Ferrari owners and supporters F1 appreciation thread

I have to agree.

 

Driver? They've had their fair share of greats.

But, I'm gonna toss a wild card here. Mario Andretti.

Won in whatever he drove, be it INDY, F!, Dirt Track, Sprint Cars, NASCAR, 24 hr or 12 hr endurance. Hell, I betcha he came in first in his neighborhood bike races, and someday, will finish first in wheelchair races at the home for old race car drivers. 1st F1 win was in a Ferrari.

Just an F1 guy? Schumacher based on results, Niki Lauda based on balls. He's really the 1st F1 driver I thought was crazy and brave, both for racing after the fire, and for NOT racing when the track was killer dangerous and wet, in Japan I think.

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We have a forum for Ferrari owners. If that's the point then this thread should be moved.

F1 forum is open for everybody, Ferrari owners, non owners and <oh gulp> even non Ferrari fans. Wow. Really? Yeah, really.

 

There are the very best driver from every era! So it is difficult to pick the best ever. I like MS because he turned the Ferrari into a unbeatable winner. The same can be said of Lauda, and Jack Brabham in his car. But I really miss the screaming N/A engines!

 

Well I just passed 10K posts, so I'm the most recent Ferrari driver to be F1 World Champ.

I think the current V6 turbo/hybrid formula could be a lot better if they allowed more development and testing. IOW, it's more the hyper-regulation than the formula per se.

 

There's no harm in this thread, so why open that particular can of worms?

The only potential harm is non Ferrari fans jumping in with off-topic posts about other brands. Given the title of the thread, that would, by default, be trolling.

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Worst driver Badoer, although has strong connections to my family. Best driver and one of Badoer’s very best friends, Schumy of corse!

Forza Ferrari!

 

The 1990 641 was one of the most beautiful F1 cars

 

Who was the best Ferrari driver ever? I know that Lauda and Schumacher will get most votes, but I pick Alberto Ascari. He was absolutely dominant in his two championship years, and even Fangio, in a reasonably good Maserati in 1953, couldn't compete. As as soon as he left for Lancia in 1954, Ferrari suddenly became very mediocre. If you consider all the drivers who ever drove for Enzo, I'd pick Tazio Nuvolari, who I think was the best Grand Prix driver of all time.

Who was worst? I'd go for Andrea de Adamich, who accomplished little during his brief time with the team in 1968 and seemed to be crashing all the time.

Which race was your favorite ever? The 1975 U.S. Grand Prix, mainly because it was the first race of any kind that I ever attended, and it was won by Niki Lauda in a Ferrari.

What car represents the best F1 Ferrari produced? I know the Schumacher cars will get a lot of votes, but I pick the 312T of 1975-76, mainly because I think the competition was tougher. In its limited time in 1976, before the T2 replaced it (only because of rule changes), it won every race it entered.

What car should we all try to forget? The original version of the 312B3, which was ugly and slow. It's hard to believe that the successful 1974 car was the same basic chassis underneath.

How old were you when you first fell under the spell of the red cars of Maranello? 14, when I saw "Grand Prix" and discovered the passione that surrounded the marque, especially in racing.

 

Really like this post. Being from the midwest, fairly close to Indy, Mario and his contemporaries is what I grew up with. When he moved to F1 I followed.

 

Who was the best Ferrari driver ever?
Michael, no doubt.
Who was worst?
Me, no doubt.
Which race was your favorite ever?
Brazil 2007, when Kimi clinched the title.
What car represents the best F1 Ferrari produced?
Ferrari F2004 (but I have a soft spot for the "Sharknoses")
What car should we all try to forget?
The Kia Picanto
Hold old were you when you first fell under the spell of the red cars of Maranello?
At the age of 5...

 

It isn't all that small a pool of drivers really (Wikipedia seems to think 77 Ferrari F1 drivers and I'm too lazy to check) when you're talking about the top echelon and many of the best drivers have driven for Ferrari at one time or another. I reckon 14 F1 world champions (Alonso, Andretti, Fangio, Farina, Hawthorn, Phil Hill, Lauda, Mansell, Prost, Raikkonen, Scheckter, Schumacher, Surtees, Vettel) and many of the rest won Grands Prix. I do note one name on the list, Piero Carini, that I guess I must have come across at some point in the past but had completely forgotten and really know nothing about him at all (apparently he retired from the 3 GPs he competed in for Ferrari). As Gatorrari says above, I am assuming, of course, that the thread title means starting from 1950 and thus excluding the likes of Nuvolari?

Then roughly one car a year gives 68 to choose from.

As an aside, I do think both Badoer and Fisichella, mentioned above, were on a hiding to nothing in 2009 with a difficult car that they weren't able to test properly before racing it and both in the twilight of their careers.

 

No question

Absolutely one of the all time greats(and I saw it race and win-twice).

 

Who was the best ferrari driver ever?
Can't really say anything other than Michael.

Who was worst?
There have been no really bad factory drivers, and difficult to judge those that only ran less than a handful of races.
I was/am a big fan of Capelli, but certainly things went very badly for him. Under different circumstances things could have turned out better as he showed some real brilliance in the LH Marches.

What car represents the best F1 Ferrari produced?
The Schumacher era cars were objectively the most successful, but imo 'the ultimate' Ferrari should have 12 cylinders, a manual box, and be beautiful, but a bit temperamental (like a highly strung animal.) I'd go for the 1970 spec 312B.

What car should we all try to forget?
The 1973 monocoque 312B3
The F92A (the Capelli career killer)
and special mention of the Ferrari SF16-H simply for having the worst livery ever on a Ferrari.

Will think on the other questions...