Tuesday 22 December 2020

Top six worse Ferrari F1 cars ever! (Redux)

With Formula 1 2020 season finished for the season, last season was one of McLaren Ferrari seasons in Grand Prix history with just 131 points and sixth in the constructor standings. So this post is the top six worst Ferrari F1 cars ever! revisited.


Starting with number 6:

Number 6: 1986 Ferrari F1/86
Story:
Ferrari F1/86 was designed by Harvey Postlethwaite, the Ferrari F1/86 had the 1.5 litre Turbo V6 engine underneath. The Ferrari F1/86 only managed five podiums in 1986, which includes a second place finish at the Austrian Grand Prix with Michele Alboreto behind the wheel. To give Ferrari only 37 points to take fourth place in the constructors championship. The Ferrari F1/86 wasn't a fast car, and not was a reliable car too.


Number 5: 1993 Ferrari F93A
Story:
Ferrari F93A was designed by designed by John Barnard and Jean-Claude Migeot, the Ferrari F93A had the 3.5 Ferrari V12 engine underneath. The Ferrari F92A only managed three podiums in 1993, which included a second place finishes for Jean Alesi at the Italtian Grand Prix. Ferrari F93A only took 28 points in that season and a fourth place finish in the constructors championship. Despite, the Ferrari F93A had Active suspension to catch the likes of Williams that time, the Ferrari was just too slow.

Number 4: 2014 Ferrari F14 T
Story:
Ferrari F14 T was designed by James Allison, Pat Fry, Nikolas Tombazis and Dirk de Beer, the Ferrari F14 T had the 1.6 litre Turbo V6 power-unit underneath. The main reasons the Ferrari F14 T was bad due to a slow power-unit and a poor chassis altogether. The Ferrari F14 T only managed two podiums in 2014, which includes a second place finish at the Hungarian Grand Prix with Fernando Alonso behind the wheel. To give Ferrari only 216 points to take fourth place in the constructors championship. The Ferrari F14 T wasn't a fast car at all.


Number 3: 1992 Ferrari F92A
Story:
Ferrari F92A was designed by Steve Nichols and Jean-Claude Migeot, the Ferrari F92A had the 3.5 litre Ferrari V12 engine underneath. The Ferrari F92A only managed two podiums in 1992, which includes two third place finishes for Jean Alesi at the Spanish Grand Prix and at the Canadian Grand Prix. Ferrari F92A only took 21 points in that season and a fourth place finish in the constructors championship, so the Ferrari F92A wasn't that fast than previous Ferraris', and very unreliable as-well.


Number 2: 2020 Ferrari SF1000
Story:
Ferrari SF1000 was designed by Simone Resta, Enrico Cardile and David Sanchez, the Ferrari SF1000 had the 1.6 litre Turbo V6 power-unit underneath. The main reasons the Ferrari SF1000 was bad due to a slow power-unit and a poor chassis altogether. The Ferrari SF1000 only managed three podiums in 2020, which includes a second place finish at the Austrian Grand Prix with Charles Leclerc behind the wheel. To give Ferrari only 131 points to take sixth place in the constructors championship. The Ferrari SF1000 wasn't a fast car at all.


Number 1: 1980 Ferrari 312T5
Story:
With the Ferrari 312T (also named as Ferrari 312T2, Ferrari 312T3, Ferrari 312T4,) is possibly the most dominating Ferraris' race car ever in Ferrari's Formula 1 history taking 27 victories between 1975 and 1979. Also, took four Constructors' Championships in 1975, 1976, 1977 and 1979. And finally three Drivers' Championships for Niki Lauda in 1975 and 1977, and for Jody Scheckter in 1979. In 1980 Ferrari 312T5 wasn't that fast it was basically slow.

The Ferrari 312T5 was designed by Mauro Forghieri, the Ferrari 312T was powered by the 3 litre Ferrari Flat-12 engine. And with the wide 312 "Boxer" engine did not suit the aerodynamic needs of 1980 with the ground effect Cosworth engine teams or the teams with turbo engines. The car was unreliable, slow and was not effective against the competition. The other constructors' cars got better throughout the season whereas the 312T5's development virtually went nowhere, the car became less and less competitive over the season. For the first time since 1973, Ferrari did not win a race for an entire season, Even 1979 F1 Champion Jody Scheckter even failed to qualify in Canada, after only managing 2 points, retired from the sport at the end of the year.

So the Ferrari 312T5 only took 8 points that season and took Ferrari to tenth place finish in the constructors championship that season, the Ferrari 312T5 wasn't a fast Ferrari at all and very unreliable Ferrari then the pervious Ferraris of the 1970s'. To give the 1980 Ferrari 312T5 is still the worse Ferrari F1 car ever!

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