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Ferrari's landmark F1 cars: The 156 'sharknose'
The Ferrari 156 'sharknose' was the first Ferrari Formula 1 car to win the constructors' championship. It also carried Phil Hill to the 1961 title after the death of team-mate Wolfgang von Trips in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza. Grudgingly and without great joy, Enzo Ferrari, who believed the horse should pull the cart, not push it, embraced the notion of rear drive after a season of being given the runaround by the nimble little British chassis he had dismissed as the products of garagistes. Over the winter of 1959, Ferrari's engineers, led by Carlo Chiti, laboured in secret. They used a second-hand Cooper chassis bought as a reference to hack about a front-engined 246 Dino chassis so...
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