Name: Ferrari

The most famous name in Formula One and the most successful, Ferrari fought back in the first year of the post-Michael Schumacher era to claim a clean sweep of world titles.

An ever-present since the first grand prix of the World Championship era back in 1950, Ferrari are an F1 institution.

The first victory for Enzo Ferrari's team came in the British Grand Prix at Silverstone in 1951 with Froilan Gonzalez behind the wheel.

The following year saw the legendary Alberto Ascari win the first of his two consecutive drivers' titles for the team.

Through the 1950s and 1960s success came at regular intervals, with a number of the great champions such as Juan Manuel Fangio (1956), Mike Hawthorn (1958), Phil Hill (1961) and John Surtees (1964) taking the world title.

In addition, the team secured constructors' titles in 1961 and 1964.

They would return to dominate in the mid-1970s, winning the constructors' championship four times, including a hat-trick through 1975, 1976 and 1977.

Niki Lauda - arguably the catalyst for Ferrari's resurgence - took the drivers' title in '75 and '77 and, but for a horrendous accident at the Nurburgring which almost cost him his life, the Austrian would have prevailed in 1976 as well.

Ferrari also finished the decade in style with Jody Scheckter winning the 1979 drivers' championship and helping them to the constructors' title the same year.

After that, however, the team struggled, with just three constructors' titles being won (in 1982, '83 and '99), as rivals McLaren and Williams established themselves.

They also suffered terrible misfortune, with 1982 bringing both the tragic death of the revered Gilles Villeneuve and an accident which ended the career of team-mate Didier Pironi.

Leaving McLaren for Ferrari, Alain Prost was then denied the drivers' crown in 1990 when Ayrton Senna - whose arrival at the latter outfit had hastened his departure - took him out of the final race of the season, the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka.

In fact, Prost's Spanish Grand Prix win at Jerez in September 1990 turned out to be their last victory until July 1994.

However, the arrival of both Jean Todt as team boss and ex-McLaren designer John Barnard began a slow revival of the team's fortunes.

The signing of Michael Schumacher, fresh from scoring back-to-back world titles with Benetton, ahead of the 1996 season also brought them more success on a regular basis.

In 1999, having taken the title to the wire for the third successive season, Ferrari were rewarded with the constructors' championship.

But when Schumacher broke a leg in a crash at that year's British Grand Prix and missed six subsequent races, it was left to Eddie Irvine to take up the fight.

The Ulsterman lost out to McLaren's Mika Hakkinen in his unlikely bid for the drivers' championship, but Ferrari only had to wait another season to end their drought.

And it was Schumacher who prevailed, winning three successive races at the start of the season.

McLaren then began to gain the upper hand; however, a string of great performances at the end of the season saw Schumacher claim his third (and Ferrari's 10th) drivers' title.

Triumphs followed in 2001 and 2002 - Schumacher's dominance reaching epic proportions in the latter year.

He won 11 times, with Ferrari winning 15 out of 17 races, the Scuderia thus narrowly failing to beat McLaren's 15-from-16 best, set in 1988.

Though the F2002 was a truly remarkable race car, the team personnel were criticised for imposing team orders at only the sixth race of the year in Austria, when Rubens Barrichello was asked to give up the win in favour of Schumacher.

Then, in the United States Grand Prix at Indianapolis, an attempt to create a Ferrari 'dead heat' saw Schumacher ease up just short of the line - and accidentally hand Barrichello a race win back.

The FIA banned explicit team orders for 2003, but that did little to stop Schumacher from winning his sixth title.

The German claimed six wins, while team-mate Barrichello won a further two, handing Ferrari their fifth successive constructors' title.

Remarkably - or, perhaps, tediously - 2004 proved to be an even more comfortable stroll for the team, as Schumacher notched 13 wins - including the first five of the campaign.

By the halfway stage, already had yet another title in the bag. The constructors' crown - aided by two Barrichello victories - duly followed.

But nothing lasts forever and in 2005 the Ferrari/Schumacher success story came to a crashing end as they lost both titles to Renault and Fernando Alonso.

The general consensus in the paddock was that the blame rested squarely with Bridgestone - the tyre manufacturer struggling to come up with a product hardy enough to last both qualifying and the race as per the regulations for that season.

As a result, the F2005 seldom kept pace with the Renaults and McLarens and while new champion Alonso and runner-up Kimi Raikkonen claimed seven wins apiece, Schumacher managed just one.

Even that victory was tainted - Schumacher winning the controversial United States GP in surreal fashion, the race contested by only six cars after those running on Michelin tyres were withdrawn on safety grounds.

2006 promised a reversal of fortunes, with another change of tyre regulations expected to favour Bridgestone, Schumacher, and new team-mate Felipe Massa.

The season began with Ferrari on the back foot and losing out to Renault in the opening three races.

However, Schumacher fought back to win the San Marino and European grands prix, thereby entering the title fight. It proved to be a titanic battle - and also a farewell.

After slowly edging up on early championship leader Alonso, Schumacher marked victory in the Italian Grand Prix by announcing he would be retiring from Formula One at the end of the season.

Ferrari immediately confirmed he would be replaced with Kimi Raikkonen.

Determined to go out on a high, Schumacher won the Chinese Grand Prix and took the lead from Alonso in the fight for the drivers' title.

However, an engine failure in Japan brought his title hopes crashing to a halt and, even though he carved his way through the field to finish fourth in the season-ending Brazilian Grand Prix, which was won by Massa, it wasn't enough to secure him an eighth drivers' championship.

Thus, Ferrari missed out on both fronts, with Alonso and Renault securing their second successive drivers' and constructors' titles.

Without Schumacher, there were some doubts whether new driver Raikkonen could lead them to glory in 2007.

The Scuderia were, however, quick to prove that they are more than just a one-man outfit as Raikkonen won the Australian Grand Prix on his debut for the team.

McLaren drivers Alonso and Lewis Hamilton quickly responded, however, and the two teams soon broke away from the chasing pack to battle for top honours.

The feud between the teams then took an unexpected twist when McLaren were accused of receiving secret technical data from their rivals.

The scandal, known as "Stepneygate" after it was found that former Ferrari mechanic Nigel Stepney had provided McLaren with the information, eventually saw Ferrari handed the constructors' title by default.

But McLaren remained in the drivers' hunt and, with Massa slipping out of contention, Ferrari's slim hopes were pinned on Raikkonen.

The Finn was 17 points behind Hamilton with two races remaining; however, Raikkonen pulled off an astonishing comeback by taking victory in both the Chinese and Brazilian grands prix - his rookie rival spinning out in Shanghai and finishing seventh at Interlagos.

Raikkonen thus completed a Ferrari double and, alongside Massa once more in 2008, the scarlet cars again appear to be pacesetters.