The Ferrari Downfall You've Forgotten About
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 มิ.ย. 2023
- It goes without saying that Ferrari have been having a bit of a hard time as of late. It has been 15 years since the longest running and most successful team in Formula 1 history have won the Constructors’ Championship, and 16 years since they have won the Drivers' Championship. In that time, they have remained consistently competitive, and have won lots of races, but have only had brief periods of dominance and have never been able to sustain Championship challenges against Red Bull and Mercedes, despite having had top-tier driver line-ups for near-on 30 years now. 2017 onwards has been especially sordid, as three times they have taken early leads in the standings, only for their campaigns to collapse under them, partly due to reliability and driver error, but more often than not because of substandard race strategies. In 2023, things are really not looking good, as they are making all of the same strategy errors as in 2022, but the car is no longer anywhere near fast enough to challenge for race wins. Their target this year was 1st in the Constructors’ Championship, and they’re currently looking at 4th. As bad as things are, however, they could be so much worse; and indeed, they have been. Time to rewind the clock 50 years.
SUBSCRIBE: / peterbrookf1
Twitter: / brook_f1
Instagram: / brook_f1
Patreon: / peterbrook
Discord: / discord
TikTok: / brook_f1
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/5lrIQiW...
Spotify for Podcasters: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/sh...
Music: Doorway - Slenderbeats
DISCLAIMER: Special mention to all the original sources of certain clips used in my videos. Please do check out their content for the full videos.
Copyright Disclaimer: Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. There are certain scenes from the Formula 1 calendar where race footage is used. All those rights are property of FOM. Other photos and news elements are used solely for the purpose of assisting the original content and to illuminate a more in depth story.
#F1 #Formula1 #Ferrari
This Ferrari downfall is so bad it made Jody Schekter retired from F1 racing altogether.
People who think the 2014 cat was the worst they'd ever built need to take a look at their 1973 and 1980 campaigns 😂
The crazy part about this is how they almost won the title 2 years later (and still took 2 constructors titles in 1982 & 1983).
Ferrari's Le Mans win was more of an AF Corse (one of the longest associated with the "prancing horse" teams) win than a Ferrari one. It just shows you how inept Ferrari is at management - a far cry from the Todt-Brawn-Schumacher days, when it was like a well oiled machine. I personally blame Luca di Montezemolo for the state Ferrari is in now
Great video as always. Just wanted to point out a pretty important detail about the Lauda retirement at Fuji (given that the story is true). In a brilliant Beyond the Grid podcast episode, Daniele Audetto, Ferrari team manager in 1976 said that the decision to withdraw from the race was made before the start. Bernie Ecclestone convinced Niki, James Hunt and Emerson Fittipaldi to agree to legally start the race, afraid that refusing to do so would lose f1 a ton of money. And he said that they can withdraw after a couple of laps which Hunt admittedely agreed to. James was then pressed by Teddy Mayer and Alastair Caldwell that he has to finish the race, so he decided that he will finish it and Lauda didn't know that. The story is also presented in Maurice Hamilton's biography of Niki Lauda. It was omitted in the Rush movie and i think that's the reason not many people know about it.
Ferrari was more or less irrelevant in my childhood, aside from Prost challenging for the championship in 1990. I remember it being a huge achievement when Berger put Ferrari back on the top step of a podium with his win at Hockenheim '94 after 4+ years without even a race win. And then I was in high school by the time Schumacher netted them a driver's championship. So I definitely haven't forgotten about Ferrari's struggles that started in the early '80s...it was the world I was born into and the first order of things in F1 that I encountered.
Ferraris downfall began when they became a huge company, and let business meddle with their racing... They started caring more about image and company politics and and less about winning... The only times the team have been trully successful after the 60s, was with Lauda and Schumacher, when the participants in the racing team took matter in their own hands
If it wasn't for schumacher tobt and brawn and all those guys... ferrari would still be in this drought
Villeneuve's first and only chance of winning the championship happened on the year that Ferrari entered its slump.
To be fair, in 2019 they wouldn't have been competitive if they hadn't been cheating. They didn't deserve to be competitive that year.
When I was a kid, my uncle gave me his old sticker album centered around 1980 season upon finding out that I love F1. Album included pictures of all drivers, teams, tracks and race results, as well as names of all champions and race winners (minus Indy 500 winners). Even back as a kid, I found Ferrari's results shocking, given that they were champions previous year. Plus, I first saw it in time when Schumacher and Ferrari were ruling F1, so idea that Ferrari could be bad was hard for me to grasp (I really was a naive fool that knew nothing back then).
Villeneuve's crash at Argentina was caused by a suspension failure, if you watch closely you can see the wheel turn the opposite way to the direction the car was going, and his struggles at the first half of 1978 was caused by him being unfamiliar with the Michelin radial tyres, which regularly caused problems for him.
At least that drop in performance was understandable - Ferrari didn't put much effort into the 1980 car, focusing on ground effect implementation and turbo engine development.
Vettel making an error in 2018 German GP was heartbreaking 💔
Fun fact: the car shown around
I remember those days for Ferrari. I was at the Long Beach Grand Prix in 1979 and would continue through 1983. For some reason Ferrari just cannot keep good people in the right positions. I'm really not a Ferrari fan but was glad the #51 Ferrari win the 24 Hours of Le Mans. I have been sick of watching Toyota win every year with no competition. I found it refreshing to see Ferrari on pole and Toyota in the second row.
Jody deserves recognition!!
Fantastic in two different videos tonight I watched the same Villeneuve overtake in Austria, taken away too soon salut Gilles
I've seen the comparison made made before, but I still think that Leclarc and Villeneuve share many similarities and specifically raw pace even if a little error prone. Its also interesting that they raced in both competative and uncompetitive Ferrari's. Great video.
W Peter Vid. We need more of this videos, especially going in depth with all the engineering. Awesome