Some early Zonda engineering was done by Formula One champion, Juan Manuel Fangio. The car was originally to be named for him, the "Fangio F1", but the name was changed upon his death in 1995, renamed after an air current above Argentina.
The now illegal team orders might have played into Sir Sterling Moss' decision to leave the car in favour of his teamate.
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We nearly had a repeat of the tragedy with McNish at Sebring testing the new R10 after the Debut race. It was little known but the car flipped going into turn one at Sebring at full bore when tire and suspension started to decompose themselves. Those of us that were there were watching and not taking images since that's what we usually do and don't get to see the races for the work. Audi block it off quickly and pick up every piece of debris. I wanted a souvenir of the incident but was told to stay away. I only saw one phone image and it was not so good.
Alesi - if he moved to Benetton and not Ferrari im sure it wud have been a done deal.
Irvine - Maybe not the greatest driver NOT to win a title but had it handed to him on a platter in 99' when Schumi broke his leg in silverstone....i guess fate wanted Schumi to bring home ferrari's first championship since scheckter!
Stirling Moss, Jacky Ickx and Regazzoni spring to mind.
Irvine - Maybe not the greatest driver NOT to win a title but had it handed to him on a platter in 99' when Schumi broke his leg in silverstone....i guess fate wanted Schumi to bring home ferrari's first championship since scheckter!
Some conspiracy theorists posit that Ferrari wanted Irvine to lose the title: He was already signed to Jaguar for 2000, Ferrari wanted their $30M man to win it, not the one getting one-tenth of that. Doesn't matter, Irvine had a Reutemann-like meltdown with some self-destructive drives at Monza and the Nurburgring, as well as a few other times during the year. He was damn lucky to be within a sniff of the title by the time Suzuka came around. Don't forget the oft-overlooked fact that Michael Schumacher actually moved over for him at Sepang in "reverse team orders". That said, I was rooting for him to pull it off.
As for Alboreto, he had one good car, but the Ferrari F156 turbo car collapsed in 1985 for mysterious reasons. There were many retirements in the second half of the season (including 5 straight DNFs for Alboreto at the end of the year). My guess is that they couldn't compete with the Porsche/TAG motors, and upped the turbo boost ante without any insurance on the motors. 1986 was a wash for Ferrari, and Berger was faster in 1987 (although Michele had his share of unreliability: 10 straight DNFs). Ferraris were notoriously unreliable F1 cars (for a top team) throughout the 1980s.
