Extended Project about Ferrari 1979-2000

[Alextrax52]

At my school I'm doing a subject called the extended project which means writing about anything you want. I chose to do Ferrari's failures between 1979-2000. I know Jamie and Enoch did a wonderful piece about the saga and I could use the Ivan Capelli 1992 article as that is along the lines of it but is there anything that I could add to it from preferably the older members here?

[good_Ralf]

At my school I'm doing a subject called the extended project which means writing about anything you want. I chose to do Ferrari's failures between 1979-2000. I know Jamie and Enoch did a wonderful piece about the saga and I could use the Ivan Capelli 1992 article as that is along the lines of it but is there anything that I could add to it from preferably the older members here?

I'm not an older member at all but are you trying to evaluate the biggest fail made by Ferrari or just looking at the fails in general? Talking of 1992 you should mention about year's car as well. On paper it should have been a real threat to Williams and McLaren but on track it was a disaster. In fact a lot of the cars in that era were fundamentally wrong.

[Londoner]

That's odd, because my sixth form stated that the EPQ had to be connected with the subjects that you were studying

Either way, my EPQ (on the subject of the Tories losing the 1997 General Election) was a complete waste of my time. I would advise against doing it, personally. I stopped caring about mine after I did the first write-up, managed to bullshit my way through the presentation, got a C overall, and then found out that virtually no universities really care about the qualification.

Anyway, back on topic. You definitely should including the topic of Enzo Ferrari in your plan, as the team often got left behind due to Enzo's conservatism over car design (the 1980 season, the mid-1980s turbo seasons), and then the effects of Enzo's death in 1988, which still affected the team somewhat up until Schumacher turned up at Marenello. There's a superb post by dinizintheoven somewhere on the forum about old man Ferrari, I suggest you should have a look at it if you can find it.

[dr-baker]

I've got a stack of Autosports and F1 News magazines from the mid-1990s. I could spend some time at weekends between now and Christmas trying to dig out some feature articles on Ferrari if you wish? (I was going to do this with the F1 News magazines anyway, but focussing on an alternate team...).

[Alextrax52]

At my school I'm doing a subject called the extended project which means writing about anything you want. I chose to do Ferrari's failures between 1979-2000. I know Jamie and Enoch did a wonderful piece about the saga and I could use the Ivan Capelli 1992 article as that is along the lines of it but is there anything that I could add to it from preferably the older members here?

I'm not an older member at all but are you trying to evaluate the biggest fail made by Ferrari or just looking at the fails in general? Talking of 1992 you should mention about year's car as well. On paper it should have been a real threat to Williams and McLaren but on track it was a disaster. In fact a lot of the cars in that era were fundamentally wrong.

It's everything that went wrong for them in that period from the 1980 disaster to the 1991-1995 Drought and so on

Thanks for your suggestions guys I appreciate them. Baker you could look through your magazine if you like

[dinizintheoven]

Anyway, back on topic. You definitely should including the topic of Enzo Ferrari in your plan, as the team often got left behind due to Enzo's conservatism over car design (the 1980 season, the mid-1980s turbo seasons), and then the effects of Enzo's death in 1988, which still affected the team somewhat up until Schumacher turned up at Marenello. There's a superb post by dinizintheoven somewhere on the forum about old man Ferrari, I suggest you should have a look at it if you can find it.

Treat it entirely as an opinion piece, of course - but then, so are Enoch's articles for Reject Centrale.

What I also have is an article from the BBC F1 season guide, probably 1999 or 2000, outlining Ferrari's failures to win since Jody Scheckter's championship. Particular attention is paid to how he failed to qualify the dog that was the T5 the next year in Canada, how Ivan Capelli's career was "marmalised in the political cauldron of Maranello", and how the ugly 1996 effort was a poor car but "guess who dragged three wins out of it?"

I could scan it and send it on along with all that bumph I've been meaning to send to Mischa...

[midgrid]

Alan Henry wrote a book called Ferrari: the Battle for Revival in the mid-1990s. I don't own it, and it's been several years since I flicked through it in a second-hand bookshop, but I believe it covers your topic very well. There are cheap used copies on Amazon and Abebooks, so it could be worth buying one.

Just out of interest, how long does the project have to be (in terms of wordcount)?

[Alextrax52]

Alan Henry wrote a book called Ferrari: the Battle for Revival in the mid-1990s. I don't own it, and it's been several years since I flicked through it in a second-hand bookshop, but I believe it covers your topic very well. There are cheap used copies on Amazon and Abebooks, so it could be worth buying one.

Just out of interest, how long does the project have to be (in terms of wordcount)?

3000 words

[good_Ralf]

Just out of interest, how long does the project have to be (in terms of wordcount)?

3000 words

Does that include a literature review?

[Alextrax52]

Just out of interest, how long does the project have to be (in terms of wordcount)?

3000 words

Does that include a literature review?

No it doesn't it just involves some good research about what I want to do