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1898 Enzo Ferrari born in Modena, Italy.
1929 Enzo Ferrari forms his company.
1947 Franco Cortese wins the Grand Prix of Rome to record Ferrari’s first race win. 1951 Jose Gonzalez records Ferrari’s first Formula One victory.
1952 Alberto Ascari wins the Drivers’ World Championship in a Ferrari.
1953 Ascari wins back-to-back titles driving for the Modena-based team.
1956 Juan-Manuel Fangio wins World Championship with Ferrari.
1958 Mike Hawthorn becomes the third Ferrari driver to win the title.
1961 Phil Hill leads Ferrari to the’double’ of both Drivers’ and Constructors’ titles. 1964 John Surtees takes the World Championship in a Ferrari.
1969 Lowest-ever Ferrari score of seven points achieved in Constructors’ World Championship.
1975 Niki Lauda takes title in a Ferrari ahead of Emerson Fittipaldi.
1977 Lauda repeats his success of two years earlier.
1979 Jody Scheckter wins his only World Championship driving a Ferrari.
1983 Ferrari win the last of their eight World Constructors’ Championships.
1996 Ferrari give double World Champion Michael Schumacher a record$25 million two-year contract.
1998 Despite taking the championship to the last race in Japan, Michael Schumacher is unable to deliver the title.
1999 Ferrari take the Constructors’ Championship in the last race but Eddie Irvine just fell short of a World title.
2000 Ferrari win an emotional drivers’ championship with Michael Schumacher - their first since 1979. They also retain the constructors’ crown, to position themselves as the best team in Formula1 for this season.
2001 Ferrari retain both their constructors’ and drivers’ title for a second year running, after a dominant season which saw them secure both trophies by the Hungarian GP.
Scuderia Ferrari was founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1929 in viale Trento Trieste in Modena, Italy. Its racing activities took the form of the Alfa Romeo cars until 1938, when Enzo split from Alfa Romeo and founded Auto Avio Costruziono Ferrari while he waited for the four year ban on producing racing cars in his name to pass.
The outbreak of World War II prevented any competitions taking place, but Enzo continued developing his company by moving to Maranello in 1943 and producing oleodynamic grinding machines until the factory was bombed in 1944. At the end of the war the company’s name was changed to Ferrari and began designing racing cars again.
Ferrari is the only manufacturer to have competed in all editions of the World Drivers’ Championship since its creation in 1950. It is also one of the few teams to build every part of the racing car in house. The team has an impressive role call of drivers who have competed in its cars. These include Alberto Ascari, Gerhard Berger, Juan Manuel Fangio, Giuseppe Farina, Dan Gurney, Mike Hawthorn, Phil Hill, Jacky Ickx, Eddie Irvine, Niki Lauda, Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost, Clay Regazzoni, Jody Scheckter, John Surtees, Gilles Villeneuve and, of course, Michael Schumacher.
2001 saw one of their most successful seasons to date, with Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello wrapping up the drivers’ and constructors’ championship by the Hungarian GP on August 18th. Schumacher won nine out of seventeen races, in Australia, Malaysia, Spain, Monaco, Europe, France, Hungary, Belgium and Japan. He eventually took the drivers’ championship by fifty-six points from David Coulthard and demonstrated his ultimate skill as a racing driver.