Marco Capelli

In the early 1980s, things were very simple in Formula One. You design a chassis but, if you can’t, you buy one from someone else. You design an engine, but if you can’t, you use the de facto Cosworth DFV V8. It was that simple. However, in the middle of the decade, there was something called the Concorde Agreement, the place where Formula 1 gets very political. In said agreement, there were talks about engine configuration regulations which hindered Scuderia Ferrari’s progress. It was presumed that there were plans to restrict the engine configurations to a 1.5 turbo engine formula.