It is getting boring this season: each Grand Prix marks another record in Ferrari history. In Canada, Schumacher scored his 40th Ferrari win to make it the marques 150th. With all these wins, the Maranello-based team collected 1367 championship points.

Such a record goes together with a long list of race winners that is a nice trip down memory lane in Formula One history. Names like Fangio, Ascari, Gonzalez, Collins, Hawthorn, Brooks, Von Trips, Hill, Surtees, Ickx, Lauda, Villeneuve, Berger, Mansell, Prost and Schumacher all are included.

Of course there were special wins as well. We all know about José Froilan Gonzalez and his 1951 Silverstone win. The same year at Monza, Alberto Ascari led Gonzalez home to clinch Ferraris first one-two finish in history. At Bremgarten in 1953, it was even a complete Ferrari podium, with Ascari, Farina and Mike Hawthorn finishing in the top three places. At the Avus-ring in 1959 this masterpiece was repeated: this time Tony Brooks won ahead of his teammates Dan Gurney and Phil Hill.

A year later at Monza three Ferrari drivers were again on the podium, while Cabianca finished fourth in a Cooper-Ferrari just in front of Wolfgang von Trips in a F2 Ferrari. But the best display of Ferrari domination must have been the 1961 Belgian Grand Prix, where Phil Hill took the chequered flag in front of Von Trips, Ginther and Gendebien all driving a Ferrari product. Giancarlo Baghetti won first-time out in a championship round at Reims in 1961. Officially, this win cannot be awarded to the Scuderia Ferrari, since the Italians car was entered in that race by FISA. It was the only win for a Ferrari that was not directly entered by the factory. However, Enzo Ferrari was involved in the deal…

In the seventies Mario Andretti won a race for the Maranello team in one of his rare starts for the Scuderia. Niki Lauda became the most successful driver by winning 15 Grand Prix’ and Gilles Villeneuve claimed his first ever win at Watkins Glen in 1979.

The eighties were not particularly successful with 18 wins. Two were memorable: the 1988 Italian round made sure that the McLaren-Honda team did not win every single race of the season with the unbeatable pairing of Senna and Prost. To do it on home ground and just weeks after Enzo Ferrari had died, made it even more special. The 1989 Brazilian Grand Prix went to Nigel Mansell, who scored his surprising first win for Ferrari in his first start for the team.

The nineties saw the rise and fall of the team. After Prost scored the teams century at Paul Ricard, it went downhill. Prost and Mansell managed to score three more wins for the team, but then the longest period of non-winning started after the Jerez round in September 1990. On 31st July 1994, Gerhard Berger finally ended this unlucky period by winning at Hockenheim. The next year's Canadian Grand Prix saw another win; this time, the first and only win for Jean Alesi. In 1996 Schumacher was hired and since then he and his teammates Eddie Irvine and Rubens Barichello scored a massive 45 wins to make it 150 today. Of these 45 wins, 13 were a one-two finish as well, and all the other drivers made it a perfect score on 41 other occasions.

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