The bust and boom that will start Ferrari's second F1 millennium

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Alex Kalinauckas

Sep 16, 2020, 3:42 PM

Ferrari celebrated its Formula 1 history at the Tuscan Grand Prix, but its current car isn't going to add any more major achievements to that story. However, there is more than one reason why the future beyond the immediate looks good for the Scuderia

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For nine laps, it looked as if the Ferrari Formula 1 team might have something almighty to celebrate in the Tuscan Grand Prix - the event it was marking as its 1000th world championship race.

Once the real race had finally got underway after the first lap pile-up and safety car restart nonsense, Lewis Hamilton led Valtteri Bottas, with Charles Leclerc following in third. Charles Leclerc, in a Ferrari SF1000, in third on lap nine. That hasn't happened at any other point in the 2020 season thanks to the car's limitations.

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Alex Kalinauckas is Autosport's Grand Prix Editor, covering every Formula 1 race since the start of 2020. After completing a master's degree in journalism at Goldsmiths College University of London in 2014, he worked for a range of motorsport and technology publications while covering national racing as an Autosport freelancer.

A lifelong motorsport fan - no one in his family can explain quite how or why such a development first occurred - Alex joined the Autosport staff in April 2017 as the magazine’s Assistant Editor covering Formula 2 and GP3, before being made Formula E correspondent and Autosport.com’s Plus Editor in March 2018. He lives in north-east London and is constantly frustrated by the Central Line.