Ferrari are essentially the most profitable engine producer in Components 1 historical past, powering a complete of 249 victories.
On common, a couple of in 5 rounds held because the world championship started 1950 have been gained by a Ferrari-powered automobile.
However its crown is at risk of slipping. Nobody has gained a race with a Ferrari energy unit for greater than 12 months.
For the reason that final Ferrari-powered win – Carlos Sainz Jnr’s victory in final yr’s Mexican Grand Prix – their rivals Mercedes have claimed 18 victories. Because of this, having as soon as trailed nicely over 100 wins behind Ferrari, Mercedes are actually simply 10 wins away from matching their all-time report:
*As much as and together with the 2025 Brazilian Grand Prix
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Ferrari is the one workforce to have competed in each spherical of the world championship and has at all times designed and constructed its personal engines. After scoring their first win in 1951 Ferrari engines swiftly grew to become essentially the most profitable within the sport.
Nonetheless the arrival of the Ford-Cosworth DFV in 1967 quickly modified that. The engine and its derivatives powered a number of groups and dominated F1 for a few years.
In 1968 Ferrari claimed the one win not powered by the Ford-Cosworth. In 1969 the blue oval’s engines gained each race, a feat they repeated 4 years later. Even when Ferrari returned to championship success within the mid-seventies, Ford-Cosworth engines routinely gained extra races annually, powering the likes of Lotus, McLaren and Tyrrell.
The ascent of turbo energy within the early eighties lastly broke Ford-Cosworth’s grip on the game. By that point that they had virtually twice as many wins as Ferrari, and it took 20 years for the Scuderia to regain its crown.
Lastly when Michael Schumacher gained america Grand Prix in 2004, Ferrari claimed its 177th victory which put it again on the prime of the desk, the place it has remained ever since.
At the moment, Mercedes engines had gained 42 races. That they had dominated their temporary look in F1 as a works workforce within the fifties and loved success after teaming up with McLaren from 1995. However their greatest days lay forward.
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After taking up Brawn (which gained the 2009 title with Mercedes energy) the three-pointed star returned as a manufacturing facility workforce. They dominated the primary years of the V6 hybrid turbo engine method, profitable 113 races in simply eight years.
From 2021 additionally they started supplying McLaren once more. Whereas Mercedes by no means received to grips with the post-2022 technical rules, McLaren did, and have been the workforce to beat this yr. Of the 18 Mercedes-powered wins because the final Ferrari victory, McLaren have scored 15.
With solely three grands prix left, Mercedes can’t overtake Ferrari this yr. Whether or not they handle to in 2026 can be determined by how nicely F1’s two most profitable engine builders deal with subsequent yr’s new rules – and whether or not the likes of Honda, Audi or Pink Bull-Ford can outdo them.
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