Ferrari F1-87 / 88C

Ferrari F1-87 / 88C

Ferrari F1-87 / 88C
Constructor:	Scuderia Ferrari
Designer:	Gustav Brunner
Predecessor:	Ferrari F1 / 87
Successor:	Ferrari 640
Technical specifications
Chassis:	Monocoque
Engine:	Ferrari Tipo 033A, 90 ° V6 Turbo 2.5 bar boost pressure
Length:	4400 mm
Width:	2130 mm
Height:	950 mm
Wheelbase:	2800 mm
Weight:	542 kg
Tires:	Goodyear
Petrol:	Agip
statistics
Driver:	27. Michele Alboreto 28. Gerhard Berger
First start:	1988 Brazilian Grand Prix
Last start:	1988 Australian Grand Prix
Starts Victories Poles SR 16 1 2 4th
World Cup points:	65
Podiums:	8th
Leadership laps:	27 over 119.074 km

The Ferrari F1-87 / 88C was a Formula 1 racing car that Scuderia Ferrari used in the 1988 Formula 1 World Championship. It was Ferrari's last Turbo-powered Formula 1 racing car for 26 years.

Development history and technology

Ferrari F1 / 87

The Ferrari was a further development of the previous year's car, the Ferrari F1 / 87 . In favor of the rule change for 1989, Ferrari decided against an expensive new development and only adapted the F1 / 87 to the modified rules for 1988. These rules limited the boost pressure of the turbo engine from 4.5 to 2.5 bar . In addition, the amount of gasoline available in the race was limited to 150 liters. In the course of the season it became clear that the revised engine was very powerful, but consumed too much gasoline. The chassis was only revised in detail. The engine cover was flattened a little and new front and rear wings were developed.

driver

As in the previous season, the regular drivers of the Scuderia were the Italian Michele Alboreto with starting number 27 and the Austrian Gerhard Berger with starting number 28.

Racing history

Ferrari Tipo 033

The 1988 season was a trial year for Scuderia Ferrari; both driver and constructor titles were out of reach at all times. The racing car wasn't too slow, but overall it wasn't up to the McLaren MP4 / 4 . In contrast to all other engine manufacturers, Honda had developed a completely new engine instead of just adapting the existing material to the new regulations like Ferrari. As a result, McLaren was far superior to the competition and set many records. However, since most of the competing teams had switched back to naturally aspirated engines with a view to the coming season and the Turbo Team Lotus again offered a worse overall package with its 100T , Ferrari remained the only team that could generally put McLaren under pressure, and was practically subscribed to the places behind Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost .

Especially in the first part of the season, Ferrari suffered from the far too high fuel consumption of the engine. That was clearly evident at the British Grand Prix . Pole setter Berger led the field together with Ayrton Senna by a large margin before he had to slow down to save fuel. Senna was able to overtake Berger on lap 14, as Berger was informed that he was already running out of fuel for the last five laps. Berger's team-mate Alboreto ran out of fuel two laps before the end of the race, while Berger dropped from first to ninth place. Early in the season, Technical Director John Barnard issued new guidelines for the engine in order to reduce fuel consumption while maintaining performance. However, this was long ignored for various reasons, possibly related to Barnard's unpopularity with Ferrari's Italian workforce.

The only race that McLaren did not win was the Italian Grand Prix , won by Gerhard Berger; It was the only Ferrari win in 1988 and came about under strange circumstances when Alain Prost was eliminated and then Ayrton Senna collided with Williams driver Jean-Louis Schlesser while lapping. Michele Alboreto completed the double success. The race was very emotional for the team in that it was the first victory after Enzo Ferrari's death a month earlier. At the end of the season, the new V12 naturally aspirated engine was installed in the chassis of the F1-87 / 88C for test purposes and was to be used in the following season.

Results

driver	No.	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	Points	rank
1988 Formula 1 season																		65	2.
M. Alboreto	27	5	18th	3	4th	DNF	DNF	3	17th	4th	DNF	DNF	2	5	DNF	11	DNF
G. Berger	28	2	5	2	3	DNF	DNF	4th	9	3	4th	DNF	1	DNF	6th	4th	DNF

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	P / bold	Pole position
	SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

literature

• David Hodges: Racing cars from A – Z after 1945. Motorbuch-Verlag Stuttgart, 1st edition 1994, ISBN 3-613-01477-7 .

Web links

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