Ferrari 375F1

The Ferrari 375F1 was a Formula 1 racing car, built and used by the Scuderia Ferrari.

Aurelio Lampredi was a great advocate of racing engines without supercharging. The engines, which he built for the Ferrari 275F1, 340F1, and the Ferrari 375F1, reflected this view. The most powerful engine was the 375F1 used. This engine had a maximum at 4.4 liters 280 kW ( 380 hp). Lampredi was convinced that the cars were lighter and easier to drive by this technique, the motors would be less stressed and are more economical due to the lower fuel consumption.

The chassis and suspension were taken from the Ferrari 340F1. It had double wishbone and transverse leaf springs front and a De Dion suspension with a transverse leaf spring rear.

The car was still the end of the season in 1950 made ​​his debut in Formula 1 Alberto Ascari was thus from the Italian Grand Prix in Monza. In 1951, the 375F1 for the first winning car of Ferrari in Formula 1 and Scuderia to the strong opponents of Alfa Romeo and their top car, the Alfa Romeo 159 José Froilán González won the Grand Prix of Great Britain at Silverstone and Ascari only 14 days later, the world championship race on the Nurburgring. At the Italian Grand Prix in September of the same year, only Felice Bonetto was able to keep up with the factory cars of the Scuderia Alfa Romeo. Ascari won ahead of González and Bonetto. Luigi Villoresi and Piero Taruffi completed with the fourth and fifth the total home triumph of Ferrari. But the title of world champion driver Juan Manuel Fangio won for Alfa Romeo. At the end Ascari missing six points for the title.

The end of the 375er as police cars in the World Cup came through a rule change. In 1952 the Grand Prix races were held down with vehicles of Formula 2 and the Scuderia Ferrari put the 500 one. Next but the 375F1 ran in Formula Libre; Ferrari also sat there in 1952 still works cars a. Three 375F1 were sold to privateers. The Ferrari 375 Indianapolis -based as well on the 375F1 as the Thin Wall Special.

Specifications

Literature and sources

  • David Hodges: race car from A to Z to 1945 engine book publishing house, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-613-01477-7. .
  • Pino Casamassima: Storia della Scuderia Ferrari. Nada Editore, Vimodrome 1998, ISBN 88-7911-179-5.
  • Leonardo Acerbi: 60 years Ferrari. Heel, King Winter 2007, ISBN 978-3-89880-815-6.
  • Formula 1 racing cars of the 1950 season
  • Formula 1 racing cars of the 1951 season
  • Historic Racing Car
  • Ferrari race cars
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