Top Ferrari F1 blunders over last 25 years – from fuel hose disaster to forgetting tyres

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F1 season which began with such promise for Ferrari quickly unravelled well before the midway point with a host of self-inflicted blunders.Despite having the fastest car at many races, plus two tremendously quick drivers in Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz, the Scuderia have fallen so far behind Red Bull that Max Verstappen could wrap up the title as early as this weekend in Singapore.Ferrari could even lose second spot in the constructors’ championship to Mercedes, which would be hugely embarrassing for the Italian marque given the pace gap between teams for most of the season. READ MORE: Eight worst F1 pay drivers of all-time as Nicholas Latifi is finally dropped by Williams We’ve seen it all from Ferrari this season – strategy blunders, pitstop calamities, unreliability and driver errors.

They really have managed to mess up their own races in almost every conceivable way. But the words ‘Ferrari’ and ‘blunder’ are not exclusive to 2022.

No, the most famous team in F1 have been at it for years. Here, Daily Star Sport rounds up some of the best Ferrari cock-ups from the last 25 years… It’s easy to forget that refuelling was a key part of F1 races in the not-too-distant past.

At the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix, a member of the Ferrari team seemed to forget too, with huge ramifications on that year’s drivers’ championship.Felipe Massa and Lewis Hamilton, then of McLaren, were fighting for the title and the Ferrari man was well-placed to score an important victory when he came in for a routine pitstop.The tyres were replaced promptly.