The Ferrari F1-2000 was a
Formula One
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racing car that the
Ferrari team competed with for the
2000 Formula One season
The 2000 FIA Formula One World Championship was the 54th season of FIA Formula One motor racing. It commenced on 12 March and ended on 22 October after seventeen races. Michael Schumacher became Ferrari's first World Drivers' Champion in 21 ...
. The chassis was designed by
Rory Byrne
Rory Byrne (born 10 January 1944) is a South African semi-retired engineer and car designer, most famous for being the chief designer at the Benetton and Scuderia Ferrari Formula One teams.
Byrne-designed cars have won ninety-nine Grands Pri ...
,
Giorgio Ascanelli
Giorgio Ascanelli (born 23 February 1959) is an Italian automotive engineer who has worked for several years in Formula 1. He is currently the technical head of Brembo, a supplier of Formula 1 brakes.
Career
Ascanelli began his sporting caree ...
,
Aldo Costa
Aldo Costa (born 5 June 1961) is an Italian engineer and the Chief Technical Officer at Dallara. With eleven Constructors' Championships, Costa is considered one of the most successful engineers and designers in the category.
Costa was born in Pa ...
,
Marco Fainello,
Nikolas Tombazis and
James Allison with
Ross Brawn playing a vital role in leading the production of the car as the team's Technical Director and
Paolo Martinelli assisted by
Giles Simon leading the engine design and operations. The car was a direct development of the
F300 and
F399 from the previous two seasons, using the same basic gearbox and a new engine with a wider V-angle (90 degrees vs. 75 degrees in the 048 engine); this new wider angle improved and lowered the centre of gravity of the car. It also featured improved aerodynamics over the F399 most noticeably a flatter underside of the nose area, which put it on par with that year's
McLaren MP4/15.
Season performance
The new car had improved cooling over its predecessors and much smaller, more rounded sidepods to improve airflow. Detail changes had been made to the weight distribution to improve handling and make the car as light as possible. Despite the improvements, the F1-2000 used its tyres harder than the McLaren, which was still marginally faster overall but was less reliable than its Italian rival. The car underwent constant development. The angled front wing was replaced with a more conventional flat plane wing at the United States Grand Prix and larger bargeboards were fitted in time for the French Grand Prix.
Despite a mid season slump which saw three consecutive retirements,
Michael Schumacher
Michael Schumacher (; ; born 3 January 1969) is a German former racing driver who competed in Formula One for Jordan, Benetton, Ferrari, and Mercedes. Schumacher has a joint-record seven World Drivers' Championship titles (tied with Lewis ...
drove the F1-2000 to his third
World Drivers' Title and Ferrari's first after a 21 year title drought. It also defended Ferrari's
constructors' crown, and signified the start of the team's dominance throughout the first half of the decade.
In popular culture
The Ferrari F1-2000 was featured in the
Codemasters
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''
F1 2020'' video game as
downloadable content
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for the "Deluxe Schumacher Edition".
Museo Ferrari
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File:Ferrari F1-2000 front.jpg
File:Ferrari Early 90's 3.jpg, The F2000 Chassis at the 2006 Ferrari Challenge at the Homestead-Miami Speedway
Complete Formula One results
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key) (results in bold indicate pole position; results in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)
References
F1-2000
2000 Formula One season cars
Formula One championship-winning cars
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