Ferrari celebrated their 1,000th System One world championship race on Sunday with ardour, delight and ache — and a Schumacher as Michael’s son Mick drove his father’s 2014 automotive across the staff’s Mugello circuit.
Ferrari, the one staff to have competed in each season for the reason that first in 1950, have gained extra races and championships than every other.
Schumacher senior introduced them 5 titles in a row from 2000-04, with most of his report 91 wins secured in purple overalls.
The staff that topped Alberto Ascari, Juan Manuel Fangio, Mike Hawthorn, Phil Hill, John Surtees, Niki Lauda, and Jody Scheckter over the many years are struggling their worst marketing campaign in 40 years.
Ferrari final gained a drivers’ title with Kimi Raikkonen in 2007 are at present sixth general and in peril of slipping additional.
“Ferrari and System One are kind of joined on the hip,” chief government Louis Camilleri informed Sky tv forward of the Tuscan Grand Prix on the staff’s scenic circuit north of Florence.
“It’s onerous to think about System One with out Ferrari or the opposite method round. We’ve been there eternally. Historical past creates strain too and we’re trying ahead to the subsequent 1,000,” he added.
“We’re in a gap now and we all know we’re in a gap. It’s a confluence of things however something I say will come throughout as excuses and we’re not into excuses.
“What issues is to deal with the problems we’ve and work with willpower to get again to what we think about to be our rightful place.”
Mick Schumacher, main the System Two championship and searching more and more destined for F1 in 2021, might be part of that future.
“To have the ability to drive it now because the second era to drive it’s one thing very particular,” he stated after his demonstration laps within the F2004, Ferrari’s most profitable racing automotive.
Ferrari had additionally celebrated their milestone with a socially-distanced present in Florence’s Piazza della Signoria on Saturday night time attended by drivers and managers previous and current with a show of vehicles by the eras.
“As we have a good time our first 1,000 races, we’re already trying forward, already excited about the subsequent 1,000,” stated Ferrari president John Elkann.
“I’m completely sure of 1 factor, that within the subsequent 1,000 Grands Prix we’ll win extra races than we’ve thus far.”
