Friday, June 18, 2010
Scuderia Ferrari is the name for the Gestione Sportiva, a division of the Ferrari car manufacturer which is engaged in car racing, particularly Formula One. Besides in that field, Scuderia Ferrari and Ferrari Corse also serve the needs of its customers for the car category of the highway. Scuderia Ferrari is Italian for "Ferrari Stable", or better known in English is widely: "Team Ferrari." This racing team (along with car manufacturers for the category of road) is a subsidiary of Fiat Group, which also oversees motorcycle manufacturer Ducati, Juventus football club, and car manufacturer Maserati.
First time competing in the Ferrari F1 1948 season with their first F1 car, Tipo 125 F1. This makes the Ferrari to the oldest and most successful team competing in the pole competition. Their current drivers who will go down for the full 2010 season was Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa. Ferrari is the boom in 2000-2004 which was then reinforced by the German F1 legend alive, Michael "Schumi" Schumacher. Ferrari President Luca Cordero is currently di Montezemolo, with CEO Jean Todt, team principal Stefano Domenicali, who is the brother of the Ducati MotoGP team principal, Claudio Domenicali. Team's technical director Aldo Costa is held by. This team was dubbed the "Prancing Horse team," and in Italy, this team is like a religion, that is not looking feathers where they came from, whether from Rome, Milan, or Turin, all only one objective: victory for Ferrari.
Beginning
Scuderia Ferrari was founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1929 as a sponsor for a few amateur drivers in various races. Enzo himself, who is also a driver at the time it uses as a tool balapannya Fiat. This idea comes at night on 16 November in Bologna, when Enzo eating dinner with her two brothers, Augusto and Alfredo Caniato, and racer Mario Tadini. They then build a team with Alfa Romeo where Enzo continue to race until he named his son Dino was born in 1932.
Ferrari Enzo then become a manager for some of the drivers and also the search of new seeds of young drivers from his office in Viale Trento e Trieste, of Modena, Italy, until 1938, when the Alfa Romeo decided to withdraw Enzo racing career as a manager for the division, called Alfa Corse. In 1939 Alfa Enzo out of her racing career and then he founded the company called Auto Avio Costruzioni Ferrari, with tools he used to get from him an agreement with Alfa, where he could get the remnants of Alfa Romeo cars that do not follow racing.
In addition to signing a contract with Alfa, Ferrari is also working to enlarge his own racing team, where Enzo and then designing the Tipo 815 (V8 1500cc) with Alberto Massimino, who later this car was known as the first Ferrari car. But after Alberto Ascari and Marchese Lotario Rangoni Machiavelli in Modena drove in the Mille Miglia event in 1940, World War II cut all racing activities, and the 815 car was forced to recess. Ferrari then changed direction to produce the tools racing car parts, and in 1943 Enzo moved his headquarters to Maranello, where in 1944 where WWII bombs have time to fall.
Regulations for the Grand Prix World Championship has changed since the war ended. And this makes the Ferrari should make another new car, which was then called the Tipo 125 (V12, 1500cc), who then managed to win some races. This car debuted at the 1948 Italian Grand Prix with driver Raymond Sommer, and his first victory at the Circuito in Garda with Giuseppe Farina.
About the team
Logo
Ferrari logo is named (in Italian) "Cavallino rampante" (aka rampant little horse), which is a male horse was prancing in the yellow area. This logo Enzo Ferrari reportedly taken from the official logo of the German city of Stuttgart, which is the former home of the Porsche could be eternal rivals Ferrari. Picture a horse that appears in the logo of Ferrari are characteristic of Francesco Baracca, a World War I pilot who was killed in that war. Baracca's mother then gave the horse picture on the Enzo after Baracca died. Enzo then immortalize it as the logo for the team racing, with added a yellow shield area, which is the typical color of the city of Modena, with the letters S and F which indicate the initials of Scuderia Ferrari. Rampate himself in Italian means the toughness of the lions and horses. Symbol of strength, vitality, and energy.
Headquarters
Scuderia Ferrari team based in the town of Maranello, Italy, 18km from the town of Modena, next to a road car manufacturer rayanya. Enzo Ferrari was born in this city, and spent his teenage years in the city. Besides the headquarters in Maranello, Ferrari also has a private test circuit, Fiorano is built since 1972, and until now still used as a good place to test cars for street or race car. Modena itself is a city in Emilia-Romagna region in Italy.
Racing Italian Grand Prix at the Monza circuit, Milano is a racing stable for the Ferrari team, every time the races were held there, all the Ferrari fans from all over the dating meets Italian circuit, and they often make fans of other teams fear or be involved in riots like football supporters with various actions and acts of fanaticism that is not his equal in other countries.
Apart from Monza, Ferrari's Mugello circuit also has the full (which is currently used as the venue for the Italian MotoGP race), and the circuit Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari (Imola) near the city of Bologna (Ducati headquarters), which had hosted the San Marino Grand Prix until the year 2005. Both circuits were often used as a place to test Ferrari F1 car for their personal.
Sponsorship
Since 1950 until early 1977, the Ferrari F1 car at all plain, aka not met the sponsor logo. 1977 into the early winter season in the history of Ferrari's sponsorship, where they were when it was sponsored by the Fiat Group (which has become the owner of Ferrari since 1969). Until the 1980s, only Magneti Marelli and Agip are loyal to sponsors Ferrari, rose only in a limited supply of technical equipment and fuel suppliers.
One thing interesting companies in the Ferrari F1 car (or become a sponsor of Ferrari) will also be found in the body of a Ducati MotoGP bike, both because this team is still one parent is from FIAT Group, a funny thing even became the main sponsors of the Yamaha MotoGP team.
Main Sponsor
Ferrari team was first sponsored by the Marlboro cigarette brand since the 1984 season, which also became the sponsor for the Marlboro McLaren team. Marlboro officially became the main sponsor Ferrari from 1997 season. In late 2005, Ferrari announced that they have extended the sponsorship contract with Marlboro (Philip Morris) until the 2011 season. At that moment, banning all forms of smelling cigarette sponsorship was applied across Europe, and several F1 teams decided to end their sponsorship contracts with cigarette manufacturers (as with West McLaren and Renault with Mild Seven). It is estimated that every year, Ferrari get a fresh injection of funds amounting to one billion dollars from Marlboro.
Although officially a contract with Marlboro will expire in 2011, Ferrari has now managed to get another sponsor, no less magnitude. Starting in 2010 seiiring seat Fernando Alonso in the drivers seat, Grupo Santander will become the second major sponsor of Ferrari after Marlboro. Agreement and Santander's Ferrari contract runs for five musim.Setiap year, Ferrari will get the funds amounting to nearly 40 million dollars.
In December 2005, Vodafone announced that they will cease to be a sponsor of Ferrari as tempted by the offer to be the main sponsor of McLaren from 2007. The core of the withdrawal of Vodafone as the sponsor of the Ferrari is because more privileging Ferrari Marlboro as the main sponsor of land multiplied by their stickers on mobil.Sebagai replacement Vodafone, Ferrari and then announced that Alice would be a sponsor of Ferrari started the season in 2007.
Other Sponsors
Other companies are also currently a sponsor of Ferrari, among others: Shell - Royal Dutch / Shell Group, Bridgestone, Acer, Etihad Airways, and several others include Mubadala Development Company (an investment company which is also the home of Abu Dhabi has a 5% stake in Ferrari since 2007). As part of the deal with Acer, Acer Ferrari and then allowed to launch a package of desktop PCs and laptops with the official logo of Ferrari. The Company's second largest computer processor world, AMD is also a sponsor of Ferrari, and then they work with Acer to launch a series of designs using a laptop with Ferrari logo.
In addition to sponsorship, Ferrari also has several official suppliers, namely: Magneti Marelli, OMR, SKF, Europcar, Iveco, NGK, Puma, Tata Consultancy Services, Brembo, BBS Kraftfahrzeugtechnik AG, SELEX Communications, Technogym, Schuberth and Microsoft.
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