Ferrari is bringing back the 1996 F310 livery for Monza, a tribute to Michael Schumacher that doubles as a reminder of how badly the Scuderia can botch a design. The F310 was a disaster—an ungainly cockpit surround that generated drag, forcing Schumacher to tilt his head on straights just to clean airflow to the airbox. That it came from the drawing board of John Barnard, one of F1's great technical minds, makes it even more baffling.
Yet Schumacher dragged three wins out of it anyway, including a masterclass in Spain. That's the paradox Ferrari is celebrating: a car so flawed it needed a driver that good to make it competitive. The livery might be a tribute, but it's also a monument to the gap between Ferrari's ambition and execution—a gap that's closed and reopened several times in the thirty years since.
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