They hold the best record in Formula 1. They're arguably the best Formula 1 team ever. The oldest team on the grid who has competed in all seasons starting 1950. Let's take a quick look at the record of Scuderia Ferrari in Formula 1.
To date they hold:
- Most constructor championships: 16
- Most driver championships: 15
- Most wins (all-time): 208
- Most wins (season): 15 (tied with McLaren)
- Most podiums (all-time): 617
- Most podiums (season): 29
- Most pole positions (all-time): 201
- Most points (all-time): 4,887.27
- Most points (season): 262
- Most fastest laps (all-time): 215
- Highest winning percentage: ~26% (for teams with at least 10 wins)
Let's take a closer look on the cars and drivers which allowed Scuderia Ferrari to win and claim the 16 Constructors title in the history of Formula 1.
- Ferrari 156 F1 - Ferrari and it's drivers dominated the season, taking both the Drivers' title and Constructors' title in 1961. The team won 5 out of the 8 races during the 1961 season where Phil Hill took 3, Wolfgang Von Trips with 1 and Giancarlo Baghetti also with 1.
- Ferrari 158 F1 - John Surtees became the first and only driver ever to take the highest accolade on 2 and on 4 wheels. The 158 F1 is also the car the marked Ferrari's return to the 8-cylinder engines. The 158 F1 also allowed the team to take the constructors title in 1964.
- Ferrari 312 T - After 11 years, Ferrari was back on top, winning both Drivers' and Constructors' title with Niki Lauda clocking 5 wins while Clay Regazonni took 1 in 1975.
- Ferrari 312 T2 - Because of a very successful season in 1975. The 1976 season started they way the 1975 season ended where Ferrari dominating it with 6 wins out of the first 9.
- Ferrari 312 T2 (1977) - An updated version of the Ferrari 312 T2 from 1976 allowed the team to grab the constructors title and Niki Lauda for the drivers title in 1977.
- Ferrari 312 T4 - Ferrari was back in form and won both championship in 1979. Where the Jody Sheckter taking the drivers title.
- Ferrari 126 C2 - A terrible destiny prevented Ferrari to take both championship during the 1982 season. One of the most popular Ferrari drivers of all time, Gilles Villenueve, lost his life while practicing for the Belgian GP at Zolder. Less, than 3 months later, Didier Pironi was seriously injured during the warm-up for the German Grand Prix. The 126 C2 proved to be a particularly competitive car, a fact that ensured Ferrari the constructors title in 1982 thanks to Patrick Tambay and Mario Andretti.
- Ferrari 126 C3 - From 1983
- Ferrari F399 - The year 1999 was the start of the great combination of Michael Schumacher and Ferrari. The team took the Constructors' titles up to the 2004 season.
- F1-2000 - The start of Michael Schumacher's greatness with Ferrari.
- Ferrari F2001
- Ferrari F2002 - Won 16 Grand Prix from a total of 20 races from 2002 and 2003
- Ferrari F2003-GA
- Ferrari F2004 - The most successful F1 car Maranello has produced which won 15 out of the 18 races in 2003. The car that allowed Michael Schumacher to win his 7th Drivers' title. A record which is said to be unbeatable. Which named Michael Schumacher The Greatest Formula 1 driver of all.
- Ferrari F2007 - A year full of controversy where title rival Mclaren was removed and disqualified from the championship after the court has proved that a Mclaren engineer has a stolen copy of the technical data of the present car of Ferrari (F2007) and a detailed layout design of the F2008 (which was to compete in the 2008 season). The car that allowed Kimi Raikonen to grab his first ever Drivers' title.
- Ferrari F2008 - The 54th single-seater of Ferrari. Code named 659, Ferrari's interpretation of the new regulations in force in the 2008 season.
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