F1 2000 Finishing

F1 2000 Finishing

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ATLAS F1Volume 6, Issue 44
The 2000 Teams Review
by Ewan Tytler, U.S.A.
The 2000 Constructors' Championship was a two-horse race between Ferrari and McLaren, with the other teams far behind in the points. Ewan Tyler evaluetes just how close the teams came to achieving the goals they set for themselves at the beginning of the season, the progress they made during the season and the strengths and weakness of each team during the 2000 season


Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro1st, 170 Points
10 Wins, 5 Fastest Laps, 10 Pole Positions, 8 DNFs

Chassis: Ferrari F1-2000. Engine: Ferrari 049.
Team Principal: Jean Todt. Technical Director: Ross Brawn. Chief Designer: Rory Byrne.

  • Goal for the 2000 season: To win the World Drivers' Championship for the first time since 1979. Ferrari also hoped to score their 10th Constructors' title in 2000. The Italian team met both these goals, despite eight DNFs.
  • Progress during the 2000 season: Ferrari started the season with three wins in a row and ended with four wins in a row. Major developments were in the engine department, with the 049B (race) and 049C (qualifying) engines being used at the end of the season.
  • Greatest Assets: The F1-2000 was excellent in the wet. Ferrari's trump card was again race strategy, with their pit-stops again being of the highest standard.
  • Achilles heel: The F1-2000 was hard on tyres at high-downforce circuits, such as Magny-Cours.

West McLaren-Mercedes2nd, 152 Points
7 Wins, 12 Fastest Laps, 7 Pole Positions, 5 DNFs

Chassis: McLaren MP4/15. Engine: Ilmor-Mercedes-Benz F0 110 JV10.
Team Principal: Ron Dennis. Technical Director: Adrian Newey. Chief Designer: Neil Oatley.

  • Goal for the 2000 season: McLaren looked to improve on a highly competitive but unreliable car, while retaining their dominance at the top of the field. While the team was indeed competitive, at times the best on the grid, they lost out on both Championships although overall reliability vastly improved.
  • Progress during the 2000 season: McLaren started the season badly, with three DNFs, but were very reliable by mid-season. The FIA stripped them of 16 points and handed three 10 seconds stop-go penalties to the team for starting violations. The MP4/15 was competitive on a variety of circuits, appeared to be light on tyres and was often faster than the Ferrari F1-2000 during the race.
  • Greatest Assets: Great resources, experience and a long track record of success.
  • Achilles heel: Pit-stop strategies were weak, losing valuable points in Germany and Belgium. Moreover, the MP4/15 wasn't exactly a car for all seasons and was at a disadvantage in the wet.

BMW WilliamsF13rd, 36 Points
0 Wins, 0 Fastest Laps, 0 Pole Positions, 16 DNFs

Chassis: Williams FW22. Engine: BMW.
Team Principal: Sir Frank Williams. Technical Director: Patrick Head. Chief Designer: Gavin Fisher.

  • Goal for the 2000 season: BMW's director of Motorsport Gerhard Berger stated before the season: 'In the first year a victory or a place on the podium isn't realistic. Our competitors are not McLaren, Ferrari or Jordan but are more the teams and drivers at the top of the middle-ranking section, such as Prost-Peugeot, Benetton, BAR or Honda.'

    Chief Aerodynamicist, Geoff Willis, added: 'We are confident that the FW22 will make a significant step up the learning curve that will ultimately see us in championship contention within the next two or three years.' Quite ironic, considering the team ended a solid third in the Constructors' Championship!

  • Progress during the 2000 season: BMW-Williams wisely promised very little and consequently far exceeded their promises, having a podium finish in their first race. The FW22 was a sound chassis and the BMW engine was surprisingly competitive, but suffered some failures.
  • Greatest assets: Experience, perseverance and a track record of success. It also helped to have a pair of good young drivers.
  • Achilles Heel: Unreliability.

Mild Seven Benetton4th, 20 Points
0 Wins, 0 Fastest Laps, 0 Pole Positions, 11 DNFs

Chassis: Benetton B200. Engine: Playlife (Supertec) FB02.
Team Principal: Flavio Briatore. Technical Director: Pat Symonds. Chief Designer: Tim Densham.

  • Goal for the 2000 season: Then-team Principal Rocco Benetton stated before the start of the season that, 'We are determined to put the difficult times of the past few years behind us.' Seventeen races later, Benetton seem to be on their way of achieving that, but not too easily.
  • Progress during the 2000 season: After burning their fingers with the 1999 B199, Benetton played it safe with the design of the B200. Technical Director Pat Symonds stated, 'The B200 has been designed to use proven technology and methodologies with the aim of being consistently fast and reliable.' Benetton started the season well under Rocco Benetton's direction and the team was then sold to Renault with Flavio Briatore taking over command at the San Marino Grand Prix.

    By mid-season the B200 was no longer competitive and for the last two races, development of the B200 was stopped. Despite this, Briatore remained positive, stating: 'Congratulations to the team for our fourth place in the championship. This is a great motivation after a difficult year and so well done to everyone here and at the factory. I am sure the team will continue to get stronger and stronger now as we have put in some good foundations this year.'

  • Greatest Asset: The resources of Renault.
  • Achilles Heel: There has been a lack of stability at Benetton over the past few seasons and Briatore's return, unfortunately, created more short-term instability and distractions.

British American Racing5th, 20 Points
0 Wins, 0 Fastest Laps, 0 Pole Positions, 13 DNFs

Chassis: BAR 002. Engine: Honda RA000E.
Team Principal: Craig Pollock. Technical Director: Malcolm Oastler. Chief Designer: Adrian Reynard.

  • Goal for the 2000 season: After a catastrophic season in 1999, BAR engineer Jock Clear explained their change in philosophy towards this season, stating: 'I think the biggest thing that Honda has taught us, in the short time that we've worked together, is to set realistic goals, firm lines in the sand that you achieve, and that's what we didn't achieve last year. We fell over ourselves last year trying to achieve everything too soon.' And indeed, the BAR went from total zero to an almost hero.
  • Progress during the 2000 season: BAR were the most improved team of the 2000 season. The BAR 002 was a major step forward; it was quite good in the wet and it performed well on low and medium downforce circuits. The car struggled on the high downforce circuits, particularly Monaco and the Hungaroring.

    Managing Director of Honda R&D, Takefumi Hosaka, concluded the season by saying: 'We have achieved maybe 70% of our targets for this year. We said at the start of the year that we did not expect to achieve success immediately and we were aiming for a position among the top five teams. We have learned many things this year and gathered a lot of data, both in terms of the engine and chassis technologies. We have confirmed the direction in which we are progressing and we will continue in this way next year. We have achieved an excellent level of reliability with the engine and we are currently very competitive in terms of engine power. This base will allow us to put all our energies into delivering even more performance for both BAR and Jordan in 2001 and achieving race victories.'

  • Greatest Assets: A partnership with Honda and a very strong driver in Jacques Villeneuve.
  • Achilles Heel: Inexperience and in-fighting within the BAR management team.

Benson & Hedges Jordan6th, 17 Points
0 Wins, 0 Fastest Laps, 0 Pole Positions, 17 DNFs

Chassis: Jordan EJ10. Engine: Mugen Honda MF-301HE.
Team Principal: Eddie Jordan. Technical Director: Mike Gascoyne.

  • Goal for the 2000 season: Owner of the third best car of last year, Eddie Jordan stated before the start of the season: 'I believe we can make second spot, who knows about the rest?' Jordan fell far short of this goal.
  • Progress during the 2000 season: Jordan's season was a major disappointment. The EJ10 was unreliable and surprisingly uncompetitive. However, the EJ10B chassis, that was introduced at the German Grand Prix, was a major step forward; it was competitive with the BAR 002 with the works Honda engine.

    Managing Director, Trevor Foster summed up the season, saying: 'One must remember that we are still the only team that has split the Ferrari and McLaren domination of the front row in qualifying this year, which shows that the car and drivers are capable of competing at the highest level. It is disappointing that we were not able to extract the reliability from the car and challenge for the high point scoring positions.'

  • Greatest assets: Patience, steady progress and 'people-smartness' has produced a stable and consistent team. Generally, their race strategies were sound.
  • Achilles heel: Unreliability and having a 'semi-works' Honda engine. Moreover, Gascoyne essentially became a 'lame-duck' as technical director after signing for Benetton for 2001.

Arrows7th, 7 Points
0 Wins, 0 Fastest Laps, 0 Pole Positions, 21 DNFs

Chassis: Arrows A21. Engine: Supertec FB02.
Team Principal: Tom Walkinshaw. Technical Director: Mike Coughlan. Chief Designer: Eghbal Hamidy.

  • Goal for the 2000 season: Arrows team principal Tom Walkinshaw stated at the start of the season: 'There is no pressure on us, we can only do better than we're forecast to do. I think we've assembled one of the best engineering teams in Formula One here, we've got a good engine. I'm sure we've got a good car once we get it developed, and we've got two good drivers.' Often the fastest car through the speedtraps, the Arrows was nonetheless disappointing.
  • Progress during the 2000 season: At the end of the 1999 season Arrows were putting most of their efforts into developing the new A21. The A21 was spectacular in winter testing but proved to be fragile during the season. Jos Verstappen explained the strengths and weaknesses of the A21, saying: 'Our car is very fast on the straight but you have to have a combination of quick on the straights but also on high and low speed corners. Obviously I think our car works very well on lower downforce circuits, so circuits like Hungary are where we will have to work very hard. We have a very quick car but it's not 100% reliable yet.'
  • Greatest Assets: Arrows appear to be on a secure financial footing. Furthermore, the A21 was very good in the wet.
  • Achilles Heel: Unreliability and poor performance on high-downforce circuits.

Red Bull Sauber-Petronas8th, 6 Points
0 Wins, 0 Fastest Laps, 0 Pole Positions, 8 DNFs

Chassis: Sauber C19. Engine: Petronas SPE 04A (Ferrari 048).
Team Principal: Peter Sauber. Technical Director: Leo Ress. Chief Designer: Sergio Rinland.

  • Goal for the 2000 season: Team Principal Peter Sauber stated ahead of the 2000 season: 'Formula One is a very difficult league. To be up at the front means that you have to work a lot and invest a lot and I believe that we will improve in comparison to our rather weak season in 1999.'
  • Progress during the 2000 season: Sauber improved aerodynamic efficiency, reduced the car's weight and improved reliability, especially in the gearbox. Sauber lost a point at Australia by fitting the nose from a 1999 Sauber C18 which exceeded the maximum dimensions allowed. Regardless, the team remains a mid-to-back runner, and does not seem to go anywhere.
  • Greatest Assets: Reliability.
  • Achilles Heel: Limited funding and resources, inner-team friction between drivers and owner. Moreover, Sauber do not have their own wind-tunnel yet.

Jaguar Racing9th, 4 Points
0 Wins, 0 Fastest Laps, 0 Pole Positions, 13 DNFs

Chassis: Jaguar R1. Engine: Cosworth CR2.
Team Principal: Neil Ressler. Technical Director: Gary Anderson. Chief Designer: John Russell.

  • Goal for the 2000 season: Jaguar's Chairman, Dr. Wolfgang Reitzle, said on the launch of the Jaguar R1 that 'Our ultimate objective is the ultimate prize in motorsport - the FIA Formula One World Championship.' Jaguar never looked further away from that goal as they do now.
  • Progress during the 2000 season: Jaguar were perhaps the most disappointing team of 2000. The 1999 Stewart was so competitive that great things were expected from Jaguar. Ford's financial muscle was expected to give Jaguar the resources to respond very quickly to changes and to be able to introduce new developments quickly, but this didn't happen. Like Prost, Jaguar adopted a common oil system for the engine and gearbox, which was a mistake: the gearbox was fragile, the clutch design was weak - which led to bad starts, and there were aerodynamic problems at the back of the car.
  • Greatest assets: Ford's financial assets.
  • Achilles heel: The Jaguar team does not have their own wind tunnel and some of the Jaguar personnel lack Formula One experience.

Telefonica Minardi10th, 0 Points
0 Wins, 0 Fastest Laps, 0 Pole Positions, 12 DNFs

Chassis: Minardi M02. Engine: Fondmetal (Cosworth).
Team Principal: Gian Carlo Minardi. Technical Director: Gustav Brunner. Chief Designer: Gabriele Tredozi.

  • Progress during the 2000 season: Although the Minardi drivers were the tail-end Charlies during qualifying, they closed the gap between themselves and the pole-sitters. Despite being powered by a two-year-old Cosworth engine, the Minardi M02 was surprisingly quick during the races and on two occasions gave McLaren a run for their money. The season ended badly with Fondmetal's Gabriele Rumi selling out and Telefonica withdrawing their sponsorship.
  • Greatest Assets: Reliability, experience and commitment.
  • Achilles Heel: Limited funding and resources, an outdated engine and inexperienced drivers.

Gauloises Prost-Peugeot11th, 0 Points
0 Wins, 0 Fastest Laps, 0 Pole Positions, 22 DNFs

Chassis: Prost AP03. Engine: Peugeot A20.
Team Principal: Alain Prost. Technical Director: Jean-Paul Gousset. Chief Designer: Loic Bigois and John Barnard.

  • Goal for the 2000 season: Before the 2000 season, technical director Alan Jenkins stated: 'Prost Grand Prix is still a young company which has seen a rapid rise and growth in its first two seasons and I believe that despite what a lot of people said last year, the team has succeeded. The Prost-Peugeot AP03 is a truly significant step forward for the team in our technological development. It is going to bring us nearer to our common objective - which is winning.' In reality, it only pushed Prost further down the standings.
  • Progress during the 2000 season: The Prost AP03-Peugeot was the most unreliable Formula One car of the 2000 season. The concept of the car was sound but the execution of the concept was lacking. Prost lost a lot of valuable development time during the winter and the team was faced with the unenviable task of correcting an overwhelming number of faults, including the common oil circuits for gearbox and engine.

    Nick Heidfeld was disqualified from the European Grand Prix for being underweight during qualifying; Jenkins resigned as Technical Director in May and was replaced by Jean-Paul Gousset; Jean Alesi and Nick Heidfeld crashed into each other on more than one occasion; Peugeot pulled the plug on their Formula One engine program after staging a token-strike; Gauloises withdrew their sponsorship; Nick Heidfeld fled to Sauber.. The only ray of hope was the promise of Ferrari 049 engines for next year's AP04.

  • Achilles Heel: Unreliability, financial insecurity, lack of effective communication within the team and infighting between Prost and Peugeot.
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2900 Scuderia FerrariThe Scuderia Ferrari team was founded by on 16 November 1929 and became the racing team of, building and racing Alfa Romeo cars. In 1938, Alfa Romeo management made the decision to re-enter racing under its own name, establishing the organisation, which absorbed what had been Scuderia Ferrari. Enzo Ferrari disagreed with this change in policy and was finally dismissed by Alfa in 1939.

The terms of his leaving forbade him from motorsport under his own name, for a period of four years.In 1939, Ferrari started work on a racecar of his own, the (eight cylinders, 1.5 L displacement). The 815s, designed by, were thus the first Ferrari cars. Put a temporary end to racing, and Ferrari concentrated on an alternative use for his factory during the war years, doing machine tool work.After the war, Ferrari recruited several of his former Alfa colleagues and established a new Scuderia Ferrari, which would design and build its own cars.Headquarters The team was initially based in from its pre-war founding until 1943, when Enzo Ferrari moved the team to a new factory in in 1943, and both Scuderia Ferrari and Ferrari's roadcar factory remain at Maranello to this day. The team owns and operates a test track on the same site, the built in 1972, which is used for testing road and race cars.Identity The team is named after its founder,. Scuderia is Italian for a stable reserved for racing horses and is also commonly applied to Italian motor racing teams.The prancing horse was the symbol on Italian ace 's fighter plane, and became the logo of Ferrari after the fallen ace's parents, close acquaintances of Enzo Ferrari, suggested that Ferrari use the symbol as the logo of the Scuderia, telling him it would 'bring him good luck'. Grand Prix racing and Formula One. Driving for Ferrari at theFerrari and 's title defence was unsuccessful, as the team's rivals made up ground at the expense of the reigning champions.

The team scored a meagre total of eight points all season, and Scheckter elected to retire at its conclusion. For the season, Ferrari signed to partner and also introduced its own engine, which provided more power in a more compact design than the previous normally aspirated, twelve-cylinder arrangement. The season was a distinct improvement on the last, Villeneuve winning the and Grands Prix, but a potential championship challenge was stymied by the difficult handling and extremely poor aerodynamics of the car. However, the lessons learnt from the team's first racing experience with a turbo car in F1 prepared it well for.

Throughout this season, the Ferrari was the best package, in terms of a balance between speed and reliability.The year was, however, marred by the loss of both of Ferrari's drivers. Team leader and favourite driver of, Villeneuve, died in a crash during qualifying at the, while Pironi suffered career-ending injuries before the later in the season. Ferrari first called up, in place of the late Villeneuve, and later in an effort to protect Pironi's lead in the championship, but to no avail.

Ferrari did, however, win the Constructors' Championship. In that same year the Formula One works moved partially out of the original Maranello factory into its own autonomous facility, still in Maranello but directly next to the.Four wins by and Patrick Tambay won the team another constructors' title in 1983, but neither driver was consistent enough to challenge for the drivers' title. Patrick Tambay took an especially emotional victory at San Marino in front of the Tifosi, but left to join the team at the end of the season. Was hired for following his impressive performances during previous year driving a Cosworth-powered Tyrrell.

He won the, but the team's performance was not competitive enough to challenge the dominant of. In the, however, Alboreto was Prost's closest challenger for the championship, leading it at one stage before the team's competitiveness slumped in the final races. Arnoux, meanwhile, fell out with the team and was replaced by after the first race of the season. Continued the disappointing trend of the previous season as neither Alboreto nor Johansson could win a race, and never looked like doing so. For, Johansson moved to McLaren and was replaced by, who got the better of Alboreto as the season progressed and won the final two races of the championship as the car's form improved towards the end of the season.

The team remained competitive into, finishing second in the Constructors' Championship, but a long way behind McLaren, who once again dominated the season.The season also witnessed the end of 's ownership of the team. On 14 August 1988, Ferrari died at the age of 90. Fiat's share of the company was raised to 90% with Enzo's only remaining son, inheriting the remaining share from his father. Just under a month after Enzo's death, Berger and Alboreto completed a historic 1–2 at the, the only time a team other than McLaren won a Grand Prix in the. Berger dedicated the win to the late Enzo Ferrari.saw the end of turbo-charging in Formula One. From this date, the formula was for 3.5-litre normally aspirated engines of no greater than 12 cylinders, which was a direct consequence of lobbying by Ferrari for the previous few years.

The team went so far as to construct an Indycar, the, as a threat to the that if they did not get what they wanted, namely the allowance of V12 engines under the revised formula, they could take part in another series. Due to the expected extreme high revs and consequent narrow power band expected of the new engines, technical director insisted upon the development of a revolutionary new gear-shifting arrangement – the paddle-operated, semi-automatic gearbox. In pre season testing, the experimental system proved extremely troublesome, with newly arrived driver being unable to compete more than a handful of laps, but nonetheless they managed a debut win at the opening round in. Horrendous reliability led to Berger being unable to score a point until a run of podiums at Monza, Estoril and Jerez including a win at Estoril. Mansell scored a memorable win at Budapest where he overtook world champion for the win after qualifying far down the field in twelfth. He then dedicated the race to the memory of Enzo Ferrari as the win came a year after the latter's death.1990s. A Ferrari truck displaying Ferrari's sponsors (2008)The Ferrari Formula One team was resistant to sponsorship for many years and it was not until 1977 that the cars began to feature the logo of the group (which had been the owners of the Ferrari company since 1969).

Until the 1980s, the only other companies whose logos appeared on Ferrari's F1 cars were technical partners such as, and.At the end of the season through its brand withdrew its sponsorship agreement with after 22 years (since ) to become the title sponsor of Ferrari, resulting to the change of the official team´s name to Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro from the beginning of the season until the. Marlboro had already been Ferrari´s minor sponsor since the season and increased to the team´s major sponsorship in the season. In September 2005 Ferrari signed an extension of the arrangement until 2011 at a time when advertising of tobacco sponsorship had become illegal in the European Union and other major teams had withdrawn from relationships with tobacco companies (e.g., McLaren had ended its eight-year relationship with ). In reporting the deal, magazine judged it to be a 'black day' for the sport, putting non-tobacco funded teams at a disadvantage and discouraging other brands from entering a sport still associated with tobacco.

The magazine estimated that in the period between 2005 and 2011 Ferrari received $1 billion from the agreement. The last time Ferrari ran explicit tobacco sponsorship on the car was in the 2007, with barcodes and other subliminal markers used afterwards. On 8 July 2011, it was announced that the ' section of its official team name had been removed from the onwards, following complaints from sponsorship regulators. As a consequence, the official team´s name was reverted back to Scuderia Ferrari. At the Ferrari added Philip Morris International's new 'Mission Winnow' project logos to the car and team clothing. Although Mission Winnow is described as a non-tobacco brand 'dedicated to science, technology and innovation', commentators such as 's Richard Williams have noted that the logos incorporate elements whose shapes mimic the iconic Marlboro cigarette packet design.

In 2019 'Mission Winnow' became the team's title sponsor, and the team originally entered the 2019 F1 season as 'Scuderia Ferrari Mission Winnow'. However, 'Mission Winnow' was dropped from team name before the season opener, while the car's 'Mission Winnow' logos were replaced by a special 90th anniversary logo after Australian authorities had launched an investigation into whether the initiative introduced by Philip Morris contravened laws banning tobacco advertising. 'Mission Winnow' was restored for the second race of the season and used until the Monaco Grand Prix. The 'Mission Winnow' logos were again replaced by the 90th anniversary logos for the Canadian until the Russian Grand Prix.

Before the 'Mission Winnow' returned at the Japanese Grand Prix.On 10 September 2009, Ferrari announced that it would be sponsored by from 2010 on a five-year contract. It was believed that Santander would pay around €40 million ($56.5 million, £35 million) per season to sponsor Ferrari. The contract was subsequently extended to end in late 2017.As part of the deal with, Acer was allowed to sell Ferrari-badged laptops. Further information:Between 1950 and 1966, numerous private teams entered Ferrari cars in World Championship events.

Between them, these teams achieved 5 podium finishes, including 's win in the, and a fastest lap (Baghetti in the ).Formula Two Ferrari competed in the series in several years, as follows:. 1948–51:. 1951–53:. 1953:. 1957–60:. 1967–69:Sportscar racing From the late 1940s to the early 1970s, Ferrari competed in with great success, winning the 13 times. Ferrari scored early successes in sportcars, taking wins in the 1950 and 1951, although the 1951 victory resulted in a lengthy litigation when Ascari crashed through a barrier and killed a local doctor.In 1953, the was established, and Scuderia Ferrari along with other manufacturers such as, began to enter multiple factory backed cars in races such as the.

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Ferrari launched a large range of sports racers over the next three years. This included the traditional compact Colombo V12-powered and; the larger V12 Lampredi, and; and Jano, and; the four-cylinder, and the six-cylinder. With this potent line-up, Ferrari was able to claim six of the first seven WSC titles: 1953, 1954, 1956, 1957, and 1958.This sportscar championship included road races such as the in Mexico, in Italy and the Sicilian. Ferrari cars (including non-works entries) won the eight times, the seven times, and the nine times. Throughout the 1960s, Ferrari were a dominant force in sportscar racing, winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans 6 years in a row from 1960 to 1965.With the introduction of the Sports Prototypes class, Ferrari developed the, but 1970s were to be the last decade Ferrari entered as a works effort in sports car racing. After an uninspired performance in the 1973 F1 World Championship, Enzo Ferrari stopped all development of sports cars in prototype and GT racing at the end of the year, in order to concentrate on Formula One.Ferrari cars were raced in a range of classes such as GT Racing by other entrants, but not by the factory Scuderia Ferrari team. In the 1990s, Ferrari returned to Sports prototypes as a constructor with the with success, although Scuderia Ferrari itself never raced this car.In the 2010s, Italy's and United States' have competed with factory support in the GTE Pro/GTLM class at the,.

Notable Ferrari GT factory drivers include, and.The won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in GTE Pro class three times: in 2012 and 2014 with the driven by Bruni, Fisichella and Vilander, and in 2019 with the driven by Pier Guidi, Calado and Serra. They won also the GT manufacturers World Championship in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2017, and the FIA WEC GT drivers championship in 2013, 2014 with Bruni and the 2017 with Calado and Pier Guidi, the in 2011 and the class GTE Pro with Bruni, Fisichella and Kaffer. All the Le Mans and FIA WEC title were won with the 51 car.

They won also the GT2 class team chamionship in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009.The North American team Risi Competizione scored in GT2 class two win at the in 2008 and 2009, the and, the with Ferrari 430 GT2. With the Ferrari 488 GTE and Ferrari factory drivers they won the 2016 and and scored multiple podium at 24 Hours of Daytona and 24 Hours of Le MansSee also.

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