Ferrari’s 2016 Driver Decision Will Be an Important Moment in Formula 1 History

How times change. The race for a Ferrari seat was once an exclusive club, populated by established world champions and serial grand prix winners alike. Only the truly premier drivers—and occasionally a couple just beneath the elite, depending on the team's stance on team orders—were in contention to represent the Prancing Horse in the pinnacle of motorsport. Those without a title or two, countless race victories and plenty of podiums and pole positions to their name need not apply. Such a system helped to preserve Ferrari's majesty, their status at the summit. It provided emerging racing drivers, Formula One drivers, with ambition, a purpose and a dream. But now? That dream is within reach of too many. Partly, but not entirely,...

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