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Scuderia Ferrari · 1950 to Present
Formula 1's only ever-present team. Its most successful, by almost every record ever kept. And yet, since 2007, the Prancing Horse has been chasing a drivers' title it once owned outright.
The Only Constant
The World Championship began in 1950, and Ferrari was there. Hundreds of brands have come and gone since, great names and one-season hopefuls alike, but across 75 seasons of rule changes, golden ages and lean years, one scarlet constant has never missed a championship. No other team can say it.
It is not merely longevity. By the records that matter most, Ferrari sits atop the sport: more constructors' titles than anyone, more drivers' crowns than any other team has delivered, and a haul of 248 race wins and 836 podiums no rival has approached. Statistically, the Prancing Horse is the most successful team in the history of grand prix racing.
Which is what makes the silence since 2007 so loud. The team that wrote the record book has spent the modern era waiting, and the wait is the story.
SECTOR 1 · 1950
When the championship was first run in 1950, Ferrari entered, and never stopped. It remains the only team to appear, unbroken, in every season since. The first win followed in 1951.
SECTOR 2 · 2000–2004
With Michael Schumacher, Jean Todt, Ross Brawn and Rory Byrne, Maranello became a machine that made winning look procedural, with fifteen wins in a single season, twice.
SECTOR 3 · 2007–2008
Kimi Räikkönen stole the 2007 drivers' championship by a single point. Ferrari took the 2008 constructors' crown. No one knew these would be the last for so long.
FINISH LINE · 2009–TODAY
The wins never fully dried up. The titles did. What began as a lull hardened into the longest championship drought of Ferrari's modern history: the wait that defines the team today.
For five seasons, the rest of the grid raced for second. Ferrari's dream team didn't just win championships. It industrialised winning.
75 Seasons · One Chart
Each bar is one season of Grand Prix victories, from 1950 to 2024. Gold bars mark a Drivers' Championship; the dot marks a Constructors' title. Watch the right-hand side: the wins keep coming, but the crowns stop dead.
Source: Ergast / Jolpica F1 historical database, 1950–2025. Hover or tap any bar for detail.
The most successful team in Formula 1 has spent the modern era waiting for a title it used to win in its sleep.The Long Wait
1999–2004
Zoom into the peak of that chart. Through the Schumacher years Ferrari won races by the bucketload, season after season: six, ten, nine, fifteen, eight, fifteen.
2002 & 2004
In both 2002 and 2004 (gold) Ferrari won fifteen Grands Prix in a single season. In 2002 that meant clinching the drivers' title in July, with six races still to run.
The benchmark
Every season since has been measured against these numbers. They are why the wait feels so long: Ferrari has stood at the very summit, and remembers exactly how it felt.
“Fernando is faster than you. Can you confirm you understood that message?”
2007 · Final Standings
Going into the 2007 finale in Brazil, Räikkönen was the outsider, 7 points back with two drivers ahead of him. He won the race, and the championship, by one.
110 · 109 · 109
One point separated Räikkönen from both McLaren drivers, who tied on 109. It remains Ferrari's most recent Drivers' Championship.
2008
Ferrari took the 2008 Constructors' Championship, but Felipe Massa lost the drivers' title at the last corner of the last lap of the season. After that, the column went quiet.
Felipe Massa crossed the line and was, for about half a minute, the world champion in his home race.
2007–TODAY
For a team that once won five titles in a row, every season without one weighs a little heavier than the last. This number is computed live, it grows on its own.
2010 & 2012 · Alonso
Fernando Alonso carried Ferrari to the brink and lost both at the final round, by 4 points in 2010 and just 3 in 2012. Maranello has rarely been nearer.
2017 & 2018 · Vettel
Sebastian Vettel led the championship deep into both 2017 and 2018 before it slipped away. Strong starts, familiar endings: the rhythm of the long wait.
The Record Book
The Year the Wait Ends?
Ferrari now fields one of the most talked-about line-ups in its history: Lewis Hamilton, a seven-time world champion, alongside Charles Leclerc, the Monégasque the team has built its future around. Between them they carry enormous expectation, and the weight of every year on the counter.
The question hanging over Maranello is the simplest in the sport, and the hardest to answer. After everything the record book remembers, and everything it has been waiting for, will this be the year the long wait finally ends?