Collectors & Aficionados
Try again Seb
The weight of responsibility for a World Champion joining Ferrari is enormous. Over the last 30 years, four champions have joined the team and felt the pressure to win.
It's true, Ferrari is the dream of every driver at the top of his game. But it is also true that the psychological weight a World Champion has to bear from the very first day he wears the red overalls is truly enormous “I have to win, they hired me for that, I am the best at what I do, and I will do it”.a
A magical moment: the first day in the Ferrari F1 at Fiorano. At moments like this, anything is possible. On the cover the photo with the team on the same day
Over the last thirty years, four World Champions have joined Maranello: Prost, Schumacher, Alonso and Vettel and the weight of that responsibility appears more than evident. Schumacher himself, before claiming the title in 2000, suffered the frustration of three consecutive defeats from 1997 to 1999, always at the very last race, while three great champions of the calibre of Prost, Alonso and Vettel, each saw their dreams fade away between magnificent illusions and burning disappointments.
