Ferrari 126C

The Ferrari 126C was the Formula One racing car with which Ferrari competed from the 1981 through the 1984 seasons. It was the team's first turbocharged Grand Prix car, built around a compact V6 engine with forced induction that suited the ground effect aerodynamics of the period better than the wide flat-12 engine of its predecessor, the 312T series. Mauro Forghieri and Harvey Postlethwaite designed the cars, and Nicola Materazzi was chief engineer for the engine. The first version, the 126CK, used twin KKK turbochargers after Ferrari had tried a Comprex pressure wave supercharger, and Gilles Villeneuve won at Monaco and Jarama in 1981 despite difficult handling. The 126C2 of 1982 brought Ferrari's first full monocoque chassis, and Ferrari took the constructors' championship in 1982 and 1983. Across its four seasons the series won ten races and took ten pole positions.