These days the Ferrari has made official the name of the car that will try to regain supremacy in Formula 1 in 2022, after several difficult seasons experienced by the Prancing Horse. The first task of the F1-75, this is the name chosen for the new born of Maranello, will be to return to conquer the victory in a GP, a result that is missing from the Singapore 2019 race. Then it was Sebastian Vettel who prevailed, this time instead it will be up to Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc , in their second year together with the red jumpsuit. The abbreviation given to the new Ferrari is clearly evocative and recalls the 75 years since its foundation of the most famous car manufacturer in the world.
Interviewed by Gazzetta dello Sport However Piero Ferrarison of the Drake, explained how in his father’s time the choice of the name to be given to a new F1 car was decidedly simpler and ’empirical’. “Reference was made to the displacement and the number of cylinders” has explained. “In the Sixties, with 1500 cc engines, the numbers were 156 or 158 depending on whether they had six or eight cylinders. It was the engine that dictated the law – he added – and the same was true for road cars, with the famous 250 series which represented the unit displacement of our 12-cylinder 3-liter “.
“Sometimes, alongside the unit displacement, there was also a letter: B which stood for boxer, T for transverse gearbox, in the turbo era the C for compressor and K for the KKK turbo “Ferrari continued. The Founder’s son then also let himself go to a joke, ‘invoking’ the return of a reference to the calendar year in the initials of the racing cars made by the Cavallino: “Maybe it will be due to age – he concluded – but as far as F1 is concerned, I would always put the year close to the initials so as to remind us when he ran “.
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