21 Oct 2007

Kimi Raikkonen and Felipe Massa scored a phenomenal one-two in Sunday's Brazilian Grand Prix on the outskirts of Sao Paulo for the Finn to clinch the 2007 World Drivers' Championship by one tiny point. It was a cliff-hanging race, dominated by the Ferraris but their ultimate fate would be decided by the positions of their two championship rivals at McLaren Mercedes. While they were chased home by Fernando Alonso, championship leader Lewis Hamilton lost places on the first lap, and then slipped to the back of the field as he was slowed by a gear shift problem which he was able to rectify eventually to finish seventh, a point behind Raikkonen (text and picture by Ferrari Media Center).

7 Oct 2007

Kimi Raikkonen scored a 9.8s second win over Fernando Alonso in the Chinese Grand Prix on Sunday to keep his and Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro's hopes alive in the 2007 Formula One World Championship as major rival Lewis Hamilton slid off the pit access lane after 30 laps of the 56 lap race. Raikkonen was backed up by Felipe Massa in third place. The race was full of drama as it started on a wet track - but not as wet as Fuji the weekend before - dried out before a small shower dampened it again around half distance. It then dried out again to the finish (text and picture by Ferrari Media Center).

30 Sep 2007

Kimi Raikkonen and Felipe Massa finished a fighting third and sixth in Sunday's pacaked Japanese Grand Prix at Fuji, but felt that they had been robbed of a better result after having to make an extra pit stop to change to extreme wet tyres. The race started behind the safety car due to very wet weather; it controlled the race until lap 19 of the 67 lap race. Both Ferraris had started on wet rather than extreme wet tyres. However, the FIA had notified all teams by e-mail that cars should start on extreme tyres, an e-mail that Ferrari only received after the race had started (text and picture by Ferrari Media Center).

16 Sep 2007

Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro are unbeatable in the 2007 Constructors' championship following Sunday's resounding one-two in the sunny Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps. McLaren's points have been taken away following the FIA World Council judgement on Thursday. Ferrari have 161 points to BMW Sauber's 90, so they are now uncatchable (text and picture by Ferrari Media Center).

9 Sep 2007

Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro salvaged third place in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza on Sunday as the McLaren Mercedes team sailed to a dominant one-two - Fernando Alonso ahead of Lewis Hamilton - as dominant as Ferrari had been two weeks earlier in Turkey. Kimi Raikkonen finished third, suffering from the after-effects of his huge practice accident as he found difficulty in keeping his head upright during the final stages of the race. Felipe Massa, sadly was one of two retirements after just ten laps of the race  (text and picture by Ferrari Media Center).

26 Aug 2007

Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen scored a resounding one-two in Sunday's boiling hot Turkish Grand Prix on the outskirts of Istanbul on Sunday. With McLaren's Fernando Alonso finishing a distant third, and teammate Lewis Hamilton in fifth place after a puncture, Ferrari's drivers moved to within 15 points of championship leader Hamilton and ten points of Alonso. In the Constructors' championship, Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro is just eleven points behind McLaren Mercedes with five races to go  (text and picture by Ferrari Media Center).

05 Aug 2007

Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro moved to within 19 points of Championship leaders McLaren Mercedes after Kimi Raikkonen scored eight points for Ferrari at the Hungarian Grand Prix yesterday and McLaren failed to score. This followed a stewards' ruling against McLaren after they were judged to have imposed orders which cost Lewis Hamilton the chance of a second qualifying run in the third session of qualifying (text and picture by Ferrari Media Center).

22 Jul 2007

Ferrari team principal Jean Todt says that there will be no change to the team's approach to the final seven races in the championship, after Sunday's second place finish to Ferrari in the European Grand Prix at the Nurburgring. "I don't think it changes anything," said Todt, after Ferrari's Felipe Massa finished second to McLaren's Fernando Alonso. "I don't think we can say that we have made an easy approach to all the races since the beginning of the championship. So we will keep trying to do the same job, we will try to improve the performance of the car and of course, try to resolve reliability problems when we know where to put the effort." (text and picture by Ferrari Media Center).

08 Jul 2007

Kimi Raikkonen defeated the home McLaren Mercedes team in front of a partisan crowd at Silverstone on Sunday to maintain the gap in the World Championship between Ferrari and McLaren, but for him to close on drivers Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton, who finished second and third. All three drivers led at varying stages of the race, but it was Raikkonen who emerged first after the second round of tyre stops. Unfortunately, teammate Felipe Massa stalled at the first start and had to join from the pit lane, but stormed through the field to finish fifth (text and picture by Ferrari Media Center).

01 Jul 2007

Ferrari pair Kimi Raikkonen and Felipe Massa scored a resounding one-two in Sunday's French Grand Prix at Magny Cours, putting them firmly back in the World Championship battle. The pair finished nearly half a minute ahead of Lewis Hamilton, who opted for a three stop strategy whereas the Ferrari pair stopped twice (text and picture by Ferrari Media Center).

17 Jun 2007

Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro drivers Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen finished a solid third and fourth in the heat of Sunday's US Grand Prix at Indianapolis, seventh round of the FIA's Formula One World Championship. The pair finished 11.3s behind the all-powerful McLaren Mercedes pairing of Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso who were just as close as the Ferrari pair for most of the 73 lap race (text and picture by Ferrari Media Center).

10 Jun 2007

McLaren's Lewis Hamilton scarcely made a wrong move as he raced to a debut victory in Sunday's Canadian Grand Prix held in perfect conditions on the Ile de Notre Dame in Montreal. The rookie, who had never seen the circuit before, put his McLaren on pole position and only lost the lead during pit stops in what was an action-packed race in which there were no less than four pace cars (text and picture by Ferrari Media Center).

27th May 2007

McLaren Mercedes drivers Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton scored a dominant one-two in Sunday's mainly sunny Monaco Grand Prix, but Felipe Massa was happy to salvage third place - and the only other unlapped runner - to keep his and Ferrari's championship hopes alive. The McLaren pair were in a class of their own, finishing a whole minute ahead of their rivals. In a largely processional race of just three retirements, the McLaren pair were content to claim first and second, even though Hamilton suggested that he had the quicker car at the start of the third stint. But then he pointed out that he had number two on his car, and was thus the second driver. Ferrari's second driver, Kimi Raikkonen, was handicapped from the start after hitting the barrier in qualifying, starting sixteenth on the grid, and claiming a single point with eighth place at the end (text and picture by Ferrari Media Center).

13/05/2007

Ferrari's Felipe Massa scored a resounding second consecutive win in the Spanish Grand Prix at the Circuit de Catalunya on Sunday to put himself firmly in contention for the World Championship. He led home McLaren's Lewis Hamilton by 6.7s although the margin had been nearly twenty seconds earlier in the race. The young Briton becomes the youngest driver ever to lead the World Championship, two points ahead of teammate Fernando Alonso, while Massa is a just a point further back, but Ferrari's joy at victory was offset against the disappointment of the retirement of former joint championship leader Kimi Raikkonen with a suspected electrical fault (text and picture by Ferrari Media Center).

15/04/2007

Felipe Massa drove an almost error-free race to become the third different winner in as many races in the 2007 World Championship when he took victory in the 57 lap Bahrain Grand Prix at Sakhir on Sunday. He and Ferrari teammate Kimi Raikkonen fought a tremendous battle with McLaren's Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso, the Briton finishing second and becoming the first driver ever to finish on the podium three times in his first three Grands Prix. However, Fernando Alonso, beaten into fifth by BMW's Nick Heidfeld, holds onto to the points lead, sharing with Kimi Raikkonen and Lewis Hamilton! (text and picture by Ferrari Media Center).

08/04/2007

The new McLaren driving team of Fernando Alonso and debutant Lewis Hamilton scored a dominant one-two in the boiling hot Malaysian Grand Prix at Sepang near Kuala Lumpur on Sunday. Although the pair's fortunes ebbed and flowed, they were never seriously challenged after Ferrari's pole-winning Felipe Massa twice outbraked himself trying to overtake Hamilton and dropped to an eventual fifth place, although his teammate Kimi Raikkonen again finished on the podium, this time in third place with BMW's Nick Heidfeld again putting in a consistent performance for fourth place (text and picture by Ferrari Media Center).

18/03/2007

First round of the championship and first victory for Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro. On his debut in a Maranello car, Kimi Raikkonen secured the Scuderia's seventh win in this race, thus bringing the total number of victories to 193 in 742 Grand Prix participations. This was the tenth time from 106 starts that Kimi has been the first past the chequered flag (text and picture by Ferrari Media Center).

14/01/2007

The F2007 is the fifty third single-seater built by Ferrari specifically to compete in the Formula 1 World Championship. The project, known internally as the 658, represents the Scuderia's interpretation of the technical regulations that apply for 2007, with changes principally concerning safety, through the introduction of more stringent front and rear crash tests and the addition of a composite material structure to provide lateral protection to the sides of the driver. These modifications have led to a significant increase in the weight of the car, in the region of just under ten kilogrammes (text and picture by Ferrari Media Center).