There’s a saying in motor racing that a good looking car is usually a quick car. There are exceptions of course, but Scuderia Ferrari’s challenger for the 1990 Formula 1 season definitely fits the description. The F1-90, which went by the Codename 641 when it was at the design stage, is widely regarded as one of the most beautiful race cars of all time. At the end of the previous season, there was no real clue that Ferrari would be in the hunt for the title, given they had finished third in the 1989 championship, trailing the winning McLaren team by over 80 points. On top of that, the English designer John Barnard, who had been allowed to work for Ferrari from his UK base, having been poached from McLaren, had quit the team at the end of the year
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