A major new element of these is the introduction of a new electronic system to be used by all teams. The design, codenamed internally as the 659, represents the Scuderias interpretation of the regulations in force in 2008. The F2008 is the fifty fourth single-seater built by Ferrari specifically to take part in the Formula 1 World Championship.
The F2004 was based on the same principles as the F2002, but with a larger rear wing and a complete redesign for the rear suspension – after the F2003-GA suffered from excessive tyre wear. At Edmunds we drive every car we review. A championship-winning season, it was Lewis Hamilton who claimed the title for the team in 2008, his first-ever Championship win - the team's first championship for nine seasons and their latest accolade to date.Edmunds expert review of the Used 2008 Ferrari F430 provides the latest look at trim-level features and specs, performance, safety, and comfort. Having told the story of the 2002, we thought we’d take the opportunity here to tell the tale of the final car to win a championship with Michael Schumacher at the wheel.Fernando Alonso won the first race held in Singapore however, only after teammate Piquet deliberately crashed to cause a Safety Car period which helped.This spectacular car has been decorated with the 2008 FIA Formula One World Championship livery to make it even more special. There we said there was only a hair’s breadth between the two in terms of which car had the greater history.
By the time 2004 came to an end it had won 15 of 18 races, including a legendary four-stop strategy win from Schumacher at Magny-Cours that will go down as one of his greatest.Team started the 2008 season with an updated version of their 2007 car. Schumacher won the first five races of the season, and 12 of the first 13 – only a retirement in Monaco after a bizarre incident with Juan Pablo Montoya behind the safety car meant he couldn’t break Nigel Mansell’s record of most victories in a row from the start of the season. It was an immediate success. Launch control and the incredibly high-tech pretty-much full auto’ gearboxes that had been developed were also banned, handing more control back to the driver.
It was, in reality, slower than McLaren’s MP4-20 at many points, and in fact the McLaren would win more races. Mallya was allowed to change the teams name to Force India.Couple of laps around Silverstone in the Ferrari F1 car from 2008.Silvestone is such a fantastic track for F1 cars, high speed and flowing with long sweeping.The car that ended that mighty F1 Ferrari run (six World Constructor’s Championships for Ferrari, five Drivers’ crowns for Schumacher), the Renault R25 was a masterpiece of clever engineering. Only a year after Spyker bought the Midland team, Indian businessman Vijay Mallya bought the team for 88 million.
It also had some pretty stiff opposition, with both McLaren and Ferrari building potentially race winning cars in 2005 (McLaren’s 2006 season was a bit of a disaster) and therefore for us just sneaks onto this list ahead of its successor, oh and we didn’t have to talk about tuned mass dampers for half a season.McLaren won a title in the 2000s, but we’re not actually going to pick that car as its greatest star of the decade. Excluding the controversial US Grand Prix that year, Alonso only failed to finish one race and finished on the podium 15 times out of 19 races. But it was a consistency of podium finishes that would win the title for the Spaniard. The R25 won the first four races of the 2005 season, one for Giancarlo Fisichella, and three for eventual champion Alonso.
2008 F1 Car Drivers Kimi Räikkönen
Chief among those taking the fight back to Ferrari were McLaren and Williams. That said, there were some gems in among the challengers. Five titles in a row sounds like no one else turned up, but such was the prowess of that Schumacher/Brawn/Todt/Byrne axis at Ferrari it didn’t seem to matter what the other teams threw at the game. After some initial teething problems drivers Kimi Räikkönen and Juan Pablo Montoya would claim 20 victories between them and, but for a couple of retirements to end the season, McLaren could easily have won the Constructor’s Crown.The story of the first half of the 2000s is just one of Ferrari and cars that took the fight to Ferrari. The completely new aero-concept adopted by the MP4-20’s designer Adrian Newey was a success. The McLaren MP4-20, as we have noted, won more races in that season than the eventual winning car.So bad were the predecessors to the MP4-20 that the design was a pretty much ground up fresh start (McLaren had been forced to introduce a heavily-revised MP4-19B in the middle of the 2004 season after struggling to pick up any points).
Michelin introduced an upgraded tyre for the Monaco round that unlocked the potential of the FW25. Montoya was fast, but a bit prone to incident, and Schumacher suffered a first of two major injuries that saw him forced to miss races in the next two years.More importantly there was a tyre issue. But Williams problems ran to more than just Ferrari being astonishingly good. The P83 was easily the most powerful engine on the grid and with two drivers at the top of their games in Ralf Schumacher and that man Montoya again the FW25 had a good shot at glory. While the BMW/Williams relationship would sour, the engine side of the bargain was never found wanting.
Now racing without the in-house ECU the F2007 had been blessed with, other rule changes meant that the F2008 had fewer drivers aids and was generally a bit heavier. But it was the F2008 that clinched the final Constructors’ win for the team from Maranello. With Ferrari winning all three and the title you have to wonder what might have been had the old tyres been allowed – indeed the FW25 was the last Williams to challenge for a title.The Ferrari F2007 was the last car to win Ferrari a World Drivers’ Championship. But then Bridgestone (which supplied the tyres for Ferrari) lodged a protest against the new tyres, Michelin reverted to the old spec, and Williams did not win another race for the rest of the season.
2008 F1 Car Series Of Misfortunes
The remarkable thing is that, even in a basically unchanged car, Jenson Button won six of the first seven races.The Brawn BGP 001’s fairy story isn’t quite all it seems though. But that was entirely due to the fact that the team had absolutely no money for the first half of the year and could not afford to put any real effort into developing the car. But had just a couple of rubs of the green gone differently it might have been a second title in a row for Ferrari.Over an average of the whole season the Brawn BGP 001 was probably not the fastest car of 2009. McLaren and Hamilton stood firm and pretty consistent (Canadian brain fade aside) to gain the title at the very last second. But a series of misfortunes would mean it wouldn’t hand Ferrari a sixth title double of the 2000s.It was partly down to unfortunate incidents – Kimi Räikkönen being taken out of the Canadian Grand Prix when Lewis Hamilton turned his McLaren into a Ferrari-seeking missile in the pitlane – partly down to team-based calamity – the team twice sent a car out of its pit box with the fuel hose still attached – and partly down to poor driving – Massa and Räikkönen both had numerous incidents throughout the season – that the F2008 would be robbed of a double crown.
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