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It's Mr Mansell (my GTP and PSN ID <img src="/wp-content/themes/gtp16/images/smilies/wink.svg?v=3" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-shortname=";)" /> ) in the 1989 Brazilian GP that he won in his first race for Ferrari, legend!! The car changed for the following round at Imola, they added an airbox, as i believe that car was the 1988 chassis without the turbo engine, as they all went normally aspirated from 1989 onwards, so airboxes became the norm.
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Just quoted to point out the Ferrari 640 wasn't an 87/88C without the turbo engine. The 640 was the first Ferrari fully designed by John Barnard, which he started designing in '87. It was meant to run in '88, but they had major problems with the gearbox, so they updated the F1 87, which became the F1 87/88C.<br />
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The 640 was an all new car for the '89 season, and brought a number of major developments. It was well ahead of it's time with it's tiny, aerodynamic sidepods and semi-auto gearbox. Sadly, the innovative technology also proved to be incredibly fragile and unreliable, with the team recording 19 DNFs from 16 races between their two drivers. When the car was capable of finishing though, it did so in third or higher, with Mansell taking 2 wins, 2 seconds, and 2 thirds, from the 6 races he completed, and Berger taking a win and 2 seconds from the 3 races he completed. Berger was pretty unlucky, with 12 retirements from the 15 races he entered (he had to sit out Monaco after he was injured in a crash). Mansell also had his share of bad luck, with 7 retirements from the 15 races he entered (he was banned from entering the Spanish GP after reversing in the pit lane, ignoring black flags, causing a collision, and subsequently being disqualified from the Portuguese GP).<br />
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Oh and that airbox was added to improve the peak horsepower, as the original two side intake design, the purpose of which was to be a low drag intake, wasn't a good design for a normally aspirated engine. The ram air scoop increased air pressure in the intake, leading to a higher output. Ferrari needed to do this, as their V12 was behind the Honda V10 in max output (by roughly 15hp).<br />
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And yes, I am a huge Ferrari nerd.<br />
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Edit: I only pointed this out as I think the 640 deserves credit for being the forward-thinking, revolutionary F1 car that it was. It's often forgotten among the many epic cars of it's era, but it really was a standard setting car in many ways. If only it had been more reliable, they could have taken the title fight to Mclaren that year in a big way.</div>
