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Tuesday, February 27
Preview: Ferrari
Reuters

LONDON -- Following are facts and figures about the Ferrari team heading into the 2001 Formula One season:

2001 Outlook

Double champions, chasing their third successive constructors' title and with triple world champion Michael Schumacher hoping to start a new era of Ferrari domination in his 10th year in Formula One. Likely to share most of the points with McLaren again this season. Schumacher, with 44 career wins, has the added incentive of trying to overtake Alain Prost's record of 51 and equalling his tally of four titles.

Based: Maranello, Italy.

Team principal: Jean Todt

Drivers:
Michael Schumacher (Germany), 32 (born Jan 3, 1969)
Rubens Barrichello (Brazil), 28. (May 23, 1972)

Test driver: Luca Badoer (Italy), 30 (Jan 25, 1971).

Car: Ferrari F2001 with Ferrari V10 engine.
Tires: Bridgestone.
Technical director: Ross Brawn.

Formula One record:
Grand Prix: 636 entered, 137 poles, 135 wins.
Constructors' titles: 10 - 1961, 1964, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1999, 2000.
Drivers' titles: 10
2000 - Michael Schumacher (Germany)
1979 - Jody Scheckter (South Africa)
1977 - Niki Lauda (Austria)
1975 - Lauda
1964 - John Surtees (Britain)
1961 - Phil Hill (U.S.)
1958 - Mike Hawthorn (Britain)
1956 - Juan Manuel Fangio (Argentina)
1953 - Alberto Ascari (Italy)
1952 - Ascari
First GP entered: Monaco 1950.
First GP win: Silverstone, British Grand Prix 1951. Jose Froilan Gonzalez (Argentina).

2000 season (Schumacher/Barrichello) - 170 points, champions. 10 wins (Schumacher nine, Barrichello one). second place x6, third x5, fourth x4, fifth x1, retired x8.

Ferrari is the only team to have raced in every Formula One championship with cars built entirely by them.

Team history
1950 - First Formula One grand prix.
1951 - First win at Silverstone.
1961 - Wolfgang Von Trips dies in crash at Monza, 13 spectators killed by his car.
1964 - Surtees becomes only man to win world championships on two wheels and four.
1982 - Gilles Villeneuve dies at Zolder.
1996 - Michael Schumacher arrives from Benetton.
1998 - Death of Enzo Ferrari.
2000 - Schumacher wins team's first drivers world title for 21 years.

Most successful drivers (wins are with Ferrari only): Michael Schumacher 34, Nika Lauda 15, Ascari 13, Gilles Villeneuve and Jacky Ickx 6.

Season by season (year, standing, points, drivers):
1958 - second, 40, 2 (Luigi Musso/Peter Collins/Mike Hawthorn/Wolfgang Von Trips/Olivier Gendebien/Phil Hill/Tony Brooks/Jean Behra/Cliff Allison).
1959 - second, 32, 2 (Behra/Hill/Brooks/Gendebien/Dan Gurney/Allison/Von Trips)
1960 - third, 26, 1 (Allison/Von Trips/Hill/Froilan Gonzalez/Richie Ginther/Willy Mairesse).
1961 - first, 40, 5 (Ginther/Hill/Von Trips/Gendebien/Mairesse/Ricardo Rodriguez).
1962 - fifth equal, 18, 0 (Hill/Giancarlo Baghetti/Rodriguez/Lorenzo Bandini)
1963 - fourth, 26, 1 (John Surtees/Mairesse/Ludovico Scarfiotti/Bandini).
1964 - first, 45, 3 (Bandini/Surtees/Scarfiotti).
1965 - fourth, 26. (Surtees/Bandini/Nino Vaccarella/Scarfiotti).
1966 - second, 31, 2 (Bandini/Surtees/Mike Parkes/Scarfiotti).
1967 - fourth equal, 20. (Chris Amon/Bandini/Parkes/Scarfiotti/Jonathan Williams).
1968 - fourth, 32, 1 (Amon/Jacky Ickx/Andrea de Adamich/Derek Bell).
1969 - fifth equal, seven. (Amon/Pedro Rodriguez).
1970 - second, 52, 4 (Ickx/Ignazio Giunti/Clay Regazzoni).
1971 - third, 33, 2 (Mario Andretti/Regazzoni/Ickx).
1972 - fourth, 33, 1 (Ickx/Regazzoni/Andretti/Nanni Galli/Arturo Merzario).
1973 - sixth equal, 12. (Merzario/Ickx).
1974 - second, 65, 3 (Niki Lauda/Regazzoni).
1975 - first, 72.5, 6 (Lauda/Regazzoni).
1976 - first, 83, 6 (Lauda/Regazzoni/Carlos Reutemann).
1977 - first, 95, 4 (Lauda/Reutemann/Gilles Villeneuve)
1978 - second, 86, 5 (Reutemann/Villeneuve).
1979 - first, 113, 6 (Villeneuve/Jody Scheckter).
1980 - 10th, eight. (Villeneuve/Scheckter).
1981 - fifth, 34, 2 (Villeneuve/Didier Pironi).
1982 - first, 74, 3 (Villeneuve/Pironi/Patrick Tambay/Mario Andretti).
1983 - first, 89, 4 (Tambay/Rene Arnoux).
1984 - second, 57.5, 1 (Arnoux/Michele Alboreto).
1985 - second, 82, 2 (Alboreto/Arnoux/Stefan Johansson).
1986 - fourth, 37. (Alboreto/Johansson).
1987 - fourth, 53, 2 (Gerhard Berger/Alboreto).
1988 - second, 65, 1 (Berger/Alboreto).
1989 - third, 59, 3 (Nigel Mansell/Berger).
1990 - second, 110, 6 (Alain Prost/Mansell).
1991 - third, 55.5. (Prost/Jean Alesi/Gianni Morbidelli).
1992 - fourth, 21. (Alesi/Ivan Capelli/Nicola Larini).
1993 - fourth, 28. (Alesi/Berger).
1994 - third, 71, 1 (Alesi/Berger/Larini).
1995 - third, 73, 1 (Alesi/Berger).
1996 - second, 70, 3 (Michael Schumacher/Eddie Irvine).
1997 - second, 102, 5 (Schumacher/Irvine).
1998 - second, 133, 6 (Schumacher/Irvine).
1999 - champions, 128, 6 (Schumacher/Irvine/Salo)

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