It goes without saying that Ferrari have been having a bit of a hard time as of late. It has been 15 years since the longest running and most successful team in Formula 1 history have won the Constructors’ Championship, and 16 years since they have won the Drivers' Championship. In that time, they have remained consistently competitive, and have won lots of races, but have only had brief periods of dominance and have never been able to sustain Championship challenges against Red Bull and Mercedes, despite having had top-tier driver line-ups for near-on 30 years now. 2017 onwards has been especially sordid, as three times they have taken early leads in the standings, only for their campaigns to collapse under them, partly due to reliability and driver error, but more often than not because of substandard race strategies. In 2023, things are really not looking good, as they are making all of the same strategy errors as in 2022, but the car is no longer anywhere near fast enough to challenge for race wins. Their target this year was 1st in the Constructors’ Championship, and they’re currently looking at 4th. As bad as things are, however, they could be so much worse; and indeed, they have been. Time to rewind the clock 50 years.

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