![]() He said, ‘Are you going to drive for Ferrari?’ And nobody knew, nobody. Well, after that I flew to Enna to drive for Ken, and Jacky Ickx was my team-mate. I would drive in 1968, the anticipated other driver was Chris Amon. I saw Franco again, had lunch with Mr Ferrari, and came to a deal. Especially compared to Ken Tyrrell’s huts! Then I went back on my own, because they said they wanted to do a deal. The idea was for me to look around Ferrari and be impressed. Back then, any driver going to Ferrari would be in awe. Somebody thought I should meet him, and he was very nice, but no more than that. Having impressed during the 1967 season, Ferrari concluded a deal to sign Stewart for the 1968 but instead changed their mind and went for Jacky Ickx, as Stewart recalls in an interview with. Like his fellow treble F1 champion knight of the realm, Jackie Stewart never had the pleasure of racing the Ferrari but would have made a valuable asset. Stewart in 1967, around the time his Ferrari talks began Getty Images/Getty Images ![]() Who knows, maybe things change and suddenly I go somewhere else, or it may be I never go anywhere else in my career because there simply is no better package than Red Bull. ![]() I'm flattered, but there has been no signal from me, I've not signed anything, nor agreed anything with a handshake.īut if you asked the 24 drivers in Formula One if they would like to go to Ferrari in their career, all 24 would say 'yeah', and it is the same with me. I am honoured (team principal) Stefano Domenicali and (president) Luca di Montezemolo see me as a driver for Ferrari. Yet Vettel is a known admirer of Ferrari and when first linked with the seat in 2012, he admitted he would one day like to drive for them, as quoted in The Independent. One driver who stands a very realistic chance of fulfilling the dream of driving for Ferrari is the current world champion, Sebastian Vettel.Īs mentioned at the beginning of the slideshow, there has been persistent speculation around Vettel joining forces with Ferrari and perhaps forming a partnership with Fernando Alonso.įor now, it remains speculation only. Here, then, are the top 10 drivers never to have driven for the Prancing Horse.Ĭriteria is judged not only on how successful each driver was but also by examining evidence of how close they actually came to joining the Ferrari family. Yet some of the greatest drivers in the history of the sport have been linked to the team and, for one reason or another, it has never materialised. It seems likely that Vettel will one day become a Ferrari driver and it will be intriguing to see how he fares alongside Alonso if that does indeed happen.įerrari is the oldest and most prestigious team in the history of F1 and a team every budding young driver aspires to race for. Vettel had been tipped for a move to Maranello for the 2014 season, as reported by BBC Sport at the time, but the deal never materialised. ![]() ![]() When Mark Webber told Sky Sports he expected then-teammate Sebastian Vettel to join Fernando Alonso at the team in 2016, it raised a number of interesting questions. Future teammates? Mark Thompson/Getty Images ![]()
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