Double hope
And anyway, trying to break away for a moment, just thinking about it be happy, look aside and take care of other things, you have to be Rossoneri or Rossoveri by now. Cheer Milan by Ibra, the Ferrari by Leclerc and Sainz, or in the best case both teams at the same time. But things are different with the Reds, because this time there is even one to celebrate wonderful shotgun. And in the Prancing Horse story, the enplein never happened accidentally, but promptly rose to signals the beginning of something memorable and powerful. a cycle. an era. This is the opening of a different and significant parenthesis. Because in love the romantics say it with flowers, while in racing the Ferraristi explain the most beautiful things with double victories.
The historical triumphs
there very first ever Around the World Champion, in 1951 in Monza, with Ascari in front of Gonzalez, remains the landmark of End of Alfa Rome domaino and the notarial deed of birth of another superiority, branded “Ciccio”, for two dry seasons that Biennium 19521953the first period of a Maranelli red at the top in F1.
Other three shotgunsBy doing 1956in Belgium, France and Great Britain, reconcile the World Cup Modenastyle Fangio before Maserati, while in 1958 SBunch of Collins and Hawthorn At Vanwall at his home UK GP, he reveals himself at the bottom of the championship tally decisive to the the iris Good Mike.
And what about her Quad at the 1961 Belgian GPone of the brightest examples of the superiority of Sharknose, the small and unbeatable red that fills up by ordering the future champion Phil Hill, von Trips, Ginther and Gendebien, with the Commendatore having the order dictated to him over the phone. Arrival continues asking for the fourth Ferrari to be placed after the top three to symbolize his cannibalistic and inexhaustible thirst for victory.
Not just happy coincidences
No, you must not take Leclerc and Sainz’s onetwo at Bahrain 2022 as an easy and lucky winner’s picnic, as Ferrari’s golden history shows that luck and failures have never existed. In fact, there is a whole Kabbalah behind it, a secular and numerologically sacred interpretation, and a very serious hermeneutics Heroic feat of the House of Maranello if it doesn’t just win, it undoubtedly wins.
So much so that the Triumph of Scarfiotti and Parkes at the 1966 Italian GP it is still remembered as the last victory by an Italian in a Ferrari at Monza and the four centers of Ickx paired with Regazzoni in the early 1970s are clear and glorious proof of the consistency of the genius Mauro Forghieri’s new boxer engine.
And let’s not forget that the Rebirth of the 1974 Ferrari license plate and Luca Cordero di Montezemolo take off sensationally Enplein by Niki Lauda and Clay Regazzoni at the Spanish GP in Jarama, which officially opens it unforgettable cycle‘Gorgeous and so that we all get a nice lump in our throats, tie’. And then there are those Shotguns at sunsetthe nostalgics who, on the contrary, convey the end of a spell, like that of Rega and Niki in Long Beach 1976, witnessing the last victory of the Ticinese in the Rosso in a year of fires, hurricanes and bitter disappointments on the slopes of Fujiama.
The melancholic double recordings
But in 1979 it’s on again, as the beautiful parable of the ugly but winning T4, Ferrari’s first winged car, begins with the en plein of Villeneuve and Scheckter in South Africa, in Kyalami, myths that will end up in the world rankings in reverse order and will deliver the champion of the last riders to Drake and Forghieri.
With another brace that makes you cry, in Monza when Gilles is only second because his first value is the friendship and respect of Jody. in the 1982 in Imola Instead, the most intoxicated, humiliating, and in the most dramatic proportion to the victor’s parades takes place Pironi which pokes fun at Gilles himself by showing that he has moral values decidedly different from those of the Canadian who he will perish furiously and never be cheerful again a few days later in Zolder, almost forty years ago.
Then there are the sweet and melancholy Castaway Dream of Alboreto 1985, which is becoming more and more realistic, especially in Canada 1985 when he puts the 21 with Johansson, but soon it will all end up in the smoke of the Garrett turbines, unfortunately preferred over the KKKs.
The same recent death and the sporting immortality of Enzo Ferrari They remain forever linked to another red double, that of Monza 1988 with Berger and Alboreto performing the miracle after Senna’s retirement was touched with voice actor Schlesser and it’s history to cry again. Then another dream touched on that Prost and Mansell assembly victory in Mexico and Spain in 1990 and then it goes straight to the start of the Schumi era coming in third place with Irvine, although the nicest and most resilient is the 1999 Germany GP when Michael is in the hospital with a broken leg alternate saloon give Eddie the race.
The same then happens in Malaysia with the returning and wonderful Kaiser, even if everything changes in Suzuka in the final and Häkkinen becomes world champion, but that’s another story.
Legendary Red Dawn
Rather, legend has it that the most prosperous cycle of the Rossa begins Australia 2000 with Schumi at the top and newcomer Barrichello second, to embody the Prancing Horse’s most beautiful world championship experience, unbeatable up to and including 2004. In any case, even the rare dissatisfaction of this period is photographed by victory parades in Austria and India, also in 2002, in which Barrichello first sacrificed and then almost out accidentally won. And it is touching to remember the last double of the cycle Schumi is in Germany with Massa in 2006 Second and that 2007, the last year for a Ferrari driver, full of bangbangs from Massa and Raikkonen, the last legend in Interlagos, with Kimi world champion and McLarenScornato.
Less and less joy
Fifteen years passed from then on Triumphant parades when they are few, nine in total, between AlonsoMassa, VettelRäikkönen or Seb with Leclerc (in the last Reds victory in Singapore in 2019), but these are not things that really change a person’s life. Now it’s different, because this miserly and sacrosanct double paw smells so much of scratch that it will also remain in the emotional memory of Ferrari drivers and racing enthusiasts as a turning point. There was a twist, yes. Like in fairy tales. Why a Spa and Monza 2019 He won with the engine not exempt from federal doubts, and then all Ferrari power units ran out of steam for the next two years.
Ferrari is back
So much so that in 2022, when full power finally returned, Ferrari not only clinched a desert double with the highly successful F175, but also great satisfaction with the powertrains in Haas and Sauber Alfa Romeo Ferrari sauce took ., who suddenly power three of the top four manufacturers in the constructors’ championship in the world championship that has just started. Does that seem like a coincidence? Not me. For nothing. Because sometimes it’s also certain quasitriplet ideals that make you smile. And all the most beautiful cycles in the glorious history of the Prancing Horse have always begun precisely with an unexpected, revitalizing and disturbing collective celebration. Touching a mountain of iron, in Binotto, subdued and connected, is the loving desire to touch many more golden and iridescent peaks. In the meantime, thank you for a moment for not making us think about the price of gas, but about the value of your and in our hearts, our engines.