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Team personnel behind the F2002

The majority of the conceptual design work for the Ferrari F2002 was by Ferrari's legendary South African chassis designer Rory Byrne and the engine design by Ferrari's Paolo Martinelli. The project was overseen by the team's technical director Ross Brawn. A vast army of other team personnel oversaw the running of the team and the project.

Concept and design

Prior to the introduction of the F2002, Ferrari had used a revised version of their championship winning Ferrari F2001 for the first few races of 2002.

The F2002 was not only a development of the championship-winning Ferrari F2001, but a completely revolutionary model involving many technologies not seen previously. Since the late 1990s Ferrari had been using the same basic concept and design of gearbox and although this had been used to win drivers and constructors titles from 1999 onwards the technical team pushed ahead with a new version instead. The new replacement gearbox casing was made of ultra lightweight and higher strength titanium, thus reducing its weight by as much as 15% and lowering the car's centre of gravity. The new compact design allowed for great advancement in the bodywork and increasing the car's aerodynamic efficiency at the rear.

However such was the extent of the gearbox casing redesign that the aerodynamic work was left behind schedule and initially did not represent the same performance gains as the mechanical engineering. Thus Ferrari continued its design for another two months and only first used the F2002 at the third round of the 2002 season having been using the previous year's F2001 chassis, albeit with many alterations and the inclusion of the Ferrari 051 2002 engine.

Other advancements on the car include the clutchless direct shift technology within the gearbox, a new fluid traction control system to replace the previous 2001 traction control system, and upright aerodynamically shaped periscopic exhaust outlets at the rear. The latter technology was incorporated both to use the hot exhaust gases for aerodynamic effect and to raise these gases higher and out the way of the rear suspension. On previous occasion Ferrari's non chimneyed top exiting exhaust outlets had caused the rear suspension and other elements at the rear of the car to overheat or even melt when minor cracks occurred.

Race history

Michael Schumacher driving the F2002 at the 2002 French Grand Prix, the race at which he won the 2002 Drivers' Championship.

At its first race in Brazil, the F2002 was victorious, being driven by Michael Schumacher and continuing Ferrari's trend since 1999 for its cars to win on their debut. Michael Schumacher clinched second on the grid and after a first lap altercation with Juan Pablo Montoya, took a somewhat easy win from his brother Ralf's Williams. There was some controversy surrounding tyre allocation because the team only had one F2002 chassis at the race. Therefore Schumacher's spare car was an F2001 chassis and because the two chassis used different wheel rim designs each required separate wheels and tyres. It was thus argued that Schumacher had in-effect twice the allocation of tyres as any other driver. The controversy was managed by Ferrari agreeing to aggregate their tyre usage between the two cars, ensuring that Schumacher used the same total number of tyres as all the other drivers.

What followed was a season of domination, the likes of which had not been seen since McLaren's1988 season. With the F2002, Schumacher scored 9 more victories, his total of 11 wins was a record for the season, while Rubens Barrichello scored four. The only race that the car failed to win was at Monaco, while the F2001 did not take the Malaysian GP. Furthermore, Schumacher finished every race on the podium, never finishing lower than second with the F2002. The German won the world championship in record time, clinching the title at the 11th race of the season in France. The two Ferrari drivers were comfortably first and second in the drivers' championship, and Ferrari scored as many points (221) as the rest of the teams put together.

Such was Ferrari's dominance that Schumacher and Barrichello were criticized for swapping finishes at Austria and United States - an event that would provoke a ban on 'team orders' for the following seasons, and would be raised again in 2010 when Ferrari were fined after appearing to instruct Felipe Massa to allow Fernando Alonso to win the German Grand Prix.

The F2002 (renamed the F2002B) was still competitive at the beginning of 2003, and Schumacher took the car's last win in the San Marino Grand Prix before it was replaced by the F2003-GA for the next race. The F2003-GA was not quite as successful as the F2002, and Schumacher only won the title by two points over McLaren's Kimi Räikkönen.

Complete Formula One results

(results in bold indicate pole position; results in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team/ Chassis	Engine	Tyres	Drivers	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Points	WCC
2002	Ferrari F2002	Ferrari 051 V10	B		AUS	MAL	BRA	SMR	ESP	AUT	MON	CAN	EUR	GBR	FRA	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	USA	JPN	221*	1st
				Michael Schumacher			1	1	1	1	2	1	2	1	1	1	2	1	2	2	1
				Rubens Barrichello				2	DNS	2	7	3	1	2	DNS	4	1	2	1	1	2
2003	Ferrari F2002B	Ferrari 051B V10	B		AUS	MAL	BRA	SMR	ESP	AUT	MON	CAN	EUR	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	ITA	USA	JPN		158**	1st
				Michael Schumacher	4	6	Ret	1
				Rubens Barrichello	Ret	2	Ret	3

* 207 points with the F2002
** 32 points scored with the F2002B

>>Ferrari F2001

Ferrari F2001

Ferrari F2001

Complete Formula One results

(results in bold indicate pole position; results in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Engine	Tyres	Drivers	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Points	WCC
2001	Ferrari	Ferrari 050 V10	B		AUS	MAL	BRA	SMR	ESP	AUT	MON	CAN	EUR	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	USA	JPN	179	1st
				Michael Schumacher	1	1	2	Ret	1	2	1	2	1	1	2	Ret	1	1	4	2	1
				Rubens Barrichello	3	2	Ret	3	Ret	3	2	Ret	5	3	3	2	2	5	2	15	5
2002	Ferrari	Ferrari 050 V10	B		AUS	MAL	BRA	SMR	ESP	AUT	MON	CAN	EUR	GBR	FRA	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	USA	JPN	221*	1st
				Michael Schumacher	1	3
				Rubens Barrichello	Ret	Ret	Ret

* 14 points scored with the F2001

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>>Ferrari 125 F1

Ferrari 125 F1

Ferrari 125 F1
Manufacturer	Ferrari
Production	1948–1950
Successor	Ferrari 275 F1
Class	Formula One car
Engine	1.5 L Colombo 125 V12
Wheelbase	2160 mm (85 in) 2320 mm (91 in)
Length	3685 mm (145 in)
Width	1400 mm (55 in)
Height	1025 mm (40 in)
Curb weight	710 kg (1565 lb)
Designer	Gioacchino Colombo

The 125 F1 was Ferrari's first Formula One car. It shared its engine with the 125 S sports racer which preceded it by a year, but was developed at the same time by Enzo Ferrari and famed designer, Gioacchino Colombo.

Mechanical details

The 125 F1 used a supercharged 1.5 L V12 engine and sported a steel tube-frame chassis with longitudinal and cross members. It had a double wishbone suspension with a transverse leaf spring in front and a torsion bar in the rear which was upgraded to a de Dion tube for 1950. Worm and sector steering and four-wheel drum brakes were the norm for the time. The 2160 mm (85 in) wheelbase was uprated to 2320 mm (91 in) in the 1949 redesign.

The 125 F1 was powered by Gioacchino Colombo's 1.5 L (1497 cc/91 in³) 60° V12. It had a single overhead camshaft on each bank of cylinders with a 60° angle between the two banks. The engine had two valves per cylinder fed through one Weber 40DOC3 or 50WCFcarburettor. With just a 6.5:1 compression ratio, the supercharged engine still produced 230 hp (172 kW) at 7000 rpm. However, the Roots-type single-stage supercharger was incapable of producing the high-end power required to compete with the strong eight-cylinder Alfa Romeo 158 and four-cylinder Maserati 4CLT. Strong driving and a nimble chassis, however, allowed the company to place third in its first outing, at the Valentino Grand Prix on September 5, 1948 and the company persevered in racing.

For 1949, the engine was further modified with dual overhead camshafts (though still two valves per cylinder) and a two-stage supercharger. This combination gave the car better top-end performance and the resulting 280 hp (209 kW) gave it five Grand Prix wins. Development continued the following year, but the problematic superchargers were dropped in favor of larger displacement and Lampredi's 275 engine superseded the original Ferrari engine.

Racing

The 125 F1 debuted at the Valentino Grand Prix on September 5, 1948. Three cars were fielded, with drivers Prince Bira of Siam, Nino Farina, and Raymond Sommer who placed third in the race.

**Victories**
Date	Location	Driver
October 24, 1948	Garda Circuit, Salò	Giuseppe Farina
July 3, 1949	Switzerland Grand Prix, Bern	Alberto Ascari
July 31, 1949	Zandvoort Grand Prix	Luigi Villoresi
August 20, 1949	Daily Express Trophy, Silverstone	Alberto Ascari
September 11, 1949	Italian Grand Prix, Monza	Alberto Ascari
September 25, 1949	Masaryk Circuit, Brno	Peter Whitehead
July 13, 1950	Jersey Road Race	Peter Whitehead
August 12, 1950	Ulster Trophy, Dundrod	Peter Whitehead
October 1, 1950	Interstate Race, Interlagos	Francisco Landi
January 25, 1951	São Paulo Grand Prix	Francisco Landi
May 20, 1951	Governador Noguera Garcez Race, Interlagos	Francisco Landi
June 28, 1951	Bõa Vista Grand Prix, Rio de Janeiro	Francisco Landi

Complete Formula One World Championship results

(key) (results in bold indicate pole position, results in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Engine	Tyres	Drivers	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
1950	Ferrari 125 F1 1.5 V12	D		GBR	MON	500	SUI	BEL	FRA	ITA
		D	Peter Whitehead		DNS				3	7
		P	Luigi Villoresi		Ret		Ret	6
			Alberto Ascari		2		Ret
			Raymond Sommer		4
1951	Ferrari 125 F1 1.5 V12	D		SUI	500	BEL	FRA	GBR	GER	ITA	ESP
		D	Peter Whitehead	Ret			Ret
		P	Peter Whitehead							Ret
1952	Ferrari 125 F1 1.5 V12	D		SUI	500	BEL	FRA	GBR	GER	NED	ITA
1952	Ferrari 125 F1 1.5 V12	D	Peter Whitehead					10			DNQ