Galleria Shows All Ten World Champions
16.2.01

For the first time, all the Prancing Horse cars which have won the World Championship will be on display at the Galleria Ferrari at Maranello.

The exhibition will run from 15th February to 20th April. Over the course of two months, visitors to Galleria Ferrari can admire the ten cars which have won the world title for the Maranello team.

In celebration of winning the title in 2000, Ferrari decided to display in one unique exhibition the ten cars, from Alberto Ascari's 500 F2, which won the first ever Drivers' title in 1952, to the F1 2000 which, in the hands of Michael Schumacher, was victorious last year.

This event is organised by Galleria Ferrari as a tribute to the team achieving the double in 2000 and it will be a great treat for the visitors. It represents a walk around the history of the only constructor that can put its name to ten titles, won with such diverse machinery as the front engined cars of the Fifties, to the 12 cylinder normally aspirated machines with transverse gearbox used in the Seventies, right up to the V10 with electro-hydraulic gearchange used in 2000.

The full line-up of cars gathered together in the Galleria is:

‘52 Ferrari 500 F2 (Alberto Ascari)
‘53 Ferrari 500 F2 (Alberto Ascari)
‘56 Ferrari-Lancia D50 (Juan Manuel Fangio)
‘58 Dino 246 F1 (Mike Hawthorn)
‘61 Ferrari 156 F1 (Phil Hill)
‘64 Ferrari 158 F1 (John Surtees)
‘75 Ferrari 312 T (Niki Lauda)
‘77Ferrari 312 T2 (Niki Lauda)
‘79 Ferrari 312 T4 (Jody Scheckter)
2000 Ferrari F1-2000 (Michael Schumacher)

There is however some confusion about the authenticity of some of the cars. Sources allege that none of the 1958 or 1961 cars survive and that the '61 car on display may be a 1963 car. It is also alleged that the '56 championship-winning car was scrapped. Hopefully these stories can be laid to rest when the chassis numbers are viewed by visitors to this important exhibition.

Also on display are the trophies that went with the ten wins from the 2000 F1 season; the highest number of wins in a season ever achieved by Ferrari since it entered the sport.

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