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FORMULA 1 GRANDE PREMIO PETROBRAS DO BRASIL 2011 RACE RESULTS: FERNANDO ALONSO FINISHED IN 4TH PLACE & FELIPE MASSA FINISHED IN 5TH PLACE

FINAL DRIVERS' STANDINGS: FERNANDO ALONSO IN 4TH WITH 257 POINTS & FELIPE MASSA IN 6TH WITH 118 POINTS

FINAL CONSTRUCTORS' STANDINGS: SCUDERIA FERRARI IN 3RD WITH 375 POINTS

Scuderia Ferrari is the racing team division of the Ferrari automobile company. The team currently only races in Formula One but has competed in numerous classes of motorsport since its formation in 1929, including sportscar racing.

The team was founded by Enzo Ferrari, initially to race cars produced by Alfa Romeo, though by 1947 Ferrari had begun building their own cars. It is also the oldest surviving team in Grand Prix racing, having competed since 1932, & statistically the most successful Formula One team in history with a record of 15 drivers' championships. As a constructor, Ferrari has 16 constructors' championships.

Alberto Ascari, Juan Manuel Fangio, Mike Hawthorn, Phil Hill, John Surtees, Niki Lauda, Jody Scheckter, Michael Schumacher & Kimi Räikkönen have all won drivers world championships driving for the team. The team's current drivers are Felipe Massa & Fernando Alonso, & test driver is Jules Bianchi.

The Scuderia Ferrari team was founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1929 & became the racing team of Alfa Romeo, building & racing cars under the Alfa name. In 1938, Alfa Romeo management made the decision to enter racing under its own name, establishing the Alfa Corse organisation, which adsorbed what had been Scuderia Ferrari. Enzo Ferrari disagreed with this change in policy & was finally dismissed by Alfa in 1939. The terms of his leaving forbade him from motorsport under his own name, for a period of four years.

In 1939 Ferrari started work a racecar of his own, the Tipo 815 (eight cylinders, 1.5 L displacement). The 815s, designed by Alberto Massimino, were thus the first Ferrari cars. World War II put a temporary end to racing, & Ferrari concentrated on an alternative use for his factory during the war years, doing machine tool work.

After the war, Ferrari recruited several of his former Alfa colleagues & established a new Scuderia Ferrari, which would design & build its own cars.

The team was initially based in Modena from its pre-war founding until 1943, when Enzo Ferrari moved the team to a new factory in Maranello in 1943, & both Scuderia Ferrari & Ferrari's roadcar factory remain at Maranello to this day. The team owns & operates a test track on the same site, the Fiorano Circuit built in 1972, which has been used for testing road & race cars.

Scuderia is Italian for a stable reserved to racing horses, & the word is also, like corresponding words in some other languages, used for race car teams. Ferrari refers to Enzo Ferrari, the founder of the company. The prancing horse was the symbol on Italian World War I ace Francesco Baracca's fighter plane, & became the logo of Ferrari after the fallen ace's parents, good friends with Enzo Ferrari, asked him to continue his tradition of sportsmanship, gallantry & boldness.

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F1 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP CAREER:

Full Name: Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro

Base: Maranello, Italy

Team Principal: Stefano Domenicali (Italian)

Technical Director (Chassis): Pat Fry (English)

Technical Director (Engine & Electronics): Luca Marmorini (Italian)

Technical Director (Production): Corrado Lanzone (Italian)

PR Manager: Luca Colajanni (Italian)

Race Drivers: No.5 Fernando Alonso (Spanish) & No.6 Felipe Massa (Brazilian)

Test Drivers: Jules Bianchi (French), Marc Gené (Spanish) & Giancarlo Fisichella (Italian)

Chassis: Ferrari 150° Italia

Engine: Ferrari Type 056

Tyres: Pirelli

Fuel: Shell V-Power

Debut Race: 1950 Monaco Grand Prix

Races Competed: 832 (830 starts)

Constructors' Championships: 16 - 1961, 1964, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007 & in 2008

Drivers' Championships: 15 - 1952, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1961, 1964, 1975, 1977, 1979, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 & in 2007

Race Victories: 216

Pole Positions: 205

Podiums: 653

One-Two Finishes: 81

Fastest Laps: 227

2011 Position: 3RD with 375 points

Total Points: 5,762.27

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