won the annual team championship four times. Williams had Senna in the 1990s, David? Kurhad, Yak? With the participation of drivers such as Villeneuve and franzen, among which legendary drivers? 1994 Senna crashed into a wall at the corner of Tamblay Rochcane in imola circuit and died. The accident plunged the team into a lawsuit that led to Senna's negligent death.
In 2000, Williams team cooperated with BMW automobile manufacturer to form F 1 Williams-BMW team. In the first year of building the team, he signed driver Ralph? Schumacher and Jenson? Barton and Williams achieved the goal of second place set by the team in 2002. In 2003 and 2004, the driver lineup remained unchanged, or Juan? Montoya and Ralph? Schumacher partner. In 2004 1 month, Williams was the first team in F 1 team to release and launch a new car this season? FW26' s motorcade. It can be said that in the new season of F 1 in 2004, Williams will be one of the few teams in F 1 with strong strength that challenges and threatens Ferrari's dominance.